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Lockheed Martin Debuts Open-Source Eureka Streams

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Lockheed Martin has released Eureka Stream, an open-source enterprise social networking project and is inviting developers to give the technology a whirl. - Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. Lockheed Martin is making the technology available to developers and inviting their feedback on Eureka Streams. Developers can learn more about the...

webOS Developments Ahead for HP and Palm

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Hewlett-Packard has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. - HP announced that its acquisition of Palm is now complete, and that the companies are looking forward to developing Palm's webOS platform, embracing the smartphone market and getting to work on a roadmap that includes slates and netbooks. HP, the world's top-selling PC maker, with access to Palm'...

Cisco Launches Cloud Enablement Services

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

As Cisco Systems reinvents itself partly as a cloud-computing infrastructure provider, it needs to add a set of services to wrap around all the hardware and software it wants to sell. - Cisco Systems aims to prepare potential customers before they commit to building a cloud computing system. Cisco is providing a menu of cloud system components, including products of its own and from partners such as EMC, NetApp, VMware, Microsoft and BMC. On June 30, that's what the company did, l...

Engineer Behind Google's Chrome OS Departs for Facebook

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google's important Chrome Operating System initiative. - Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google's important Chrome Operating System initiative. Could Facebook have cloud operating system designs of its own? Less clear is how this loss will impact Chrome OS, which is still on track to roll out on netbooks from HP, Acer, Asus, ...

Kindle for Android App Released by Amazon

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Amazon.com announced the release of Kindle for Android June 28, porting its e-reader software to yet another family of devices. As competition in the e-reader space continues to heat up, Amazon.com finds itself pushing Kindle software and hardware updates in an effort to stay ahead of its ever-multiplying rivals. - The release of Kindle for Android adds to the number of devices capable of running Amazon.com's e-reader software. The application requires Android OS 1.6 or higher, allowing it to run on the newest Android phones such as the Motorola Droid X, and includes the ability to adjust text size. Amazon.com...

Lotus Notes Traveler Beta for Android Released

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

IBM June 17 released the beta version of its Lotus Notes Traveler for Android software, a free collaboration application for Lotus Notes customers who use a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later operating system. - IBM June 17 released the beta version of its free Lotus Notes Traveler for Android application to let Lotus Notes customers access e-mail, calendar and contacts from an Android 2.0 or later device. The app will work for the Android 2.1-based Motorola Droid, Nexus One, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Ev...

Microsoft Office 2010 Releases Worldwide

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Microsoft is announcing the worldwide availability of Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. While expectations for the software's success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs. - Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Office 2010, more than a month after releasing the software to business consumers. In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. Although Office 2010 is expected to sell well, it...

HP Offers Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis Service

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced a security service to help companies reduce vulnerabilities at the onset of the application development lifecycle, Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis. The solution, an early life cycle security assessment service that addresses latent defects in applications and architecture, is available worldwide and provides architectural as well as design guidance alongside recommendations for security controls and best practices. - Businesses looking for greater security during the application development cycle might consider HP's Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis service, part of the company's Secure Advantage portfolio. The service includes the Security Requirements Gap Analysis, which provides clients with access ...

Google News Picks Human-Curated Content from Pubs

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

A new experiment Google is conducting on Google News includes a special section that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications. - Google confirmed it is experimenting with human-curated content with Editors Picks, a new section on Google News that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications. That approach is a critical departure from Google's usual math...

Cisco Systems Looking to Bring Quad to the Workplace

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The company is looking to enable a businesses to use the various communications features in such social media environments like Facebook and MySpace - from profiles, updates and video communications to Twitter-like microblogging, posts, people search, RSS feeds and auto-tagging - that employees have taken advantage of in their personal lives and apply them to the corporate world. - Cisco officials are preparing a corporate collaboration platform that combines the various aspects of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace with enterprise-level security and policy control and business applications. Cisco is expected to talk more about Quad at the Enterprise 2.0 show ne...

Google Confirms That Google Goggles is Coming to the iPhone

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Google confirmed that its Goggles visual search application would be coming to Apple's iPhone soon and also said it would release APIs for its image recognition, according to this scoop from ReadWriteWeb. - Google Goggles is a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location or objects such as a product or painting from their smartphone and do a Google search that pulls up information associated with the image. The image a user snaps with his or her camera is a query that gets sent to G...

Digital Magazine Viewer Unveiled by Adobe

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Adobe on June 1 revealed an application for viewing digital magazines, seemingly the next stage in a multicompany battle over the ebooks and digital media market. In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine's June iPad edition - despite Apple's refusal to support Adobe's Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites' rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy. - Adobe is unveiling an application for viewing digital magazines on June 1. The technology has been used to build Wired magazine's iPad edition, which is ironic considering the ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple over Flash, which enables many Websites' rich content but remains unsupported on Appl...

12 Recession-Resistant Software Investments

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:54:01 -0400

IT leaders want to invest more in software initiatives, but the economy forces them to be more discriminating than ever. Forrester Research asked 431 North American and European executives what platform and infrastructure software they'll be spending on in the next 12 months. Here's what they said.

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