Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at his company's rival IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of Big Blue's hardware and opening fire on its blanket "Smarter Planet" marketing campaign.
Google released an Internet Explorer plug-in on Tuesday designed to let Microsoft's browser use the features and performance of Google's own Chrome browser.
Microsoft has unveiled a technical preview of its newly christened Microsoft Office Web Apps services.
VMware is in the early stages of embedding its technology in a range of smartphones, enabling them to connect to PCs and run applications that were designed for other mobile phones.
There appears to be quite an Australian presence involved in the US$420 million buyout announced this week of US-based software house SpringSource by virtualisation leader VMware.
The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
Next time you begin to berate yourself for making that awfully stupid coding mistake remember that it happens to the best and biggest of us and happy sysadmin day.
Google has announced a new Chrome Operating System, designed for the web and with a browser baked directly into it so much so that the entire OS is named after it. But the search giant should watch out: this decision seems designed to attract antitrust attention.
In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
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Join us on a tour through a Chinese "Shanzhai" market, where you can get an iPhone in any colour or shape and with features Apple doesn't offer. But are these mobiles legitimate?
Firefox 3.5 forges ahead with strong developer support, but most improvements for casual users will probably strike them as minor.
Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.
At JavaOne in San Francisco, Telenor's Fritjof Bogner Engelhardtsen and Sun's James Gosling look at a new experimental development platform for SIM cards. The Java platform allows programmers to design new mobile services including adding sensors and Wi-Fi radio directly on the card.
At JavaOne in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy about the future of Java development.
ZDNet.com editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the Oracle CEO's gamesmanship in buying Sun Microsystems and how he outplayed IBM. They also share their views on the future of Java and what Oracle plans to do with Sun's troubled hardware business.
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
It runs Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, but doesn't look anything like an Apple computer and certainly doesn't come with an Apple price tag. Kara Tsuboi and Tom Krazit discuss Psystar's open computer.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
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The Preston has the look of a better handset, but poor call quality spoils an otherwise well-performing budget-priced touchscreen phone.
HP' s 24-port ProCurve offers PoE+, a lifetime warranty and free software upgrades.
The Synology DS209 is an excellent little unit, with a more complex than necessary set up routine. Still for those looking for a highly featured, high performing NAS with an easy to use and flashy menu, it's certainly a compelling choice.
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