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Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he wants to change the rules of software and help traditional media find a new business model, but the web needs a performance boost first. Read more »
Ubuntu cloud-computing components released
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, on Thursday announced two major components of its cloud-computing strategy. Read more »
First Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate unveiled
The Ubuntu project has published a 'release candidate' or final testing version for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution. Read more »
Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream
In a case of converging technologies, Google App Engine took several steps toward the mainstream on its first birthday on Tuesday at the same time that the concept of cloud computing in general is becoming more accepted. Read more »
'Jaunty Jackalope' Ubuntu goes into beta
The next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, went into its beta phase late on Thursday. Read more »
Sun steps into the cloud-computing fray
Sun has launched the Sun Open Cloud platform, in a bid to gain a place in the growing cloud-computing market and challenge companies such as Amazon. Read more »
Ubuntu gets cloudy koala
The team behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution has unleashed plans for its October 2009 release, adding a new name with an Australian flavour to the company's alliteration menagerie: Ubuntu 9.10, "Karmic Koala". Read more »
IBM teams up with Amazon Web Services
IBM announced Wednesday plans to deliver its software via Amazon Web Services, in a move to push its software into the clouds. Read more »
Red Hat releases version 5.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 became globally available today, with the new enterprise OS featuring virtualisation improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture, and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun Microsystems. Read more »
Salesforce.com service on a cloud lifts off
Salesforce.com on Thursday announced Service Cloud, an extension to its software as a service (SaaS) model that is intended as a way for companies to communicate with their customers over the web. Read more »
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Will Linux own the cloud?
Many people have strong opinions about the efficacy of cloud computing and what it all means. The battle intensifies along the lines of proprietary vs. open source technology. Will cloud computing finally declare a winner? Read more »
Hapax's Amplify makes it easy to extract meaning from text
We put Hapax's Amplify, a lightweight natural language processing web service, through its paces. Here's what we think of this relatively new product. Read more »
10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009
The new year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software -- from an explosion in the mobile arena to large-enterprise scalability to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3. Read more »
Why 2008 was another great year in web technology
This article offers a look back at web development software updates and new products in 2008, with an eye toward 2009. It discusses SOA, mobile development, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, Python, and more. Read more »
MAX 08: Adobe lays out future directions
At Adobe's MAX conference this year -- Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch identified three trends that Adobe will address: client and cloud computing, devices and desktop computing, and social computing. Read more »
Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome
Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »
What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud
In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »
Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK
The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »
Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud
Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised? Read more »
Easily test Web services with soapUI
The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »
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Beta Safari surfing
-- This week, Safari Beta 4 and Ubuntu 9.10 -- Karmic Koala got launched, the release of Office 14 got delayed, while Adobe was busy fixing vulnerabilities in its software. Read more »
Windows Azure: New windows, same tools
-- Microsoft was at pains to stress that it will be creating an environment that developers feel familiar towards for Windows Azure development. Read more »
Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha
-- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »
Do you trust data in the cloud?
-- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »
Google App Engine meets Amazon EC2
-- What do you get when you cross Amazon's EC2 on-demand cloud computing infrastructure with Google's new App Exchange foundation for Web applications? Read more »
How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2
-- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »
Technology that will still suck in '07
-- As another year begins I thought I'd compile a short list of technology I think will still suck in 2007. Read more »
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Firefox: Greens want it, 3.5rc2 not up to par
This week's roundup looks at the situation surrounding a campaign to change Outlook HTML renderer, a Greens MP wants to install Firefox but is restricted and all the photos from the iPhone 3GS launch. Read more »
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Microsoft misses the Outlook point
Ask designers which mail program is the bane of their existence, and you'll find that Outlook tops the list. The reason why the most popular email reader is also the most painful is simple: it uses Word to render HTML emails. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.