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Zumobi, a new mobile widget platform and zooming interface based on Microsoft technology, has launched in beta mode after more than a year of development. The trial version of the service is available for phones running Windows Mobile 5 and 6. In the second quarter of 2008, Zumobi is planning to off...
One of the things you learn quickly when you work for a large company is how well executives can cover up failure. I think, to a large extent, that is what is happening with Linux. Folks are covering up its failure with rhetoric, and that is keeping it from growing to its potential. I'm an analyst, ...
Amazon has added a new component to its Amazon Web Services, the online retailer announced Thursday. SimpleDB, a new Web-based service for running queries on structured data in real time, joins Amazon's other offerings, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud, as a computing solution for in...
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, professional network LinkedIn announced on Monday a platform that gives third-party developers access to its application programming interfaces. The set of APIs and widgets in LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform -- dubbed "InApps," for shor...
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...
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...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OL...
IBM has announced a flurry of new components that reinvigorate the company's efforts to create enterprise computing systems smart enough to manage and heal themselves. The whole concept, called "autonomic computing," is all about reducing data center complexity and creating a computing infrastructur...
Microsoft's platform of online services and applications -- aka Windows Live -- has graduated from beta after two years of development. At the Windows Live Web site, users can download software for the desktop -- such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Windows Live Writer -- and a...
After months of speculation and rumors about its mobile plans, Google and a raft of supporting companies gathered Monday to announce Android, a new platform billed as the first truly open and comprehensive application for mobile devices. The platform is the result of a collaboration including T-Mobi...
Anticipation is building as Google prepares to formally introduce its social networking platform. Called "OpenSocial," it provides tools for developers to create applications and widgets that can be ported to any participating network. Partners that have signed on range from Friendster to Plaxo to S...