http://www.infoworld.com InfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/23/Ubuntu_to_unveil_new_version_of_Launchpad_next_week_1.html A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu Linux will be the first to admit that they still have a long way to go to achieve the popularity of their competitors. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:16:09 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/23/Ubuntu_to_unveil_new_version_of_Launchpad_next_week_1.html 2008-07-23T16:16:09Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Warning_SharePoint_can_create_chaos_if_not_used_properly_1.html A report from Forrester is warning customers to consider carefully how they plan to use Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server product, which they say can wreak havoc in an IT organization when used as a custom application development platform. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:24 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Warning_SharePoint_can_create_chaos_if_not_used_properly_1.html 2008-07-22T18:57:24Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/MySpace_eases_data_portability_policies_adopts_OpenID_1.html Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:03:13 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/MySpace_eases_data_portability_policies_adopts_OpenID_1.html 2008-07-22T17:03:13Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Intel-updates-parallel-development-tool_1.html Intel on Tuesday will unveil at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, what it described as a substantial upgrade to Intel Threading Building Blocks. TBB 2.1, a developer tool that features a C++ template library for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, ?enables developers to add parallelism to C++. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Intel-updates-parallel-development-tool_1.html 2008-07-22T15:55:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Cast_Iron_adds_datacleansing_to_integration_appliance_1.html Cast Iron Systems, maker of an appliance for integrating SaaS and on-premise applications, is introducing a new version that adds data cleansing and migration tools, along with a library of prebuilt integration templates for connecting many commercial software-as-a-service products. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:42:09 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/22/Cast_Iron_adds_datacleansing_to_integration_appliance_1.html 2008-07-22T13:42:09Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/wso2-google_1.html WSO2 is releasing on Monday WSO Mashup Server Version 1.5, an open-source product for deploying mashup services featuring Google Gadgets support and interfaces to relational databases and other data sources. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/wso2-google_1.html 2008-07-21T12:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/30TC-cloud-reviews_1.html Who wouldn't want to live in a "cloud"? The term is a perfect marketing buzzword for the server industry, heralding images of a gauzy, sunlit realm that moves effortlessly across the sky. There are no suits or ties in this world, just toga-clad Greek gods who do as they please and punish at whim, hurling real lightning bolts and not merely sarcastic IMs. The marketing folks know how to play to the dreams of server farm admins who spend all day in overgrown shell scripts and impenetrable acronyms. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/30TC-cloud-reviews_1.html 2008-07-21T10:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/30FE-seven-things-it-should-do_1.html Pity the poor IT managers. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/21/30FE-seven-things-it-should-do_1.html 2008-07-21T10:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/17/Google_tweaks_Gmail_to_stop_autoadding_contacts_1.html Google is rolling out a change this week to Gmail that gives users more control over their contacts list. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:48:21 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/17/Google_tweaks_Gmail_to_stop_autoadding_contacts_1.html 2008-07-17T10:48:21Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/16/Five_Web_20_dev_lessons_for_enterprise_IT_1.html Yahoo's Flickr unit reported this afternoon that the latest update to the photo sharing Web site went live just before 5 p.m. with 9 changes made by three of its developers. The "deployment" was the 36th new release in a week where 627 changes were made by 21 developers. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:58:36 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/16/Five_Web_20_dev_lessons_for_enterprise_IT_1.html 2008-07-16T21:58:36Z