Archive for January, 2009
iPhone covergence: Microsoft and Red Hat
If you were to try to think of the two most diametrically opposed software companies in the industry, Red Hat and Microsoft come to mind. One is the open-source leader, while the other has tenaciously held to its proprietary software background. Red …
Read More..>>Obama delays economic plan
US President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his emerging economic rescue package today, as he stood by his latest Cabinet nominee to run into tax problems that could impede confirmation. Mr Obama, in his second weekly radio address since …
Read More..>>Easily Identify Your Mac Model
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous is rightly confused about his MacBook and the amount of RAM it can hold. He writes: I have a MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo running at 2.0GHz. I’d like to upgrade it to hold 4GB of memory but I’m not sure if it will …
Read More..>>MySQL’s sales catching up with Red Hat’s
Perhaps Sun Microsystems’ valuation of MySQL wasn’t too far off. Sun acquired the open-source database leader in January 2008 for a whopping $1 billion, a sum that many rational people thought was way too high . Perhaps they were wrong; $1 billion is …
Read More..>>Software Developer / VB6 / SQL Server / Lancashire
Enterprise Plc is a leading provider of support services to the Public Sector and Utility companies. We have over 10,000 employees working from some 170 locations across the UK and we are still growing. Over the last six years Enterprise has grown …
Read More..>>Microsoft to unblock Windows Service packs
Vista and XP updates will be pushed to users automatically, whether you like it or not. Microsoft is planning to end a feature which allows users to block the automatic installation of Windows service packs. The company revealed on Thursday that it …
Read More..>>Oracle Supports 100 Million Subscribers With Oracle(R) Communications …
– Oracle recently completed an extensive performance and scalability benchmark exercise for Oracle(R) Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.3.1 that demonstrated its ability to support 100 million subscribers. Scalability of this magnitude …
Read More..>>Apple Mac Trojan Horse Spreading Through Adobe Photoshop CS4
Network security firm Intego has discovered another Apple Mac Trojan horse which is spreading itself through pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4. When the Macintosh user runs the crack program to serialize the Adobe product, a Trojan horse is …
Read More..>>Governor to close Las Cruces office
LAS CRUCES ‘” Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday announced he’s closing his Las Cruces office as part of an attempt to cut spending in the midst of state budget shortfall Richardson said he’ll eliminate the office, located in the Loretto Towne Centre …
Read More..>>Vista Update Goes to Testers
Microsoft Corp . has delivered a preliminary release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to testers and is again on track to offer another public preview next month, according to several reports on the Web. Just last week, a Malaysian …
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