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Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.
Mike Lynch: Autonomy eyes SMB market after HP acquisition

Mike Lynch, founder of British software firm Autonomy, says that the company's acquisition by HP will allow it to serve more small and medium-sized businesses, as well as its traditional enterprise customers.
HP abandons PC and tablet business, buys Autonomy for £6.7bn

HP, the world's largest maker of computers, has confirmed it is exiting the tablet business and also intends to spin off PC sales, in favour of software and services, and is buying UK software firm Autonomy for $11 billion (£6.7 billion).
Apache refines text search stack Lucene and Solr

Apache's full text search engine gets a refresh.
Salesforce, Red Hat and Adobe recognised in Codie awards

Salesforce.com, Red Hat, Adobe again recognised by Software and Information Industry Association.
Novell customises Suse Enterprise Linux for SAP applications

Novell has customised a version of its Suse Linux Enterprise Server software for heavy users of SAP software, the company announced Tuesday.
Google Search Appliance to index cloud and private data

Google's business search box will sift through data in the cloud and behind company firewalls with the Monday release of Google Search Appliance 6.8.
Lawson launches ERP in Amazon cloud

Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud computing infrastructure service.
Microsoft to drop Linux and Unix from enterprise search

Microsoft is drop Linux and Unix options from Fast Search
Google still hiring, despite recession

Despite Google's phenomenal growth, the Internet search giant does not appear to be worried about taking on too many projects, judging from comments made at a media roundtable Wednesday with company cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt.

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Semantic web tools you can use now

Vince Fioramonti had an epiphany back in 2001. He realised that valuable investment information was becoming increasingly available on the web, and that a growing number of vendors were offering software to capture and interpret that information in terms of its importance and relevance.
Best free server tools for Microsoft admins

"Free" is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V, IT admins know functionality comes at a price. More surprising, however, is the wealth of server tools Microsoft offers for free, some of which can, in the right contexts, provide an adequate substitute for the paid versions of Microsoft's more intriguing server products.
Top 10 Google Apps for business

Google Apps is growing up. Over the past six months, dozens of developers have built apps to make Google's office wares (Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar) more appealing for the enterprise. The following is a selection of these apps. They range from the practical (backups) to the creative (a freebie VPN replacement based on Google Talk). Better still, most of them are free.
The future of enterprise search

Future search systems will get to know the user - and communities of users - as much as the content it crawls, analyses and indexes, say observers.
Kazeon and the enterprise discovery market

Kazeon asserts that it is positioned to be a major player in the maturing enterprise eDiscovery market. Compliance is a use case of eDiscovery.
Exanet adds search to its clustered NAS product

Exanet CEO, Rami Schwartz, answers questions about his company's new search product
Looking inside Office 2007

Microsoft recently showed Office users what the future will look like. Techworld has taken a look and likes what it's seen - but the licensing system might need a bit of explanation.

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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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The HP Folio 13 is a sleek 13.3-inch Ultrabook that comes in a slim profile measuring just 18mm thick. HP positions it as a business-grade laptop that eschews an optical drive for portability and crams in a battery that the company says is good for up to 9.5 hours. The HP Folio 13 also includes a number of business-centric capabilities ignored by other computer makers. read more...