LinkedIn is considering building a social networking tool for the workplace, along the lines of Yammer and similar tools, CEO Jeff Weiner said in the company’s first earnings call earlier today.
If it does so, LinkedIn will be competing with dozens of other companies, including IBM, Jive, Microsoft (which has some social networking capabilities…
Google’s lashing out at competitors over patent claims has set off another round of discussion about the role and value of software patents (be sure to read Microsoft’s response). It’s an issue that lawyers and technologists have been discussing for a long time.
The nuances of such a debate are beyond the capabilities of a simple poll such as…
In a blog post, Google software engineer James Hawkins revealed that the company is working on a system called Web Intents in which it will enable Chrome users to pipe data between different Web applications much the same way Android users can share data between apps. The idea is to create one API that various Web applications can all use to…
It’s safe to say most Web developers would prefer not to support Internet Explorer 6. They’d rather put up a notice for the user to download another browser, or maybe just display the WAP-optimized version of the site instead.
But sometimes, it’s not up to the developer to decide whether to support IE6. Your employer or client may require it…
Enterprises have long customized Microsoft Office, using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Now it appears those technologies will have to make room for HTML5 and JavaScript. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports on a new job listing from Microsoft that indicates that the company is adding JavaScript and HTML5…
It’s still security week, and we’ve got more security related news for you: a brand new company called 6Scan officially announced its security-as-a-service offering today. The company was founded by CEO Nitzan Miron and CTO Yaron Tal, two former cyberdefense specialists for the Israel Defense Forces. The duo has been working in information…
Cloudera and Dell today announced an agreement to sell a complete Apache Hadoop solution. The package will include Dell hardware (including Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers and PowerConnect switches), Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop, Cloudera Enterprise and of course support. It should be available for purchase within the next 30 days…
Mashery recently open-sourced a new interactive API documentation system called Mashery I/O Docs. It’s available from Github.
I/O Docs enables developers to experiment with API calls from within the documentation. You can see it in action at Posterous and Wordnik Alibris and Klout (correction: the Posterous and Wordnik APIs were the inspiration…
Are you an iOS developer thinking about dipping your toe into the Android pool? If so, you should read developer Nick Farina’s post about his experience developing on Android after developing on iOS.
Farina compares the development environment (he writes that you’ll hate Eclipse at first, but once you get used to it “you’ll enjoy some…
Data backup service Mozy (owned by EMC and managed by ReadWriteCloud sponsor VMware) is running an interesting infographic about data storage that looks into how much data there is in the world, what media that data is stored on and where the largest (in square feet) data centers in the world are.
Zendesk is a hosted help desk solution we’ve covered many times at ReadWriteWeb. Although Zendesk has served big companies like Adobe and Sony Music, it’s better known as the help desk provider for sexy startups like Twitter. It’s hoping to change that today with the announcement of an enterprise plan that will better serve larger organizations by…
Zettaset, formerly known as GOTO Metrics, announced a new product today: a data warehouse for forensic analysis called Security Data Warehouse (SDW). It will enable risk management professionals to analyze multi-petabyte data sets for anomalies or problematic patterns in data collected from firewalls, website traffic, security devices, transaction…
Apple today opened iCloud.com beta to members of the iOS and Mac developer programs. 9to5Mac was the first to report the opening, and also noticed that Apple may be including a Google Docs/Microsoft Office 365 style Web-based document editing service. The page contains a teaser for iCloud iWork, which says “iCloud stores your documents and keeps…
Today Tableau announced a new iPad app and a tablet-optimized version of its hosted business intelligence and data visualization solution. “All Tableau views, from both Tableau Server and Tableau Public, are now optimized for touch and gesture experiences when accessed on the iPad,” according to the company’s announcement.
Version 6.1 of…
This week Defcon and Black Hat are taking place in Las Vegas, so get set for a storm of security product announcements and paranoia inducing security disclosures.
One of the first announcements to cross our desk is an update to Fortinet’s Web application firewall (WAF): FortiWeb 4.0. The company announced an appliance version of FortiWeb as well…
Not too long ago we told you about how you can access the course materials for Stanford University’s introduction to computer science course. If you’re looking for something a bit more advanced, Stanford will offer its artificial intelligence class online for free this fall. It will run from Sept 26 – Dec 16. Online enrollment ends Sept 10.
The…
One of my favorite sessions at OSCon this week was Teaching Creative Writing with Python. Adam Parrish talked about his course Reading and Writing Electronic Text, which he teaches at New York University as part of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Although the title emphasizes teaching creative writing through programming, the…
The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.
This week we take a look at a new document viewer, and an updated app for giving giving presentations…
In May Google open-sourced a BigTable-inspired key-value database library called LevelDB under a BSD license. It was created by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat of the BigTable project at Google. It’s available for Unix based systems, Mac OS X, Windows, and Android.
Although it first appeared in Google Code months ago, a blog post from Google…
In an interview with ITworld Doug Cutting, creator of Apache Hadoop and Apache Lucene explains how he got into open source. “The company went bankrupt and all the software was swallowed into some intellectual property black hole,” Cutting told ITworld. “Open Source seemed to offer the option to have the software that I’d written, this particular…