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BEA Systems pours 'Liquid Computing'

Speaking at its customer conference, BEA's CEO outlines product plans, including messaging-based integration software and administration tools. Read more »

IBM retools Global Services

Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services. Read more »

IBM brings management tools to mainframe

IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once. Read more »

Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP

The threat of open source web application software has led the software giant to produce smaller, cheaper versions of some of its tools. Read more »

IBM picks up clustering outfit

IBM has acquired privately held Meiosys, a company that sells high-end clustering software that provides backup functionality. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more »

Yahoo seeks search developers for ad revenue

In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Oracle's eye on the future

As part of its semiannual analysts' day, Oracle on Wednesday outlined a range of plans for the New Year and beyond, from integration of PeopleSoft technology to its planned entry into the market for collaboration software. Read more »

Adobe sees its future on the Web

Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »

Internet giants race to rope in developers

Web service providers are luring software developers, to get more applications on their hosted computing platforms. Read more »

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Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

Top 14 development integration trends for 2004

Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »

The seven deadly sins of integration

Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Unlocking Android

    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »

    -- posted by Lana Kovacevic

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