Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft will work with eBay to create the next generation infrastructure and develop a private cloud technology. The private cloud will not compete with its current public cloud Azure, Microsoft said. It will be used to accommodate online transactions as well as private data not suitable for a public cloud environment. "The Windows [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): The Linux Foundation released IAccessible2, a new accessibility API for Microsoft Windows applications, and AccProbe, a desktop application testing tool, under the BSD license. AccProbe uses IAccessible2 platform services to assist developers in discovering and correcting code problems in their Windows applications. It was developed in Eclipse by IBM and donated to [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome continues to shine and is now the third most popular browser in the U.S., according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is still leading. Combining all versions of IE, Microsoft has a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla's Firefox (28.5 percent). Chrome passed Apple's [...]
Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell says that users should buy more computers running Ubuntu Linux. The Round Rock, Texas based information technology company says on Dell’s Ubuntu website that the Debian based Linux distribution is safer than Microsoft Windows. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack [...]
Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft released the initial code for Windows Embedded Compact 7, a operating designed to target enterprise specific tools and consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras, GPS systems and automobiles. The operating system serves application requests almost in real-time by minimizing critical sections of the code base. Based on Windows CE, the latest [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome search engine shines and now accounts for a 6.7 percent market share, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer dives for the first time in years under the 60 percent mark, according to April 2010 statistics from web analytics and market research firm Net Applications. Chrome is now in third place, up from [...]
