Yahoo’s revenue and profit slid significantly in the first quarter, but the company’s performance was in line with Wall Street’s …
Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company’s efforts were targeted at …
Certifications that matter
As companies look bridge talent holes in their IT organisations, there is an increased emphasis on vendor-and technology-specific training. Here …
VMWare’s Cloud Foundry opens PaaS
VMware unveiled an open platform-as-a-service offering on Tuesday that supports multiple programming frameworks including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails …
Web pages compromised in mass injection attack
More than 50,000 webpages have been compromised in an SQL injection attack that has been dubbed Lizamoon. Security firm Websense …
Salesforce.com to acquire Radian6
Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter …
Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record
Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. …
Oracle customers using Itanium chips rethink IT upgrades
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said …
Oracle stops developing software for Intel’s Itanium chips
Oracle recently became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a …
SecureVAD to recruit partners
SecureVAD, the exclusive distributor for STEALTHbits across EMEA and Asia-PAC is planning to set up shop in the UAE. The …
Google to add offline storage to Apps by year end
Google is working to restore offline storage capabilities for its Apps productivity software and should have it done by the …
State of the union
While many businesses tightened their IT budgets during the recent recession, a growing number of organisations are deploying unified communications …
Geared for battle
Sathya Mithra Ashok writes on how Ducab uses a wise mix of security solutions to safeguard device and data. Dubai …
Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 release candidate
The Mozilla Foundation has issued the first release candidate of Firefox version 4.0, finishing a gruelling and ambitious beta development …
SAS pushes BI to Apple’s iPad, iPhones
SAS Institute is teaming up with mobile BI (business intelligence) vendor Mellmo to bring analytic applications to Apple’s iPhone and …
VMware buys WaveMaker, aims to ease app development
VMware said yesterday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. WaveMaker …
Android tops BlackBerry, iPhone
Google’s Android smartphones took the top spot in the U.S. for the first time, hitting 31.2% in the latest comScore …
Gunning for data centre control
F5 is described as an application delivery vendor, but that term is nebulous to some folks and it doesn’t really …