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McAfee buys Solidcore

McAfee buys Solidcore

McAfee has announced it is to acquire banking and retail software firm Solidcore Systems in a US$43 million deal which will give the firm cutting edge whitelisting capabilities and access to the embedded devices market.
Phil Muncaster May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Mozilla's Fennec lands for Windows Mobile

Mozilla's Fennec lands for Windows Mobile

Mozilla’s much hyped mobile web browser Fennec has finally been made available for the Windows Mobile operating system.
Phil Muncaster May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Top 10 disappointing technologies

Top 10 disappointing technologies

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.
Shaun Nichols , Iain Thomson May 18 2009 6:46AM Software
Companies urged to embrace the piracy model

Companies urged to embrace the piracy model

Companies should try to copy pirates rather than wasting time trying to beat them, according to experts at a UK conference.
Phil Muncaster May 16 2009 9:22AM Software
MySQL founder creates Open Database Alliance

MySQL founder creates Open Database Alliance

Monty Widenius, the main author of MySQL, is setting up the Open Database Alliance (ODA) to consolidate work on the database.
Iain Thomson May 16 2009 9:22AM Software
Grocon caches CAD files at building sites

Grocon caches CAD files at building sites

Building developer Grocon has started ‘pre-caching’ large CAD files at building project sites to reduce latency and stop employees from saving the files locally.
Staff Writers May 15 2009 3:06PM Software
Google owns up to service outage

Google owns up to service outage

Google is blaming an error in its traffic routing system for causing a service outage that lasted several hours overnight.
Shaun Nichols May 15 2009 11:50AM Software
Ryanair to charge for online check-in

Ryanair to charge for online check-in

Budget airline Ryanair has said it will charge passengers £5 (A$10) to check in online.
Angelica Mari May 15 2009 6:47AM Software
Google simplifies migration path to Gmail

Google simplifies migration path to Gmail

Google has updated Gmail to make it easier for users to migrate from competing email providers.
Rosalie Marshall May 15 2009 6:26AM Software
Mozilla predicts Firefox majority by 2013

Mozilla predicts Firefox majority by 2013

Mozilla is predicting that its Firefox browser will overtake Internet Explorer as the browser of choice by 2013.
Iain Thomson May 14 2009 2:17PM Software
Analyst blasts software support costs

Analyst blasts software support costs

Forrester Research is advising companies to pressure their software suppliers to lower their maintenance charges, accusing vendors of persisting with "customer-unfriendly practices that wouldn't be accepted in other spheres".
Gareth Morgan May 14 2009 6:23AM Software
Oracle continues spending spree with Virtual Iron buy

Oracle continues spending spree with Virtual Iron buy

Oracle has added to its virtualisation product line-up with the acquisition of Virtual Iron, which specialises in virtual systems management tools for use in data centres.
David Neal May 14 2009 6:10AM Software
Apple issues raft of fixes in Mac OS X 10.5.7 update

Apple issues raft of fixes in Mac OS X 10.5.7 update

Apple has released the latest version of its Leopard operating system, offering improved performance and fixing a number of bugs and security issues.
David Neal May 14 2009 6:10AM Software
CeBIT09: Mosman Council averts "creepy" Twitter potential

CeBIT09: Mosman Council averts "creepy" Twitter potential

Mosman City Council has called Twitter participation its “biggest win” in social networking engagement with residents over the past nine months.
Ry Crozier May 13 2009 3:06PM Software
CeBIT09: DEWHA to virtualise legacy systems

CeBIT09: DEWHA to virtualise legacy systems

The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts is entering the second phase of a virtualisation project that will see it turn attention towards existing IT systems.
Ry Crozier May 13 2009 2:36PM Software
SAP business intelligence becomes more “Google-like”

SAP business intelligence becomes more “Google-like”

SAP has launched Business Objects Explorer, which it says brings business intelligence analysis capabilities to all business users.
Rosalie Marshall May 13 2009 6:08AM Software
IBM extends enterprise apps to the iPhone

IBM extends enterprise apps to the iPhone

IBM is releasing the beta version of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 software for handheld devices.
Iain Thomson May 13 2009 6:08AM Software
Pirate Bay lobs new appeal for retrial

Pirate Bay lobs new appeal for retrial

The administrators of the controversial Pirate Bay website are filing new appeals to their April convictions of providing copyrighted content on the web.
Shaun Nichols May 12 2009 1:14PM Software
Microsoft tests Windows 7 update with fake patches

Microsoft tests Windows 7 update with fake patches

Microsoft is to test the update mechanism in its forthcoming Windows 7 software by pushing out a number of fake patches to users of the latest release candidate.
David Neal May 12 2009 6:02AM Software
Citrix plans to embed hypervisor on your laptop

Citrix plans to embed hypervisor on your laptop

The future of virtualisation is in laptops with embedded hypervisors, predicts Citrix.
Liz Tay May 12 2009 12:01AM Software

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