Securing the anonymity of women who choose to post images of their breasts on the Booby Wall, an online site in support of breast cancer awareness, was a major factor in building the public platform, according to the chief creative officer behind the site's design.
A Canadian open source firm is considering contributing its technology to the LiMo Foundation, a consortium of companies striving to build a globally-available open, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
An online marketplace for technology professionals to buy and sell services and support for open source software should provide a global platform for software creators to directly sell packaged support to those who need it.
EMC no longer refers to itself as a storage technology vendor, but rather an information infrastructure vendor.
Oracle's US$6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems expired last Sunday leaving the door open for other potential suitors of the middleware vendor.
The possible acquisition of BEA Systems by Oracle will put the database vendor on par with IBM in the application infrastructure space, but there still is room for the remaining independent middleware vendors, analysts said.
At the Adobe MAX conference in the US this week -- themed 'Connect, Discover, Inspire' -- Adobe Systems announced beta 2.0 of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) technology, around which the company is hoping the developer community will build applications to promote the platform's capabilities.
SAP's launch Wednesday of Business ByDesign, a hosted on-demand offering for mid market customers, is a significant improvement relative to its other offerings in this space, but simplicity and ease of use still remain elusive to the vendor, an analyst observed.
IT departments that recognize and embrace the increasing commoditization of collaboration and communication tools within the enterprise will ultimately reap productive employees, said a Google exec.
Intel's release this week of the 'Tigerton' Xeon 7300 chip was promptly met with rival Advanced Micro Devices' contention that the technology is merely packaged dual-cores, and not native quad-core.
With 29 independent micro-brewers scattered across the province, each with a unique story to tell, Ontario Craft Brewers decided that podcasts would be the perfect way to create that "personal, authentic" relationship with its beer drinkers.
While collaboration and communication technologies are widely acknowledged to be beneficial within the enterprise, surprisingly, less than half of Canadian and US organizations have actually developed a strategy that they're happy with.
The ongoing legal dispute in which Oracle accuses SAP of "corporate theft on a grand scale" brings to the fore the delicate nature of contractual agreements between software companies.
Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it will acquire Opsware is a good move for the company which, as yet, hasn't made significant inroads in the data center automation space, analysts said.
A familiar user interface might help high performance compute cluster (HPCC) technology gain traction in the mid-market and enterprise crowd, according to IBM.