Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Adobe Betas Three Pieces of CS4

 Adobe has put out three free public betas: Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth, all of which will be part of the next-generation Creative Suite when it...

0 replies - 159 views - 05/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Director Quits; Company Postpones Annual Meeting

 The Yahoo board is one short. Edward Kozel, a former Cisco CTO, now a VC, and a Yahoo board member since October of 2000, tendered his resignation...

0 replies - 211 views - 05/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Cloud Formation

Microsoft figures that in five years time half the Exchange mailboxes in the world – perhaps 160 million mailboxes – will be running on its servers in its...

0 replies - 183 views - 05/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft To Support ODF

Office will support the Microsoft-hostile Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 format when Office 2007 Service Pack 2 arrives in the first half of 2009.  The...

0 replies - 185 views - 05/21/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

How Many Billionaires Does It Take To Screw in a New Yahoo Light Bulb?

 Carl Icahn, the billionaire with the shotgun in Yahoo’s ribs, has picked up a couple of friends to hand him bullets.  Third Point LLC, a $6 billion...

0 replies - 224 views - 05/21/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Can Windows Save OLPC? And If Not $100, Why Not $75?

 Despite hisses and boos from the open source side of the house One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is now officially soldered at the hip to Microsoft.  Its...

0 replies - 174 views - 05/21/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Azul's Java Appliance Enters Third Generation

 Azul Systems, the six-year-old start-up with its own multi-core chips fitted into Java-accelerating enterprise-grade appliances, is entering its third...

0 replies - 243 views - 05/20/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft’s Back

Microsoft issued a short, murky statement this afternoon saying it has suggested a limited alignment with Yahoo. It does not explain its proposal. Perhaps...

0 replies - 235 views - 05/18/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Skype Drops GPL Appeal

Skype has thrown in the towel on its appeal of the German court conviction last year that it violated the GPL by not furnishing GPL2-covered source code with a...

0 replies - 210 views - 05/17/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Brits Bitch to EC about Microsoft

Becta, the British Educational and Communications and Technology Agency, has taken its gripes against Microsoft’s allegedly “anti-competitive” licensing...

0 replies - 283 views - 05/17/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Flash Player 10 Goes to Broad Beta

 Adobe Thursday turned its little piece of Disneyland for developers loose.  The pre-release of Flash Player 10, a k a “Astro,” which...

0 replies - 204 views - 05/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Responds; Hangs Tough

Late Thursday Yahoo released the text of the letter it sent to Carl Icahn telling him he’s misguided and that the current Yahoo board knows better what good...

0 replies - 195 views - 05/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Icahn Moves To Force Microsoft & Yahoo Together

Corporate raider Carl Icahn started his proxy fight for control of Yahoo this morning, beginning with the classic Icahn opening, the letter of reproach to the...

0 replies - 196 views - 05/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Icahn Reportedly Gonna Pull the Pin on Yahoo

The curtain is rising on the next installment of the Yahoo soap opera. We now know why Yahoo didn’t crash and burn after Microsoft walked out and slammed the...

0 replies - 190 views - 05/14/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Verizon Becomes a Counter-Android Linux Convert

 Verizon Wireless is snubbing Google’s Linux-based Android initiative to go with the LiMo Foundation’s mobile Linux spec for its next wave of mobile...

0 replies - 194 views - 05/14/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News