Today Cisco Systems said it plans to spend $120 million to buy Seattle-based Pure Networks, a company that makes software to manage home networks. Pure’s network...

By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsThe Google Code team is pleased to announce the availability of content licenses for projects hosted on code.google.com. ...

"The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So said Terry Childs, who was jailed for...

I found this discussion of Android's dropping XMPP interesting. (Disclosure: I have no insider knowledge about any of this.) In particular, this remark about...

OpenSocial and Liberty People Services are really tackling the same problem - only from two opposing sites. While the LAP PS has established a solid foundation for secure...

My favorite IM application Trillian has just put out a brand new build of its upcoming Astra product for alpha testers. New are Facebook notifications and quick shortcuts...

About Logtalk An object-oriented logic programming language that can use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. As a multi-paradigm language, Logtalk...

A heads up for readers: this post is on the technical side, and will be of interest to anyone doing web developement, or who might otherwise be curious about how the...

I've had a number of customers ask what the System Center Mobile Device Manager VPN is built on and how it operates. The VPN technology itself is built on 2 industry...

This is an interesting development that my colleague Jeff forwarded to me… In their own words… AstraSync™ is a new software plug-in for BlackBerry®...

I hope the choice is not "protocol buffers" or "xml".Most people probably do not need anachronistic protocols or evenbinary data formats over the...

This is a bit of a blast from the past, but I have been wondering what is brewing with IPv6.... http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=241 (for your reference:...

Mostly language-y stuff.Blackjack? Mark Liberman asks about a playground rhyme he wasn't familiar with: "Blackjack, no tagbacks." The comments for the post involve a...

In the past year both Google and Facebook have released the remote procedure call (RPC) technologies that are used for communication between servers within their data...

Remember those Interoperability Principles Microsoft came up with back in, oh, February? Well, on Monday it posted polished-up 'Version 1.0' documentation on the...

I've just brought in a flight from overseas. I'm wearing my full uniform, and have all of my gear with me. The plan is to run upstairs and leave my flight bag...

The "identity gang" (Doc Searls, Phil Windley, Drummond Reed, and Kaliya Hamlin) has been meeting informally at tech conferences during the past year, but the time has...

In this day and age, there are many ways to transfer data between servers. One of the fastest, most popular, and easiest method is using the cURL library with the ability...

Update Please note: this article is now out of date. See the following for more details. Does ARIA require the use of namespaces, which are not available in...

ruphus13 writes "Linden Labs has talked about Open Sourcing aspects of their platform for a while, but have not always followed through. Now, the OpenSimulator project...