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Oracle’s recent release of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System 11.1.2 marks another round in the company’s recently frantic release pattern, with its large number of additions and applications again hinting at a strategic desire to expand its middleware stack. The new applications baked into Oracle EMP System 11.1.2 include Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management, Oracle Hyperion […]

Microsoft kicked off a global launch for the latest major release of its flagship application development environment, Visual Studio 2010, with more than 150 developer-focused events around the world on April 12. In addition to Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010), Microsoft announced the release of the .NET Framework 4 and said its Silverlight 4 rich Internet […]

Users of the popular Facebook game “Farm Town” were hit with a rogue antivirus scam tied to malicious advertising. SlashKey, the developer behind “Farm Town,” issued a warning about the malware scam, which drew hundreds of comments to its user forum. According to findings posted here by researcher Sandi Hardmeier, the ad in question was […]

Since its inception, the world unified threat management (UTM) products market has witnessed high growth rates and, despite the harsh economic conditions of 2009, the UTM market grew at a healthy rate. During 2008, the market witnessed a growth rate of 32.2 percent; however, the growth rate dropped to 20.1 percent in 2009 due to […]

NEW YORK—The way Shannon Poulin sees it, about 95 percent of the servers shipped every year are x86 systems powered by chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The other 5 percent, however, make up about 40 percent of worldwide server revenue. “That’s a small number of units for a large part of the revenue,” […]

Apple’s iPad may be adept at displaying multimedia content and e-texts, but it’ll have a harder time dealing with gravity and sudden blows, according to Rapid Repair, which regularly publishes an online teardown of the electronic devices it repairs. “The weight, size, and novel ways of using these devices will put them at risk for […]

Intel earlier this year brought its Turbo Boost technology to its Core i7 desktop processors. The technology powers down idle cores in a processor and moving some of that power over to active cores, essentially overclocking them and improving the performance of the chip. Now rival Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly ready to add a […]

IBM on April 7 launched a major push to win over new system integration partners, especially integrators specializing in Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems hardware with the introduction of two new server  models including an x86 Unix System and a System z mainframe scale system. To sweeten its pitch, IBM is planning to spend up […]

Qwest Communications announced the launch of two managed solutions, Qwest iQTM Managed Security Service and Qwest iQTM Network Management Service, which deliver on a relationship Qwest and IBM previously announced to provide a technology ecosystem specifically designed for businesses with 15,000 employees or fewer. MMS helps reduce the costs and complexities associated with managing security […]

NEW YORK—Salesforce.com announced the expansion of what officials call “the next cloud computing paradigm” with a new round of private beta testing for its Salesforce Chatter platform, which allows Facebook-style social collaboration among enterprise workers. In an April 8 press conference here, the company also heralded the launch of AppExchange 2, the next generation of […]

Adobe Systems is enabling a silent updating feature in two products in an effort to ensure that users are running the most secure versions of the company’s software. With the new updater, Windows users can configure Adobe Reader and Acrobat to automatically download updates without user interaction. Right now, users have the choice of handling […]

Microsoft is planning a significant Patch Tuesday update April 13 to address 25 vulnerabilities across Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange. In its pre-patch advisory April 8, Microsoft said there would be a total of 11 security bulletins issued. Five of the 11 are rated critical and affect Windows. Of the remaining six, all but […]