- Canonical rejigs Ubuntu support services
- Open source webAndroidiPhoneiPad kit betas for BlackBerry
"The open-source Titanium is a means of building native desktop and mobile applications using traditional web-development tools, including JavaScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, html and CSS. Currently, you can build native runtimes for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops and notebooks, Android phones, and – most famously – iPhones and iPads." - Ovi Lays an Egg
- Exclusive: IBM’s Steve Mills Says Financial Services Focus Has Returned to Growth by Wall Street & Technology
- Study: Financial enterprises ready to invest in IT
"[In the U.S. financial industry] [t]here is a bigger appetite for new technology than we've seen in the past," said Suzanne Duncan, an analyst for IBM's Institute of Business Value who specializes in financial markets. "This is a very healthy trend for the industry." - Office Web Apps Can Help Microsoft Office Retain Market Share
"Although Microsoft has released Office Web Apps to better compete with Google, we believe the free version will not have a material impact on sales of desktop-based Microsoft Office software. Overall, Office Web Apps represents an opportunity for Microsoft to retain its high share in productivity software and to create new incremental revenue streams around the free, web-based version of Office." - Google open-video codec goes experimental
Google is in a race to open up it's VP8 video encoding enough such that patent tarrif takers of the future will have a harder job getting their cut: "The MPEG LA has said its putting together a patent pool for VP8, which would challenge Google's effort to make the codec royalty free." - Salesforce releases Facebook for suits
"Salesforce hopes that by extending its core CRM platform using Chatter, it can offer customers a cloud-based, Web 2.0-style business collaboration platform that's flexible and cheaper [$15 per month per user] than staples such as Microsoft's Outlook and Exchange and IBM's Lotus Notes." - AMD unveils $99 quad-core Opteron chip for cloud servers
Huge orders from cloud-providers are driving hardware folks, including chip-dealers, to re-jigger their offerings: instead of tracking just ever growing performance at the cost of energy use and other trade-offs, cloud folks are not as interested in high performance. Cost and power consumption are more interesting. This is a pretty major shift for how chips are innovated and marketed. - Red Hat growth gathering pace again
- Eclipse Helios technologies arrive on the release train
Marketing quote of the week: "The Eclipse community, Milinkovich said, just bored of using Jupiter moon naming scheme." Nice! - Heavyweight Helios crushes Eclipse's past
- Salesforce Chatter is Here – salesforce.com
"Salesforce Chatter is a Cloud 2 app, which is social, mobile and real time that employees can use for collaboration across their company. Leveraging the social features popularized by Facebook, Google and Twitter, like profiles, status updates and real-time feeds, Chatter empowers enterprises with a new level of productivity only possible in the cloud. Chatter’s s social collaboration technology enables enterprises to collaborate around more than just documents, employees can also follow people, business processes and application data." - uShip Acquires UK Courier Exchange boxby.co.uk | AustinStartup
- Universal Mind Helps Enterprises Serve Customers in the Mobile Era – Yahoo! News
Helping enterprises sort out their multi-screen issues. - Universal Mind Multi Device Assets – a set on Flickr
UX design porn! - IBM Opens New Software Lab with an Eye toward the Mobile Future
- Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics – it is bad news. And then it gets worse
"But the picture starts out bleak. The average developer gets to pocket a mere $3,050 per year, and this is still considered 'above typically successful', and the most typical developer earns less than that per year. Now the picture starts to get worse. Tighten your seat belts." - Technology News: Products: Is Dell Taking a Shine to Chrome?
- Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips
- Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for everyone
Finally! I've used Google Voice for 3+ years, it's fantastic. End of story. - Freunde von Freunden — Interviews
- Food safety inspections? There's an app for that! – Lichfield District Council
"The Ratemyplace iPhone app is free and allows you to see at a glance the star rating of any food business that has been inspected in council areas that are part of the Ratemyplace scheme. You can even use the 'nearest' function to see the rating of businesses nearby." - iPhone Application – Warwickshire Web
"The Warwickshire iPhone Application is a new way for citizens of the county and visitors to the area to find out about the information and services available from Warwickshire County Council, no matter where they are."
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