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Dell, the industry's basket case, survived the July quarter with shipments, revenue, operating income, gross margin and earnings all higher sequentially while operating expenses are still on the decline, down 14% in the period.
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DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. CodeRush for Visual Studio® .NET helps you create sophisticated c...
DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of...
DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of its WinF...
Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager of Microsoft's Interoperability Technical Strategy team, has announced the release of a new project that bridges PHP and .NET. Called the 'PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services,' it makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of ADO.NET ...
DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. With DXperience v2009 vol 2, DevExpress continues to enhance and ...
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, has announced the general availability of Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 which incorporates new versions of Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism. RAD Studio 2010 offers breakthrough capabilities f...
DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. With DXperience v2009 vol 2, DevExpress continues to enhance and ...
Nokia, Microsoft’s new best friend, is branching out for the first time in 25 years with a Windows-based netbook called the Booklet 3G. EVP for devices Kai Oistamo called the move a “natural evolution” given the current demand for mobility and Nokia’s hereditary skills. The company’s k...
Microsoft Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington looking for a stay of the permanent injunction ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10. It wants the stay while it appeals the decision. The order came do...
On August 19, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Circuit Judge Prost, ordered an expedited hearing of the appeal of the i4i v. Microsoft case from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Federal Circuit will now hear the ap...
Monarch was facing a deluge of emails, with the amount of daily messages tripling in just over two years. At the same time, email store sizes had increased by over 500% and its Exchange servers were in danger of running out of space. Another major issue was the hundreds of large Person...
"Microsoft is pleased to be working with Sybase to enable custom tools such as PowerBuilder," said Matt Carter, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Visual Studio, as Sybase yesterday announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development ...
Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development tool. This latest release of the award-winning PowerBuilder empowers developers with the e...
Microsoft and its new best friend, erstwhile rival Nokia, still the world’s biggest smartphone maker despite Apple and RIM though maybe not as chi-chi, have cut a grand long-term global alliance that will see Microsoft support a mobile OS other than Windows Mobile for the very first ti...
Concerns have been raised that Tuesday’s Great Word Injunction could beget a bunch of nasty children. i4i chairman Loudon Owen told Redmond Magazine, which got a more detailed audience with him than most – we got as far as the idea that Microsoft might get a stay, he went into a snit a...
Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that the Mimosa NearPointTM next-generation content archiving solution has been selected by Chichester School District to help them prepare for eDiscovery while supporting thei...
A Texas judge Tuesday issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Microsoft from selling any Microsoft Word products in the U.S. that “have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.” Microsoft, which means to appeal, must comply with the injun...
Like every other budding cloud merchant Microsoft had this idea about having data centers scattered around the country and letting users pick the geography where they wanted their apps to run.
Currently it offers US-Northwest, US-Southwest and US-Anywhere, with others still to come ...
Microsoft has pretty much abandoned the notion of shipping Windows 7 in Europe without a browser.
It threatened to take that step in mid-June before it capitulated to regulatory pressure and opted to give users a choice of browsers on a so-called "consumer ballot screen."
It's st...
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics POS 2009, a flexible, scalable solution that helps midmarket companies and specialty retailers provide outstanding customer service, drive employee productivity and make business decisions with confidence. The new s...
In a rare advertising foray, Internet ad darling Google has harnessed the antique 3,000-year-old medium of billboards to push Google Apps. It's targeting traffic-stalled, mind-wandering commuters in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco seeking corporate converts, apostates from ...
According to WHOIS Microsoft as of Tuesday owned office.com, a domain name that it will presumably use in its cloud defense against Google Apps et al and replace the less streamline office.microsoft.com when it come time to field its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint,...
Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop.
The ingredients this time consist of Canonical's Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment...
My colleague, Peter Palmieri, just penned a blog post about Microsoft’s recent announcement that the Azure platform will offer extensive and familiar relational database features via SQL Data Services (SDS). In his post, Leveraging Skills, Peter discusses the fact that .NET developers ...
SCM Microsystems, Inc., a provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, today announced that its portfolio of innovative smart card readers now support Microsoft(R)'s soon to be released operating system, Windows(R) 7, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2. ...
Skytap is scheduled to flip the switch today on the widgetry that will let developers and enterprise IT departments compatibility-test their Windows 7 applications in its cloud lab. Users will be able to spin up a virtual sandbox, see if their apps run right on the new operating system...
Microsoft’s long pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in a 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected, which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them. It’s going to use Micr...
Certiport today named Kankawin Kowsrihawat, 17, from Thailand this year’s World Champion in Word 2007 for culmination of the most prolific competition on Microsoft® Office to date. In its eighth year, the 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office boasts more than 80,000 student co...
Certiport today named Fung Yin Sang, 20, and Fu Shing Kong, 18, from Hong Kong this year’s World Champions in Word 2003 and Excel® 2003 for culmination of the most prolific competition on Microsoft® Office to date. In its eighth year, the 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office ...
Certiport today named Wen Hsiu Liu, 26, from Taiwan this year’s World Champion in Excel® 2007 for culmination of the most prolific competition on Microsoft® Office to date. In its eighth year, the 2009 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office boasts more than 80,000 student competitor...
DigiTimes said Tuesday that Asustek and Acer won’t have new netbooks this half because Intel’s Pine Trail-M Atom chip was late and won’t appear until Q1.
Intel begs to differ. It’s under the distinct impression the widget is on schedule and will ship for revenue this year.
Pine...
Cast your mind back a few weeks to when the American Law Institute (ALI), which has far more clout than it deserves, came up with its Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, a bit of insanity that both Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, rare-if-never allies, joined in protesting ...
With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It...
Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI). Revolutionary at its inception for creati...
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sal...
Microsoft's long, arduous, tempestuous pursuit of Yahoo is reportedly about to culminate in deal.
The companies could sign an agreement Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The paper and others say they've heard the latest rendition of the deal has Yahoo using Microso...
Research In Motion announced new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry smartphones.
The tools include the new BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. These tools are part of a com...
