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Article | 19/01/2011 RightNow acquires natural language search company

CRM vendor RightNow has agreed to buy Q-go.com, a vendor of natural language-based search software, for $US34 million in cash, the companies announced...

Article | 17/01/2011 Tomcat 7 finalised

The volunteer developers behind Apache Tomcat have released version 7.0.6 of the open-source Java servlet container.

Article | 15/01/2011 New Cassandra can pack two billion columns into a row

The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to ho...

Article | 15/01/2011 Researchers: Ugly fonts aid content memorization

Having difficulty getting your message across? Try an uglier font.

Article | 14/01/2011 New Mule refines cloud deployments

Further tweaking its software for cloud deployments, MuleSoft has updated its Mule enterprise service bus (ESB) with a wider range of tools to support...

Article | 13/01/2011 MIT pioneers ad hoc network-bottleneck breaker

Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for th...

Article | 13/01/2011 Microsoft to release WebMatrix dev software

Microsoft plans to launch an application on Thursday for quickly ramping up websites and lightweight Web applications, called WebMatrix.

Article | 12/01/2011 Jaspersoft rearchitects BI stack

Anticipating greater use of BI (business intelligence) on the Web and in the cloud, Jaspersoft has rebuilt its software using a standards-based Web ar...

Article | 11/01/2011 Microsoft reengineering Dynamics

In an attempt to further ease deployments for third-party developers, Microsoft is reengineering its Microsoft Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource plann...

Article | 11/01/2011 Joomla reorganized, modernized

The volunteers behind the Joomla content management system will release version 1.6 of the open-source software today, which features considerable imp...

Article | 11/01/2011 Microsoft's Muglia stepping down

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, president of the company's server and tools business, will step down from his position later this year, accor...

Article | 11/01/2011 IBM DeveloperWorks site defaced

An IBM site for developers was defaced over the weekend, with attackers replacing some of the Web pages on the site with ones containing their own mes...

Article | 7/01/2011 Apache to steward NASA built middleware

The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed ...

Article | 6/01/2011 New Linux kernel strengthens SMP support

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocess...

Article | 6/01/2011 PHP floating point bug crashes servers

A newly unearthed bug in certain versions of the PHP scripting language could crash servers when the software is given the task of converting a large ...