HOT TECNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE NEWS Sunday, November 02, 2008

The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy
The project lead explains why the hypervisor is not Hyper-V, how multitenant apps are supported, and why Azure is not like Amazon's EC2

Top 10: Microsoft's Azure, Google's deals, IT money woes
Microsoft's PDC was the source of the biggest news this week as the copany unveiled its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform. The company also let out some more details about the forthcoming Windows 7 OS and talked up its ambitions with Silverlight. Meanwhile, Google proposed settling lawsuits related to its book-scanning and indexing project, and word also seeped out through the Wall Street Journal that the company's search advertising deal with Yahoo could be scrapped because of regulatory issues.

Update: Yahoo ad network offers 'deceptive' ads
Deceptive advertising may be illegal in the U.S., but Yahoo's ad network appears to offer it to publishers on a menu of choices when they're deciding what ads to run on their Web sites.

Android phone users get update for flaw
Users of the G1 Android phone on Friday have begun receiving a software update that fixes a flaw that security researchers found earlier in the week.

CIO survey: IT slashes budgets, starts layoffs
As the U.S. economy melts down, so are technology budgets and staff counts.

Storage startup offers a path to private cloud
Cloud storage startup ParaScale is offering new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a self-healing private cloud of storage.

WSJ: Google and Yahoo may call the whole thing off
As the U.S. Department of Justice prolongs its review of their search advertising deal, Google and Yahoo lean further toward scrapping their plans, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Aptana introduces AJAX servers
Aptana this week announced the release of Aptana Jaxer 1.0 and the introduction of Jaxer Pro, both of which are "AJAX servers" that let developers build Web applications using JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML.