Microsoft Microsoft Gives its Developer Conference the Olympic Treatment Next week (October 28 and 29) Microsoft will host its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) on its sprawling Redmond, WA campus. Typically, PDC - which the company only organizes when it wants to talk about major platform developments - is held at a larger venue, but Microsoft decided to hold it on its own campus this year. While this makes for a… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers First Alpha of Opera 11 With Extensions Now Available for Download Opera just launched the first alpha version of Opera 11, the company's first version of its desktop browser with support for extensions. As the browser wars continue to heat up, Opera remained one of the few players without a vibrant extension ecosystem. This new version aims to change this and while there are currently only a few extensions for… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Android How Android Developers Can Implement In-App Purchases Now Android developers waiting for Google to implement an official method for in-app purchases finally have some alternatives. This week, there was good news from Papaya Mobile, a mobile social platform with 3 million users. The company partnered with Zong, an international mobile payments company to offer in-app virtual goods purchases within its… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis IBM's Latest Acquisitions and the Difference Between "Business Intelligence" and "Business Analytics" IBM continued its acquisition feast today by gobbling up Clarity Systems, a financial governance software company. It also completed its acquisition of risk and compliance management software company OpenPages. Last week IBM acquired governance software company PSS Systems, and last month it acquired big data company Netezza. IBM says "These… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Analysis Reddit Co-founder Wishes He Still Owned the Company While social news site Digg is struggling these days, quieter competitor Reddit is still going strong. Co-founder Steve Huffman, who sold the site for millions to publishing company Conde Nast four years ago this month, now says he wishes he still owned the site. In an interview yesterday on the podcast Mixergy (which is highly recommended, by… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments