
My Oracle Support site hit by problems again
Problems once again wracked Oracle's new My Oracle Support portal this week, with some users reporting difficulties accessing the site.
Oracle is aware of an "intermittent login issue" with the site and "is working on it as a priority," said senior support manager Chris Warticki in a blog post Thursday.
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Microsoft defends itself against op-ed by former VP
Microsoft defended itself against an opinion piece written by a former vice president, who argued the software company has lost its edge and is "failing" as a result. In response, the software company said it remains competitive and innovative.
Dick Brass, who was a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, didn't pull any punches in the opinion piece he authored
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Rails 3.0 beta features merger with Merb framework
Ruby on Rails 3.0, an upgrade to the popular Web development framework that features a merger with the Merb framework, has just gone into a beta release, according to a blog post on the Ruby on Rails Web site this week.
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IBM inches up heat in new data center to reduce energy usage
IBM has opened a football field-size data center in North Carolina it says will rely heavily on outside air for cooling as it turns up the heat inside, gradually.
This new data center, about 60,000 square-feet in the Research Triangle Park N.C., incorporates IBM's latest approaches to energy. It includes thousands of sensors that dynamically monitor temperature, humidity, air flow, and circuits all of which is integrated into the building's management and IT systems. The data center will be supporting cloud platforms.
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Asustek plans Eee Book e-reader, tablet PC to rival iPad
Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer plans to launch its own e-reader and a tablet PC to rival Apple's iPad in the second half of this year.
The company will focus on bringing content providers on board when it releases its tablet PC, said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek, during the company's fourth quarter investors conference.
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Microsoft may launch new Office cloud license
Microsoft may be close to adding a new way for big businesses to buy Microsoft Office.
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Coming soon: Macworld Expo (sans Apple)
What is Macworld Expo without Apple ? Next week, we're going to find out as the first Macworld Expo San Francisco without Apple in attendance gets under way. There'll be no massive Apple booth on the show floor, no Steve Jobs keynote, no new Apple product unveiling.
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Details of Office 2010 free upgrade deal leak to Web
Details of an impending free upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 leaked to the Web on Wednesday before Microsoft yanked a post on its partner community site.
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Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security
Mozilla late Thursday confirmed that it had failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up to 4,600 users.
The add-ons have been removed from Firefox's official add-on download site .
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Oracle upgrades Eclipse free plug-in package
Oracle on Thursday upgraded Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, which is a set of free plug-ins for Eclipse IDE users to build Java EE andآ Web services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform .
Featured in the release, which is numbered as version 11.1.1.4,آ are capabilities for Oracle WebLogic application server that enable developers to reduce the number of code cycles and increase quality by catching errors at design time.
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Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools
The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data centers.
The new tools are both Web-based and will be available through the Green Grid's Web site by the end of March. The consortium is presenting them at its third annual conference on Thursday in San Jose, California.
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IT execs leasing data centers instead of building their own
Enterprise data center construction has slowed to a crawl in the recession, but there is one spot that's growing brighter every day. That's because most companies aren't building their own data center space, but they are leasing it in ever-increasing numbers.
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