Apple's launch of iOS 6 yesterday at the Worldwide Developer Conference did a lot to wow the tech media world -- but some mobile users seem less than overwhelmed.
In software security, there's a depressing but indisputable truth: No matter what you do or how much money you spend making code more resilient, fortifying the network or electro-shocking developers who write bad code, you can't get rid of all the security bugs.
Anagran, founded by Larry Roberts, one of the designers and developers of the ARPANET computer packet network that evolved into the Internet, announced the immediate availability of the Anagran FR-1000 Flow Router. The one-rack unit FR-1000 is designed to improve the performance of IP-based video, voice, data and wireless applications with lower cost and energy consumption than today’s Layer 3 routers.
MontaVista Software recently released the latest version of its reat-time Linux operating system (RTOS), MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0. New to the product are a faster response time, an updated Linux kernel, advanced protocol support, and a host of tools for developers of RTOS systems and applications.
ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service.
Enterprise storage administrators looking to expand their use of open source tools received good news from Sun last week, as the vendor released a bevy of its disk, file system and storage device drivers to its OpenSolaris community.
Microsoft has set a date for a second Longhorn-themed Professional Developers Conference. The event will be held in September 2005, almost two years after the company first detailed the Windows XP successor at the 2003 PDC.
Last Friday, a federal judge issued an injunction against Vonage that would essentially prevent it from connecting its customers to the PSTN; however, the judge also gave Vonage until April 6, 2007 before making the injunction effective. The judge found that Vonage had violated Verizon patents in an earlier ruling. This injunction was issued to prevent Vonage from further harming Verizon, which claimed it had lost a million customers to Vonage.
Udev tells Linux what names to use for devices, how to
set the ownership and permissions, and which kernel
modules it needs to use them. But who configures
udev: the kernel developers or the distribution
maintainers?
Eighteen months ago, Serena Software Inc. began exploring the feasibility of supporting Apple MacBooks as an option for its users, most of whom are developers. It was interested in lowering its support costs and increasing satisfaction among employees who used Macs at home, including the CEO.
Microsoft has been fairly reticent about the development of the next client version of its Windows OS, code-named Windows 7. But in a blog entry Thursday, Microsoft said it will finally give developers their first in-depth look at the OS at its forthcoming Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October.
Should Linux include a virus scanning layer?
Kernel developers debate the best way to protect
virus-vulnerable OSs from malware stored on a Linux
server.
Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.
The WAN optimization market is heating up, and venture capitalists are taking notice. The latest is OpenView Venture Partners, which just led Exinda Networks’ first infusion of outside funding -- a $6 million round announced this week.
With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday.
Micro-Star International will later this month offer a new version of its Wind mini-laptop with a far better, 6-cell battery, than the one currently on offer.
Originally positioned as a Web-based service for synchronizing files and data folders across different devices, Microsoft's Live Mesh is poised to emerge as a cloud-based development environment at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October.
Video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) said Friday it plans to cut 1,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, after announcing in October it would cut just 6 percent.