Oracle, possibly, will release it's own version of Linux

Company Oracle, one of the most important producers of corporate software in the world examine the possibility of the production of it's own version of the open source operating system Linux. It was reported in the interview for Financial Times by the Oracle chairman Larri Ellison. According to Ellison, corporation Oracle is intended over the long term to propose to clients the complete spectrum of production, including operating systems, and al

Mac owners can drive Skype program by the voice

The American company Speakables released the new application for voice control VoIP- program Skype on computer Macintosh (operating system Mac OS X 10.2 and above). Product named Speakables for Skype was created together with the experts, who specialize in the development of software for the recognition of voice. The users of new free utility can perform calls, answer the calls and finish conversation with subscribers of Skype, without havin

Microsoft develops Internet service for the storage of the information

Quite possible, Microsoft Corporation in the very near future will open the new online service, intended for storing user data. On Microsoft's plans the creation of the Internet depository of information - reported the director of corporation for the technologies Rey Ozzi in the interview for Fortune periodical. It is assumed that the service with the name Live Drive will be able to contain the actually unlimited volume of data. Subscribers, in

Microsoft was caught on the use of open-source code

Linux-Watch publishes the accusatory article, which charges corporation Microsoft with the use of the stolen open program code. As it is reported in the article, Erik reymond (Eric Steven Raymond), one of the main activists of open-source programs - as here, as it is written in the article, this Erik reymond himself revealed that in the product sold by company Microsoft there is the editor for the vector drawing - Microsoft Expressions, that con

Microsoft has updated Windows defender utility

Microsoft has renewed utility "Windows defender", earlier known as "Windows antiSpyware", to version Beta 2 build 1347. Utility performs search and removal of harmful programs with PC in the background mode. The first beta program was presented approximately one year ago and worked only on the computers with OS Windows XP installed. According to the data, today it was downloaded by 25 million users. The second beta version of utility support