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Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Not only were alpha versions provided to hyper-techies but beta versions were made available to anyone who wanted them - and this has meant that Windows 7 has been pretty exhaustively tested in a large number of situations. [28 Oct 2009]
Bank Teams With Application Platform Experts to Redesign Web-Banking Infrastructure
White Paper Alpha Bank is one of the largest banks in Greece with more than 1,000 branches, more than 15,000 employees, and a presence in Cyprus, Southeastern Europe, and the United Kingdom. The database and application platform... [02 Oct 2009]
ADACOM Expands Its Co-Operation With ALPHA BANK by Installing VeriSign Unified Authentication Solution at ALPHA BANK Cyprus
White Paper Alpha Bank Cyprus, founded in 1960, as an asset finance institution by the British company Lombard North Central. In 1998 the Bank becomes a member of the Alpha Bank Group, one of the largest financial... [01 Oct 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines earlier this year by creating a new kind of search engine called Wolfram Alpha. His none too modest ambition for Wolfram Alpha is that it will be used to... [30 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Bing gets Visual: Searching to gain on Google
News But as with Wolfram Alpha, Bing's visual and textual filters don't work less mainstream queries or for ones that aren't phrased just right to be picked up by the structured query engine. Microsoft launched a new feature... [15 Sep 2009]
Firefox for phones: Alpha 3 lands on Windows Mobile
News On Friday, Mozilla released Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile, the latest in Mozilla's effort to put its Firefox browser on a mobile phone. As with Fennec 1.0 beta 3 for the Maemo platform found on some Nokia internet... [07 Sep 2009]
Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade and Platform Migration Guide: Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX Integrity
White Paper However, E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10.2 will be the final release for Tru64 UNIX on HP Alpha systems. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 fully supports HP 9000 (PA-RISC) and HP Integrity (Intel Itanium) systems... [02 Sep 2009]
Windows, Linux and Mac can now tune into Opera 10
News The second is the Carakan JavaScript engine that promises to process JavaScript about 2.5 times as fast as the engine used in Opera 10 alpha. The Opera 10 browser is now ready to download for Windows, Linux and Mac three... [01 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's Bing signs deal with Wolfram Alpha
News Wolfram Alpha - the recently launched 'computational knowledge engine' - and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialised scientific and computational content that Wolfram... [24 Aug 2009]
Latest Firefox version goes alpha: It's all about the speed
News Mozilla has released the first alpha version of Firefox 3.6, a browser with speed improvements and new features the organisation hopes to finalise faster than its predecessor. Download links for the first Firefox 3.6... [10 Aug 2009]
Better Project Accounting a Strategic Asset for Construction Firm
White Paper Construction firm Alpha Development wanted to integrate project management and accounting systems to more accurately reflect its business operations. Microsoft Dynamics SL also links field and office operations so... [27 Jul 2009]
Psst - wannabe a Facebook virtual currency tester?
News Facebook posted a set of small announcements on its developer blog Wednesday, most notably a call for alpha testers for the virtual currency platform that it's finally launching after much speculation. [16 Jul 2009]
Android on your desktop gets its second alpha
News The developers of the LiveAndroid project have released the second alpha version of their software, which allows users to try out Google's mobile operating system without having to install it on a handset. [09 Jul 2009]
How much SEO is too much?
Comment If the nascent Wolfram Alpha is an embryonic sign of things to come, we may not need to optimise sites at all for search engines. You want your website to be noticed - but not without sacrificing quality. [01 Jul 2009]
Opera Unites browser and server
News Opera Unite, an application platform that turns the user's PC into a web server, was unveiled in an alpha version by the Norwegian company on Tuesday. Opera has released an early version of a browser-based sharing and... [17 Jun 2009]