Latest network applications news.
Google Earth gets starry-eyed, 08/22/07: Google may just be the center of the universe now: A new add-on for its Earth satellite program, called Sky, lets users explore space and see photos of the precise star formation overhead based on their locale.
Podcast: Why application virtualization will rule: David Roth, CEO of start-up Trigence, tells why he believes application virtualization will become as ubiquitous as desktop computers.
SOA’s ROI is MIA, 08/21/07: Barely a third of companies that have adopted service-oriented architectures are achieving a positive return on investment.
Management tool vendors gear up for virtualization, 08/20/07: BMC, CA, Network General and others combine specialized server management with traffic-flow analysis to track application performance across a virtual infrastructure.
Cisco gives away its security tool: Cisco offers up its Safe Mapping and Reporting Tool as an open source software on Sourceforge.
Researcher: Google Gadgets can be misused by phishers, 08/17/07: The domain used to host small Google Gadget applications written by Web developers could be misused by phishers, a Web security researcher said Friday.
Tafiti: A Silverlight search tool: Microsoft has released Tafiti, a Silverlight-based search tool for use on top of Microsoft’s Live Search engine. Tafiti means “to search” in Swahili. It allows users to store and share search results across multiple queries and sessions.
IBM develops speech recognition in Indian language, 08/16/07: IBM’s India Research Laboratory (IRL) has developed a speech recognition software for Hindi, one of the key languages in India.
The application deployment quagmire, 08/16/07: In today’s era of IT consolidation, ensuring application delivery is critical.
Social networking for your television: Your T.V. is lonely. It can’t share its information with anyone. Well, Microsoft wants to stop this sort of television abuse. Microsoft has filed a patent for social networking TV software.
