http://news.dzone.com/articles/current en http://news.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ. Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great Google-centric context can be found on the Google Webmaster Central http://news.dzone.com/news/flash-content-is-now-searchabl#comments Adobe flash flex Google search swf http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3852 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 925 0 BenForta http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-299809.gif Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:12 -0400 BenForta 3852 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/swf-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 this implies.Web spiders will now be able to playback SWF(s) like users and cull out the data to add to their index. This annoucement has two huge impacts: http://news.dzone.com/news/swf-searchable#comments Adobe Google search swf web spiders Yahoo http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3850 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 781 0 sandbox http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-164334.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:17:14 -0400 sandbox 3850 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/oracle-claims-1b-damages-arch-   http://news.dzone.com/news/oracle-claims-1b-damages-arch-#comments Oracle SAP TomorrowNow http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3843 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:48:29 -0400 90 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:48:29 -0400 mog 3843 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/so-it%E2%80%99s-a-fight-last-algorithm  Microsoft, which recently bought Fast Search, is buying the three-year-old semantic search engine start-up Powerset for $100 million, according to VentureBeat, which says it’s to “close the perceived quality gap with Google’s search engine.” Still, the natural language approach is a long shot. The only thing Powerset’s put out so far is a month-old service to search Wikipedia on... http://news.dzone.com/news/so-it%E2%80%99s-a-fight-last-algorithm#comments Google Microsoft Powerset search http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3807 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:06:09 -0400 101 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:06:09 -0400 mog 3807 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/kernel-developers-want-linux-p  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 the history of the world” and, figuring it’s time to push IHVs to open their code, 150 Linux kernel developers, including Alan Cox, signed a “Position Statement” decrying the use of any closed source kernel module or drivers in... http://news.dzone.com/news/kernel-developers-want-linux-p#comments Linux http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3806 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:03:38 -0400 93 1 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:03:38 -0400 mog 3806 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/little-isv-sues-google-1-billi  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 Microsoft Office.  Seems a year ago March LimitNone shared its mojo for migrating Outlook users and their calendars and contacts to Gmail with Google and according to LimitNone’s story the widgetry turned up in Google Apps despite... http://news.dzone.com/news/little-isv-sues-google-1-billi#comments Google LimitNone http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3805 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:59:53 -0400 76 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:59:53 -0400 mog 3805 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/yahoo-looks-cloud-some-salvati  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, now hasn’t it – announced a reorganization just like its familiars in the press said it would.  It is, as was widely observed, the company’s third or fourth attempt in the last 18 months or so – one loses count after a while –... http://news.dzone.com/news/yahoo-looks-cloud-some-salvati#comments cloud computing Yahoo http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3783 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:06:22 -0400 62 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:06:22 -0400 mog 3783 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/nokia-pees-android%E2%80%99s-slippers   http://news.dzone.com/news/nokia-pees-android%E2%80%99s-slippers#comments android Nokia Symbian http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3741 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:36:10 -0400 110 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:36:10 -0400 mog 3741 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/hp-open-sources-advanced-file-  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 code, representing what it calls 400 R&D years, over to Sourceforge under the GPLv2 license as a reference implementation of an enterprise Linux file system. It says it will provide design documentation, test suites and engineering... http://news.dzone.com/news/hp-open-sources-advanced-file-#comments AdvFS http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3716 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:33:25 -0400 99 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:33:25 -0400 mog 3716 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/salesforce-google-create-multi  Salesforce.com, which has already linked its CRM software to Google Apps and integrated AdWords tracking into its platform, is deploying a free new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs so third-party developers can interact with data in Google services.  The toolkit is supposed to bring together data and content in Google Apps with the database, logic and workflow capabilities in... http://news.dzone.com/news/salesforce-google-create-multi#comments Google Salesforce.com http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3715 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:22:21 -0400 94 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:22:21 -0400 mog 3715 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/android-won%E2%80%99t-be-home-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 situation that opens up a can of worms for Google.  Google has to prove that it’s more than a one-trick pony and that it can deliver something other than beta software. http://news.dzone.com/news/android-won%E2%80%99t-be-home-xmas-wsj#comments android http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3714 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:11 -0400 85 1 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:11 -0400 mog 3714 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/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 Hat Network and lets customers manage RHEL updates inside their firewall. It does systems provisioning, updates and monitoring across physical and virtual servers.  http://news.dzone.com/news/red-hat-open-sources-spacewalk#comments Identyx Red Hat Spacewalk http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3704 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:53:27 -0400 74 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:53:27 -0400 mog 3704 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/was-gplv3-worth-effort  GPLv3, the great General Public License rewrite, is now a year-old and used by 2,345 open source projects including Ubuntu, SugarCRM and Samba.  Adoption has reportedly been growing at about 20% a month over the past six months.  According to some figures sent around by Black Duck, approximately 58% of all open source projects today are covered by GPLv2 and 11% by LGPLv2.  GPLv3 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:49:29 -0400 72 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:49:29 -0400 mog 3703 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/telstra-looking-programs-to-st  Telstra, the old Australian phone company before government-owned monopolies became unfashionable and now the country’s leading telecom and media house, is going into the Software as a Service (SaaS) business.  It’s got a platform called T-Suite and intends to use it to supply on-demand business applications to Australian businesses, particularly SMEs.  http://news.dzone.com/news/telstra-looking-programs-to-st#comments T-Suite Telstra http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3669 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:14:15 -0400 76 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:14:15 -0400 mog 3669 at http://news.dzone.com http://news.dzone.com/news/start-turns-office-software-a-  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 set to follow by the end of the summer.  eXpresso webifies legal Excel users and lets them share, edit, download and print their spreadsheets over the Internet; the number of people collaborating has virtually no bounds.  http://news.dzone.com/news/start-turns-office-software-a-#comments eXpresso http://news.dzone.com/crss/node/3668 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:10:34 -0400 80 0 mog http://news.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-6.jpg Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:10:34 -0400 mog 3668 at http://news.dzone.com