Mainsoft linking IBM's Jazz and Lotus Connections
With a technology preview on Tuesday, Mainsoft seeks to link business persons into the software development process by integrating the IBM Rational Team Concert collaborative environment and IBM's Lotus Connections collaboration platform.
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Google enhances Analytics API
Google on Monday unveiled enhancements to its Google Analytics Data Export API, bolstering an advanced segmentation capability for examining the nuances of data.
Google Analytics Data Export API, which currently is in beta release, enables development of client applications to request data from an existing Analytics profile and refine the results.آ Google Analytics offers insight into Web site traffic and marketing effectiveness.
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Google, Microsoft 'war of innovation' is reshaping online search
Advances in online search have been picking up momentum in recent months, culminating in a burst of announcements this week that could change the face of search all together, according to industry watchers. They see the increasingly heated battle between Microsoft and Google as bringing an avalanche of innovations that should continue well into 2010 or 2011.
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IBM slapped with suit alleging unfair mainframe competition
IBM has been disparaging products made by a smaller rival in order to protect its lucrative mainframe business, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
The suit was filed by Neon Enterprise Software and concerns a software tool called zPrime that the company released in July. Neon says zPrime can reduce operating costs for mainframe users by allowing them to shift more of their computing jobs onto IBM's zAAP and zIIP specialty mainframe processors.
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You won't believe these USB devices
Talk about stocking stuffers sure to make someone smile: InfoWorld.com has found 10 wacky USB devices that use the USB ports on your computers in ways no sane person would imagine. But fortunately, someone did.
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WLAN market rebounds strongly from recession
The wireless LAN (WLAN) industry nearly returned to its pre-recession health in the third quarter and is likely to achieve record revenue when the current quarter has been tallied, according research company Dell'Oro Group.
Worldwide revenue for WLAN equipment, not counting client devices, recovered to $1.1 billion in the third quarter of this year, Dell'Oro said. That was up about 12 percent from the second quarter -- 20 percent for enterprise equipment alone -- and nearly matched the $1.14 billion of the previous year's third quarter, according to analyst Loren Shalinsky.
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Adobe warns of Reader, Acrobat attack in the wild
Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat software.
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Akamai service to stop datacenter attacks
Akamai Technologies is introducing a cloud-based managed service called Web Application Firewall it claims will head off the bulk of Web applications attacks before they get inside corporate datacenters.
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ERP vendor Nexedi offers to take over MySQL
French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid Monday to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun Microsystems, offering a symbolic €1 in return.
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Amazon unveils eBay-style auction service for cloud computing
Amazon's cloud computing division is unveiling an eBay-style auction service that will let users bid on unused virtual server capacity, potentially allowing customers to lower the cost of running applications on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Known as "Spot Instances," the price of this cloud-based server capacity changes based upon supply and demand, unlike Amazon's usual fixed prices for server instances.
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Seagate to release world's thinnest laptop drive
Seagate Technology today announced what it's calling the world's thinnest laptop and netbook hard drive, the Momentus Thin drive, which at 7mm, is just over a quarter of an inch thick and is 25 percent slimmer than a traditional .37-in. (9.5mm), 2.5-in. hard drive.
The 5,400 rpm Momentus Thin comes in 250GB and 160GB capacities, features 8MB of cache, and uses the SATA 2.0 3Gbps interface. The drive is scheduled to ship to Seagate's resellers next month.
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MySQL creator launches campaign to 'save' database
The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purchase its current owner, Sun Microsystems.
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