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Stories by Joab Jackson

Article | 11/12/2010 IBM adds assessment tools to data center service offerings

Using its research in analytics, IBM has created 18 assessment tools that it is incorporating into its IT services offerings.

Article | 10/12/2010 Apache resigns from Java community

Protesting what it perceives as Oracle's undue control of Java, the Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat from the Java SE/EE Executive Com...

Article | 9/12/2010 Python 3.2 eases concurrent development

The next version of the widely used Python programming language will offer greater support for writing multithreaded applications, a challenging duty ...

Article | 8/12/2010 Informatica debuts pay-as-you-go data integration service

Hoping to pique the interest of the cloud-curious enterprise, data-integration software provider Informatica has unveiled a low-cost, cloud-based data...

Article | 7/12/2010 MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks

With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have f...

Article | 2/12/2010 Free Software Foundation's software repository hacked

The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week.

Article | 2/12/2010 Microsoft quietly invests in IBM emulator TurboHercules

Continuing its low-key crusade for greater mainframe openness (or less IBM dominance of that market), Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount of ...

Article | 2/12/2010 Cisco to acquire LineSider for cloud tech

Muscling up on cloud technologies, Cisco Systems is in the process of acquiring network management software vendor LineSider Technologies, the company...

Article | 1/12/2010 HP fuses dev management and testing tools

With the release of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 package, Hewlett-Packard is hoping to streamline the process of application developm...

Article | 1/12/2010 Linux kernel shows growing mobile influence

An increasing number of contributions to the open-source Linux kernel are coming from mobile and embedded equipment vendors, according to an annual re...

Article | 1/12/2010 Red Hat acquires Makara

Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat has acquired cloud software provider Makara, Red Hat announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disc...

Article | 30/11/2010 Ticketmaster unfazed by odd band names

If you can't quite spell Hannah Montana or Boyz II Men you're not alone. But Ticketmaster found it doesn't pay to be too strict about spelling and mod...

Article | 30/11/2010 Microsoft pioneers tactile display technology

Possibly leapfrogging today's touch-screen technologies, Microsoft has figured out a way to make the computer displays themselves change in shape unde...

Article | 25/11/2010 Google Wave may become an Apache project

Some of the developers behind Google Wave have submitted <a href="http://www.waveprotocol.org/">their software</a> to the Apache Software Foundation f...

Article | 25/11/2010 Microsoft nabs OpenStreetMap founder

As part of an initiative to leverage the OpenStreetMap project for its own Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired OSM founder Steve Coast, the company announc...