Lisa Vaas

ORLANDO—Gateway Inc. may have thrown in the towel on making TVs, but competing PC makers are still eager to plug their boxes into living rooms across the land, with Dell Inc. set to deliver its biggest LCD TV ever and Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO and President Mark Hurd hewing to the TV line during his keynote […]

Progress Software Corp., which has been steadily acquiring companies for a few years, is packaging up the technologies in a line of data synchronization products dubbed DataXtend. It plans to introduce the line on Monday. The product line includes DataXtend RE (Replication Engine), a heterogenous database replication and synchronization product for mobile users and those […]

ORLANDO—Best Buy is becoming a pharmacy. Wal-Mart is becoming a bank. The pink teacups are spinning faster. Your infrastructure isnt agile. Your IT managers are in react mode. Yahoo and AOL and Google and are clumping together into one massive e-mail/publishing/blogorific jellyfish, common citizens are taking the social networking of the Internet into their own […]

GridApp is looking to lift the firefighting chores off of DBAs backs, rolling out software on Monday at Gartner IT Expo in Orlando that gives a consolidated view of a mix of databases. The software, called Clarity, is designed to simplify and automate time-consuming database administrator chores such as configuration management, patch management, auditing/compliance, replication […]

Oh, MySQL. We hardly knew ye. Here you are, perched on the final release of 5.0. Its expected out within mere days; this, the version destined to get you playing with the database big boys, with transactions and stored procedures and all those enterprise must-haves. Then all of a sudden, from out of the darkest […]

Oracle Corp. has put out its first branding of the hyper-fast TimesTen in-memory database it acquired in June, releasing Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 6.0 on Monday. The update comes with enhanced caching performance and availability, larger in-memory databases and data caches, tighter integration with other Oracle products, and broadened support for standards including SQL and […]

Oracle on Friday purchased InnoDB, the Finnish open-source database company whose add-on table storage engine for MySQL rivals MySQLs own MyISAM in popularity. InnoDB Oy Inc.s database engine isnt stand-alone. It is distributed as part of the MySQL database. Moreover, InnoDBs contractual relationship with MySQL is up for renewal next year. Oracle Corp., of Redwood […]

The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday. Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile device. Instead of plugging in a URL for a search engine, then […]

Its not about where influential Weblogs—Robert Scoble, Dave Winer or Doc Searls—will live. Theyll live on the servers theyve called home, and Weblogs.com will keep hosting them. Its not about the blogospheres grass roots getting little price tags hung on them, such as America Online Inc.s purchase of Weblogs Inc. No, VeriSign Inc.s purchase of […]

Check Point Software Technologies Inc. is snapping up intrusion prevention and real-time network awareness software maker Sourcefire for a $225 million mix of cash and stocks, the security company announced Thursday. Sourcefire is the maker of Snort, an open-source intrusion detection and prevention technology that underpins its real-time network security software. Check Point Software founder […]

Yahoo is reaching its search tentacles further into local communities, acquiring the social events site Upcoming Inc., the company revealed on Tuesday. Yahoo Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., posted the news on its searchblog site on Tuesday. The company didnt reveal financial details. Upcoming was launched in 2003 by Andy Baio. Like a burgeoning number […]

BOSTON—”The dogs will bark, but the caravan rolls on,” CIO Magazine Group Publisher Gary Beach said in his Tuesday keynote address at the inaugural GridWorld conference here. Well, yes, the dogs are indeed barking at grid computing, but actually, most dogs I know serve as decent sentries when their humans are about to go get […]