Software News
Adobe brings Lightroom 4 to the Mac App Store
The Mac App Store already has quite a few photo editing and cataloging software options, but on Thursday it gained one more: Lightroom 4.
Inside the Google v. Oracle courtroom drama
The trial pitting Google vs. Oracle on the claim of intellectual property infringement by Google in Android has reached almost a tabloid like feel. Outside the courtroom feels like the red carpet as tech giant after tech giant emerge from limos and town cars to testify.
VMware: Virtualize the rest of the data center
The server has been virtualized, now it's time for the rest of the data center - including the network - to catch up. That's the message form VMware at this year's Interop, as the company seeks to ensure it remains a major enterprise IT player while the software-defined networking trend continues to gain momentum.
HP has all the ingredients for software defined networking, almost
HP says it has all of the necessary orchestration tools for its software defined networking strategy - the big question is, will it build its own controller?
Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure
Oracle's virtual desktop infrastructure is no longer reliant solely on the company's own storage infrastructure, giving customers a range of new options that won't tie customers into one vendor.
Bing will tap Facebook, Twitter in answering queries
Microsoft is introducing a phone-a-friend feature into its Bing search engine, allowing searchers to ask their Facebook and Twitter contacts to supplement information gathered by the search engine itself.
Potential bidding war emerges for Quest Software
A number of parties have submitted bids to acquire Quest Software, which announced in March that it was going private via a US$2 billion stock buyback in partnership with equity firm Insight Venture Partners.
HP says SDNs are key to cloud deployment
Software-defined networks (SDN) have the capability to provision applications in minutes instead of months, and speed deployment into the cloud, according to the head of HP Networking.
Apple releases OS X 10.7.4, Safari 5.1.7
Get your clicking finger ready, because Apple’s dropped a few updates for your Mac. On Wednesday, the company released OS X 10.7.4, Safari 5.1.7, and Security Update 2012-002.
Interop panelists debate future of physical WAN optimizers
The need for a dedicated physical appliance to handle WAN optimization tasks, in many cases, is a thing of the past, according to experts who participated in a panel discussion Tuesday at Interop in Las Vegas.
Red Hat, Dell announce OEM partnership
The announcement Tuesday of a new partnership between Dell and Red Hat could mark a further expansion of open-source software use in the enterprise.
Security error in OS X 10.7.3 exposes passwords for legacy FileVault users
A security error in OS X 10.7.3 exposes passwords on systems with support for the pre-Lion FileVault home-directory encryption feature. This security flaw, apparantly created when Apple left debugging code in the 10.7.3 update, is only triggered with Lion systems in which legacy support for the original FileVault is retained and when logging in with such an account.
Epicor moving its applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Epicor is planning to work with Microsoft to bring Epicor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications to the Azure cloud service, the companies announced Tuesday during Epicor's Insights conference in Las Vegas.
Adobe Creative Suite 6 goes on sale
Following a debut filled with fanfare and a rollout designed to stoke anticipation, Adobe has released its Creative Suite 6 (CS6) software for sale on its website and via authorized dealers worldwide. This upgraded collection of professional applications, which targets artists, graphic designers, photographers, videographers, multimedia specialists, and Web designers, is available immediately.
Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics
The story, "Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics," posted Monday, incorrectly reported the day of the product announcement in the lead sentence. The correct day is Monday.