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Flash Content Is Now Searchable

Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data...

0 replies - 672 views - 07/01/08 by BenForta in News

SWF is Searchable

Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what...

0 replies - 585 views - 07/01/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News

Oracle Claims $1b in Damages from Arch-Rival SAP

 

0 replies - 62 views - 06/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

So It’s a Fight to the Last Algorithm Then

 Microsoft, which recently bought Fast Search, is buying the three-year-old semantic search engine start-up Powerset for $100 million, according to...

0 replies - 78 views - 06/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Kernel Developers Want Linux Purity

 Not that long ago Linux barely had two drivers to rub together.  Now it claims to support “more hardware devices than any other operating system in...

1 replies - 66 views - 06/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Little ISV Sues Google for $1 Billion

 A little Chicago ISV called LimitNone is suing Google for nigh on to a billion dollar charging it with misappropriating its trade secrets to beat back...

0 replies - 53 views - 06/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Looks to the Cloud for Some Salvation

 With the stock market crashing, or giving a good approximation of a crash Thursday, Yahoo, poor thing – well, it has behaved like a sick lost puppy,...

0 replies - 37 views - 06/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Nokia Pees on Android’s Slippers

 

0 replies - 86 views - 06/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

HP Open Sources Advanced File System

 HP has open sourced the Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) that it got from DEC by way of Compaq. It’s sent the 16-year-old Alpha-based source...

0 replies - 73 views - 06/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Salesforce & Google Create Multi-Cloud Platform

 Salesforce.com, which has already linked its CRM software to Google Apps and integrated AdWords tracking into its platform, is deploying a free new...

0 replies - 66 views - 06/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Android Won’t Be Home for Xmas: WSJ

 Android, due in the second half, could reportedly be delayed until Q4 or maybe even next year, according to the tale the Wall Street Journal tells, a...

1 replies - 54 views - 06/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Red Hat Open Sources Spacewalk

Red Hat is open sourcing Project Spacewalk, the Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite code base under the GPLv2 license. RHN Satellite is the stuff behind the Red...

0 replies - 45 views - 06/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Was GPLv3 Worth the Effort?

 GPLv3, the great General Public License rewrite, is now a year-old and used by 2,345 open source projects including Ubuntu, SugarCRM...

0 replies - 49 views - 06/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Telstra Looking for Programs To Stock Cloud

 Telstra, the old Australian phone company before government-owned monopolies became unfashionable and now the country’s leading telecom and...

0 replies - 51 views - 06/20/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Start-up Turns Office into Software-as-a-Service

 eXpresso, a year-old venture-backed California start-up, has taken Excel to the clouds with Microsoft’s blessings. PowerPoint, Word and PDF files are...

0 replies - 57 views - 06/20/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News