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PC Vendors Must Make Problems Harder for Users to Ignore

With October comes the annual announcement of the Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com) for "achievements that cannot or...

Third Parties Fill Longhorn Void

With Microsoft Corp.s recent announcements that it will separate WinFS from the next major release of Windows and the release of Visual Studio 2005,...

JBoss 4.0 Shows Raft of Improvements

Many companies choose the JBoss application server because of its extreme ease of deployment (you basically just unpack it and run it) and because...

Is the ASP.Net Bug a Big Deal? MS Thinks So

I sat up and took notice when Microsoft released not one, but two interim fixes to an announced flaw in ASP.Net, and released them...

SAP Preps New NetWeaver Capabilities

SAN DIEGO—SAP AG is readying new capabilities for developers that use the enterprise software companys NetWeaver integration platform with the goal of easing worries...

Kodak, Sun Settle Java Lawsuit

Eastman Kodak Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have settled their lawsuit over Suns infringement of Kodaks patents in the creation of the Java platform. The...

IBM Beefs Up WebSphere App Server Platform

IBM Corp. Wednesday announced a new version of its WebSphere application server platform, citing enhancements such as high-availability, new capabilities for building service oriented...

Startup Turns Wikis into Development Platform

SAN FRANCISCO—The co-founders of early search engine and portal Excite.com are bringing a new concept to the Web: the wiki as an application development...

Laszlo Open-Sources App-Building Platform

Laszlo Systems Inc., a rich client platform provider, Tuesday announced that it has open-sourced its Laszlo platform and has made it available under the...

Software Patents Gone Bad

Open-source and proprietary developers have at least one enemy in common: software patents.This latest mess with Kodak and Sun is just one of many,...