IBM’s Cognos subsidiary has just announced the launch of its Cognos 8 business-intelligence software. According to the company, the new software will help customers in efficiently reporting and analysing transactional systems directly on the main frame. It will facilitate the whole organisation in identifying and responding quickly to critical business trends.

Mozilla has claimed a download record for the Firefox 3.0 release. The software was downloaded over eight million times in the first 24 hours after the web browser was made available, stated its creator Mozilla. Statistics available from the download servers are now being scrutinised to give an official figure, which will be sent to […]

PX Software UK, a software re-publishing and distribution house, has introduced BitDefender anti-virus software and data security solutions to the UK market.
Just a year old, PX Software is already among the UK’s fastest growing and ambitious software distributors. Its expansion and growth has been phenomenal. PX has expanded its reach from South Africa and Zambia […]

A revised version of the popular Firefox Web browser shows noticeable enhancements in features like speed, design as well as security. Many of the new enhancements in Firefox 3 incorporate bookmarks. The new version allows Web surfers to add keywords, or tags, and also to sort bookmarks by topic.
There is a new feature called ‘Places’ […]

I wanted to do something, which was really global. Free software is a phenomenon, which is truly global.
South African-born Mark Shuttleworth, the brain behind the Ubuntu project, mentioned in an interview. It is named after an African word that means ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. […]

The country is far behind in the use of open source, in spite of the fact that it is now accepted as the best means of producing and consuming software. The director of industry body OpenForum Europe, Graham Taylor, said he would blame this (lagging behind) on low quality business decisions, leading to vendor lock-in, […]

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has plans to roll out Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system starting from June. The deployment is supposed to cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be concluded by the end of the year. The entire cost of the rollout is to be taken care of by […]

The UK’s software sales are lagging behind China by almost $60bn. This is forcing the UK to rethink its strategy and abandon the low-end segment of the market. The Chinese software product and services sector is expected to reach $140bn by 2010. It has already hit the $21bn mark during the first quarter of 2008. […]

A report by the Government funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (CSKTN) points out that UK computing students get no education or orientation on software security even at a basic level. They are supposed to design and develop new software applications, but are not taught how to incorporate security functionality.

SenseBot, the search engine, uses a tool for delivering summaries of the results that appear after performing a search. It proves to be useful when a deluge of content is available on the Web from which choices have to be made and the user wants to make sense of it all. A FireFox plug-in has […]

Sun formally started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco with a series of keynote presentations intended to showcase JavaFX. JavaFX is the company’s new rich internet-application (RIA) technology. It has been described by Sun as a family of products that are required for creating RIAs with engaging content.
JavaFX has been positioned as a competitor […]

Almost 500,000 users have been trapped by a booby-trapped media file, states security firm McAfee. This fake file poses as a tempting music track, movie or short video and has been profusely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare gullible people.
McAfee stated the fake media file outbreak was one of the largest it had come across […]

BT and NetSuite have joined hands to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco’s 1.6 million business customers. BT has been offering NetSuite’s business management applications and will also soon offer customer relationship management (CRM) software from SugarCRM.