Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun and critics’ concerns about its impact on Oracle’s open source database competition, Sun developers are still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits of their labors is the recent MySQL 5.5 milestone 2 development release, which introduces [...]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009W3C’s New SKOS Standard Advances Linked Data
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Author: David Needle (Internet News)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today unveiled a new framework designed to bridge the gap between classifications, subject headings and taxonomies and so-called linked data.
The idea is to create broader and simpler data exchange and access to information as part of the broader Semantic Web initiative.
The term “linked data” describes [...]
Adobe Plans to Open Flash Framework
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Author: Sean Kerner (Internet News)
Adobe’s Flash is a closed-source technology and is likely to stay that way, but that doesn’t mean that technologies surrounding and supporting Flash can’t be open.
Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today is announcing the open sourcing of two technologies related to the Flash platform — one for its media player, the other for [...]
Major PHP Update Coming Soon
Friday, June 26th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since 2006 and the [...]
New IBM SSD Drives + Smart Software = Possible Future for Server Drives?
Sunday, May 24th, 2009IBM has introduced new solid state drives (SSDs) for its enterprise servers that add something long-missing to SSDs: intelligence. New management software can improve performance up to eight-fold and reduce, IBM said, while reducing the amount of storage needed by 80 percent and power consumption by 90 percent.
Up to now, the assumption with SSDs has [...]
JetPack Bring Customized Experience to Firefox
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Author: Mark Long (News Factor)
Mozilla Labs has launched a new browser project that promises to give developers the ability to explore new ways to help Web-site visitors customize and personalize the surfing experience.
Featuring support for status bars, tabs, content scripts, and animations, Jetpack is an application programming interface (API) for enabling Web designers to write [...]
Pocket-sized Web Servers
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Author: Andy Patrizio (Internet News)
Dell has been a notoriously loyal Intel customer, but today it went way off the beaten path with the introduction of Web servers based on VIA Technologies’ Nano processor. The Nano, usually used in netbooks or embedded systems, turned out to be just the ticket for this specific server need.
Dell (NASDAQ: [...]
FastSoft Announces Industry’s First One-Sided 10Gbps Internet Accelerator at Interop Las Vegas 2009
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Source: MarketWire
(Marketwire) — 05/19/09 – FastSoft, Inc. introduced at the Interop IT Expo the latest product in its E Series line which supports 10Gbps throughput. The E Series EX accelerates TCP traffic 2 to 5 times, speeding up web applications and data transfers, especially for rich media and dynamic content elements.
The E Series EX is [...]
A lesson from Google: Don’t get stuck in a cloud
Monday, May 18th, 2009Author: Ian Paul (PC World)
Google has apologized for yesterday’s service outage that left 14 percent of its user base without Google’s wide variety of online services for a few hours. Google said in a blog post the outage came down to a simple traffic jam at an Asian data center. The search giant described the situation by using the [...]
