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Visual Basic Gets Its VB Back

Microsoft Corp. officials said the new features in the upcoming version of Visual Basic will appease developers who have been angry since the company...

Kerpan Ends Run as Borland CTO

Borland Software Corp.s chief technology officer has called it quits after five years with the company.Patrick Kerpan, Borlands CTO since early last year, said...

Little Things Mean a Lot

Last year, the best brains in robotics couldnt build a vehicle that traveled more than seven miles without human input. This year, five vehicles...

Will VB 9 Win Over the VB 6 Faithful?

Microsoft Corp. officials said they believe the new features in the upcoming version of Visual Basic will go some way to appease developers who...

Novell Shares Linux Usability Research Videos

Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to...

Readers Respond: Innovation: Dont Get Me Wrong

You can count me in among the "No software patents" gang (Jim Rapozas Tech Directions, "Innovation: Dont Get Me Wrong," Sept. 26.) Im the...

JBoss Accused of Monopolistic Practices

Once again JBoss Inc. has come into the limelight for alleged bad behavior and in essence not pursuing the open-source way, according to some. In...

Microsoft Acquires Unveil Technologies

With the goal of enhancing its call center application development capabilities, Microsoft announced Thursday a technology acquisition from Unveil Technologies. The terms of the deal...

Compuware Affirms Support for .Net

DETROIT—Compuware Corp. affirmed its commitment to Microsoft Corp.s Windows and the .Net platform by announcing plans Thursday to increase support for the Microsoft Visual...

Nematodes: The Making of Beneficial Network Worms

Convinced that businesses will use nonmalicious worms to cut down on network security costs, a high-profile security researcher is pushing ahead with a new...