At Lotusphere 2011, IBM announces several new programs for partners and students to take advantage of social business opportunities. – ORLANDO, Fla. – As part of its new Social Business initiative, IBM has announced new
programs to help business partners embrace the growing social business
market opportunity and to financially reward them for their value to
clients.
Moreover, in addition to the new programs, IBM has
announce…
Facebook is adding new authentication and encryption features to improve security. – Facebook is rolling out two
new features to add an extra layer of security for users.
Part one of that layer is a
new authentication scheme, dubbed “Social Authentication,” which is meant to
keep attackers from hijacking accounts; part two rests with giving
users the ability to secure their e…
News Analysis: The proposal by President Barack Obama to bring wireless broadband to 80 percent of the United States is a fine idea thats already mired in the Federal Communication Commissions net neutrality mess. – When President Barack Obama said in the State
of the Union address that he wanted to see broadband wireless available
to 80 percent of the U.S. population within the next couple of years,
he was really taking a line from the National Broadband Plan that the
Federal Communication Commission has b…
The Gay-Lesbian Info Center (GLIC) NGO has asked for the Serbian Constitution to be changed to include a new definition of marriage. GLIC wants the country’s highest legal act to stop defining marriage as union between man and woman, and instead allow for same-sex marriage.
Excel 2011 for Mac focuses on compatibility and sharing and offers many new features, in common with the new versions of Word and PowerPoint. Excel 2011 provides better adherence to Excel for Windows in financial, mathematical and statistical areas and date calculations; includes the return of Visual Basic for Applications; and adds the ability to use the Microsoft SkyDrive service or a SharePoint server for document sharing. The Formula Bar has finally found a proper home, after wandering around the user interface for the last few releases. The miniature charts provided by the Sparklines feature can dress up a worksheet while providing an at-a-glance view of how figures relate to their neighbors. Excel 2011 also includes automatic repair of corrupt or damaged files, and its improved information rights management functions allow fine-grained control over how files can be distributed, when used with IRM-aware platforms such as Windows Server 2008, Office for Windows and Exchange. – …
Microsofts updated spreadsheet software for Mac offers better compatibility and an eye-catching interface. –
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Excel 2011 is, like its Office for Mac siblings, all about
the sharing. The sharing may involve a SharePoint…
With the new version of the company’s flagship database, Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt is looking to win customers with an emphasis on pricing, migration and performance. – Ingres has updated its flagship database with new migration, performance and security capabilities in the hopes of winning users over from its competitors.
Migration is a key focus of the enhancements in Ingres Database 10, starting with multi-version concurrency control [MVCC] the company said p…
Scientists will have to compete for 30% of the government’s biomedical-research funds by demonstrating the commercial viability of their work, George Radda, chairman of the Biomedical Research Council at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, said at a briefing today. The agency previously guaranteed 100% funding.
Oracle’s product portfolio isn’t the only thing that has grown in the past year – its partner Specialization program is growing as well. – It has been a big year for Oracle’s army of partners, some of whom packed
the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Forum event Sunday in San
Francisco.
There has been significant change in Oracle in the year since the last
OPN Forum, most notably the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The
d…
Intel officials say their cube clustered computing concept could help businesses gain access to HPC-levels of compute power. – SAN FRANCISCO Intel is running an internal pilot program to show that workstations can be clustered together to give businesses and institutions access of HPC levels of compute power that normally they would not have.
The idea is to give what is becoming known as the “missing middle” those business…
Check Point Software Technologies added to its virtual security lineup with new integration with VMware technology. – Check Point Software Technologies is expanding its virtual security
offerings with an eye toward protecting VMware environments.
With Security Gateway Virtual Edition (VE), Check Point has added
integration with VMwares VMsafe technology in a bid to bring
the same level of firewall and intrusi…
Verizon has begun pushing out a software update that enables Motorola Droid handsets running Android 2.2 to access Adobe Flash 10.1 from Google’s Android Market. – Verizon Wireless is pushing out a software update to Motorola Droid
handsets that will allow customers to download Flash 10.1 through Google’s
Android Market application store.
On Aug. 11, Verizon sent out Android Version 2.2, code-named Froyo, to Droid
smartphones, but the update didn’t inclu…
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed summarized Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and tablet PC strategy during a recent talk in Boston. Microsoft has planned aggressive moves in both market segments. – Bill Koefoed, Microsoft’s general manager of Investor Relations, discussed
Windows Phone 7 and tablet PCs during an Aug. 10 talk at the Oppenheimer Annual
Technology, Media amp; Telecommunications Conference in Boston.
Smartphones and tablets are two areas where Microsoft has, with increasing
v…
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced that his government was introducing a ban on exports of wheat. This decision, to be implemented starting August 15, came as reports said that one-fifth of the country’s farmland was destroyed by either wildfires or drought.
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner helps open the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting with the claim that Microsoft’s cloud computing initiatives are beginning to gain traction with businesses. – Microsoft’s quot;all in quot; cloud strategy will translate into higher
traditional software sales, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner
said during a speech at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 29.
Microsoft opened its daylong event with a brief run-through of its new and
upcom…
Microsoft executives advocated the company’s consumer products at the Worldwide Partner Conference, highlighting Windows 7, traditional PCs, personal clouds, and Windows Phone 7. – WASHINGTON, D.C. Microsoft executives used a second day of
keynotes at the companys Worldwide Partner Conference July 13 to highlight the
supposed dominance of the traditional PC, as well as upcoming consumer
products.
Microsofts overarching strategy seems to center on promoting
its flagship pr…
Mozilla has launched the initial beta of Firefox 4, and promises additional beta versions of the open-source browser every few weeks as it refines features. Although Firefox holds a healthy portion of the browser market, it faces a growing challenge from Google Chrome as well as pressure from Internet Explorer. – Mozilla has launched the initial beta of Firefox 4, promising additional
beta versions every few weeks as it works on refining the browser. And
refinement is crucial, given the increasingly competitive nature of the Web browser
market.
quot;Your feedback is essential to help shape the product,…
The launch dates of space shuttle Endeavour and Discovery get pushed back due to "space traffic" and a delay in upgrades to parts destined for the International Space Station, NASA reports. – The last launch of NASAs storied space shuttle program has been pushed back to February 26, 2011 the space agency reported. Space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which will deliver spare parts to the orbiting facility, will be the 36th mission to the sta…
