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Microsoft picks up search-technology firm
News Part of Microsoft's development efforts involve bridging the power of Web search into the Windows operating system to search for files and documents. The new design included a more streamlined interface that resembles Google's minimalist style.
[July 16, 2004, 9:10]
Trolltech axes the Greenphone
News It is an older design and we are not the best hardware company. The mobile Linux development company Trolltech has announced that it has sold out of its Greenphone reference handsets and that it will not re-order further units, because there are...
[October 22, 2007, 12:01]
IBM pumps up 'on demand' power
News The upgrade to WebSphere will offer business process workflow capabilities, or the ability to design an application that automates a sequence of business transactions with a visual tool. IBM will also introduce a software development tool aimed...
[February 17, 2003, 12:05]
Ballmer: Don't stifle innovation
News We're not doing anything different than we were yesterday in terms of how we think about new design," Ballmer said. Both he and Smith noted that Microsoft's development efforts already have been influenced by the consent decree in the US vs...
[March 25, 2004, 7:35]
Hard choices ahead for developers
News And so, Microsoft is getting Visual Studio.Net and .Net Framework tools into the hands of developers as it starts pushing a software-development architecture it calls the Global XML Web Services Architecture.
[November 23, 2001, 16:01]
Comdex '99: Spotlight on PC 'appliances'
News AMD will officially unveil Easy Now, a reference design for PC makers that would allow them to reduce the amount of "legacy" hardware in a machine as a way to make it cheaper and simpler. AMD's Easy Now, which has been under development since 1998...
[November 15, 1999, 9:26]
EC raises antitrust objection to IE in Windows
News It added that the Commission "is concerned that the ubiquity of Internet Explorer creates artificial incentives for content providers and software developers to design websites or software primarily for Internet Explorer which ultimately risks...
[January 19, 2009, 7:33]
D'oh! Amiga scraps PC plan
News We are open to the possibility of licensing the MCC (multimedia computer) product specification and design that is now on the shelf to companies that are interested in further developing the Amiga desktop computer product line," Schmidt said.
[September 20, 1999, 9:53]
Heavyweights back software distribution push
News They both plan to cooperate on design standards for VRML, the 3D graphics language for the Web. Netscape Communications Corp.and Lotus Development Corp.are endorsing a common programming language that makes it easier to install software that has...
[August 15, 1997, 9:17]
Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift
News Because the GCC design lets it create programs for dozens of different CPUs, it has been used to create the software for numerous proprietary systems as well. There are companies out there that are spending $50m or $100m on compiler development...
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
One year on, is Microsoft 'Trustworthy'?
News Michael Howard, senior program manager and the security trainer for the internal development staff, said early indications are that the training has paid off. The company essentially halted product development early last year while about 8,500...
[January 17, 2003, 9:08]
ARM opens resource centre for Android devs
News Smith added: "ARM is the leading processor architecture for internet-everywhere applications from mobile to the connected home and, with that leadership, ARM is in a position to foster an innovative ecosystem to ensure that device manufacturers...
[November 17, 2009, 11:03]
Flash goes solo
News Macromedia last year began a wide-reaching campaign to expand the role of Flash in Web design, promoting the software as a broad platform for designing Web applications and building user interfaces. Intel is working with Macromedia as a development...
[March 27, 2003, 7:40]
OpenGL 1.4 unveiled
News A number of best-selling 3D games, including Doom and Quake, also rely on OpenGL, but it is more widely used for technical computing such as simulations or building visualisations of buildings and landscapes, and for computer-aided industrial design.
[July 16, 2002, 15:35]
Toshiba TG01 running Windows Mobile 6.5
Blog Toshiba makes the most of it, but even here everything isn’t rosy: the TV Player link pointed to an Orange web page that's currently under development. What did appeal last time round, and still does now, is the sleek design and huge screen.
[November 18, 2009, 12:31]
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News Intel on Monday is unveiling an entirely new design for the silicon and metal vehicles that connect the microprocessor to the rest of the computer. Your package interconnect density has to be extremely complex," said Koushik Banerjee, the technical...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Adobe makes DRM acquisition
News The company's recent acquisition of Macromedia, which makes Web application development tools, has also intensified that rivalry. In addition to safeguarding Adobe PDF files, the FileLine program is also designed to protect Microsoft Office and...
[January 10, 2006, 8:40]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News The subject is GNOME, a Linux desktop designed to ease GUI development, simplify communications between applications, and offer a consistent look and feel. While the two differ in design philosophy -- KDE is a little simpler, GNOME a little more...
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
Java: Smart light switches?
News Cell phones have a megabyte or two of memory and so much processing power, and the manufacturers are already deciding that a year from now they'll have four or eight megs, and that changes your design point.
[September 21, 1999, 15:32]
IBM integrates Rational into Tivoli tools
News IT systems will be simpler to operate if they have better up-front design, much in the way automakers consider the manufacturing process when designing cars, he said. The intent behind the forthcoming product announcement is to provide tools that...
[April 29, 2005, 9:35]
