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Lennart Poettering has put together a guide toLinux sound APIs, with emphasis on helping developers choose the rightone. “At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thingbecame very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out whichaudio API to use for which purpose and […]

Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Leading up to HP and Oracle’s blockbuster announcement Sept. 24 of record-breaking data warehouse appliance performance, the business value of these infrastructure breakthroughs was the topic of a BriefingsDirect interview with John Santaferraro, director of marketing for HP’s Business Intelligence Portfolio. Now that the optimized hardware and […]

Figuring out the best way to transform a frozen pizza into a perfectly warmed pie, gooey on top and crispy on the bottom, is as much a computer problem as a work of culinary art.
General Mills, maker of the Totino’s and Jeno’s brands of pizzas, would prefer not to whip up a thousand combinations of […]

SOA Software announced that the number of transactions processed by its systems each month grew by 400%, to over 2.5 billion transactions a month. The growth was due to the expansion of existing production systems and the deployment into production of new SOA Governance systems. SOA Software attributes this growth in production usage to the […]

The GNOME Project is celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24.”… thelatest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktopenvironment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to theday, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six monthsreleases to offer the best experience to users and […]

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin has said it is time for Solaris to simply move out of the way and yield the future to Linux. ‘The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows. It is not Unix or Solaris,’ he claims, contending that Sun’s strength in long-lifecycle apps is giving way to Linux, as evidenced […]

Back when Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green demonstrated Windows 7’s multitouch framework during the All Things Digital conference, many noted the different taskbar that she was using on the demo machine. When Walt Mossberg asked her about it, she smiled and replied “It’s something we’re working on for Windows 7 and I’m not supposed to talk about […]

Delivering on its mission to help software teams to simplify, collaborate, and innovate more efficiently at a lower cost, CollabNet announced the launch of CollabNet CUBiT 2.0. CUBiT 2.0 virtually eliminates the process of configuring servers for build and test by managing those configurations as ‘profiles’ across the application lifecycle. Applying the cloud computing model […]

Our team at Yahoo! Search has been speaking at various shows about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!’s new developer platform that uses data web standards and structured data to enhance the usefulness of search results. If you’re interested in getting the details of those talks, take a look at some of our presentations featured on SlideShare.net. […]

IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. “There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways,” said Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of […]