In a follow up to Microsoft's acquisition of Giant Software, Paul Thurrott has thrown up an interesting preview of Microsoft's plans for Anti-spyware...

Longtime shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway and friend of its CEO, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates has been elected to the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, a prominent investment company...

Microsoft has unveiled a swanky new MSN Toolbar Suite with a long-awaited desktop search functionality that will search your desktop from within popular applications on your Windows PC...

In a likely announcement that will mark the beginning of Microsoft's vision to further integrate Outlook with Hotmail, the first MOOL (Microsoft Office Outlook Live) beta will be announced later today...

The J2SE 5.0 compliant BEA WebLogic JRockit 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK) is available for download and boasts of the simplest to use and most manageable Java Virtual Machine...

In a bid to increase the appeal of its Tablet PC, Microsoft is co-developing new Tablet-specific games and a new game software development kit in conjunction with software partner 3 Leaf Development...

Come December 16th, and you will be able to run apps like a devil. Diablo – the New 9.0 Release of BEA's flagship WebLogic Server, is scheduled to be demonstrated at BEA eWorld China...

The second consecutive year running, Microsoft .NET has been named the best program development platform in the financial industry...

Microsoft is readying a new consumer service that would extend Outlook. The Microsoft Office Outlook Live (MOOL, for short) service is looked upon as an extension to the MSN Outlook Connector...

Microsoft India Corporation has commenced a five-city Visual Basic .NET tour in India as a part of its Visual Basic .NET World Tour...

The Oracle JDeveloper and OC4J teams have announced the immediate availability of developer preview versions of Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) and Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3)...

MSN Spaces, Microsoft's blogging service, has opened itself to the public for beta testing. The service, previously only available in Japanese, is now available in English...

Ambient Design Ltd., creator of ArtRage, is the USD 100,000 grand prize winner of the Microsoft Tablet PC Does Your Application Think in Ink? contest...

Sun has submitted JSR 260: Javadoc Tag Technology Update, to the Java Community Process (JCP). This JSR will investigate various improvements to javadoc tags...

IBM today announced the release of Customer Information Control System (CICS) Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1...

If you're a DBA or a developer using Oracle-compliant tools, you almost certainly on occasion apply tracing to active database sessions...

According to a report on Netcraft, security vulnerabilities have been found in WordPress, the popular PHP-based open source blogging application. Some scripts in WordPress are not properly validated, leaving the program open to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in which third parties could insert content into a WordPress-driven site...

Codewalkers is featuring a new tutorial that will come in handy for those of you embarking on the journey of creating a server statistics tool. The tutorial comes with a disclaimer: This may not be the best of server statistics scripts around but...

Cox Communications has posted the early draft review specification of Java Specification Request 242, Digital Set Top Box Profile - "On Ramp to OCAP". OCAP defines a standardized, interoperable, Java-based middleware specification that developers can use...

Featuring oh-so-many bugfixes and major feature enhancemnets, Apache Xerces-C 2.6.0 has been released. Some of the new features include...