1050 articles on Software

  • Google Blockly Lets You Hack With No Keyboard
    Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character. Now available on Google Code -- the company's site for hosting open source software -- the new language is called Google Blockly, and it's reminiscent of Scratch, a platform developed at MIT that seeks to turn even young children into programmers.
    06.01.12
  • New Chromebooks: Has the Post PC-Era Arrived?
    With news of the latest souped-up Google Chromebooks, as well as a capitulation by Google that its cloud/web-centric Chrome OS needs to act more like a traditional OS and ditch the browser-only model, it's time to ask if we could be looking at the first post-PC era machines.
    06.01.12
  • Calendars in the Cloud: No More Copy and Paste
    The humble example of a church supper -- recorded in Google Calendar or Hotmail Calendar, published on a website, and syndicated to other sites -- illustrates a general idea about personal (and organizational) clouds, writes Jon Udell.
    06.01.12
  • Judge Frees Google's Android From Oracle Copyrights
    The federal judge refereeing the billion-dollar fight between Oracle and Google over the Android operating system has dismissed Oracle's claim that the Java APIs used by Android are subject to copyright.
    05.31.12
  • Are Cloud Reliability, Security Still 'Open Issues'?
    In a new report, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) notes 23 "open issues" regarding the cloud computing, including computing performance, cloud reliability, economic goals, compliance and information security. FierceGovernmentIT reports that issues highlighted in NIST Special Publication 800-146 (PDF) "are traditional distributed computing topics that have remained open for decades" but have become ...
    05.31.12
  • 'Father of Google Apps': Chrome OS Is Still the Future
    It was the most Googley of propositions. The most successful company in the history of the internet said it would reinvent corporate computing by selling subscriptions to streamlined machines that moved all data and applications inside a web browser. A year later, Google has adjusted this audacious pitch, but the change in tack show that Google is intent on building a business around these machines -- something that many pundits have questioned over the last year.
    05.31.12
  • Ford's 'Sync' Driving Data to Provide Insurance Discounts
    State Farm is expanding its Drive Safe and Save usage-based insurance program to include cars equipped with Ford¿s Sync telematics system. Also known as ¿pay as you go,¿ usage-based insurance programs look at how many miles drivers put on their cars and calculate premiums accordingly.
    05.31.12
  • Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google
    In the waning Java war between Oracle and Google, Oracle has lost another fight. A federal judge has declined to revisit Oracle's claims that Google infringed on its patents in building the Android mobile operating system. On Wednesday, Judge William Alsup ruled against Oracle's request that he make a judgement as a matter of law (JMOL) on Oracle's claims of patent infringement -- a move that would have nullified an earlier jury decision and put it in the judge's hands alone.
    05.30.12
  • Will Microsoft's Linux Gambit on Azure Pay Off?
    Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, "reaching another milestone in its ongoing efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software," writes Wired Enterprise editor Cade Metz today. The big deal: Linux virtual machines will retain data indefinitely, even after they¿re rebooted -- unlike now. "...That¿s essential to businesses ...
    05.30.12
  • Microsoft Preps for Public Embrace of Linux
    Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, reaching another milestone in its efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software.
    05.30.12
  • Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup Finalists 2012
    The Imagine Cup is a competition run and delivered by Microsof tto support and engage students from across the globe in developing technology projects that address global issues such as poverty, access to healthcare, and environmental sustainability.
    05.30.12
  • Dell Arms Future Servers With iPhone Chips
    Dell believes that within four years, 20 percent of servers sold across the world will be driven by chips not unlike the one in your cellphone. And on Tuesday, the company staked its claim to this future market, revealing that it has spent the last two years building such a machine -- a server packed with 48 low-power processors based on the same ARM architecture at the core of most iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.
    05.29.12
  • Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass
    Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass -- but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom wore the specs on his own talk show -- and told Wired all about it.
    05.29.12
  • Is the Cloud Too Risky for Some Purposes?
    Most analysts are convinced that companies have moved or are moving to the cloud in a big way, writes Dick Weisinger, noting: "Forrester says that sometime this year we will have reached the point where 50 percent of companies are using some form of SaaS. The Yankee Group says that 41 percent of large companies ...
    05.29.12


 

 

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