Search engine roulette: sites rarely agree on top results
The most popular Web search engines rarely deliver the same results when identical queries are performed on each site, and the disparity has increased over the past two years, new research has found.
Microsoft interoperability team: Bring on Red Hat
Leaders of Microsoft’s strategy to make its products more interoperable with competitive technologies said the company still hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat similar to the partnerships it’s forged with Linux vendors Novell, Xandros and Linspire.
ColdSpark expands management, monitoring features of message control platform
ColdSpark is packing policy, security, control and high-performance around the age-old message transport platform.
Online crime group logs millionth complaint
Online consumers in the U.S. have had a million things to complain about. Literally.
Infor confirms layoffs at newly acquired vendors
Applications vendor Infor Global Solutions has laid off employees at Hansen Information Technologies and Workbrain, two companies it recently acquired, Infor confirmed today.
Open source software service touts simplified data integration
Open source data integration vendor Talend is now delivering its product in a software-as-a-service model, the company said Monday.
Start-up pledges to secure Oracle databases
Start-up Sentrigo enters Oracle database-security market.
What SMBs expect from backup software
Small and midsize businesses would rather chew tin foil, an industry pundit says, than spend money on enterprise backup software that is little suited to their needs. Senior Editor Deni Connor recently talked to George Symons, CEO of Yosemite Technologies, about what SMBs really need in backup software. This is an edited transcript.
EBay attempts to welcome back store owners
EBay is wooing store owners after a series of decisions by the online retail giant frustrated some merchants.
Blogs
Buzzblog: Ancestry.com to offer DNA service
Not recommended for those considering a career in crime.
Today at Cisco Subnetauthor Jeff Doyle as a regular blogger to Cisco Subnet. In his return blog, he examines EIGRP vs. OSPF, and in future postings will discuss IP infrastructure best practices for current and future networks. Meanwhile, the Brad Reese on Cisco blog wonders whether Cisco certification candidates are forced to cheat as there appears to be a lack of training materials for certain Cisco exams; and Author Expert Denise Donohue wonders whether we’ll be using all-VoIP in our homes in the future. Plus: Cisco has cash and services to give away; Cisco’s end-to-end IPTV package for service providers impresses testers; and blogger Chris Kasten figures out how to get a Cisco VPN Concentrator to establish a LAN-to-LAN tunnel with a Symantec firewall – after working 7 hours on the problem.
We welcome back Routing TCP/IP
The beginning of the end of Windows?
Microsoft’s patent licensing deals, such as the one signed with Linspire, could actually mean the end is in sight for Windows. Analyst Dennis Byron reasons that the software giant maybe preparing for a SaaS-y new direction.
PowerShell: A Cinderella story
PowerShell has been the secret princess of the development groups at Microsoft, says author expert Tyson Kopczynksi. He offers the inside skinny on how the Internet Information Services (IIS) group has whipped up loads of management functions with the super scripting language.
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