Stories by: Joab Jackson

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Microsoft previews new versions of Visual Studio and .Net 31 May, 2012 23:13:03

Closely following its preview release of Windows 8, Microsoft has also posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.
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Fedora Linux capitulates to Microsoft boot certificate 31 May, 2012 21:34:24

In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday.
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HP appoints new head of software 30 May, 2012 16:30:00

Following through on promises to shuffle the ranks of upper management, Hewlett-Packard has hired George Kadifa to head up the company's software division and promoted Bill Veghte, who formerly led the division, to the role of chief operating officer.
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Fedora 17 takes to the cloud 29 May, 2012 18:45:27

The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) yet, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution.
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Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++ 25 May, 2012 18:34:16

The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.
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Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome 24 May, 2012 16:52:58

With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.
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Wolfram expands into system modeling 23 May, 2012 21:04:35

Expanding beyond its scientific and engineering number-crunching software, Mathematica maker Wolfram Research released a desktop application for full-scale system modeling and simulation, the company announced Wednesday.
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Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue 23 May, 2012 15:20:11

Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach 23 May, 2012 04:56:14

Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).
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New Nmap probes IPv6 networks 23 May, 2012 02:47:16

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques.
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Nasdaq's Facebook glitch came from race conditions 22 May, 2012 05:18:02

The Nasdaq computer system that delayed trade notices of the Facebook IPO on Friday was plagued by race conditions, the stock exchange announced Monday. As a result of this technical glitch in its Nasdaq OMX system, the market expects to pay out US$13 million or even more to traders.