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Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Ready for release
News Dan Jones, a member of the product's engineering team, said: "We nailed it, and that just feels so good. The software maker said in a statement it has reached the "release to manufacturing" stage, meaning it has finalised the code for the software. [07 Aug 2008]
Google CIO to join digital music realm
News Before working at Google, Merrill held information technology, engineering and security positions at Charles Schwab, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Rand - a not-for-profit think tank. And artists, frustrated with politics at record labels, turning to... [03 Apr 2008]
Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'
News Jobs said: "Intel invested a lot of engineering to create this for us. News First iPhone Trojan reported iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police SAP backs iPhone with new software release iPhone too pricey for... [16 Jan 2008]
Security threats evolve again
News Speaking at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for the Windows Core Operating System Division at Microsoft, said: "It shouldn't come as any surprise that as we improve the security of the operating... [24 Oct 2007]
AMD makes friends in the Linux community
News ATI already supplies proprietary graphics drivers for Linux but that approach comes with engineering and support problems, and the company decided it's time to fund work to create an open source option as well. [07 Sep 2007]
Google Gears up for offline web apps
News The goal of Google Gears is to create a single, standardised way to add offline capabilities to web applications, said Linus Upson, engineering director at Google. Google expects to have a consumer-ready release of Google Gears, which will be under... [31 May 2007]
Gates: Vista selling faster than XP
News Giving a keynote speech at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles, Gates told a crowd of hardware developers: "As of last week, we've sold nearly 40 million copies. That's twice as fast as the adoption of Windows XP... [16 May 2007]
iPhone delays Apple's next big cat
News It said: "However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price - we had to borrow some key software engineering and (quality assurance) resources from our... [13 Apr 2007]
Red Hat to sell open-source buddies' wares
News Red Hat chose the approach even though it will increase competition with some of its business partners such as IBM and Oracle, said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering, at an event in San Francisco to launch Red Hat Enterprise... [15 Mar 2007]
More flaws: Bugs hit Firefox, IE
News A Microsoft representative said in a statement: "In order to be successful, an attacker in advance would have to convince the user to enter the location of a file into an attacker's web page through social engineering. [19 Feb 2007]
CIO Jury: Viruses still a major security threat
News The combination of sufficient minor repackaging of an existing exploit, so that it passes antivirus unnoticed, with social engineering hooks to lure the unwary can still provide a workable attack vector. [25 Jan 2007]
Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2.0 bug claims
News Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, said: "This is one of the highest quality Firefox releases to date. At least two bug reports that indicated they affected the new Firefox release crossed over popular security mailing lists... [26 Oct 2006]
Redmond reshuffles more execs
News Jon DeVaan, senior vice president of engineering excellence, is immediately joining the platform division as senior vice president of engineering. The next version of Windows is now slated for release in early 2007. [02 Aug 2006]
File-pinching security hole punctures Firefox and IE
News Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, made similar comments. That said, we take every issue seriously and are working on a fix for a future release of Firefox. Microsoft and Mozilla have acknowledged that a security hole in... [09 Jun 2006]
Skype makes $27m acquisition
News Skype said it bought the company for its engineering team, which should help Skype build new voice products for the future. We're excited about bringing the talented Camino Networks team to Skype," Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's CEO and co-founder, said... [12 Apr 2006]
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