The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v0.7, the highly-scalable, second generation Open Source distributed database. “Apache Cassandra is a key component in cloud computing and other applications that deal with massive amounts of data and high query volumes,” [...]
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.1. This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr (see note below). See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details as [...]
To help enterprises secure their service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments on-premise, across domain boundaries or in the cloud, Oracle today announced the Oracle Enterprise Gateway. Oracle Enterprise Gateway, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, secures, accelerates, integrates and routes XML, Web Services and other types of data in a simple, easy-to-use manner to help significantly lower [...]
The Tungsten Replicator provides open source database-neutral master/slave replication. Master/slave replication is a highly flexible technology that can solve a wide variety of problems including the following: Availability – Failing over to a slave database if your master database dies Performance Scaling – Spreading reads across many copies of data Data Protection – Preventing data [...]
HP today published its 2010 Top Cyber Security Risks Report, identifying a significant increase in the volume of organized cybercrime targeting data centers and networks, which can lead to financial and data loss. While there were more attacks recorded in 2010, the number of discovered vulnerabilities remained relatively stable, but high. The new report indicates [...]
Google, introduce  first attempts at next generation human computer interaction: Gmail Motion. Gmail Motion allows you to control Gmail — composing and replying to messages — using your body. To use Gmail Motion, you’ll need a computer with a built-in webcam. Once you enable Gmail Motion from the Settings page, Gmail will enable your webcam when [...]
HP today announced that Google Cloud Print users can print directly to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any Google Cloud Print supported app on any computer or smartphone. HP’s portfolio of web-connected and cloud-aware printers for home and business are the first to support Google Cloud Print out of the box. The combination of Google [...]
Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they will start introducing a +1 button to Google Search and as a button for websites. Google +1 seems awfully similar to Facebook Like. It enabling you to share recommendations with the world right in Google’s search results. It’s called +1 – the digital shorthand for [...]
Google recently introduced a new web-based tool for measuring page speed. This tools is also similar like Google’s popular page speed tool. It analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific suggestions for making them faster. Page Speed Online is available from any browser, at any time. This allows website owners to get immediate access to [...]
Google launched two more Domains: google.iq for Iraq and google.tn for Tunisia. This brings the number of local Google search domains worldwide to 184, with 15 domains in Arab countries. The new domains will help people in Iraq and Tunisia find locally relevant information, faster. For example, a search for [central bank] on the Iraq domain yields results [...]
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intuitive interface, unparalleled customization and support for modern Web technologies. To make mobile browsing effortless and fun, Firefox provides seamless and secure access to personal data across desktop and mobile devices, including [...]
loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide. If you have a worldwide audience, or your site is hosted in a different country from where your visitors live, it is useful to see how long it takes to load your [...]
The world’s most prolific source of spam e-mails — an international network of virus-infected computers — has been shut down in a series of coordinated raids by Microsoft and US federal authorities. The Rustock botnet had for years generated billions of e-mails per day, promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut-price anti-impotence pills. A botnet is [...]
Online marketplace operator EBay said Monday that it will pay $2.4 billion for GSI Commerce, which operates websites for retailers like Toys R Us and Bath & Body Works. EBay Inc., which runs its namesake site where users buy and sell items through auctions and fixed-price “Buy it Now” formats as well as online payments [...]
Open-source Web browser, Firefox 4 downloaded 21823558 Times Till Now .  It downloaded around 5 million times in its first 24 hours. The latest version of Firefox features full support for emerging coding language HTML 5, tabs for apps, a redesigned user interface and a feature that helps users organize tabs for the websites they visit frequently. It [...]