January 30th, 2008
Hampton, who runs what is essentially a one-woman web-development company, said she was glad she had her mobile phone handy when she was unable to make or receive calls from clients for 48 hours during last week’s Skype outage. She had decided to make Skype’s $40-a-year unlimited domestic calling her primary phone system to save [...]
January 30th, 2008
Mike Downey, Adobe’s group manager for platform evangelism, hinted on Wednesday that the company might be about to develop such software.
Downey clarified the situation in an interview with ZDNet.co.uk’s sister site CNET News.com on Friday. He said that Adobe would focus primarily on providing its development platform, AIR, rather than creating online Office-style applications.
AIR (Adobe [...]
January 30th, 2008
The firm is using an open-source business model to make it easier for developers to evaluate its software.
With open-source adoption in business intelligence (BI)accelerating, Eclipse has established a dominant position among Java development platforms. Actuate initiated the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project in September 2004 to create an open-source reporting system for [...]
January 30th, 2008
The multi-million-dollar deals run until 2010 and will also see the rollout of new extranet and intranet services during the next year.
The event-management system (EMS) platform will be used by Fifa and local event organisers to arrange everything from accreditation to transport during tournaments.
Fifa’s head of new media, Charles-Henry Contamine, said: “It’s basically the operational [...]
January 30th, 2008
Officially live since its soft launch in July, the site brings together existing content in a format designed to be accessible to software engineers with experience in non-Microsoft platforms, frameworks and languages, such as PHP, Java, JSP and ColdFusion. With few developers working in a single-platform environment throughout their entire career, Microsoft saysthe site will [...]
January 30th, 2008
The platform’s open architecture enables globally distributed software development teams to use web services to integrate their development environments. SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4 is the first update to the development platform since CollabNet acquired SourceForge’s software business in April.
“Prior to the acquisition, CollabNet and SourceForge were the only two collaborative software development companies to use [...]
January 30th, 2008
The largest software company is hosting its Financial Analyst Meeting at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where Ballmer described Microsoft’s strategy as making several big bets on emerging businesses while drawing more revenue from its mature desktop and server software franchises.
Microsoft is transforming its product development and business models around “software plus services”, or software complemented [...]
January 30th, 2008
It was described as a first step towards greater integration of technology between the Greater London Authority (GLA), the GLA Group and the London boroughs by allowing government bodies in the city to buy into the service at a discounted rate.
January 30th, 2008
This capability is called SuitePhone. Although the iPhone is yet to appear outside the US, it is expected to arrive within a few months in the UK and NetSuite has confirmed that UK customers will be able to take advantage of the compatibility.
The iPhone is one of the most heavily hyped gadgets to date. Although [...]
January 30th, 2008
The iPhone, Apple’s first attempt at manufacturing a mobile phone,was launched to much hype in the US at the end of June.
This is the first serious attempt to hack the device, although hackers started work on the device within days of its launch.
Security researchers from Maryland-based penetration testing firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE)say they have [...]
