Web 2.0 server client to help customers access digital information, which in 2010 is expected to double every 11 hours. IBM has introduced a Web 2.0 software client to its back-end content servers, part of its efforts to capitalize on

In the largest code handoff since its formation, makers of Firefox will get Adobe's script "virtual machine." Adobe will donate software to run JavaScript programs in the Firefox Web browser, the largest code contribution yet to the open-source Mozilla Foundation.

Big Blue is marketing Lotus Expeditor as an alternative to Microsoft's .Net. IBM is hoping to woo software developers away from Microsoft. The company on Wednesday announced Lotus Expeditor, software tools designed to let developers create Web 2.0-based applications from

Company is set to release tools for writing parallel threads, which help apps take advantage of multicore chips. Intel is expected to release on Monday development tools designed to help programmers at software companies take advantage of the added computing

Invites open sourcers to participate in making sure that the browser will get along with Windows Vista. The head of Microsoft's open-source business has offered to help get Firefox to work with Windows Vista, but it remains to be seen

At the TechEd conference next week, CTO Ray Ozzie is expected to discuss how the software giant's online services initiative will be key for its traditional audience: IT pros and developers. In Microsoft's burgeoning competition with Google, the software company

The software giant lays out a plan for new graphics software that will run on non-Windows systems and take on Adobe's Flash. A little-known Microsoft project promises to bring advanced graphics to a broad range of devices and set up

Office 12, to be called Office 2007, will offer a slew of new features but no significant price increase. Microsoft on Wednesday offered further details on the next version of Office, announcing plans for a new home version as well