In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.

New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.

Short of learning .NET, here's a way to script something against the ADSI to find out some interesting data about the servers you're working with.

Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research Cambridge discusses why Modula-3 played a major role in popularizing the notion of type-safe programming and why Modula-3 is still vastly superior to programs such as Java.

New software from Microsoft Research creates chord progressions to accompany singers of all abilities.

Stephen Emmott, director of Computational Science for Microsoft Research Cambridge, has been appointed a trustee of Britain's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie dubbed it a "Web-catalyzed services transformation," and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise. However, there still will be a strong need for information security -- even in

Oracle has released the latest quarterly round of critical patches for all its products.

A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.

Intel is publicizing its new Centrino 2 processors, which are currently being integrated into laptop computers by about 250 equipment manufacturers.

Sentrigo Inc. released its new Hedgehog vPatch database security software product on Tuesday.