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Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
News Salesforce.com is a high-profile proponent of the idea of web-based services, broadly called cloud computing. The service also integrates with today's two popular social-networking services, Twitter and Facebook.
[November 19, 2009, 8:57]
Microsoft details plans for Azure cloud
News Kicking off the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie in his keynote address expounded on the company's vision of "three screens and a cloud", where PCs, mobile phones and TVs are...
[November 18, 2009, 7:34]
Swindon promises city-wide Wi-Fi mesh network
News Not only will residents in the borough be able to access the internet for free [but] the council and its partners will be able to use the technology to provide cutting edge services to the areas or individuals who need them.
[November 17, 2009, 15:46]
AT&T's cloud platform set for Europe in 2010
News As companies increasingly move to cloud-based environments, AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service provides a much-needed choice for IT executives who worry about overbuilding or underinvesting in the capacity needed to handle their users' traffic...
[November 16, 2009, 12:09]
Open-source tools wrest control of personal data
Articles Its aim is to create a standards-based framework from which online tools and services can be developed so that consumers regain control of their personal data on the web. They care about user autonomy on the web, privacy, data sharing and that kind...
[November 16, 2009, 11:08]
FAST Search for SharePoint promises custom search without custom code
Blog High end search was a specialised machine that used specialised tools… it was not something you could manage without special training or special services. Due in the first half of next year along with the other SharePoint 2010 versions, Fast Search...
[November 16, 2009, 6:22]
VeriSign: Major Internet security update by 2011
News Both .net and .com are very large domains," said Pat Kane, VeriSign vice president of naming services.net alone has more than 12 million domain names. The problem is that DNS, the Domain Name System that translates internet addresses such as web...
[November 16, 2009, 4:00]
Gov't dept makes web rationalisation step
News It has signed a deal with non-profit IT services group Eduserv to obtain the Sitecore content management system (CMS) on an unlimited user licence. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has obtained a content management system that...
[November 12, 2009, 11:22]
Even though it is a lighter load - keep in mind you have to implement them.
Talkback Specific information is as follows: â-ª MS09-63 resolves a vulnerability in the Web Services on Devices Application Programming Interface (WSDAPI) on the Windows operating system.
[November 11, 2009, 16:19]
Goodbye, GeoCities: It's the end of an era
Comment But GeoCities, along with similar services such as Tripod and Angelfire, democratised the web. We put out photos on web-based photo sharing services, our thoughts on web-based microblogging sites — with links that are shortened by third-party apps...
[November 11, 2009, 14:40]
Samsung launches 'Bada' open mobile platform
News Samsung says Bada is "one of the most developer-friendly environments available", especially for applications that use web services. Samsung on Tuesday announced the launch of its own open mobile platform, named 'Bada', set for December.
[November 11, 2009, 13:14]
UK collaboration firm gets worldwide HP deal
News Huddle, which started up in 2007, hosts user data in the UK, making its services compliant with European data-protection legislation. In addition, the services have "been through a lot of penetration and security testing" with government and large...
[November 10, 2009, 15:34]
RIM pushes boat out for BlackBerry developers
News Research In Motion on Monday used its developer conference to unveil tools and services for its BlackBerry platform, along with a deeper partnership with web and design tools vendor Adobe. Oracle is using the declarative programming tools in its...
[November 10, 2009, 15:26]
Gov't to press on with web-monitoring plans
News It is a highly technical area and one which demands a fine balance between privacy and maintaining the capabilities of the police and security services," said Hanson. Details of all internet communications originating on a communications service...
[November 10, 2009, 15:16]
Sidekick
Downloads Use Mac OS X Services including Look Up in Dictionary, Spotlight, Speak Text, etc (Registered users only) Search Google, Britannica.com, online dictionaries or an online thesaurus from a word processing document.
[November 10, 2009, 14:12]
VelaClock Deluxe
Downloads Many widgets are lightweight front-ends to web services; such widgets require an Internet connection. VelaClock Deluxe is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or...
[November 9, 2009, 15:50]
Web Page Translator
Downloads It is an Altavista, FreeTranslation, Google, Reverso, Systran and T-Mail translation services wrapper which asks them to translate the web page you indicate. You want to navigate on foreign web pages in your own language?
[November 9, 2009, 14:43]
Bye bye browser?
Blog On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the desktop, where it “lights up” applications and plugs them into a connected world of...
[November 6, 2009, 20:16]
The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog Those that need help to see business benefits would pay less, possibly nothing in the worst cases, but could be provided, potentially sold, additional services to improve uptake, increase data relevancy, refine sales processes, better use the...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Google releasing JavaScript programming tools
News Indeed, the company has pushed the language to its limits with services such as Gmail and Google Docs, and it developed its Chrome browser in part to enable JavaScript programs to run faster. With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans on...
[November 6, 2009, 8:32]
