HP has confirmed it is in negotiations with BEA Systems as it attempts to take a larger chunk of the middleware market. Bill Russell, vice president and general manager at HP's software division, speaking at HP's Software Universe in Monaco, said...
Jeremy Norman, the rare-books collector who assembled the collection, said: "It was a very uneven sale. The collection, known as "The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications", was the first of...
It is clear that by codifying this EPO practice in a directive as the [European] Commission and Council want to do, they will only make this sort of US-style patents enforceable in Europe as well. The patent, which was granted by the US patent...
There needs to be more of a sense of romance and magic, says Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research communications and strategy. You don't have to go to Hogwarts to learn magic," Schofield said, referring to the fictional school in...
The next version of Windows brings an end to 20 years of 2D desktop rendering. The switch to 3D rendering means that Windows will now have a use for that fancy $400 graphics card on the desktop. Windows Aero is actually just a theme, or skin type...
The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs...