Monthly Archives: May 2009
OpenOffice.org 3.1 Provides Feature, Performance Boost
It's been less than a year since Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org hit its major 3.0 release, but the next version of the open-source, cross-platform-friendly productivity...
Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready
The downtime experienced by Google on May 14, the latest in a series of temporary shutdowns experienced by cloud-based service companies throughout 2009, evokes...
Video Game Sales Fell 23% in April, Nintendo a Bright Spot
Sales of video game software declined 23 percent in April from the same period in 2008, while video game hardware sales declined around 8...
McAfee to Buy SolidCore Systems for $33 Million
McAfee announced Friday it will buy privately held SolidCore Systems Inc, a maker of software to protect automated bank tellers and other specialized computers.The...
Hubble Service Call Week One: Mission Accomplished
The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center May 11 on an ambitious final 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the...
IT Contracting: Is It for You?
It feels like the question of these times for a technology pro: whether or not to become a self-employed, "for hire" technology contractor.For those...
Report: Salesforce.com’s Force.com Is Five Times Faster than Java, .NET
Nucleus Research, an independent analyst firm, has conducted a study that showed developers using Salesforce.com's cloud-based Force.com development platform can build applications up to...
Obama Seeks to Eliminate Loran Funding
Opposition in Congress is growing to President Obama's proposed elimination of the Loran navigational system. According to the White House, the Loran system has...
EPA Sanctions Energy Star Specification for Servers
After more than two years of work that started in Santa Clara, Calif., in February 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on May 15...
Sybase, Samsung SDS Team Up for Mobile Service
A partnership between Sybase and Samsung SDS will base the Samsung SDS Enterprise Mobile Service on the Sybase Unwired Platform.The Samsung SDS Enterprise Mobile...