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Cisco, Citrix team on desktop virtualization package

The as-yet-unnamed offering will "bring simplicity" to the VDI market, a Cisco spokesman says. How Xen Desktop met Unified Computing System

HTML5 may help Web pages talk, listen

The World Wide Consortium is investigating integrating voice recognition and speech capabilities into its Web standard for rendering Web pages. How this might work

Oracle, Amazon offer new ways to run Linux from afar

Users can run Linux on thin clients or in the cloud. Amazon will start offering the new operating systems by the end of the year

Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible

The new version of Ehcache can hold several hundred million objects simultaneously, memory that can be run on as few as 10 servers

Open source lazy about social Web services

A Gnome Foundation executive at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention challenges open source coders to work on more social-networking apps

CouchDB NoSQL database ready for production use

Newly released CouchDB 1.0 can run on Windows and features faster performance. It also now works on Microsoft Windows machines

Metastorm brings workflow modeling to the cloud

The new service, Metastorm M3, from the business management process vendor is hosted on Microsoft Azure can be applied to goals, systems, workflows, rules and projects

Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance

Microsoft offers the Azure platform software packaged with a set of servers for internal data centre use

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