Google has a history of releasing incomplete products,
Talkback Who would know more about" releasing incomplete products" than Microsoft? Everything they have marketed has been in perpetual beta, with the consumer paying the consequence. Just look at VISTA.
[September 13, 2007, 12:07]
Google releasing JavaScript programming tools
News With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans on Thursday to start helping developers who aspire to match the company's proficiency in creating websites and web applications. Google is a strong proponent of using JavaScript to write web-based...
[November 6, 2009, 8:32]
Releasing Talent: How Massimo Graduated From Prison to a New Career in IT
White Papers Success stories in the IT industry can begin anywhere. Even behind bars. When Massimo began his CCNA training three years ago, he certainly had the odds stacked against him. He was serving a sentence in Italy's Bollate prison, with virtually no IT...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation
White Papers CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly. This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they've realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts.
[June 25, 2008, 14:30]
NetWorld+Interop: NA releasing WebShield apps
News Network Associates is getting into the appliance business. The leviathan of the computer security business announced this morning it will release a series of WebShield E-ppliances for computer security.
[September 14, 1999, 9:34]
Leveraging IT Innovation: Releasing Business Potential Through the Creative Use of IT
White Papers When it comes to describing a highly-functional IT department's best attributes, "creativity" may not necessarily come to mind. Yet, innovating new technologies and applying existing ones in new ways does involve a creative process.
[September 9, 2009, 11:51]
Longhorn developer tools released
News Microsoft took another step toward releasing a beta version of Longhorn with the debut on Monday of developer tools for the operating system. Microsoft is releasing the kit to allow programmers to become familiar with Longhorn and to encourage the...
[May 24, 2005, 9:25]
Intel edges into Transmeta territory with new chip
News Intel is releasing two chips that will compete directly with Transmeta's Crusoe processors in the notebook market, and the scary part for Transmeta is that it didn't take Intel long at all. On Tuesday, the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker is...
[January 30, 2001, 10:59]
Sony plans to ride out economic slump
News Despite the economic slump, Sony Electronics will try to maintain its double-digit growth in the United States this year by releasing a slew of new products. To keep the juggernaut rolling, Sony will be rapidly releasing products such as a new...
[April 4, 2001, 10:03]
Netscape posts source code licence for review
News Netscape today gave substance to its bid to fend of Microsoft's advance in Web browsers by releasing a draft version of the new Netscape Public Licence (NPL) for review at the new mozilla.org Web site.
[March 9, 1998, 16:25]
ATI embraces Linux
News ATI Technologies has announced official support for the Linux operating system and is releasing programming specifications for its Rage 3D graphics chips line. It is expanding this support to include 3D development for the Rage Pro and Rage 128...
[October 22, 1999, 11:43]
Browzar drops Overture after privacy backlash
Talkback Conclusive proof that an unknown brand releasing software as a beta is a recipe for disaster. Google beta's software because they have a track record in releasing excellent software (whatever you think of their real commercial aspirations).
[September 6, 2006, 13:57]
Microsoft plans OpenDocument translator
Talkback It's not releasing its own translator. It is not Microsoft that's releasing this tool. Microsoft is not putting ODF support in Office. It's not offering free software. It's not offering an open source document format and it's certainly not...
[July 11, 2006, 8:02]
Second Life goes open source
News Linden Lab has continued its push to dominate the rapidly growing area of virtual reality, by releasing some of the source code for Second Life under the General Public Licence. On Monday afternoon, Linden Lab announced that it is releasing the...
[January 8, 2007, 15:57]
Intel builds servers, block by block
News Intel is releasing several "building blocks" to make it easier for business partners to build servers using Intel processors, the company will announce Monday. Intel also is releasing a chassis into which those motherboards and other components are...
[June 17, 2002, 9:23]
Sun may choose GPL for Solaris
News Sun is considering releasing its Solaris operating system under the General Public License, executives said on Monday, raising the possibility of cross-pollination with Linux. The server and software company previously made Solaris an open-source...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
Microsoft rolls out public test of Longhorn
News Microsoft on Wednesday said it is releasing its first public test version of Windows Server "Longhorn", as the company works to get the release out the door. Microsoft said it still plans to finalise the code this year — a stage known as releasing...
[April 26, 2007, 9:56]
Microsoft updates Vista preview
News Microsoft said on Wednesday it is releasing an updated test version of Windows Vista, the forthcoming update to Microsoft's flagship operating system. Windows chief Jim Allchin said last month that Microsoft would be releasing two more major CTP...
[February 23, 2006, 8:35]
Second German arrest 'unrelated to Sasser'
News Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing a program widely used to compromise and surreptitiously control computers on the Internet. The suspected Sasser author apparently confessed...
[May 11, 2004, 9:20]
Oracle moves to monthly patches
News The database maker confirmed on Thursday that it plans to start releasing patches on a specific day each month. In addition, the software giant's practice of releasing many fixes in a single "rolled up" patch makes the updates easier to apply, said...
[August 20, 2004, 9:10]



