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Election technology vendorDiebold suffered a leak of the original software code used to run older versions of its controversial e-voting machines late last week. The incident fueled doubts about thesecurity of e-voting machines in general and raised concerns over voter confidence in the technology as U.S. elections loom just two weeks from now The ...
Linux leader Red Hat has unveiled an aggressive effort to expand its reach in the telecommunications industry, leveraging its acquired JBoss middleware and open source technology in the space and joining a European community project aimed at fostering an open service telecom infrastructure Red Hat said its participation in the European Community Op...
Software maker Adobe made available the highly-anticipated Linux version of Flash Player 9 in beta form this week The media player, combined with Adobe's Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK), make up a fully-supported, free platform for rich Internet applications....
Novell is bundling more and more software with its Suse Linux distribution, this week announcing a partnership with IBM that puts Big Blue's proprietary WebSphere and DB2-Express C database technologies alongside open source Suse Linux The Integrated Stack for Suse Linux Enterprise will combine Linux and closed code to create competition for rival ...
Open source database vendorMySQL released new functionality and services under an "enterprise" moniker, reflecting the Swedish company's aggressive strategy for acquiring bigger and better customers Taken together, all of the open source databases -- including MySQL, Ingres and PostgreSQL -- occupy only a sliver of the enterprise market. However, t...
Microsoft has opened its virtualization technology. The software giant made its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) virtualization specification available under its own Open Specification Promise (OSP) with the aim of encouraging development and increasing interoperability Looking to ensure its piece of the virtualization pie -- a technology trend whereby mult...
Sun Microsystems unveiled this week a unified plan to bring virtualization technology to enterprises. The company said it will offer virtualization technology and related support services, including virtualization technology for its Niagara T1 processor-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers; Xen support in Solaris; Life Cycle Services for Virtualization; and extended support for VMware virtualization...
Cutting-edge voice, speech and translation technology from IBM is getting a critical test from U.S. military personnel who are using the system to speak with Iraqi locals in their own language The Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator, or "MASTOR," is activated by speaking and translates both from English to Arabic and from Arabic to E...
Massachusetts' embrace of open technology, open standards and open source software was simply routine strategic planning, the way Tim Vaverchack tells it. However, the state's stance to strongly consider alternatives to proprietary solutions -- such as the Open Document Format -- has fueled one of the biggest technology firestorms in government IT history...
Open source software is a known resource among government IT pros, who are continually asked to do more with less, but beyond the flexibility and freedom from licensing fees, those who know how to leverage IT to its fullest are also using the collaboration aspect of open source software to succeed Northwest transportation giant Tri-Met, for example...
Just as dual-core processor technology is making its way into mainstream enterprise IT environments, AMD, Intel and Sun Microsystems are pushing for even more processor cores. Quad-core processing is on the way The market is ready for this cutting-edge technology, though, thanks to IT architectures, servers and applications that are already paralle...
Open source may be experiencing something of a slow uptake in government offices lately because the traditional "request for proposal" (RFP) process -- required and used by governments when spending tax dollars on software and other technology resources -- often excludes open source options Even worse, governments are typically using software and s...
Java backer Sun Microsystems and open source application development player Laszlo Systems have announced a partnership to support OpenLaszlo applications on Java Micro Edition (ME) devices The companies said the deal will boost the portability and flexibility of both products, and would form the basis of a new OpenLaszlo community project dubbed O...
The programming tool Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has proven integral to the latest popular Internet destinations and is winning the favor of corporate supporters, including IBM and Google, as well as developers. However, there are some security issues that may accompany this cutting-edge technology tool Security experts highlighted some ...
Browser maker Opera Software has released in Europe a specialized browser for the two-screen Nintendo DS handheld, touting features that let users comfortably browse the Web from either the DS or slimmer Nintendo DS Lite Opera, which has decidedly set its sights on the mobile handset market with its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini handheld browsers, sa...
With its mix of capability and flexibility, often at a lower cost, Linux continues its aggressive growth in the enterprise server market, according to new research A survey of nearly 400 IT developers and professionals indicates that use of Linux in at least some servers is still on the rise, reportsEvans Data....
Google's new Code Search, a developer tool that scours the Internet for software code, is stirring up buzz over what some see as its potential for misuse bycomputer attackers Code Search is meant to optimize searches for specific software codes, scripts, licenses and related information. However, concerns have arisen over possible nefarious uses of...
Most fans of Linux know that while the open source operating system has proven its might in corporate computer servers, it has languished on the desktop, where Microsoft maintains its monopoly While companies such asLinspire,Xandros and others try to make Linux more appealing on the desktop, Ubuntu Linux distributorCanonical faces a different chall...
Internet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online Always looking to extend its forte -- ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet -- Google said the new beta service, Google Code Sear...
SpikeSource this week announced that it has sealed a deal with Japan's NEC to bundle its certified open source solutions with NEC servers This is the first time NEC has incorporated open source software into its products, SpikeSource noted. The Tokyo-based firm plans to deliver SpikeSource infrastructure and other open source software on its NEC Ex...
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