Maureen O'Gara

Microsoft Developer Microsoft has put out public betas of Office 2010, the SharePoint-dependent Office Professional Plus 2010 with its browser-based, Google Docs-offsetting Office Web Apps for business (this time with editing in Word and OneNote), Visio 2010 and Project 2010, bo... (more)

Adobe Air on Ulitzer Adobe's AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux have been sent out to beta. Flash Player 10.1, advertised as the first "consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that will enable uncompromised web browsing of expressive app... (more)

Azure Cloud on Ulitzer Except for a few companies that are clearly teacher's pet, nobody will be going into production on Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud, until January 1. Until then it remains a technology preview, with tens of thousands of developers already using it accordi... (more)

IBM News on Ulitzer IBM System z CTO and resident spook Mark Anzani recently sent an IBM mainframe customer a letter meant to scare it into seeing the boogeyman under its bed and make sure it doesn't use Neon Enterprise Software's zPrime technology to reduce its mainframe costs.... (more)

AMD Virtualization Journal on Ulitzer According to an SEC filing the Galleon Group, the hedge fund charge with trading on insider information, double downed on ATI in 2006 to the tune of ~$125 million in shares and call options right before AMD bought it and was up 6.6% when AMD... (more)

Google on Ulitzer Google says it's working with a bunch of unidentified "top OEMs" to create a Chrome notebook based on a Google hardware reference architecture that will hit market around this time next year in time for the holidays. It expects the widgets to change the basic co... (more)

Cisco Virtualization Journal On a scale of one to 10 HP's pretty ticked at Cisco's brass in elbowing into the server market - enough for it to join IBM in hurrying over to Voltaire and signing up for its new 10 gigabit Ethernet switch. Emily Post would probably say Voltaire owes ... (more)

Google on Ulitzer TechCrunch is reporting the existence of the Yeti-like gPhone. That’s right the Google-branded phone that Google is supposed to sell direct and indirect, the thing whose existence Google pooh-poohs whenever rumors surface. The blog claims it’s real but won’t ma... (more)

Cloud Data Analytics Having pushed the boundaries of modern technology, ScaleOut Software, the distributed data grid start-up, can now link distributed data grids at different locations into a single logically coherent grid. Seems a simple thing but it's been illusive and ScaleOu... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A court in China, where most software is pirated, has ordered Microsoft to stop selling the Chinese versions of its operating systems because they infringe on fonts owned by a Chinese company called Zhongyi... (more)

Zeus Technology, the application traffic management folk, has ported the weeks-old edition of its web traffic management widgetry to Amazon EC2 with Amazon's help - including how to word Tuesday's announcement - despite the fact that Amazon has its own unashamedly rudimentary loa... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Amazon Cloud Journal on Ulitzer AT&T said Monday that it will turn on its Amazon-like global Synaptic Compute as a Service later this quarter and target the scalable on-demand computing capacity at compani... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, 56, one of the richest men in the world, is suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to his sister Jody Allen, the CEO of Vulcan Inc, his private asset management com... (more)

Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an ... (more)

MySQL Journal MySQL co-developer Monty Widenius, said to have the business sense of a child by MySQL's old management, and his hired help Florian Mueller, who made a killing on his MySQL stock when Sun lost its mind and bid a billion dollars for the Scandinavian company, paying ... (more)

Rackspace Journal Budding cloud merchant Rackspace Hosting came in with better-than-expected net revenue of $162.4 million for the September quarter, up 17.4% year-over-year and up 6.8% sequentially. Earnings were up 45.3% year-over-year to $7.6 million or six cents a share and ... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine What's a Linux operating systems company worth these days? The answer apparently is not as much as the financing it's gotten over the years. In a move reminiscent of Intel and Wind River, Cavium Networks, maker of specialty ARM and Mips processors, is buying M... (more)

e-Commerce Journal Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a nu... (more)

Eclipse Platform Microsoft, which has been out wooing Eclipse developers lately, is buying the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC, which lets developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, such as Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applicati... (more)

Sun Developer Journal Sun Microsystems, whose future is dicey at best right now thanks to the European Commission, revved its virtual desktop Sun Ray software Tuesday. Oracle, Sun's would-be acquirer, by the way, was an early access customer and is evaluating the software for pot... (more)