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Article | 4/09/2010 Linux distributions update for Web flaw
A number of Linux distributors have issued patches for fixing a widely used program that fetches Web pages, called Wget, so it can not be misused by a...
Article | 2/09/2010 Google technologist derides Oracle's lack of developer focus
When it bowed out of the JavaOne conference this year, Google cited Oracle's lawsuit over Java use in Google Android. But one Google technologist sugg...
Article | 2/09/2010 ActiveState prepares Python for databases
ActiveState has updated its distributions of the Python programming language so that they provide developers easier access to databases, as well as ne...
Article | 1/09/2010 VMware vCloud Director gets Zenoss monitoring app
After setting up a cloud infrastructure, an organization needs tools to monitor that it is running as smoothly as planned.
Article | 1/09/2010 Twitter API has new third party sign-on method
Users of obscure third-party Twitter applications may be surprised to find that their apps no longer work, if the app creators of those apps haven't b...
Article | 31/08/2010 Red Hat board gets military leadership
The managing board of enterprise open-source software company Red Hat has elected a retired U.S. Army officer, General Henry Hugh Shelton, to serve as...
Article | 30/08/2010 Purdue app slows servers when cooling fails
While chip manufacturers continue to make their processors ever more powerful, at least one customer has found it useful to slow these chips down, at ...
Article | 30/08/2010 Gartner: Web content management a billion-dollar business
In its August issue, Wired magazine proclaimed that the Web is on the wane, but for the business world, the Web seems to be only growing more importan...
Article | 26/08/2010 Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard
As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, ...
Article | 26/08/2010 Eucalyptus strengthens its back end
Two months after releasing version 2 of the enterprise edition of its open-source cloud software, Eucalyptus Systems has posted a new version of the s...
Article | 24/08/2010 Time waits for no one: 'leap seconds' may be cut
Sparking a fresh round of debate over an ongoing issue in time-keeping circles, the International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating ...
Article | 24/08/2010 Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop
Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as...
Article | 21/08/2010 HTML5 raises new security issues
When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, fore...
Article | 20/08/2010 Vim editor updated with modern language support
The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl...
Article | 19/08/2010 Choice domain names pitched as investments
Forget real estate, the stock market or Internet startups, the new way to make fast money is to invest in domain names, argues a domain name brokerage...

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