Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: no keywords

Q&A Cadence Design executive Ray Bingham says there's a precedent the U.S. can use to maintain its tech leadership.

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Date: 05/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--But just what sort of reform? Author Dave Mock says treat the cause, not the symptoms.

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Date: 05/23/05     Keywords: technology

CopperEye CEO Kate Mitchell says conventional wisdom governing this technology no longer applies.

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Date: 05/13/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

The official UK study, which said schools could save significant money by using open source software, was released--and Microsoft lost no time attacking it.

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Date: 05/13/05     Keywords: php

Oracle deal shows that PHP and other scripting languages--once considered toys by serious programmers--are going corporate.

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Date: 05/11/05     Keywords: software

Commentary--Software companies need to adapt to new ways of selling, deploying and supporting applications in order to help customers succeed in an on-demand world.

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Date: 05/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--Hand-wringing over America's supposed technical decline badly misstates the reality, UC Davis computer scientist Norm Matloff says.

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Date: 05/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Companies must start preparing now for the move to 64-bit versions of Windows, according to Gartner.

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Date: 05/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Intuit co-founder Scott Cook is one of few who's bested Bill Gates. His secret sauce? Look to a Garth Brooks refrain for the clue.

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Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: microsoft

Q&A At his new company, ex-Microsoft bigwig Nathan Myhrvold gathers well-known inventors for "invention sessions." Will the idea pan out?

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Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: software

Commentary--Macrovision's David Znidarsic says multicore processing is leading some software companies to make poor decisions about licensing.

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Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: microsoft

Sales haven't been so hot, but the laptop does get a certain amount of respect at Microsoft show.

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Date: 04/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--If Longhorn doesn't produce the goods, not even a gazillion dollars in marketing funds will make a difference.

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Date: 04/22/05     Keywords: software

A software expert says first-to-market pressure is leading to a decline in software quality but open source standards remain higher.

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Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: web, microsoft

IBM, Microsoft, other biggies submit standards proposal for a Web-services-focused reliable-messaging spec. But a standard already exists.

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Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Q&A The organizer of a recently global coding contest in which a U.S. team finished 17th reflects on the educational system.

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Date: 04/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Start-ups specializing in open source are speeding up an industrywide shift to subscription-model pricing.

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Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--We're used to a lot of theory and practice when it comes to project management but for its big brother, at the program level, might we once again be getting ahead of ourselves?

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Date: 03/21/05     Keywords: software, sql

The software maker says new versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server won't debut until later this year.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+delays+tool%2C+database+updates/2100-9593_22-5628166.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--Successful IT and marketing organizations are moving toward a "central nervous system"--a system that collects and filters data across channels.

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