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SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime

Review Microsoft has released a tech preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, and believe it or not, it's actually easy to install. Plus, it's quite a database

(Back) into The Valley

Forgotten Tech Remembering a BASIC coding classic from 1982

FreeBSD version 8.0 lands

I trust you can handle this contraption, Q?

Oracle talking turkey to Eurocrats

Hearing in two weeks

Juggling server virtualisation and database workloads

Lab Bananas and chocolate, or chalk and cheese?

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon - the cloud dating game

Why you need a cloud (whatever that is)

iPhone upgrades - a one-way control-freak street

Comment Destroying the past for your own damn good

silverlightMicrosoft Silverlight - now with hidden Windows bias

PDC So much for cross-platform

GoogleGoogle Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture?

Microsoft ball breakers. Strings attached

Icon design for dummies fanbois

Mac Secrets Going Rogue (Amoeba)

Mozilla dishes up fourth Firefox 3.6 beta alongside deep-fried turkey

A generous dash of sugar in your sweet potato mash

iFarter begs Apple for rational App Store

Holding your breath? There's no app for that

Why can't Google be more like Microsoft?

Chrome OS and the wonders of closed open source

Mozilla hatches Thunderbird 3 release candidate

Almost out of the nest

Offline Gmail kisses up to attachments - at last

I'm in an igloo, look at my ice cold face

Mozilla glares at Microsoft, chews on Direct2D graphics cud

Harden up, people

Google herds coders into Chrome extensions gallery

Hang 'em high

LinkedIn wedges open API door

Developers need key first, mind

Is server virtualization ready for production?

Lab Beyond the low hanging fruit

Opera update plugs heap big buffer overflow bug

Major upgrade features baked-in web server tech

'Google Earth for the Iraq insurgency' gets $115m

Could have bought ordinary Google Earth for that

Google grabs another ad company

Second this month

Rogue iPhone dev unmoved by App Store spin

Jobsian VP defends trademark police

Google to anoint Android, Chrome OS love (eventually)

When two become one

Microsoft's IE 9, Silverlight 4 and the whiff of lock-in

Radio Reg Shoulda bought Yahoo! Amazon

New hacker peril for older IE versions

New species of unpatched bug bites IE6 and 7

O/S bloat: What's the cure?

Comment Code belly's gonna get you

eBay blames success for failure

Saturday search fail

Virtualisation in the smaller business

Lab Are things really any different to the big boys?

Hackers free Snow Leopard from Jobsian cage

Apple Atomness restored

Oracle begs EC for more time

Commission extends deadline

MS denies Win 7 backdoor rumours

Oooh, spooky!

Ubuntu in truffle shuffle with Chrome OS

'Sloth love Chunk'

Where is server virtualisation taking us?

Lab Crossing the virtual chasm

Database anonymity at risk, warns researcher

Prof Ohm resists data safety claims

Google Wave relies on kindness of strangers

Dreamforce 09 Copy our cloud, please

Firefox millions - now only 9 per cent Google free

No banking on Microhoo

Why Microsoft's IE 9 will frustrate standards fans

PDC Return to render

Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

Updated Breaks Unix 'zero-assumption' trust model

Google open sources flash-happy Chrome OS

Updated Uber browser shuns hard drives

IBM squishes systems software into new business unit

Making programs play nice with each other

Fedora 12 - it's a horse, not a camel

Review Design by committee makes good

Salesforce insists on 'Facebook for enterprise'

Dreamforce 09 More Chatter

Google and the myth of the open cloud

The world's most closed open company

Microsoft unleashes Silverlight 4 beta

PDC Delivers IE 9 standards vagueness