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2009-07-01
As part of its Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle adds an application lifecycle management solution to its developer tool set to enable teams of developers to work together more effectively. Oracle Team Productivity Center has what one exec calls a unique approach to ALM.
2009-07-01
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives on the scene with almost 300 new features in tow. Version 8.4's arrival follows a new development process for the open-source database.
2009-07-01
Oracle wants to ease the data modeling process for Oracle database developers. The new tool integrates into Oracle SQL Developer and allows users to develop logical, multidimensional, user-defined data types, relational and physical data models.
2009-07-01
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the latest upgrade of Oracle's middleware platform, includes tools that allow the enterprise to collaborate and trade information more effectively, while attempting to simplify the processes involved in development, IT governance and other areas. Perhaps in a nod to economic realities, Oracle is not radically changing the pricing structure of Middleware 11g from its predecessor, according to an executive.
2009-07-01
In a push to bring greater transparency to the federal government, the Office of Management and Budget introduces its IT Dashboard, a new tool to complement USASpending.gov. The dashboard allows users to create data sets within a Web browser and export the information to spreadsheets, Websites, blogs and social networks.
2009-07-01
Oracle’s newest middleware technology platform takes advantage of virtualization and other next-generation technologies being integrated into the enterprise, and includes new developer tools for easier application build. Oracle President Charles Phillips suggested that the company’s goal is to offer a pre-fabricated environment that allows IT administrators a substantial degree of control over their networks without needing to cobble together enterprise IT architecture by improvisation.
2009-06-30
Former security consultant Max Ray Butler pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges June 29 in connection with his role in a massive hacking and identity theft scheme. Butler faces decades behind bars when he is sentenced in October.
2009-06-29
The federal government decides to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, perhaps 30 to 60 more days. Sun says this is not unexpected due to the size of the IT infrastructure transaction.
2009-06-25
A researcher at IBM reports having developed a fully homomorphic encryption scheme that allows data to be manipulated without being exposed. Researcher Craig Gentry's discovery could prove to be important in securing cloud computing environments and fighting encrypted spam.
2009-06-23
Market research company Evans Data announces results of a study showing that use of the Ruby scripting language has increased by 40 percent amongst North American software developers since 2008.
2009-06-22
The massively parallel Cray XT5 supercomputer now is capable of delivering a sustained data transfer rate of 20 GB/s for its open-source Lustre file system. The recently completed upgrade has resulted in a system that is the most powerful supercomputer in Switzerland and one of the largest HPC systems in Europe.
2009-06-17
Microsoft is evaluating where Soapbox, its online video answer to YouTube, currently stands with regard to its MSN brand. Reports suggest that Soapbox could be cut back, making it the latest Microsoft application, after Money and Encarta, to be reduced or axed entirely.
2009-06-16
EnterpriseDB releases Version 8.3 Release 2 of its database. EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.3 R2 includes new features meant to deepen Oracle compatibility and improve scalability and performance.
2009-06-12
Google is showcasing an alpha version of a cloud-based data management system designed to make it easy for users to integrate data from tables in disparate databases. Google is calling the technology 'Fusion Tables.'
2009-06-11
Silos-Connect Technologies CEO Tony Cannizzo says notorious data breaches are leading people to overemphasize endpoint security, when it is equally important to secure data at its database source. Cannizzo says protecting data in databases goes beyond static encryption and requires a flexible approach to data obfuscation.
2009-06-10
Global Language Monitor, a language-monitoring group, claims that the millionth word to enter the English lexicon is "Web 2.0," an occurrence seemingly tailor-made to bring joy to technophiles and tears of rage to linguistic purists. Other linguists have taken issue with Global Language Monitor’s methods, decrying them as nonsense.
2009-06-10
The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating Google's digital books settlement with publishers, which Google claims will make millions of volumes accessible to all but which has critics crying antitrust issues. Google's books project has run into opposition from a number of groups arguing that it gives the search engine company too much control over content with little oversight.
2009-06-09
Aster Data Systems extends its functionality to allow Microsoft .NET application developers to write applications in MapReduce. With the update to the Aster nCluster product line, database developers can now write MapReduce functions in Microsoft C#.
2009-06-09
T-Mobile confirmed the information posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list is genuine, but says customers are not at risk. A T-Mobile spokesperson added the company is continuing to investigate.
2009-06-08
Officials at T-Mobile are still investigating claims of a security breach made in a message on the Full Disclosure mailing list. In the message, hackers claimed to have breached T-Mobile's network and stolen customer and company data.
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