The pace of opensource business intelligence development has accelerated in recent months with new releases of commercially supported products and the emergence of noteworthy enduser applications. Developers are enhancing their BI components and solidifying frameworks that integrate tools with workflow management capabilities. They're also demonstrating the ability of opensource databases and BI platforms to

Businesses waiting to get their hands on Microsoft's flagship Office software will have to wait a little longer now that the company has postponed delivery while it works out some kinks discovered in beta versions of the product.
 
Delays have become common practice with the software giant with the

With the launch of Checkout formerly called GBuy search specialist Google wants to give you a helping hand with all your online purchases. The new service at checkout.google.com can store all of the pertinent information needed to quickly complete a transaction with any participating merchant.
 
In essence Checkout streamlines the

The Internet is evolving. Whereas once it served mostly as a conduit for data today the World Wide Web is turning into something more akin to a giant operating system an immense interactive platform on which fullblown applications run in your browser and collaboration occurs in real time.
 
New technologies

An update to Adobe&;s Flex rich Internet application development platform last week makes the technology less expensive to use and could make Flex more competitive with open source AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development systems.
 
Flex includes a number of free features such as the Flex SDK (software development

Adobe on Wednesday announced the release of Flash Player . It&;s a free download for Mac        OS X and Windows operating systems.
 
Adobe claims that Flash Player runs up to times faster than before thanks to ActionScript and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) that features a

The Top list of the world&;s fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday with IBM&;s BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices&;s (AMD&;s) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.
 
Retaining the number one spot on the biannual list for the fourth time IBM&;s BlueGene/L System at

Avanquest Software a leading developer and publisher of business and consumer software for the global PC market with operations in Europe the U.S. and Asia today introduced its newest version of VCOM's system recovery solution for Windows. Recovery Commander rescues Windows PC users from inoperable or nonbooting systems and can typically restore the

US Internet firms Microsoft Yahoo Earthlink AOL and United Online formed a coalition to protect children online pledging a million dollars and their savvy to the mission.
 
Revelation of the campaign to thwart online child predators was an apparent move to sap momentum from hearings in the US Congress into

Looking to increase adoption of its Flex rich Internet application development technology Adobe Systems is releasing its Flex product line on Wednesday which features free versions and the ability to push data to clients.
 
With Flex enterprises would only begin paying as they scale up their applications. "We