Microsoft plans to acquire technology that has enabled Microsoft’s TFS (Team Foundation Server) software to be an ALM (application lifecycle management) server for different software development platforms. The company will purchase Teamprise-related assets from SourceGear. Teamprise software lets Java developers using Eclipse-based IDEs or developers leveraging operating systems including Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X [...]
Archive for November, 2009
UK to push for law to retain all communications data
The U.K. government said Monday it plans to push for a law requiring service providers such as ISPs to retain data about instant messages, e-mail and other electronic communications. The government argues that knowing the participants, timing and method of a communication — but not its contents — is vital in protecting the public from [...]
Postini technology to spread across Google Apps
The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite. That way, Apps Premier administrators will gain tighter control over how employees use not only Gmail but also the other suite components, like [...]
Application whitelisting review: McAfee Application Control
McAfee Application Control 5.0 (due out Dec. 15) is the result of McAfee’s acquisition of Solidcore and the integration of Solidcore S3 Control with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). McAfee Application Control rivals SignaCert for the broadest client support among all the products in InfoWorld’s review. It also boasts write protection and ownership protection of whitelisted [...]
Subversion joins forces with Apache
Subversion has been used in tight stacks with Apache Software Foundation projects such as Maven and Tomcat. Today, the open-source software configuration management system becomes part of Apache with the announcement that the project has been accepted into the Apache Incubator, where projects first go on their way to top-level project status. There is a [...]
Google to buy mobile ad company
Google plans to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for US$750 million stock, the search giant said on Monday. AdMob is a leader in mobile advertising and already serves ads for some applications running on Google’s Android mobile operating system. In a statement, Google said that AdMob has made “exceptional progress” so far in the mobile [...]
Google trying not to cross ‘the creepy line’
Real-time satellite imagery of lunch at the Googleplex would be “creepy,” according to CEO Eric Schmidt. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Google is trying not to be creepy. That’s according to CEO Eric Schmidt, who told Fox Business Thursday that “we’re trying not to cross what we call the creepy line” when it comes to [...]
Gadget problems divide the sexes
Men and women have different approaches to dealing with technology problems, according to a gadget helpline. The service found that 64% of its male callers and 24% of its female callers had not read the instruction manual before ringing up. 12% of male and 7% of female customers simply needed to plug in or turn [...]
JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash
JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. “The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript’s gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more,” [...]