Monthly Archives: January 2008
Lijit Buys BigSwerve for Comment Search Cred
Mathematical algorithms are the secret sauce behind top-line search engines, so some vendors who realize it's almost impossible to take market share from Google,...
Microsoft Gets Two More Years of Court Oversight
Microsoft has lost another round in antitrust court, with a new ruling extending by two years federal court oversight of the final judgments issued...
Yahoo Looks to The Future Despite Big Losses
Yahoo's pledge to cut 1,000 jobs is the latest move for a company beset by financial problems to improve its position as it seeks...
Google Intends Eventual Offline Access for Docs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Google will offer offline access to its Google Docs and other applications at some point in the future, but its focus is...
IBM Looks to Power Up Its Virtualization Offerings
IBM is looking to bolster the virtualization capabilities of both its Power6 processor and its System p servers with an eye toward selling more...
EMC Extends String of Strong Quarterly Reports
Storage infrastructure giant EMC continued its string of flush financial reports Jan. 29, showing record fourth-quarter and full-year revenue and strong year-over-year growth in...
SpringSource Acquires Covalent
Open-source software maker SpringSource is buying Covalent Technologies, an open-source services provider specializing in supporting Apache software solutions.SpringSource created the Spring Framework, a lightweight...
Speech Recognition Makes a Statement in Health Care
Speech recognition could be the weight needed to push broad adoption of electronic medical records in health care.Nuance, an ISV that makes the popular...
19 Startups in Two Hours
PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Communications technologies constituted the bulk of the relentless barrage of presentations -- 19 companies at six minutes a pop --...
10 Things You Should Know About Databases
10 Things You Should Know About Databases
Technology in the database realm can have a long life expectancy. Still, in 2007, database administrators had a...