Windows Live to integrate Windows 7 phones, PCs, Xbox in the cloud
Microsoft officials today described how upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones will perform within a network of Windows 7 PCs and Xbox gaming consoles through a new Windows Live cloud platform to make the mobile experience easier and more power
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Zendesk integrates Twitter into customer service app
Zendesk has upgraded its Web-based help desk software to simplify and automate how its users capture, analyze, and respond to public Twitter messages that merit a customer-service response.
With the new integration, Zendesk users can flag posts on Twitter that mention their company and set up a formal process within Zendesk to address the customer comment.
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Amazon delivers cluster computing for HPC apps
Amazon Web Services says its latest cluster computing service, which it announced Tuesday, can provide the same results as custom-built infrastructures for high-performance applications at organizations that don't want to build their own.
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Metastorm brings workflow modeling to the cloud
Enterprise software provider Metastorm has launched an online workflow modeling service, called Metastorm M3, the company announced on Tuesday.
The service, which is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform, can be used to model a variety of different enterprise concerns, such as goals, systems, workflows, rules, and projects. The service provides 23 modeling objects from which models can be built.
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Coverity and Armorize link code quality, security analyses
Code quality and security analyses are being united through the integration of products from Coverity and Armorize Technologies, the companies are announcing on Tuesday.
The integration will link Coverity Static Analysis, for code analysis, with Armorize CodeSecure, for security analysis. Integrations will be featured in upgrades of the two products planned for the end of this calendar year.
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Microsoft to keep XP alive until 2020
Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can "downgrade" to the aged operating system for up to 10 years.
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Third-party software bugs skyrocket in 2010
A surge in third-party software vulnerabilities accounted for the bulk of a ballooning bug count in the first half of 2010, said Danish security firm Secunia Monday.
The increasing number of flaws uncovered in non-Microsoft software puts users at risk because few third-party vendors offer automated update services, requiring people to seek out updates, then manually download and install patches.
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AT&T: Open mobile still on the way
The ideal mobile ecosystem is still one that's partly closed, such as the iPhone App Store, but the trend is toward greater openness, AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan said Monday.
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Survey: Windows 7 getting popular with developers
Developers are hopping on the Windows 7 bandwagon, according to survey results released Monday by database and developer tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies.
In a survey of 606 respondents conducted in May, Embarcadero found 54 percent indicated they were developing applications for Windows 7. Another 25 percent said they plan to develop applications for Microsoft's latest client OS in the next year. Just 10 percent have no plans to build for Windows 7.
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Microsoft offers details of its new Azure Appliance
On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft announced that it would be releasing a version of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform that can be run as part of an appliance offering.
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Micro Focus moving mainframe apps to Windows
With technology being introduced Monday, Micro Focus is offering assistance in migrating Cobol, CICS, and DB2 applications to Microsoft Windows via a managed code version of Micro Focus's mainframe and application modernization technology.
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Oracle to issue 59 critical patches
Oracle will release on Tuesday 59 patches to fix security weaknesses affecting hundreds of products, according to a notice on its website.
Twenty-one of the vulnerabilities affect products related to Solaris, the Unix operating system Oracle acquired through its purchase of Sun Microsystems. Seven of them can be exploited remotely over a network without requiring a password or username, Oracle said.
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Consumer Reports: Don't buy the iPhone 4
Consumer Reports magazine today said it won't recommend Apple's iPhone 4 because of major reception issues when users touch the external antenna.
One analyst called the publication's conclusion a "black eye" for Apple.
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