Adobe Systems is working on a research project intended to make it easier to run programs written in various languages on Adobe’s ever-present Flash Player client runtime. With the project, languages like C and C++ can cross-compile to the virtual machine inside Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), said Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch at the [...]

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Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled long-awaited software called WorldWide Telescope to an audience at the exclusive Technology Entertainment and Design conference in Monterey, CA. The company gave conference-goers a close-up of real celestial bodies with its new virtual telescope at the four-day meeting. It’s unclear whether the demo of the astronomy technology made anyone in the [...]

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Users of the Opera Mini or Opera Mobile web browsers will see Google take Yahoo’s place as the default search on March 1st. People devoted to Yahoo’s oneSearch will need to go an extra step to reach it from their handsets after Saturday. Opera announced a change to their browsers’ default search, making Google the [...]

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The head of Google’s open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft-led effort poses a risk to users who want free access to documents. Delegates from international standards bodies are meeting in Geneva this week to resolve technical comments submitted after Office [...]

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A three percent drop in listings at eBay this week could be due to a boycott kicked off by enraged sellers this week, or simply a dip in the normal course of business. Fee changes coming into effect at eBay have the potential to impact smaller sellers, as eBay appears ready to court high-volume sellers [...]

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Google has updated the Terms and Conditions for AdSense, removing some restrictions. The changes include:

AdSense and Referral buttons can now be displayed on registration pages, whereas before they were prohibited from any registration or thank you page, or on chat pages and in emails.
AdSense for Search boxes may be placed on pages without [...]

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The European Commission yesterday fined Microsoft a record € 899 million ($1.35 billion) for using high prices to discourage software competition, in the latest penalty in their long-running encounter. The executive arm of the European Union said the American software group defied a 2004 order from Brussels to provide the information on reasonable terms. Microsoft [...]

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Sun Microsystems has confirmed the acquisition of MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database. “Since announcing our Sun-MySQL relationship, we’ve received an overwhelming response and embrace from customers and community members excited to see MySQL’s tremendous innovation and community backed by Sun’s financial muscle and global partners,” said Jonathan Schwartz, president [...]

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T-Systems SA today (Tuesday) signed what is considered to be the biggest outsourcing deal in the history of South Africa’s financial services sector. The contract, known as Project Rosa, is with the Old Mutual Group. The five-year, R1.8 billion contract is for the supply and maintenance of IT infrastructure to the Old Mutual Group, comprising [...]

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Canadian police have broken up a hacking ring that they say is responsible for an estimated $45 million in damage to computer systems. The hackers installed remote-controlled robot software on victims’ computers in order to run phishing and spamming operations. Although the hackers operated from a dozen towns in Quebec, their network was international in [...]

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