Friday 2 September 2011

Microsoft's IE will drop under 50% share by mid-2012

Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP | Apple rules phone, tablet browsing market

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Microsoft's IE will drop under 50% share by mid-2012
If the pace of Internet Explorer's decline over the last 12 months continues, IE will drop under the 50% mark in June 2012, according to Web metrics company Net Applications. Read More


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Judge overturns Oracle's $1.3B award against SAP
A federal judge has overturned the $1.3 billion judgment Oracle won against SAP in its corporate theft trial, according to a ruling made Thursday. Read More

Apple rules phone, tablet browsing market
Mobile browsing has more than doubled in the last year and now accounts for over 6% of all online activity. Read More

Air Force awards $25K to inventor of insanely fast device that stops fleeing cars
If you remember the Dirty Harry movie "Dead Pool," where a radio-controlled model Corvette containing a bomb chases Harry around the streets of San Francisco and eventually detonates under his car, then you have the general idea of the technology a retired 66-year-old mechanical engineer came up with to win a $25,000 prize from the Air Force Research Laboratory. Read More


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Map Critical Network Assets and Dependencies
Learn how Riverbed provided the International Herald Tribune with an end-to-end view of application delivery paths – from servers to desktops, and how advanced traffic analysis ensured faster problem resolution and more effective WAN management. Read now!

Experts: AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile may not be dead yet
AT&T still has options after the U.S. DOJ filed a lawsuit in opposition to the company's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Read More

Lenovo heats up price war with $199 IdeaPad tablet
Lenovo announced a new $199 IdeaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android OS in response to the surge in demand for inexpensive tablets. Read More

Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster
Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has released version 3.1 of his open-source Web application development framework, adding new features that should speed the rendering of Web pages for users. Read More


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Qualcomm shows public face with pet-tracking service
Qualcomm, which launches few consumer products, later this month will launch a pet-tracking service built using proprietary technology from its communications business. Read More

Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday
Salesforce.com is strengthening its hand in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, announcing on Thursday two new partnerships with Infor and Workday that will result in an intermingling of the companies' applications and technologies. Read More

Five cures for what ails IT
Your IT department may be armed with bright and ambitious employees, but that doesn't mean the group will be efficient. Read More

Workplace conflict: How to diffuse battles with co-workers
The longer workplace conflicts fester, the more stress and acrimony they create. Here are four tips for resolving conflicts with coworkers. Read More



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