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A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, CA. The event runs from Novemb... (more)

Google App Engine Platform on Ulitzer The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there's a security b... (more)

Zeus Technology Journal on Ulitzer Zeus Technology, the Anglo-American concern whose web server ran 3% of the world's web sites back before the dot.com bubble burst, third in the race behind Apache and Microsoft, was asking around among CIOs, IT director and senior IT managers a... (more)

Open Web Magazine on Ulitzer An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google's Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome's Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July... (more)

Stock Photography So, the first week "on the air" went very well. Not an easy week, but remarkable good. We rapidly increase our midstock and microstock collection of royalty free images and this keeps our hands busy all the time. The infrastructure we choose for www.pixamba.co... (more)

Qu'émerge-t-il dans une période de récession qui n'a pas épargné les secteurs des télécoms, de l'Internet et des médias électroniques ? L'IDATE se propose de répondre à cette question au cours de son DigiWorld Summit 09 (du 18 au 19 novembre) en mettant en évidence le poids des ... (more)

Open Web Journal Last weekend I had the pleasure of presenting at the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference on the topic of Contributing to FOSS (slides available here). In the talk I explored the many ways individuals can get involved in FOSS (Free and Open Source Softwa... (more)

Open Source Journal Welcome to our new blog. This blog is part of a new educational initiative to foster a deeper understanding of the capabilities and issues involved with administering FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) to deliver concrete business benefits. Although our su... (more)

CRM Developer's Journal I recently added 20 yards of distance to every club in my golf bag with no effort whatsoever (and the chipping now is sublime). For the non-golfers out there, this is quite a significant improvement. I have played the game for about 15 years achieved a rea... (more)

SOA World Magazine So what do you really look for in an interface engine? There is more to an IE than just being a pass-through of messages. Some good features of an interface engine – 1) Store and forward capability 2) Auto-acknowledgement 3) Guaranteed message redelivery 4) Roll... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer When application performance is not what the cloud customer expected, who's at fault? The cloud provider's infrastructure? The application owner's code? The platform vendor's deployment tools? The external services the application uses? The databa... (more)

What are we seeing emerge in the telecoms, Internet and electronic media sectors as a result of the recession? IDATE will seek to answer this question during its DigiWorld Summit 09 (18 & 19 November) by examining the prominence of new innovation models built around platform-cen... (more)

BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- FreeWave Technologies, (http://www.freewave.com), manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced its latest release of FreeWave Tool Suite, a soft... (more)

Houston and surrounding area tops Dallas-Ft. Worth as the state's most active region for illegal software use WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the voice of the world's commercial software industry, has identified Texas as a... (more)

Drupal Developer's Journal Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For t... (more)

On October 13, 2009, Moyea Software announced Moyea PlayerBox 2.0 with more advanced settings. You can now present the output player by the free edition of Moyea PlayerBox to your personal site or blog without obvious text watermark. With Moyea PlayerBox 2.0, you can zoom in and ... (more)

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL ha... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer Yahoo! is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve Yahoo! consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Yahoo! Cloud Services are in production today supporting web-ser... (more)

CA today announced that two executives will present standalone sessions at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo about how both service providers and IT organizations can help mitigate risks, such as performance, availability, change and security, in cloud environments. Tim Brow... (more)

Data Center Automation on Ulitzer Mobile handheld computers and Smart phones, business intelligence software, work order management and GPS technologies have been around for quite a while now.  As stand alone applications each offers limited value, but when integrated together t... (more)