By Virtualization News  Marathon Technologies, the award-winning provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, today announced a set of planning tools designed to help companies protect all aspects of Microsoft® SQL Servers, in both physical and virtual server enviro... Sep. 21, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 702 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches jumped 22.1% in August to 10.7% of the market to Google’s 64.6%, up 2.6%, and Yahoo’s 16%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo was down 4.2%. Microsoft was up from 9% in July. That’s a sequential leap of 22.1% for Microsoft’s newfangled Bing search machine, b... Sep. 19, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,054 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The Justice Department has asked for more information about the long-in-coming deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo that would effectively take Yahoo out of the search business, replaced by Microsoft and its Bing widgetry, and theoretically create more of a speed bump as far as Goog... Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 881 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the... Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,390 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft has started a 501.c6 non-profit open source foundation, a bipolar strategy greeted by suspicion, hoots, catcalls, defamation and virtual mooning by the open source set. It’s called the CodePlex Foundation, which is not to be confused with Codeplex com, Microsoft’s version of ... Sep. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,245 |
By Franc Gagnon  Amyuni Technologies is pleased to announce that its PDF Converter is now Windows 7-certified. End-users and developers can benefit from this certification by working with a printer driver that is not only up-to-date, but also features more security and performance. Sep. 18, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 915 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft Thursday began a belated and limited beta of its newfangled browser-based Office Web Apps, the widgetry that’s supposed to joust in the cloud with Google Apps and the other free or low-cost online Office wannabes.
It’s their first public outing.
The invitation-only te... Sep. 18, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 715 |
By Joe Austin Mimosa Systems, a next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, and Global Storage, an Australian backup and disaster recovery specialist, today announced a strategic partnership for the integration of the Mimosa NearPointTM unified content archiving platform into Gl... Sep. 16, 2009 08:06 PM EDT Reads: 396 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Sewell is giving up AMD v Intel, which has set records for the amount of discovery it has produced, Intel's appeal of the European Commission's heady $1.45 billion fine and the company's difference with regulators in Korea and elsewhere to report directly to Steve Jobs, who had no comp... Sep. 15, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,083 |
By WebSphere News Desk  As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio... Sep. 14, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
By WebSphere News Desk  Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise as enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and scope.... Sep. 14, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 919 |
By Maureen O'Gara  In July it sold some patents to Allied Security Trust (AST), a cost-sharing non-profit operation that buys up patents to protect its members, companies like HP, Google, Cisco and Verizon, against pricey patent litigation, particularly by so-called patent trolls. AST operates under what... Sep. 14, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,710 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Intel's Lynnfield chips, the widgets meant to drive its newfangled Nehalem architecture into the mainstream, arrived on Tuesday. The new dumbed-down 45nm arrivals include three quad-core desktop devices officially designated the Core i5 750, i7 860 and i7 870 clocking 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz a... Sep. 13, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,229 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  Getting data from paper forms into your database used to require a huge software development effort. This white paper shows how starting with the Accusoft Pegasus FormSuite SDK, however, you can accurately collect information from paper forms within days rather than months. Sep. 11, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 890 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  DotNetNuke Corp.has announced that Shaun Walker, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, has joined the CodePlex Foundation interim Board of Directors. Publicly announced on September 10, 2009, the CodePlex Foundation was created to enable the exchange of code and understanding among software ... Sep. 11, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 808 |
By Virtualization News  Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V adds advanced capabilities to Hyper-V to create, integrate, manage and automate virtual datacenters at half the cost of other solutions. Hyper-V delivers immediate benefits to organizations of any size or budget while Citrix Essentials provides t... Sep. 11, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,481 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre... Sep. 9, 2009 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,946 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rescued Microsoft Word from being clamped in injunctive leg irons, barred from sale on the US market.
On Thursday the court gave Microsoft the stay it was looking for while it appeals the decision of a Texas district court that it ... Sep. 4, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 881 |
By Sarah Seddon  ComplyXL provides the key framework used by organizations for version and audit controls as well as continuous monitoring of critical spreadsheets with instant notification of changes. The Find Combinations utility gives the added ability to analyze the information within the spreadsh... Sep. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,762 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Altor Networks’ virtual firewall is finally working inside the VMware hypervisor kernel, solving a problem created by virtual switches. It’s reportedly the first security product to land inside the hypervisor complements of the VMsafe APIs network APIs in fast-path mode used to develop... Sep. 2, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
By Joe Austin  Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that Palm Beach County in the state of Florida will be expanding its use of Mimosa NearPoint beyond archiving its Microsoft Exchange Server data to provide comprehensive conten... Sep. 1, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 550 |
By Joe Austin  Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today reported that its ecosystem of channel partners are experiencing tremendous interest and revenue upside when selling the Mimosa NearPointTM for SharePoint for archiving, discovery and r... Sep. 1, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 639 |
By Maureen O'Gara  On September 23 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is going to hear Microsoft’s expedited appeal for a stay of the Texas decision ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10 because they allegedly infringe an i4i patent. Microsoft got the date the day after it ... Aug. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Dell, the industry's basket case, survived the July quarter with shipments, revenue, operating income, gross margin and earnings all higher sequentially while operating expenses are still on the decline, down 14% in the period.
The company was so excited and relieved it (probably ac... Aug. 28, 2009 03:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
By Pat Romanski  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. CodeRush for Visual Studio® .NET helps you create sophisticated c... Aug. 27, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,771 |
By Liz McMillan  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of... Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,951 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of its WinF... Aug. 27, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 752 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager of Microsoft's Interoperability Technical Strategy team, has announced the release of a new project that bridges PHP and .NET. Called the 'PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services,' it makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of ADO.NET ... Aug. 27, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 628 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. With DXperience v2009 vol 2, DevExpress continues to enhance and ... Aug. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 535 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, has announced the general availability of Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 which incorporates new versions of Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism. RAD Studio 2010 offers breakthrough capabilities f... Aug. 26, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 912 |
By Cumulux Cloud  Cumulux is pleased to announce the availability of Riviera , a reference cloud computing application built in collaboration with Microsoft. http://www.cumulux.com/riviera.htmlAug. 25, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 715 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. With DXperience v2009 vol 2, DevExpress continues to enhance and ... Aug. 24, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 677 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Nokia, Microsoft’s new best friend, is branching out for the first time in 25 years with a Windows-based netbook called the Booklet 3G. EVP for devices Kai Oistamo called the move a “natural evolution” given the current demand for mobility and Nokia’s hereditary skills. The company’s k... Aug. 24, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 844 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington looking for a stay of the permanent injunction ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10. It wants the stay while it appeals the decision. The order came do... Aug. 21, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 965 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  On August 19, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Circuit Judge Prost, ordered an expedited hearing of the appeal of the i4i v. Microsoft case from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Federal Circuit will now hear the ap... Aug. 21, 2009 08:05 AM EDT Reads: 696 |
By .NETDJ News Desk  Monarch was facing a deluge of emails, with the amount of daily messages tripling in just over two years. At the same time, email store sizes had increased by over 500% and its Exchange servers were in danger of running out of space. Another major issue was the hundreds of large Person... Aug. 21, 2009 04:06 AM EDT Reads: 520 |
By Pat Romanski  "Microsoft is pleased to be working with Sybase to enable custom tools such as PowerBuilder," said Matt Carter, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Visual Studio, as Sybase yesterday announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development ... Aug. 20, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
By Liz McMillan  Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development tool. This latest release of the award-winning PowerBuilder empowers developers with the e... Aug. 19, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,193 |
By Juan Rivera  Now that VS.Php 2.7 is out, I'll like to share our progress with VS.Php for Visual Studio 2010.
If you are currently participating on the VS2010 beta program, you can try VS.Php for Visual Studio 2010.
Here is a screenshot of VS.Php running on Visual Studio 2010: ... Aug. 18, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft and its new best friend, erstwhile rival Nokia, still the world’s biggest smartphone maker despite Apple and RIM though maybe not as chi-chi, have cut a grand long-term global alliance that will see Microsoft support a mobile OS other than Windows Mobile for the very first ti... Aug. 17, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,631 |