Software news
Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays (Update)
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.
Google Go gets going (w/ Video)
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.
Chrome 4.0 beta web browser launched
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has released its latest beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows, which promises faster browsing, bookmark synchronization and more.
Ubuntu 9.10 just released
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Canonical is releasing Ubuntu 9.10, the Karmic Koala, the latest version of its open-source operating system, and it aims to attract business and enterprise users to join the growing numbers ...
Trust Linux!
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ...
Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers ...
IBM makes Big Blue cloud
Nov 16, 2009 |
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IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.
'Call of Duty' sells $310M in N Amer, UK in 24 hrs
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- First-day sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.'s "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" broke records, raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone.
Palm's webOS hasn't gotten the attention it deserves
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts ...
eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones
Nov 06, 2009 |
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The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?
Worms infesting computers worldwide: Microsoft
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A Microsoft security report released Monday warns that cyber crooks are digging into computers for weak spots to penetrate with worms -- malicious software that steals control or data.
The visual editor: IBM Makes It Easier To Browse Web Sites On Mobile Devices (w/ Video)
Oct 26, 2009 |
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IBM researchers have created technology, initially developed for visually-impaired users, that makes it simpler for Webmasters to make their Web sites more readable on the small screens of mobile devices, ...
Amazon to release free Kindle software for PC
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering free software for people to read them on a computer.
Microsoft launches Windows 7 (Update)
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Microsoft's much-heralded Windows 7 went on sale around the world Thursday as the US software giant seeks to reboot after the disappointment of its previous generation operating system Vista.
Cisco releases Web security app for iPhone
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Cisco on Friday announced the release of a free iPhone application for anyone who wants to stay on top of the latest trojans, worms, or other threats marauding on the Internet.
