Wednesday | 9 July, 2008
Stories by: Chris Kanaracus
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Google open-sources data exchange language 09 July, 2008 08:21:09
Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases, according to official company blog posts and documents. - +
Microsoft says it would deal with new Yahoo board 08 July, 2008 08:25:24
In a statement Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company. - +
Gartner: CRM market up 23 percent in '07 08 July, 2008 08:43:09
Global spending on CRM (customer relationship management) software surged in 2007 to roughly US$8.1 billion, a 23.1 percent jump over 2006's total of about US$6.6 billion, according to the research firm Gartner. - +
Cognos business intelligence software ported to System z 07 July, 2008 08:03:07
IBM's Cognos 8 BI (business intelligence) software is now generally available for System z mainframes running Linux, the company announced last week. - +
Salesforce's e-commerce engine favoring 'native' apps 01 July, 2008 09:22:44
Salesforce is developing an e-commerce engine called Force.com Checkout, but for now only "native" applications that are built on its Force.com development platform -- as opposed to ones developed with other tools and then integrated with Salesforce -- can join the pilot program. - +
IDC: Oracle maintains lead in database market 30 June, 2008 08:24:16
The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC. - +
Sun announces 'unlimited' GlassFish-MySQL bundle 30 June, 2008 07:06:19
Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle. - +
Oracle: Damages in SAP-TN suit could be at least $1 billion 27 June, 2008 08:32:51
Attorneys representing Oracle in the company's lawsuit against rival SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary have for the first time publicly put a dollar figure -- "likely" $1 billion or more -- on the damages they believe the enterprise software maker deserves. - +
Progress buys Iona for SOA wares 26 June, 2008 09:10:35
Progress Software is buying fellow SOA (service oriented architecture) infrastructure vendor Iona Technologies for about US$162 million, or $106 million net of cash and marketable securities. - +
Oracle posts strong Q4, full-year results 26 June, 2008 10:21:31
Showing strong growth amid a worldwide economic downturn, Oracle on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenues of US$7.2 billion, a 24 percent rise compared to the same quarter last year, and total revenue for fiscal 2008 of $22.4 billion. - +
Gmail to support million-plus NSW students 25 June, 2008 12:56:37
Google is close to landing a contract with the NSW Department of Education and Training to support 1.3 million students with Gmail.
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Weekly Tech News update - July 4th, 2008YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable laying ship.
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The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
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YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable laying ship.
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Zepto release the Mythos, the 2nd installment in the Centrino 2 refresh 09 July, 2008 12:05:00
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V/Line and Oakton use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to develop an Executive HR Dashboard
With the help of Oakton, V/Line - Victoria's regional public transport provider - utilised Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to develop an Executive HR Dashboard report.
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