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Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort

Posted June 5, 2013 - 11:33 am

Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.
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How Microsoft can rescue Windows 8

Posted June 5, 2013 - 11:28 am

A modest proposal to fulfill Microsoft's promise to deliver a modern computing experience on PCs and tablets.
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Hands on with Chrome for iOS's new voice search

Posted June 5, 2013 - 11:17 am

With all the voice-related features offered by our mobile devices, it's a wonder they haven't yet developed multiple personalities. The latest entrant in the category is Google Chrome for iOS, which on Monday was updated with improved voice search.
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SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com

Posted June 5, 2013 - 10:08 am

SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points."
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SQL Server 2014 hastens transaction processing

Posted June 5, 2013 - 9:56 am

The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.
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AppGyver aims to make PhoneGap developers more effective using Steroids

Posted June 5, 2013 - 9:41 am

Developer tool company AppGyver loves the PhoneGap platform, but is convinced there is room for productivity and performance improvements and is working on products to achieve both.
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What to do if you’re a programmer and your project is the Titanic

Posted June 5, 2013 - 6:00 am

Software developers provide advice for others working on a project that seems doomed to fail
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Microsoft to include Outlook app with update to Windows 8 RT

Posted June 5, 2013 - 2:39 am

Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors.
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Why Agile isn't working: Bringing common sense to Agile principles

Posted June 4, 2013 - 9:28 pm

Agile promises many things, but the reality in the field is often very far from the expectations. Is it agile we need--or an agile way of thinking?
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New York turns to big data to solve big tree problem

Posted June 4, 2013 - 9:20 pm

Trees probably aren't the first thing you think of when someone mentions New York City, but the city has a lot of them. Pruning and maintaining them is a public safety issue, and determining how to prioritize that maintenance is no easy feat. With the help of a nonprofit organization called DataKind, the city's Parks department is leveraging big data analytics for the job.
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Why your users hate Agile development (and what you can do about it)

Posted June 4, 2013 - 4:45 pm

What developers see as iterative and flexible, users see as disorganized and never-ending. Here's how some experienced developers have changed that perception.
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13 fonts to make a programmer smile

Posted June 4, 2013 - 4:35 pm

Software developers have strong opinions about the best font to use when writing and looking at code all day; here are a number of the most popular ones
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Mobile vendors go their own way on security at FTC event

Posted June 4, 2013 - 4:12 pm

Mobile phone makers were in agreement that the security and privacy of their customer was their top concern. But that was about all they could agree on
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To-do software goes from ugly duckling to white swan

Posted June 4, 2013 - 3:54 pm

Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of cool about it and renewed appreciation from enterprise IT.
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Verivo to help developers make mobile apps enterprise-ready

Posted June 4, 2013 - 2:26 pm

Development platform vendor Verivo Software wants to provide the back end for mobile enterprise apps to make it easier for corporate programmers to add features such as off-line access and authentication.
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Dell, Oracle form strategic partnership for integrated systems

Posted June 4, 2013 - 2:02 pm

Dell and Oracle will integrate hardware and software for customers through a strategic partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday.
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How to make RealPlayer work with Chrome browser?

Posted June 4, 2013 - 1:54 pm

I decided to try the Chrome browser, and while I’m generally happy with it, since I installed Chrome, RealPlayer won’t work with it. Does anyone know how to get RealPlayer to work with the Chrome browser or are they incompatible?
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IE11 on Windows 7? Mum's the word from Microsoft

Posted June 4, 2013 - 12:29 pm

Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 with Windows 8.1 later this year, but isn't saying whether the browser would also be available to Windows 7 users
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How to do smarter file searches in Windows 8

Posted June 4, 2013 - 12:02 pm

One of Windows 8's most celebrated features can also be one of its most frustrating. Here's an alternative.
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Salesforce.com aims for next $1 billion business with ExactTarget buy

Posted June 4, 2013 - 11:58 am

Salesforce.com's pending US$2.5 billion purchase of marketing software vendor ExactTarget will help it develop a new $1 billion annual revenue stream and set the company on a clear strategic course for the foreseeable future, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.
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Microsoft tackles agile backlash with Team Foundation update

Posted June 4, 2013 - 11:22 am

The next release of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), an application for managing software development, has been designed to bring agile development practices to larger, multi-team projects.
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Big data surge from federal agencies will drive health IT

Posted June 4, 2013 - 11:15 am

Department of Health and Human Services unleashes new structured data sets as it encourages the developer community to build new health IT applications to improve patient care.
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Computerworld Honors 2013: Fighting disease with better tech gets better results

Posted June 4, 2013 - 10:56 am

The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation is on the front lines in the fight against HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa, whose population has been hit hard by both diseases.
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Informatica hopes 'Vibe' can be data integration's version of the JVM

Posted June 4, 2013 - 10:01 am

Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors.
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Compuware extends application monitoring with infrastructure metrics

Posted June 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

Compuware has updated its application performance management (APM) software to give administrators more insight into what might be slowing application performance, thanks to the inclusion of new metrics showing the operational health of the host infrastructure.
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