stories sky
RSS stories skyIE8 unleashed as Microsoft plays Firefox catch-up
News Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off Photo stories from silicon.com Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday. If anything, this release brings IE up to par with alternative browsers such as Opera, Apple... [28 Aug 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more
News Gates wasn't the only high-profile Microsoft departure, however, with Windows XP disappearing to the software store in the sky. Stories of the month - June 2008 Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. [02 Jul 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian... [14 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount... [02 May 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body Fifa. [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from... [17 Apr 2008]
Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. [14 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Yahoo! will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the possibility of a significant... [10 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview release of the Google App Engine platform, which provides access to... [09 Apr 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road. The GreenRoad Technologies box will record 120 different... [04 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky Latest photo stories from silicon.com Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first... [04 Apr 2008]
