June 28th, 2008 at 12:03pm Under Software
Terri Rossman considers herself a visual learner. So when the 52-year-old marketing professional wanted to learn a new knitting stitch, she turned to the Web. “I searched for ‘knit bobble stitch’ on Google and I found a video of someone doing it,” said Rossman, who lives in the Detroit area. “It was perfect for me.” The Web has become the place where people go to learn new tricks.
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:03pm Under Software
The explosion in Web-delivered music and video we’re seeing today just wouldn’t be possible without the use of sophisticated encoded compression algorithms, or codecs, and the file storage formats in which compressed audio, images and data are saved. As Internet bandwidth and broadband access has expanded, so has the transmission of much denser digital audio and video files.
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Software
Seeking to reassure investors — many of whom were still stinging from Yahoo’s decision to walk away from a multibillion-dollar merger with Microsoft — CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock sent a letter making their case for hooking up with Google instead of inking an ad deal with Redmond.
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Software
Microsoft’s new hypervisor-based server virtualization software, Hyper-V, is now available for download, and it’s several weeks ahead of “schedule” — though it’s also months late. Microsoft previously wanted to deliver Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008. In any event, Hyper-V is here, and it’s real.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Software
As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close — I’ll be off for the summer — let’s take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:05am Under Software
With all the recent attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it’s easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals. Add it all up, and Microsoft’s market-leading Internet Explorer has some impressive challengers. Opera 9.5, for instance, lets you share bookmarked Web pages and notes among several computers.
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under Software
Open source software just keeps getting better, according to a new report from Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. Specifically, Coverity’s Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008 found a 16 percent reduction in static analysis defect density in the open source software it analyzed over the past two years, reflecting the elimination of more than 8,500 individual defects.
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:06am Under Software
Computer software written by St. Louis County, Minn., Sheriff’s Rescue Squad Lt. Rick Slatten was instrumental in helping searchers find an autistic man who was missing for seven days in Burnett County, Minn. Slatten’s program, called “Search Tracker,” used the laws of probability to guide searchers who found Keith Kennedy late Sunday in a wooded area inaccessible by vehicles.
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June 25th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Software
Call it a Route 128 SOA date. Progress Software is buying Iona Technologies for a little more than $100 million in actual value, broadening Progress’ service oriented architecture portfolio significantly and catapulting Progress into the open source software infrastructure arena.
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June 25th, 2008 at 12:01pm Under Software
Is it possible to make money by giving something away for free? John Powell, CEO of Alfresco Software, believes that the open source software market is worth $60 billion. The value doesn’t accrue from the revenue that it generates. Rather, that value is rooted in the cost savings for his customers. Looked at from this angle, open source is the largest tech industry, Powell believes.
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