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Today is the day that 100,000 people will be invited by Google to test their up and coming product Google Wave, Google wave is a online collaboration tool which in real time allows multiple people access to everything from chat to docs to calendars and more. I’m pretty excited about Google wave to be honest, i think it will be a great tool to use in the workplace, We already have Google docs and calendars and a whole host of other tools and resources but Google wave will be a great way to collaborate all that. You could set up things such as Support waves, it could be like a fully interactive and intelligent FAQ system for companies!

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Gary

I had the displeasure of dealing with a virus-infected Windows XP machine over the weekend. This virus was a browser hijacker, but it functioned for all web browsers (Firefox, IE and Chrome were used to test this theory) and essentially intercepted and re-wrote Google results to point to spammy sites which seemed to only exist to earn ad revenue. The interesting thing is the infection vector – this hijack managed to infiltrate the system through Acrobat Reader and a known security hole which has yet to be patched (as far as I am aware, anyway).

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Geoff Adams
Programmer, Research and Development

This is not hot new has it is known since 20th April. Oracle, on of the leaders in enterprise software buy of the leader in computing systems makes sense. Sun provide the best operating system, Solaris, for Oracle’s database product and many Oracle’s software rely on the Java language, developed by Sun.

“Oracle and Sun have been industry pioneers and close partners for more than 20 years,” said Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. “This combination is a natural evolution of our relationship and will be an industry-defining event.”

We will certainly see Oracle investing in Java for the benefits of the community and of course their clients.

The $7.4 Billion deal is expected to close this summer and will certainly be the biggest acquisition of 2009. Apparently IBM and Dell were also on the ball but missed the deal by undervaluing Sun’s shares.

Benoit Gilloz
Programmer, Research and Development

I hear you cry, “You dummy! The Internet is already  international.” I know. I am going to be writing about some of the differences in the internet as most people are used to compared to what it is like in other parts of the world. For most of us, Google is the most widely used search engine.

In Russia, the major search engine is Yandex.ru with 55% of the search market, Google has 22%. Japan has its own popular search engine.  It may come as shock for you to know that in China, Google is not the largest search engine. In fact  it only a minor player. The largest search engine is  Baidu.com It is  the 2nd most visited website in China with over 60% of searches. Google has around 30% of the market. Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks
Programmer, Research and Development