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Ethernet switch revenue grew by 32.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, helped by the growing popularity of applications such as virtualization and VoIP, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker. The actual growth comes from continued adoption of technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet and Power over Ethernet. The adoption of the latter technology [...]

Offering aid to quality assurance labs, Microsoft this week began offering Visual Studio Lab Management for Visual Studio 2010 users, enabling automation of the build-deploy-test process for software development while maintaining visibility into the process itself. Managing a quality assurance lab can be challenging, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, [...]

Microsoft is gearing up to release a version of its Visual Studio integrated developer environment that it promises will be easy enough for even business managers to use. On August 23, the company will release a beta version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio LightSwitch, aimed at simplifying the process of developing applications. [ Check [...]

Research in Motion released BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) 5.02 today, an update that, in an unusual turnabout, copies a mobile management capability from the iPhone’s iOS: the ability to manage corporate data separately from personal data. That allows, for example, IT to block access to corporate email and contacts from a device if a user [...]

Adobe on Friday will announce the availability of the Creative Suite (CS) 5 family, which enables the development of content and applications for the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2. CS5 will be available in five versions: Master Collection, for design and development;  the Design Premium toolkit for designers; Web Premium, [...]

Adobe on Friday will announce the availability of the Creative Suite (CS)  5 family, which enables the development of content and applications for the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2. CS5 will be available in five versions: Master Collection, for design and development;  the Design Premium toolkit for designers; Web Premium, [...]

Opera Software released on Tuesday its Opera 10.50 Web browser, calling it the fastest browser ever produced for Windows computers. Available at Opera’s Web site, the browser features the Carakan JavaScript engine as well as the Vega graphics library. Users no longer have to wait for a site to load, the company said. Other features [...]

Intel is using cash incentives to lure mobile software developers to its AppUp Center application store, hoping to spur the development of new applications for netbooks with Atom microprocessors inside. On Monday, Intel offered a range of financial incentives to bring mobile developers to the AppUp Center, which currently works only with Windows. Incentives include [...]

Microsoft Windows climbed out of its rut last month to gain market share, Web measurement company NetApplications.com said today. Windows’ increase in usage share for February was almost exactly mirrored by a decline of Apple’s Mac OS X. Overall, Windows accounted for 92.1 percent of the operating systems that powered machines visiting the 40,000-plus sites [...]

Microsoft unveiled the next version of its operating system for mobile phones, Windows Phone 7 Series, featuring a move away from applications and towards functions. “It’s all about the phone and how consumers react to the device,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, opening a news conference held outside the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on [...]