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"Web 2.0" was one of the computing industry's biggest catch phrases of 2007. Much like a software upgrade, Web 2.0 brings to mind images of bug fixes and new features. In reality, however, Web 2.0 is nothing more than a new round of Internet functionality bolted onto a very tired and old World Wide ...
Consumers hoping to safeguard their holiday memories by storing pictures on their Windows Home Servers may instead want to save those files on their PCs' hard drives. A post made on Microsoft's WHS blog warns users that WHS contains a heretofore undiscovered file corruption bug. Although engineers a...
The next iteration of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, will roll out in beta form early next year, the company announced Wednesday. The long-awaited news comes just days after the earlier-than-expected launch of the second beta version of Mozilla's Firefox 3 Web browser. The eighth vers...
A security update released by Microsoft last week is wreaking havoc with Internet Explorer for some users. Shortly after Microsoft issued its MS07-069 security bulletin last Tuesday, users began posting reports of problems with Internet Explorer on support newsgroups, including the Windows Update gr...
Microsoft entered the final stage before the countdown begins for the planned release of its first Windows Vista Service Pack in January. The software giant announced the availability of the Vista Service Pack 1 release candidate for public download. With the release came more specific details on th...
Two-year-old Meebo uses widgets to allow its users to send instant messages from any computer and chat with buddies on any IM system without downloading or installing software. Martin Green, the company's head of business, spoke with TechNewsWorld about the way widgets are revolutionizing the Intern...
Microsoft is previewing a new experimental developer toolset that will help developers distribute application code between the client and server in Web and Rich Internet Applications without manual coding between the distributed client-server tiers. Called "Volta," Microsoft's Live Labs team plans t...
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 have been released to manufacturing and are now available for MSDN subscribers to download. Included in Visual Studio 2008 are enhancements such as visual designers for faster development with the .Net Framework 3.5, significant improvements to W...
IBM announced a new addition to its BladeCenter portfolio Monday designed to make its blade servers more open and easy to use. IBM's BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager provides I/O virtualization that can help reduce the cost and complexity to enterprise users through its open architecture, the company...
Just a few days have passed since the release of the Android software development kit, but already developers are knee-deep in application projects for the new cell phone platform. Perhaps spurred by the added motivation of Google's $10 million developer's challenge, a full 3,000 developers had join...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big B...
Microsoft's monthly security update contains only two advisories -- not a bad number for the vendor, which in the past has rolled out fixes for a dozen or more flaws at one time. Another positive thing about this Patch Tuesday was the absence of any vulnerabilities in Vista. Still, the relative scar...
Video has been a perk packed with digital point-and-shoot still cameras for some time, but judging by the quality present in many offerings, it's a perk that has been treated as an afterthought by many digicam makers. Not so by Kodak. The chief of film stock -- now remaking itself as a dean of digit...
The Open Handset Alliance made good on its promise to deliver a software development kit for the new Android platform Monday, and Google sweetened the offering with a new $10 million developer's challenge. The Android SDK is now available as an early look release, enabling developers to both start w...
Microsoft revealed specific details about its upcoming Windows Server 2008 Monday at this year's Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, including packaging, pricing and licensing information. One major difference from previous iterations of Windows Server, the software maker announced, are t...