Monthly Archives: December 2008
Salesforce.com, Google Let Force.com, App Engine Share Data
Salesforce.com and Google have created a bridge between their companies' cloud computing application development platforms that will let programmers pull data from either platform...
Harvard Recruiting PC Power to Find Better Solar-Panel Materials
Harvard University has been recruiting students since the 17th century. On Dec. 8, however, the prestigious institution began recruiting people with computing power to...
Spammers Sidestep SMTP
I saw a disturbing number the other day: According to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report, by September of this year 25 percent of all...
New Group Promotes Web Services Interoperability
A new industry consortium has formed to address the issue of Web services testing and interoperability, with big names such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco...
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: First Alpha of Opera 10
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: First Alpha of Opera 10
by Jim Rapoza
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When first installing the alpha of Opera 10, the browser attempts to highlight new...
Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 Makes Controlling Robots Easier
Microsoft's newest version of its Robotics Studio is a whole set of tools designed to help developers write code that controls robots.The Robotics Studio...
Sun Microsystems Talks MySQL 5.1, Bugs and Version 6.0
Sun Microsystems officially announced the general availability of MySQL 5.1 Dec. 8, more than a week after declaring the open-source database production-ready.Controversy erupted around...
Cloud-Service Provider RightScale Deposits $13 Million in VC Funding
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale, which makes cloud computing management software, announced Dec. 8 that it has secured $13 million in its second round of...
Broadcom Puts 802.11n Wi-Fi, FM and Bluetooth on One Chip
Broadcom added to its combo family of chips Dec. 8, announcing the chipmaker has integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi, FM and Bluetooth on a single silicon...
Spring, Adobe Partner for Java RIA
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-SpringSource and Adobe have announced plans to partner to add Spring support to Adobe's Flex platform, both in the browser and on the...