Google Nov. 17 opened the online doors to shopping comparison Website Boutiques.com, which helps people find and buy clothes and shoes online based on curated preferences. – Google Nov. 17 launched Boutiques.com, a shopping comparison Website that
leverages machine learning and computer vision to help users find and buy
clothes and shoes online.
Google, which timed the launch before Black Friday kicks off Nov. 26, argued
that people shop for such products differe…
Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat, brings a number of software updates and an overhauled user interface for its netbook edition. – Ubuntu 10.10, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution
from Canonical and the Ubuntu community, hit FTP servers Oct. 10, bearing a
slate of open-source software updates along with enhanced tools for locating
and installing those applications.
The new release, also known by the code …
Software Development Company builds Software. What exactly is Software? In a laymans language I would say that software is a collection of computer programs and information seized in the memory of a computer for various functions. It performs various fruitful jobs for the users, which edge with hardware to offer the necessary services for application software, which in time coordinates and controls. Software once been loaded in the computers memory executes the application. The process involves three stages wherein the instructions are passed through application Software, through system Software, to the hardware, which eventually receives instruction.
Microsoft has released preview builds of its "Vail" Windows Home Server, as well as its "Aurora" Windows Small Business Server. "Aurora" emphasizes cloud interoperability, which plays into Microsofts larger cloud strategy. – Microsoft has released preview builds of its Windows Home
Server, codenamed Vail, and its Windows Small Business Server, codenamed Aurora.
The new Vail build adds native support for Mac OS, and can be
downloaded here. Other features include improved multi-PC backup and
restore, simplified setup…
At CA World 2010, CA Technologies unveils a host of new and improved products, as well as an expanded relationship with Cisco, to help businesses as they expand their use of virtualization technologies and make their way into the cloud. – CA Technologies is expanding its cloud computing and virtualization
management capabilities through a host of new and enhanced products, as well as
an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems.
At CA World 2010 in Las Vegas
May 17, CA Technologies officials unveiled new and enhanced management sof…
To help the software programming students of today become the manycore developers of tomorrow, Intel is introducing the Manycore Testing Lab, a development environment that allows professors and students to remotely test code scalability up to 32 cores. As part of the Intel® Academic Community, which provides parallel programming and visual computing curricula and resources to professors at more than 1,800 universities worldwide, the testing lab is available to members at no cost. A demo of the Manycore Testing Lab will be shown at the SIGSCE Intel booth (#301), March 10-13. To request login access to the Manycore Testing Lab or become a member, visit the Intel Academic Community.
Google’s purchase of DocVerse validates the market for applications that bridge the gap between the Google Apps cloud computing suite and Microsoft’s Office on-premises applications. Google will stitch DocVerse’s technology into Google Apps, appealing to customers who want to use Google Apps as their main collaboration suite but work offline in Office with the documents they created, without losing any of the data. The move comes as OffiSync is building its own suite of software that creates ties between Office and Google Apps.
– Google’s acquisition of collaboration software startup DocVerse for a reported $25 million March 5 validates the market for
applications that bridge the gap between the Google Apps cloud computing suite
and the on-premises Microsoft Office suite.
DocVerse makes a plug-in that lets users group-ed…
CA is buying Oblicore, whose software bridges the gap between SLAs and infrastructure performance, key requirements as businesses begin to adopt cloud computing. Oblicore is the latest such company to be bought by CA; the company acquired some of the assets of Cassatt in June, then followed that with the acquisition of NetQoS in September.
– CA is continuing to build on its portfolio of software designed to
help businesses and service providers manage their cloud computing
environments.
CA announced Jan. 11 that it has bought Oblicore, a company whose
software helps users monitor and manage their service level agreements
across the…
Jive Software Oct. 28 released Social Business Suite 4.0, building a bridge to Microsoft Office and prompting Jive CEO Dave Hersh to claim that Jive is essentially turning Microsoft Office into Google Docs. Jive, which like rivals MindTouch, Socialtext, Awareness and IBM believes that the lines between social software and collaboration software have blurred, also lets users view and reply to comments made in the browser directly from the plug-in in Microsoft Office. Jive is also offering modules that let the social software run on Apple’s iPhone and RIM BlackBerry.
– Jive Software Oct. 28 released Social Business Suite 4.0, adding integration
with Microsoft Office that prompted Jive CEO
Dave Hersh to claim the company is turning Office into a Google Docs-like
platform.
SBS 4.0 has several new features, but
eWEEK is focusing on the key areas that make this…
Zoho Oct. 19 let Zoho users sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account information and upload files from Google Docs to Zoho Projects and sync Projects meetings with Google Calendar. Users will also be able to embed info from Projects directly inside Gmail, iGoogle and the Google Sites wiki application. This is the latest bridge Zoho has built between its applications and Google Apps as the companies target the traditional on-premises collaboration software market, which includes Microsoft and IBM.
– Zoho Oct. 19 continued its integration with Google Apps, allowing Zoho users to sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account and sync content between the companies’ programs.
Zoho Projects is the cloud computing software maker’s project management and collaboration applica…
VMware is growing the application management capabilities of vCenter with the introduction of AppSpeed, which will make it easier for IT administrators to manage the applications that are running on VMware virtualization environments. In addition, the new vCenter Chargeback feature will give IT administrators and businesses a greater view into the use of their virtualized data center resources and their associated costs.
– VMware is putting new capabilities into its vCenter virtualization management product.
VMware July 13 unveiled the AppSpeed and Chargeback features for vCenter, which are designed to help data center administrators automate the management of their virtualized environments.
Enterprises are continui…
