Microsoft and Intuit are planning to integrate the capabilities of their cloud services platforms, giving developers the chance to develop applications for small and midsize businesses that use QuickBooks financial software. Customers would be able to access the applications via the cloud-based Intuit App Center. Intuit has named Windows Azure the “preferred platform” for SMB [...]

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Human resource technology and solutions specialist FireWave Technology announced the release of ClearVision Performance, a software solution aimed at providing SMBs with a tool for introducing and managing an effective employee performance appraisal program. The ClearVision system is set up with job templates and competency tools for a monthly subscription rate. ClearVision helps deliver employee [...]

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As a reminder, *all* Solaris Express Community Edition images will be removed from the DLC tommorow afternoon. There will be no more subsequent releases. Derek – Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122689

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Magnetometers are typically associated with large-scale projects such as digging for oil, locating submerged objects, and detecting archaeological sites from spacecraft. But now, with unprecedented sensitivity to magnetic fluctuations, a prototype being developed at the University of Leeds could greatly improve the diagnosis of cardiac conditions. “The new system gets round previous difficulties by putting [...]

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If you want to install OpenSolaris on to many computers then you will need to use Automated Installer (AI) which allows you to remotely install the Operating System hands free. This article will be a first of a few examples which will show you how to to do this. To demonstrate the whole procedure of [...]

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Oracle has finalized the Sun transaction and the deal has closed. The combination of Oracle and Sun transforms the IT industry and will provide significant benefits and opportunities for the developer communities of the combined companies. For example, the combination of the Sun Developer Network (including java.sun.com), BigAdmin, and the Oracle Technology Network will result [...]

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Researchers at Northwestern University are developing a new method for removing radioactive materials from liquid nuclear waste. The group of scientists led by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, announced their breakthrough on Tuesday. The group’s paper described the process metaphorically to how a Venus [...]

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The Classics app as it appears on the iPhone. (Credit: Apple) Apple’s new iBooks app as it appears on the iPad. (Credit: Apple) If you’re among those wondering why Apple’s new iBooks e-reader app may have looked vaguely familiar, the answer is Apple may have ripped off the user interface from an existing iPhone app, [...]

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Critical infrastructure networks around the world are subject to repeated cyberattacks from foreign governments and other high-level adversaries that can be damaging and costly, according to a report McAfee released Thursday. Attacks that lead to down time can cost more than $6 million per day, and more than $8 million at oil and gas companies, [...]

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Comcast will begin in April a series of public trials of three different mechanisms that are aimed at helping the Philadelphia-based ISP transition its network to IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol. Comcast announced that it is starting IPv6 production-level network trials on its blog on Wednesday. The carrier has been working on IPv6 development for [...]

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