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Cloud Expo on Ulitzer I’m going to try something new here. Cloud Computing news breaks all of the time. While in the past, I have focused mainly on GoGrid product announcements and lengthy commentary on articles that talk about Cloud Computing, I have realized that there is so ... (more)

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Here I am at CSS Labs, developing components for our very own CloudBuddy for Cloud Computing… Wonder what CloudBuddy is? Take a look at www.mycloudbuddy.com and I promise, you would want to have a go at it. And what exactly am I going to write here? After ... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Organizations have become increasingly dependent on technical infrastructure to enable customer interactions. As such, the business has a vested interest in making sure its technology partners understand what constitutes good customer experience so that... (more)

Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Have you ever been given the task of building and executing an aggressive customer outreach program? Well I received my assignment about a year ago and trust me; the budget was not commensurate with the assigned goal. My particular need was t... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer Oracle has offered to cordon off MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing set for next Thursday, according to the New York Post The paper, quoting two unide... (more)

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer Oracle seems to have divided the open source ranks over the MySQL delay it's having closing its acquisition of Sun. Eben Moglin, the GPL's most ardent defender and delineator, the lawyer who has worked hand in glove for years with the Free Software Founda... (more)

Virtualization on Ulitzer Some great news came out of Sun Microsystems this week with the release of VirtualBox 3.1.o. This is Sun’s virtualization platform, which has been at the core of many of Sun’s newest technologies. What is great about VirtualBox, aside from being a profe... (more)

We’ve had over a thousand customers sign up to the RhoHub service over the last month since we launched on November 4th at the iPhone Developer Summit. They are now asking “ok I’ve built my app really quickly. Now what do I need to do to distribute it on the App Store or elsewher... (more)

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer The November 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM) has a very interesting article by Paul Stachour and David Collier-Brown entitled “You Don’t Know Jack About Software Maintenance”. The authors argue energetically for using versioned data s... (more)

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer As the purgatory of Oracle's under-review bid to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion drags on, it's worth basking in the darn-near sublime predicament Oracle has woven for itself. Oracle has uncharacteristically found itself maneuvered (by its own action... (more)

Escalate Retail today announced the release of the newest version of its Cross-Channel Commerce Platform with enhanced features for seamless buying and selling across all channels. Escalate’s next-generation Cross-Channel Commerce Platform helps retailers drive positive customer ... (more)

The World Economic Forum, a leading international non-profit organization focused on entrepreneurship in the global public interest, announced today that Corventis, Inc. has been selected as a “Technology Pioneer 2010” for the company’s work in developing innovative wireless card... (more)

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (GWOS, http://www.gwos.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today launched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance. Targeted at small environments, with a price... (more)

Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the expansion of its flagship TASKalfa multifunctional product (MFP) series with the launch of its latest black & white MFP: the TASKalfa 300i (30 pages-per-minute). The TASKalfa ... (more)

BRISBANE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/03/09 -- CollabNet, the leader in distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that the World Economic Forum has named CollabNet to the 2010 class of Technology Pioneers. According to the World Economic Forum, th... (more)

MIDDLETON, WI -- (Marketwire) -- 12/03/09 -- Extreme Engineering Solutions is shipping XCalibur1541, the MPC8572E based 6U VPX board that ranges from commercial to full blown military (conduction-cooled) applications. With Freescale Semiconductor's dual-core MPC8572E PowerQUICC(T... (more)

WinMagic® (www.winmagic.com), the innovative leader in disk encryption, today launches SecureDoc v4.9 for Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard. SecureDoc v4.9 will support Snow Leopard in both 32 and 64 bit kernel modes. With SecureDoc v4.9 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, organizations ... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 12/02/09 -- In by far the biggest and most broad-reaching petition in the run-up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference beginning on Monday in Copenhagen, Kofi Annan's Tck Tck Tck campaign will surpass 10 million digital pledges of support this week... (more)

Inaugural Microfinance Leadership Summit focuses on helping microfinance institutions reach more of the world's poor through technology. WASHINGTON and SEATTLE, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grameen Foundation and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint initiative to help a... (more)

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer Open-Xchange announced today the availability of a free connector for Mozilla Thunderbird, the cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The "Community OXtender for Thunderbird" software connector gives users full ... (more)