Macworld Expo 2009
InfoWorld covers all the latest news and announcements of interest to business IT at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo, taking place in San Francisco.
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SOA gets an obituary SOA is dead but services remain alive, according to a prominent analyst who published an obituary for SOA in a blog post on Monday.
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No clear sign of settlement in Oracle-SAP suit A document filed last week by SAP indicates there may be no quick settlement to its rancorous legal entanglement with rival enterprise software maker Oracle, even though SAP admits that some of Oracle's claims about its former subsidiary TomorrowNow are true. 2:37 pm PT
IBM employees buzzing about layoff rumors An independent Web site for IBM employees has been buzzing with rumors that the company will make significant layoffs this month. 8:55 am PT
Windows market share dives, Mac nears 10 percent Windows lost nearly a full percentage point of market share for the second month in a row in December, pushing Microsoft Corp.'s operating system to a new low, an Internet measurement company reported yesterday. 8:44 am PT
Expert: Microsoft made $1.5B on 'Vista Capable' campaign Microsoft earned more than $1.5 billion from the sale of PCs marked as "Vista Capable" in the months leading up to the 2007 debut of Windows Vista, according to an expert's estimate. 8:39 am PT
Microsoft tells how it missed critical IE bug Microsoft developers overlooked a critical bug in the Internet Explorer browser because of a lack of adequate testing tools and training, a company official acknowledged last month. 8:33 am PT
Analysts expect evolutionary products at Macworld While Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote address during next week's Macworld Conference & Expo, analysts still expect the company to introduce some products during the company's last scheduled attendance at the annual trade show. 8:32 am PT
Amazon offers pay-per-use service for data hosted on S3 Amazon has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the cost of accessing their information. 8:22 am PT
Five things Apple needs to do at Macworld There are two important dates coming soon for Apple Inc.: its last appearance at the Macworld Expo & Conference that begins in San Francisco Monday, and the Mac's 25th anniversary later this month. 7:39 am PT
New 'Wind' netbook pairs SSD with hard disk MSI, the makers of the much vaunted U100 Wind netbook, has announced a new version of the machine featuring both an SSD drive and a conventional hard disk. 7:21 am PT
Stimulus could create thousands of IT jobs A federal economic stimulus package expected early this year from the administration of President-Elect Barack Obama should boost the job prospects of IT professionals. 7:07 am PT
States hope feds will help replace legacy systems With President-Elect Barack Obama proposing to spend billions of dollars on road and bridge projects as part of his economic stimulus plan, some state CIOs are hoping that their aging IT infrastructures might also qualify for makeovers. 7:06 am PT
iPhone apps round-up: Business tools for the New Year As people get ready to return to work after two weeks of holiday festivities, it seems fitting to turn our attention to a pair of business and productivity iPhone and iPod Touch apps that have debuted in the App Store recently. 6:42 am PT
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The IONA Approach to SOA Global 2000 companies are increasingly taking advantage of new technologies to develop a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
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