CNET has reported a 24 percent increase in unique users year-over-year. The traffic increase comes two months after the launch of the CNET redesign, a complete evolution of the website that spanned everything from its logo, design, and navigation to the delivery of product reviews, tec...

Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures (IV), the great patent vacuum, has a piece of Novafora's deal to buy Transmeta, according to a filing dropped off with the SEC. IV was apparently there at the bargaining table with Novafora, which makes digital video processors. It’s putting $11....

Besides SUSE and its own brand of Linux, rPath is now supporting the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of its rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. The move broadens the start-up’s options for deploying and managing applications in traditional, virtualized a...

SCO filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver Tuesday. Yes, miracle of miracles it finally got a final judgment out of Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball. That's the hall pass it needs to challenge his devastating summary judgme...

Fedora 10 is out and about. Fedora of course is Red Hat's freebie community OS and testbed for coming attractions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new rev is supposed to have substantial virtualization improvements for remotely installing and managing storage provisioning and includes ...

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ...

The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects. Historically, however, open source has sometimes been considered a "late follower," with commercial products first to hit the market, and then followed by "me-too" op...

Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to direct...

Transmeta, the uppity microprocessor wannabe that pushed Intel to create low-power chips before Intel crushed it, is getting bought by Novafora Inc for $255.6 million in cash, roughly what Transmeta has in the bank thanks largely to an IP licensing deal with Intel. Novafora is a fab-le...

Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. This session will examine: The current state and industry adoption of Hadoop and cloud-based data processing; The programming mode...

Emulex has announced that it will offer Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for use with OpenSolaris’ Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR), thereby providing end-to-end Fibre Channel and FCoE support withi...

The BlackBerryR Technical Webcast Series is designed to help BlackBerry administrators better manage and leverage the capabilities of their BlackBerry solution. Each webcast is packed with detailed technical information, covering topics that are relevant to you. Our on-demand webcasts ...

The BlackBerry Technical Seminar is back this fall with breakthrough new sessions you won’t want to miss! Managing and extending applications to your mobile users, overcoming development hurdles; and leveraging mobile technology to create new opportunities for your business – if it’s a...

Lightstreamer is a software product for delivering real-time textual data to any kind of application through the Internet. Banks and online-gaming companies typically use it to dispatch live updates to their Web pages or Flex applications, supporting high numbers of parallel connection...

Zenoss has rolled a new version of its a product suite. In addition to other enhancements, the new release adds native VMware monitoring across the full virtualization infrastructure life cycle. This latest version, Zenoss 2.3, now enables enterprise IT staff and cloud services provide...

SpringSource and Terracotta have announced a comprehensive partnership to simplify the development and deployment of enterprise Java applications and reduce the costs of their scale-out, tuning, and ongoing operations. Under terms of the agreement, SpringSource and Terracotta are tight...

IBM and Sun, like ODF drug dealers trying to poison Microsoft Office, have launched the OpenDocument Format Toolkit Union, a new open source software community project to spread the toxin to business, the main Office constituency and source of mucho bucks for Microsoft. Sun is kicking ...

By the end of the month Red Hat will release JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1, which are supposed give it more skin in the enterprise SOA game. The company said the new revs feature cooperative support and allow for remote monitoring and management of ...

ONE-NET has announced that Spansion has joined the ONE-NET open-source wireless networking alliance. Spansion joins a growing list of companies supporting the ONE-NET wireless standard. The ONE-NET wireless standard is an open source, multi-vendor wireless control protocol. Even though...

Sun Microsystems has announced the immediate availability and support of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, a lightweight Web application server that is based on a modular OSGi architecture. Sun is also providing a preview of features that will be available in the u...

One gets a bit suspicious when an operation like OpenOffice.com reports that its servers were swamped and knocked offline for days by the pressing demand for the first formal release of its native open source application suite for Mac OS X. It had no idea how many people would want to ...

Open-Xchange has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling $9 million. The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets. The round was led by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, a Mun...

IBM, Sun Microsystems and Sine Nomine Associates have announced the availability of operating system prototype code based on OpenSolaris Operating System, running on an IBM System z mainframe, to the global OpenSolaris community. The prototype was completed by SNA with equipment and fi...

Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of two social networking portals designed to connect the global education community. The new EduConnection.org community serves Sun’s education sector customers, while Open Source University Meetup caters to students interested in open source p...

The newly reconstituted AMD is looking for a new CFO. Its current CFO Bob Rivet has been named chief operations and administrative officer, basically replacing Dirk Meyer, now CEO, who used to be COO before his apotheosis. In his new role, Rivet, 54, will be responsible for the company...

Continuent has announced that it is co-operating with Miracle Finland Oy in customer installation, tuning and administration of Continuent’s Tungsten Replicator for Oracle. The Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is designed to Replicate between Oracle database instances (Express, SE1, SE a...

Alfresco Software has announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco’s innovative ...

XAware has announced its upgraded support for Eclipse 3.4. This enhancement gives developers and architects the ability to use the latest version of the Eclipse development environment as they create composite data services for service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applica...

Jitterbit has announced its relationship with Infowelders, a certified salesforce.com implementation partner. The partnership between Jitterbit and Infowelders is designed to provide customers valuable implementation resources in tackling integrations between salesforce.com and other...

"Cloud computing environments require the performance and scalability to handle the heaviest user traffic peaks while balancing cost and power concerns," said Margaret Lewis, director, Commercial Software and Solutions, AMD, which is providing its Quad Core AMD Opteron processor for Wi...

Compared to Q2, venture capital investments fell 6.9% to $7.13 billion in the September quarter according to the MoneyTree report produced by the National Venture Capital Association, down 9% year-over-year. Biotechs (up 21%) led followed by software, energy (up 17%), medical gear an...

GT Software and Cordys announced a global partnership. The companies will work together to deliver development solutions that fully integrate the mainframe into Cordys SOA initiatives for their respective worldwide audiences.

Virtualization adoption in the desktop and datacenter space has been rampant over the past few years given the popular benefits that the technology has to offer. Classical virtualization benefits are numerous and result in savings on many levels. The ability to host multiple server env...

Google's Android widgetry was put online and open sourced when the first of the Android phones appeared Tuesday. Google is calling it an "end-to-end software platform" and has challenged the open source community to use it for other purposes. "Even if you're not planning to ship a mobi...

MuleSource has announced the general availability of Mule Galaxy 1.5, the latest major release of MuleSource's open source SOA governance platform with integrated registry/repository. Both Galaxy 1.5 Community, which is available as a free download under the GPLv2 license, and the ente...

Google and the Open Handset Alliance have announced the availability of the Android platform source code to everyone, for free, under the new Android Open Source Project. This represents an open and fully featured mobile platform that will enable people to create a mobile device withou...

MuleSource has announced the general availability of Mule 2.1 Enterprise, a new enterprise-class edition of the open source enterprise service bus (ESB), complete with new capabilities and features including premium connectors, support for the Mule RESTpack, and retry policies designed...

Atlanta-based TechOperators, a new early stage VC targeting cloud computing and SaaS as well as Internet services, security, infrastructure and mobile, is launching its first venture fund and claims it didn’t have too many problems raising the $20 million-$30 million. The four managing...

Citrix has released a technology preview of Project Kensho, its toolkit for developing and deploying portable virtual machine appliances in enterprises and clouds. First announced in July, the widgetry is described as a multi-hypervisor toolkit that leverages the Distributed Management...

Industry blogger Alex Bunardzic writes in his 'Ethical Software by Alex Bunardzic' blog: 'Now that Microsoft has jumped onto the web 2.0 bandwagon, it is more than obvious that Web 2.0 is dead as a doornail. Everyone knows by now that anything Microsoft touches turns into this big slim...