Microsoft has launched a beta version of MSN Virtual Earth, which it describes as 'a service enabling users to search, discover, explore, plan and share information and activities relevant to specific U.S. locations by combining aerial imagery, detailed maps and p...

Google on Thursday reported record revenues of $1.384 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, up 98% year over year.

MCI is going to be helping Sun to improve software downloads for its customers using the Sun Download Center (SDLC), a Web-based global software distribution service. The SDLC servcie will now be powered by MCI's advanced Enterprise Hosting Services and Akamai's ...

It 'enables a new level of confidence in your PC and in your ability to get the most out of it.' What is the 'it'? Why, Windows Vista, what else - yesterday's announcement that 'Longhorn' now has a brand name has now been followed up by Microsoft with the opening ...

Microsoft 'has taken over Atlanta' for a major sales meeting called MGB 2005 with a theme of 'Going Beyond.' This news comes in the wake of the emergence of the name Microsoft 'Windows Vista' as the official name of the long-awaited Longhorn release. Longhorn, or ...

'Most people come to JBoss because they want a J2EE application server, but JBoss's dynamic architecture allows it to go wellbeyond J2EE,' note Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Jr. in a new book, 'JBoss: A Developer's Notebook' just published by O'Reilly.

'Accepting such a position violates the non-competition promise Lee made when he was hired as an executive,' Microsoft said as it last night sued a former top search executive, Dr Kai-Fu Lee, for accepting the post of R&D director in Google's R&D center in China.

Borland and IT services provider Unisys in Belgium have signed an agreement with the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance (FOD Finance). The multi-million Euro contract, with a run-time of five years, is for a project called 'SupDev,' part of an initiative wit...

Is Apple close to creating a video iPod? Or is it about to launch itself as a 'virtual' mobile network operator, like Virgin Mobile? Speculation is rife that Steve Jobs and his team are about to seize the initiative again now that its sovereignty of the portable m...

Stylus Studio today issued a call to the global community of XML developers, to end the oppressive tyranny of pay-per-feature and celebrate their independence from incomplete and over-priced XML IDEs.

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy recently spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle. Here is what he had to say about Linux...

As Java turns 10 years old, software engineers and architects, IT managers and C-level executives alike are all converging on San Francisco's Moscone Center. The same is true of the JDJ team. Here's who will be there bringing you first-hand reports of what is bein...

Coverity and Digeo are working together on research and development to identify and eliminate device driver defects in Linux.

'Sun has maintained its high level of commitment to the Java technology developer community throughout the past 10 years,' said Joe Keller, Sun VP of Java Applications and Developer Programs, on the eve of JavOne 2005.

UK-based Netcraft identifies South Korea as the country with the most confirmed 'phishing' websites. The country is listed as the host of almost 10% of all phishing sites in the world. China, Russia, and Taiwan also come up big in this dubious category.

'The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google,' said former eBay Research Director Louis Monier, when asked why he was switching from eBay to Google, Inc.

Tribe.net has taken the concept of online profiles from being 'closed,' such as Yahoo 360, to 'open,' enabling integration with other sites. The company, based in San Francisco, offers a free online destination that helps local people connect with each other based on shared interests.

The Atomic Weapons Establishment plc (AWE), responsible for a key part of the United Kingdom's nuclear defense capability, has acquired an Evolocity visualization cluster system from Linux Networx. AWE is using the cluster as part of their ongoing research into ne...

A new business intelligence project, just announced, aims to provide enterprise-class reporting, analysis, information delivery, data mining and workflow capabilities geared at helping mid- to large size organizations operate more efficiently and effectively. It's...

Drew Ladner, former president of advisory firm ZURI Technology, has joined JBoss as general manager of its newly-formed Government Group. Ladner was chief information officer of the U.S. Department of the Treasury until May 2004.

A new software language - a process specification language known as ISO 18629 - should make computers much more useful in manufacturing.

'The next time I lose my car keys, maybe I can just go onto Google and search for them,' speculated futurist Paul Saffo recently. The director of the Institute for the Future was referring to Google Earth, its 'virtual globe' project.

The Wall Street Journal reported it first, then Reuters picked up on the possibility: what if Google is about to eclipse PapPal by introducing its very own online paymnt service?

The so-called 'deep web' - millions of access-restricted Web sites containing content that search engines typically cannot access - is now searchable, according to Yahoo! who this week tannounced the beta launch of Yahoo! Search Subscriptions.

Google Mobile, says the search giant, 'makes it easy to access online information - over 8 billion pages and a billion images - on your cell phone or mobile device.' You can also search more than a billion images and get the one you need on your phone with Google Image Search.

Intel Corporation today announced new tools for software developers to help build threaded applications and extract performance from applications on multi-core platforms. The Intel Compilers version 9.0 for C++ and Fortran programming languages also help improve ...

Reuters is reporting that Sun, which is releasing the long-awaited source code for Solaris today 'hopes the free software will drive sales of its servers and computer services.' Sun's COO and president Jonathan Schwartz told Reuters: 'The more people who run Unix ...

BEA Systems will be giving customers a first look at BEA AquaLogic, a recently announced family of products to help address an emerging category of enterprise software, Service Infrastructure.

The steady growth of the Firefox browser seems to be continuing, despite the announcement (and subsequent patching) of a serious security flaw earlier in the year. Meanwhile, Norway's Opera reports that it has now reached 4 million downloads.

Nokia announced today that it is using best-of-breed open source software as the basis of a new mobile browser for its world leading smartphone software, the Series 60 Platform. The new browser aims at an unparalleled user experience when browsing full Web pages o...

The introduction of McAfee Entercept protection for Linux is part of the company's larger strategy to provide comprehensive and proactive, multi-platform security solutions including Linux.

Bruce Perens has joined SourceLabs as its vice president of developer relations and policy. Perens, a recognized leader in the open source software community, is the original author of the 'Open Source Definition,' now widely recognized as the authoritative descr...

A family of 12 international sites are in development by SYS-CON Media, pointing toward an official July 4 launch. International sites will combine the best of SYS-CON's global coverage with local-language reports and advertising, to serve the world of IT developers.

Xandros today announced that it is shipping Version3 of the Xandros Business Desktop OS.

Macromedia's tightly integrated core products are to be named the 'Flash Platform': with Macromedia Flash Player as the cross-platform client at the backbone, Macromedia Flex for RIA development, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for content creation, Macromedia Flash Comm...

Although confident its English-language Web sites were not vulnerable to the same type of attack, Microsoft has admitted that www.msn.co.kr, its Korean site, was hacked last week.

Cisco and Yahoo! plan to merge technologies to create DomainKeys Identified Mail, the latest news of major companies addressing global concerns about the ubiquity and tenacity of Internet spammers.

Novell, which sponsors the Mono project, a community initiative, has announced a 'Mono Kickstart' program to make it easier to build and develop applications on Linux and other platforms, allowing developers to get software to market faster and more cost-effectively.

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today the launch of 'SYS-CON University' at www.educat ion.sys-con.com, together with its first online i-technology education offerings, including more than 100 sessions pr...

Mixing open source applications with other commercial products to create the best solution for an enterprise's IT environment is the new flavor of the month. So Novell has come together with JBoss and Oracle to put together a software package that runs on HP serve...