PC World - A new service from IBM's AlphaWorks takes a collaborative approach to improving Web accessibility for the visually impaired. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Microsoft issued four bulletins that address nine vulnerabilities for July's Patch Tuesday, none of them critical. This is the first time since last year that none of the patches were rated critical. -- read full article
Reuters - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co on
Tuesday reported a huge drop in quarterly net profit, hurt by
costs from the roll-out of its enterprise resource planning
system and lower sales in the Americas region. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Real Software and Veryant are upgrading development tools this week, with Real Software focused on its RealBasic platform and Veryant on Cobol. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The extensions used to connect Second life to the OpenSim server will be made available to the open source community and the OpenSim community. -- read full article
PC World - IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the time of Internet users to make the Web more accessible to the... -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional method of selling programs that run on individual desktops or corporate servers. -- read full article
InfoWorld - At the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft made its biggest foray yet into cloud computing with pricing and partnership arrangements for Microsoft Online Services, a family that includes Online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, Office Live Meeting, and Dynamics CRM. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Boomi, SnapLogic, and Cast Iron are rolling out new offerings designed to help companies integrate software running in the cloud with onsite software. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - In addition, IBM has opened System z centers worldwide to help customers learn about Cognos BI on the mainframe and benchmark the System z architecture. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft plans to release a new Windows server OS aimed at mid-sized businesses and the next version of its small-business... -- read full article
NewsFactor - A study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM says more than 600 million Internet browsers were at risk this year. -- read full article
