Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Chris Kanaracus

Article | 22/08/2008 Legal group releases guide to GPL compliance

The Software Freedom Law Center, which provides legal help to the free and open-source software community, has released a detailed document that descr...

Article | 22/08/2008 Dell links up with Salesforce's development platform

Dell has reached a three-year deal with Salesforce to use the latter's Force.com development platform to build software for its "entire global workfor...

Article | 20/08/2008 New service applies social networking to app testing

Massachusetts startup uTest is launching an on-demand service that weds application testing to social networking through a community of more than 8,00...

Article | 19/08/2008 Jitterbit reveals open-source data integration tool

Data-integration vendor Jitterbit released the 2.0 version of its platform on Monday, adding another entry to a growing group of open-source alternati...

Article | 15/08/2008 Analyst: In-house app development fraught with waste

A study by the boutique consultancy Voke finds corporate software development in a state of dysfunction marked by budget woes, protracted project leng...

Article | 11/08/2008 Linux patent pool to push for 'defensive publication'

A tech vendor-backed company that buys up patents in an effort to protect the Linux community from intellectual property litigation will soon launch a...

Article | 5/08/2008 Software a 'boot camp' for the brain

Mike Scanlon has a mixed bag of news for me.

Article | 5/08/2008 Curl completes embrace of Eclipse IDE

Rich Internet application vendor Curl will announce Tuesday that it has completed its initial transition over to the Eclipse IDE (integrated developme...

Article | 5/08/2008 SuccessFactors integrates with Google Apps

The ecosystem around Google Apps grew a little broader on Monday, as on-demand performance and talent management vendor SuccessFactors disclosed that ...

Article | 31/07/2008 JavaFX SDK preview release imminent

Sometime this week, developers will be able to get their hands on a preview SDK (software development kit) for JavaFX, Sun's entry into the RIA (rich ...

Article | 18/07/2008 Yahoo letter to shareholders slams Microsoft, Icahn

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock on Thursday sent a letter to shareholders that slams Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn, who want Yahoo t...

Article | 15/07/2008 Open-source quality tester out in alpha

The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open-source software qu...

Article | 14/07/2008 Users eager, integrators mixed on enterprise iPhone use

Andrew Maddox is still using the first generation of Apple's iPhone, but he wasted no time this week in getting his business e-mail pushed to the devi...

Article | 11/07/2008 Oracle pushes BI to the iPhone

Oracle is jumping on the iPhone bandwagon, releasing Business Indicators, the first in a planned wave of applications for the red-hot mobile device.

Article | 10/07/2008 Adobe readying new mashup tool for business users

Adobe is developing a mashup interface code-named "Genesis" that will allow business users to pull together "workspaces" that combine assets like busi...