Andy Patrizio

Adobe Systems has officially branded its rich Internet application (RIA) technology known as “Apollo” with the name Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR. The new brand name accompanies the first public beta, being released today AIR is a runtime like Flash, Adobe’s widely-used Web animation technology. Flex is the developer framework, which works in Adobe’s DreamWeaver […]

IBM this week will lay out a new roadmap for its Rational development platform at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, Florida this week. The roadmap includes new development methodologies and services for service oriented architecture (SOA) . Because software development teams are more often spread around the globe rather than just the […]

UPDATED That will remind folks of when to shut up. A Yahoo employee apparently blabbed a little too much in an interview with an IT publication about a vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger, the company’s instant messenger program. Very quickly, what had been an advisory turned into a zero-day exploit, as malicious software writers figured out […]

Intel has updated its C++ and Fortran compilers for the first time in two years, adding new features to support the multi-core processors that have become the focus of the company recently. Intel also announced a new package for students that includes the compilers plus its VTune Performance Analyzer, Thread Checker and Thread Profiler source […]

Google’s security team has published a report that indicates Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is as popular a target for delivering malicious payloads as its main, and more widely-used, rival, Apache Server. The report from Nagendra Modadugu of Google’s  Anti-Malware Team found that while Apache has almost three times the installed base – 66 percent […]

After months of delays and heaps of scorn on the judicial system, a Connecticut substitute teacher who was convicted of exposing children to pornographic images on school computers will receive a new trial. Julie Amero, 40, of Norwich, Conn., had been working as a substitute 7th-grade teacher at Kelly Middle School in October 2004 when […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Salesforce.com today confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in Silicon Valley. At a media event here, Salesforce announced it’s extending its partnership with Google to provide tighter integration between Salesforce CRM applications and Google’s advertising and tracking resources. Early speculation thought the deal was going to be aimed at the […]

SiteAdvisor, the Web security subsidiary of McAfee  released its third “The State of Search Engine Safety” report, which said the best way to make your search engine more secure is to use Google’s. The study looked at the five major United States search engines -– Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask –- which account for […]

The annual Computex hardware conference kicks off in Taipei this week, meaning a lot of people have made 16-hour flights from the U.S. to Taiwan in recent days. The news coming from the heavyweights in the component business, though, is modest. AMD will announce its first platform partners for Barcelona, the forthcoming Opteron server processor […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the release of Sun Studio 12, a significant update to its comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) , with support for NetBeans and Linux development topping the list of features. With this release, Sun  has integrated NetBeans into Sun Studio as the primary core compiler. NetBeans supports multiple languages, including C/C++, Fortran, […]

After a week of speculation and rumor, FeedBurner announced on Friday it had agreed to be acquired by Google. FeedBurner is a privately-held Chicago company that syndicates more than 700,000 bloggers and podcasters. Neither company issued a press release. Instead, they did it the Web 2.0 way: it was announced in blog postings. Susan Wojcicki, […]

IBM and The College of Computing at Georgia Tech will host the first developer conference for building applications using IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), the chip that powers Sony’s PlayStation 3. The two-day workshop is sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), Toshiba and IBM. The trio jointly developed the Cell chip, which is a derivative […]