Technology News: Software

Dell Gets Real With Virtualization Strategy

Thursday - May 8, 2008

Dell unveiled an array of virtualization solutions Wednesday. The hardware maker's new lineup includes more than a dozen servers, tools and services designed to make the deployment and management of virtual environments as simple as possible for enterprises regardless of size, the company said. Four new virtualization-optimized servers stand at the center of the hardware manufacturer's latest offering. The new Dell PowerEdge R805 and R905 include preinstalled versions of either VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition hypervisors. [More...]

Bush Beats Britney in Easter Egg Hunt

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

Software developers are known to hide all sorts of "Easter eggs" in their code, but code search engine Krugle has revealed just what might be found among the billions of lines of open source code available on the Web. Krugle searches across code repositories and development resources, using contextual search to provide insights to developers. [More...]

Gates Forecasts Huge Changes in Net Technology

Tuesday - May 6, 2008

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. "The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. "The second 10 years will be very different." [More...]

Xobni Spins Relationship Webs in Microsoft Outlook

Monday - May 5, 2008

For all those Outlook users who have ever thought there has to be a better way to organize and search e-mail content, Xobni, a startup out of San Francisco, has launched its attempt at a solution. A free add-on, Xobni -- "in-box" spelled backwards -- is designed to help users of Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program get a better handle on what's in their in-box. [More...]

Sun's OpenSolaris to Shine Through Amazon's Cloud

Monday - May 5, 2008

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at the CommunityOne Developer Conference Monday in San Francisco. OpenSolaris is based on Sun's Solaris kernel, but it has since been transformed into a more open and developer-friendly OS. [More...]

Adobe Opens Formats to Shine Flash on More Screens

Thursday - May 1, 2008

Adobe Systems has assembled a group of industry leaders in an effort to put its Flash-based rich Internet solutions and content on most every screen -- PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, televisions and any other consumer electronic device that might have a screen worthy of delivering content. The effort is called the "Open Screen Project," and it's supported by a who's-who of players. [More...]

Sun Leads Developers Down the Open Storage Path

Thursday - May 1, 2008

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday brought new how-to guides and services to the community of more than 3,000 developers using its OpenSolaris-based open storage platform. Two how-to recipes aim to help developers build solid storage systems quickly and efficiently, while the new service capabilities are designed to speed open storage application development. [More...]

Retail App Flap Stalls XP Service Pack

Wednesday - April 30, 2008

Instead of releasing the third service pack to its Windows XP operating system on Tuesday, Microsoft said it will delay the launch due to the discovery of certain compatibility problems. Microsoft attributed the delay to a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System and XP's Service Pack 3 as well as Vista Service Pack 1. [More...]

MS Messenger for Mac 7 Says Bonjour

Wednesday - April 30, 2008

The Microsoft Mac Business Unit announced on Tuesday that it has released Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7 for both personal and corporate use. The corporate version includes multi-party audio and video use. The personal edition features new support for Mac OS X Bonjour instant networking technology, a new contact list search tool and the ability to give contacts a nickname for easy recognition, even when their screen name changes. [More...]

Skype Plants Its Flag in Mobile Turf

Monday - April 28, 2008

Skype released a beta version of its mobile Voice over Internet Protocol application that can be downloaded to a variety of phones. The application, which the company says is still unstable, will allow people to set up group chats, see when contacts are online, make SkypeIn and SkypeOut calls and talk with those who use the computer-based Skype application. [More...]

Red Hat CEO: Opportunity Lies in Emerging Markets

Monday - April 28, 2008

Red Hat will look primarily to emerging markets, not the United States, to expand service sales in the coming years, chief executive Jim Whitehurst said. Red Hat sells services that support open source software, or software whose underlying code is shared freely by professionals and amateurs worldwide. [More...]

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