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Sybase into Cluster DB gaming

admin • February 22nd, 2008 • IT Spotlight

February 20, 2008 (IDG News Service) Sybase Inc. Tuesday launched its strike in the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters.
Sybase’s offering is aimed at IT shops that require high availability from their data centers. It uses shared-disk [...]



The Best Internet Innovation In Years

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight

NEW YORK - Let me just come right out and say it. Answers.com is the most useful, smartest, coolest, easiest-to-use Web innovation to come around in years.
Answers.com is a new approach to Internet search, but make no mistake: It is not search. With one click Answers.com delivers instant information, not Web links, laid out [...]



Checklist When Shopping for a Shopping Cart

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight

Your site might be the belle of the ball. The pages are stunning, aptly attracting attention to your wares. And the material is smartly written, conveying every tidbit of information a potential buyer might ever want. A key part of that total package is missing, however, unless customers can gather the goods they want to [...]



Nokia integrates Google into its search application

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight

February 12, 2008 (IDG News Service) Nokia will integrate Google’s search engine into its own search application on four of its latest phones unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, the companies said on Tuesday.
Google will appear on the N96, N78, 6210 Navigator and the 6220 classic in select markets at [...]



Microsoft spurned, but will likely win Yahoo in the end

admin • February 12th, 2008 • IT Spotlight, News

February 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Now that Yahoo Inc. has formally turned down Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, some industry observers say the most likely outcome is that Microsoft will raise its offer and Yahoo will be forced to accept it.
Today, Yahoo’s board told Microsoft that its $31 per [...]