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Got issues? Enterprise software sure does.

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Why businesses still hate enterprise software

Amazon Web Services has added a new “high memory extra-large” instance option for its AWS’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides scalable computing infrastructure over the Internet.

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Amazon EC2 service boosts memory, Windows support

Semantic search capabilities were hailed by a Microsoft official Tuesday as a better way to get users to the information they need. During an interview and a preceding presentation, Scott Prevost, principal development manager for Bing search technology at Microsoft, touted developments in search as well as possibilities. He appeared at the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif

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Microsoft talks up semantic search ambitions

AccuRev on Tuesday is introducing a suite of tools offering application lifecycle management for development teams using agile methodologies, featuring software from AccuRev , Rally Software, and Urbancode.

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AccuRev offers agile ALM suite

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a Forrester Research report released this week.

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Agile software development is now mainstream

Taking on Google Maps in the navigation space, Nokia introduced on Thursday a version of its Ovi Maps application for Nokia smartphones, offered at no extra cost. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries in 46 languages

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Nokia drops fee for navigation service

Firefox 3.6, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular browser, was released Thursday, featuring a 20 percent speed improvement over version 3.5, Mozilla said. The browser includes improvements to boost performance for everyday Web tasks like e-mail, uploading of photos, and social networking. JavaScript performance is improved, as are overall browser responsiveness and startup time

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Firefox 3.6 released

Fifty percent of IT executives say their  datacenters are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec’s latest “State of the datacenter” report.

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Half of all datacenters understaffed, Symantec finds

In the workplace you’ll generally meet three kinds of personalities: Type A, Type B, and Type IT. The last are a breed apart from the rest. We’re not sure what it is about technology that draws certain types of people while repelling others

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IT personality types: 8 profiles in geekdom