Sunday, August 22, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 22/08/2010



Microsoft Visual Studio users get lab management
Offering aid to quality assurance labs, Microsoft this week began offering Visual Studio Lab Management for Visual Studio 2010 users, enabling automation of the build-deploy-test process for software development while maintaining visibility into the process itself.

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Oracle's Beehive not so buzzing after big debut
Oracle gave its Beehive collaboration platform a splashy debut during OpenWorld 2008, featuring it in a keynote by co-president Charles Phillips.

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Canonical moves closer to bringing Ubuntu to tablets
Canonical this week released a software framework that brings multitouch interaction to the open source Ubuntu OS, which could accelerate adoption of the operating system on tablets.
The uTouch 1.0 software stack brings advanced touchscreen capabilities to Ubuntu, said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, in an email. Users will be able to use multiple screens on touchscreens or trackpads to switch between applications and windows, or to reveal and hide panels.

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Google previews Chrome Web Store for developers
Google this week made available a developer preview of its Chrome Web Store, which enables access to Web applications.
Developers, according to software engineer Michael Goth on the Google Chromium Blog, can upload applications and experiment with packaging and installing them in Chrome using the latest Chrome developer channel. Payment and user authentication infrastructure are featured.

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