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Can Windows and Open Source Learn to Play Nice?

BOSTON—Microsoft has been reaching out to the open-source community to try to find ways to overcome the incompatibilities between software distributed under the GNU...

eBay Developers Get New APIs for Money-Making Apps

LAS VEGAS—eBay spent the weekend paying tribute to its developer base, announcing four new APIs, a new contextual ad system, and new developer hubs,...

Oracle Aims at Brand-Name Schools for Recruits

Hey, tech genius, want to work in Oracle product development? Sorry—unless youre coming out of MIT, Stanford or another of a handful of brand-name tech...

WeatherBug, Send Word Now Create Emergency Weather Service

WeatherBug, the national weather reporting service, and Send Word Now, a service that provides urgent contact information to companies, announced June 12 that they...

Windows vs. Linux: Time to Call a Truce?

BOSTON—Its time for the Windows and Linux communities to drop the religious war and get together in a hurry to put the strengths of...

City of Hoboken Using RFID in Parking Permits

Radio frequency identification is traveling deeper into public spaces, particularly in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. With 40,000 residents crammed into its one-square-mile borders,...

Microsoft Opens Next Versions of Office, SharePoint to Developers

BOSTON—Microsoft is making more of its gut Office and SharePoint technologies and services available to third-party application developers. Microsoft has been beating the developer drum...

Opsware Jumps on Compliance Bandwagon

Opsware on June 12 set its sights squarely on the auditing and compliance requirements of its users when it introduced a major upgrade and...

Intel Beaming About Swifter Transistor

Intel may have found its transistor of the future. The companys researchers feel that the combination of a three-dimensional or tri-gate transistor, which combines the...

Oracle Wants to Hold Your Linux-Leery Hand

Oracle is catering to the Linux-leery, announcing June 12 the Oracle Validated Configuration program to provide pre-tested architectures for running Oracle on Linux. The free...