Contrary to some industry observers, antivirus software is not dead. It is, however, undergoing a game-changing transformation. It has to. After all, the current model of detecting viruses through blacklisting simply cannot keep pace with the unprecedented volume of malware released ev...

Amazon has launched an HTTP content delivery service (CDN) called CloudFront that works with its S3 cloud storage widgetry and EC2. It's now a public beta, having been privately tested the last couple few months. It's the stuff Amazon promised in September and may someday give the like...

Increasingly, a businesses competitive advantage is gained by processing large flows of raw data into insights. With a growth in both the volume of data and number of users, traditional tools for data analytics struggle to keep pace. Large Internet services such as Yahoo!, who face a t...

While cloud computing reporting has recently been focused on Microsoft's Azure announcement and Amazon's upgrade to EC2, there's an elephant in the cloud: Google. According to a well-researched article in SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a pr...

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON'...

Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsour...

Google, whose stock was worth $741 a share a year ago – and was touted as inevitably seeing $1,000 – hasn't been able to hold its head above $300 because of widespread fears of advertising collapsing. The stock slipped to a multi-year low today below $290, down ~7% in the midst of ...

The toxic virus of soft consumer spending has hit Best Buy forcing it to axe its earnings guidance for the year and take it from $3.25-$3.40 a share to somewhere between $2.30 and $2.90. The retailer’s eroding outlook will of course boomerang back on its suppliers as it tries to adju...

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s signal distinction right now is being the only man in the industry to have both Microsoft and Google, both potential partners, walk out on him – and in the space of only six months. That’s gotta be some kind of record. Jerry blames the United States Departm...

Google Ad Planner now support search queries (surprise!) and geo-targeting, which means you can drill-down to specific states or metros (region or cities in geographies outside the US). You can also choose among three new ranking methods to display results from the sites you’re consi...

The events of the second half of 2008, where established financial institutions vanished overnight, have sent ripples through the entire fabric of the world’s economy. This means that nimble new competitors can seize both global and regional market opportunities that previously have ...

“We made an offer… We made another offer. It was clear that Yahoo didn’t want to sell the business to us and we moved on. We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not an acquisition. And that didn’t work either, and we moved on… and they moved on… We are not...

One gets a bit suspicious when an operation like OpenOffice.com reports that its servers were swamped and knocked offline for days by the pressing demand for the first formal release of its native open source application suite for Mac OS X. It had no idea how many people would want to ...

The Justice Department made it crystal clear this morning that if Google hadn’t abandoned its controversial ad deal with Yahoo the companies would have found themselves in court. The agency put out a statement from the head of its antitrust unit Thomas Barnett saying that Yahoo and G...

Yahoo and Google have reportedly revised their controversial advertising agreement to overcome Justice Department objections to the original deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, which got it from unidentified sources, over the weekend the pair agreed to cap the amount of revenue...

You've always heard that you "get what you pay for," but that does not seem to be the case with the new cloud computing movement, specifically with Web APIs. Some of the best services out there don’t need a credit card number, and I suspect that trend will continue until greater numb...

The Wall Street Journal – which has big ears on the ground – said that Yahoo and Google could walk away from their revenue-sharing pact by the middle of next week unless a miracle happens and they come to terms with the Justice Department. The Deal reported last week that the deal ...

There is a high operational cost and complexity associated with the installation and management of clusters: multiple OSs, cluster interconnects, cluster file systems, and application provisioning. The session will present a virtualization technology for high-end computing environments...

"All in all, it was a tough quarter for Sun and our customers," wrote Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, in a determined attempt via the blogosphere to pour oil on the troubled waters of Sun's dramatic net loss for its first fiscal quarter of 9 cents a share. Among other things he co...

Platform Computing is a pioneer and the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software. The company delivers integrated software solutions that enable organizations to improve time-to-results and reduce computing costs. Many of the world’s largest companies rel...

Yesterday Microsoft launched its Azure cloud platform, so it is time for another spreadsheet. To properly compare Microsoft, Google and Amazon, I am using the gross profit (instead of revenue) and net profit numbers. Gross profit is, in some sense, the real revenue of a company after p...

It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Justice Department puts the kibosh on Google's Yahoo deal, but Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) has nixed its plans to buy the AdSense-like ZAO Begun online contextual ad network from the Russian company Rambler Media Ltd for $140 mill...

Google's Android widgetry was put online and open sourced when the first of the Android phones appeared Tuesday. Google is calling it an "end-to-end software platform" and has challenged the open source community to use it for other purposes. "Even if you're not planning to ship a mobi...

Zimbra co-founder and CEO Satish Dharmaraj, the guy who sold Zimbra and its AJAX-based groupware to Yahoo, has put some of his own money – how much is unclear – into open source web conferencer Dimdim. For what it's worth he gets to join the Dimdim advisory board. In a minute or tw...

The Deal has been talking to lawyers close to Google and Yahoo and says that the companies are likely to pull out of their controversial revenue-sharing pact ahead of the Justice Department challenging them on antitrust grounds, a move that others say could come in the next 24 hours. T...

Google and the Open Handset Alliance have announced the availability of the Android platform source code to everyone, for free, under the new Android Open Source Project. This represents an open and fully featured mobile platform that will enable people to create a mobile device withou...

In an effort to avoid its Yahoo deal being scotched, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday from the stump with Barack Obama – his candidate of choice – that Google would keep talking to the U.S. Justice Department. Since cutting the deal in June Google's position has moved from it d...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Oracle named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jo...

Yahoo's self-inflicted agony is supposed to result in a terminations announcement tomorrow when the company posts its presumably weak Q3 results, according to multiple reports. It's got around 14,300 employees. Expectations are that it will lose at least 1,000-1,500 of them before the ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Isomorphic Software named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valle...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who missed out on being in Al Gore’s cabinet when Gore lost to Bush eight years ago, will campaign for Barack Obama starting with a panel on the economy Tuesday in Florida at which both will appear. Schmidt’s been an Obama advisor on technology and energy a...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel at the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. The first International...

On another day of hysterically wild swings – when the stock market – as a proxy for the global economy – badly needed a comfort blanket – Google gave it one. It came in Thursday with Q3 net earnings of $1.56 billion, or $4.92 a share (non-GAAP), up 26%, on revenue of $4.04 bill...

Also coming up before the end of this year is Ulitzer, the largest Drupal deployment anywhere. Ulitzer is being built on Drupal with more than two million nodes, including more than 6,000 author home pages leading to over a million original articles. Page views of Ulitzer following its...

On another day of wild swings – when the stock market – as a proxy for the global economy – badly needed a comfort blanket – Google gave it one. It came in Thursday with Q3 net earnings of $1.56 billion, or $4.92 a share (non-GAAP), up 26%, on revenue of $4.04 billion, up 31%, ...

In a week of ludicrously large numbers beyond a normal human being's comprehension of what it will cost to barely survive the current economic catastrophe Google announced that - by its calculations - it will take $4.4 trillion to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuel by 88% by 20...

The Open Source Census, the catch-as-catch-can opt-in attempt to discern trends in open source adoption that OpenLogic started, has collected six months worth of data on some 300,000 installations on about 2,000 machines and from this very narrow and probably unrepresentative slice of ...

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,...

Zvents will use the proceeds to expand the reach of its local listings advertising network, which enables both local businesses and national chains to promote their locations with search-targeted events such as sales and weekly specials. Zvents will also further invest in expanding the...

This morning as I was reading the newswire feeds flashing across my screen, I saw one and clicked on it, "Web Experience Forum 2008 Opens in Boston." The opening paragraph of the press release continues: "Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty…" which translates to "no one showed...