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Publishing label Rockstar Games has said the latest in its Grand Theft Auto franchise will be released worldwide on April 29th, following last year’s high profile delay of the franchise to concentrate on its multi-platform release. GTA IV, which was originally slated for release last year, is expected to be one of the top-selling games [...]

Microsoft is giving itself high marks in its first year Vista security report, at least when comparing the OS first year vulnerability and patch statistics to its Windows OS predecessor and other modern workstation operating systems, such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Apple Mac OS.Microsoft employee Jeff Jones has published a Windows Vista one-year vulnerability [...]

Microsoft’s schedule for shipping SQL Server 2008, the upcoming new release of the company’s database software, is slipping from June 30 into the third quarter. Microsoft recently disclosed the schedule change, described by the company as a “clarification on the roadmap for SQL Server 2008,” in “The Data Platform Insider” blog on the company’s Technet [...]

Visual WebGui, developer of the AJAX enterprise application development and deployment platform, has announced the availability of their browser-based solution.Visual WebGui is an open source framework, which is available for graphical user interfaces used for web applications. Visual WebGui, which is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET framework, is expected to launch a Microsoft [...]

Salesforce.com has extended its platform as a service offering with the addition of Force.com Development-as-a-Service - a new set of development tools and APIs that help enterprise developers harness the full potential of cloud computing. Force.com, which was first unveiled during the company’s Dreamforce conference in September, is built on the company’s proprietary Visualforce technology. [...]

Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, 56, will start as CIO in February and report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott’s most recent experience was as senior vice president [...]

JBoss a division of Red Hat announced the Enterprise Application Platform in version 4.3, which is upgraded with messaging and Web services technologies. Various JBoss.org components have been integrated into JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v4.3 and are fully supported for use in both development and production.The platform provides open-source technologies for the development and deployment [...]

In a surprise move, Sun Microsystems said it’s acquiring privately held open source database vendor MySQL AB for approximately USD 1 billion.Called the largest open source software deal ever, the merger makes Sun the owner of a critical part of the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) open source software stack. Sun already has been [...]

GigaSpaces, provider of solutions for infrastructure software, has launched OpenSpaces.org. It is a community web site for developers to utilize and contribute to the open source OpenSpaces development framework.OpenSpaces extends the Spring Framework for enterprise Java development, and leverages the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for data caching, messaging. It is designed for building scale-out [...]

Trolltech, the creator of application development platforms for desktop computers, has congratulated free software project, K Desktop Environment on the successful launch of KDE 4.0. KDE 4.0 brings new ways of viewing applications and widgets, a new start menu, a revamped file browser, as well as a new look to some entertainment apps and others. [...]