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Microsoft Presses Cider Test Build on Developers

Earlier this month Microsoft released a preview of its design tool for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem, also known as Avalon.Known as "Cider",...

GM Shakes Up Outsourcing Industry

To listen to General Motors Vice President and CIO Ralph Szygenda tell it, he has changed the outsourcing industry forever. Is he exaggerating? Maybe not. In...

Interactive Nature of Browser Colors Past and Future

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of. When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, in 1990,...

RFID Fears Create Their Own Market

Like a counterintelligence officer or an anti-spyware company, some entities in life have the sole raison dêtre of countering something else. RFID (radio-frequency identification) today...

Adobe Flags Online PDF Tracking

Adobe Systems Inc. wants you to know when your PDF documents are being tracked. The companys Acrobat and Reader software products have been updated to...

Self-Help Web Site Slices and Dices Books

Self-help Web site HowStuffWorks said Thursday it plans to significantly expand its online reference material by slicing and dicing books into versions meant for...

Mozilla Launches Firefox Marketing Blitz

Joy to the world, the browser has come. Such is the holiday sentiment that nonprofit Mozilla Group is asking its customers to share in the...

Rare Database Bug Causes Salesforce.com Outage

Salesforce.coms daylong outage Tuesday was caused by "an extremely rare, undocumented bug" that neither the company nor its database vendor had ever seen before,...

Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Hiring Dispute

Some five months after Google announced plans to open a product research and development center in China, and said it was appointing former Microsoft...

D-Day Arrives for SCO

After more than two and a half years, SCO must finally turn over to the U.S. District Court in Utah any proof it has...