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U.S. launches wireless public safety network

The major U.S. telecommunications carriers join the U.S. government in creating an LTE-based public safety broadband network. New York will serve as the launch market for the service

Oracle begins work on MySQL 5.6

The next version of MySQL, version 5.6, will be geared toward better performance and replication. Pre-warming the pool cache is a potential new capability

Couchbase offers NoSQL for iPhone

Introducing NoSQL to the world of mobile applications, Couchbase has released a beta version of its CouchDB non-relational database for the iPhone iOS

Dell Boomi connects the cloud to the enterprise

The company's Boomi AtomSphere can bridge internal systems with public clouds. The new version, AtomSphere Spring 11, adds Java Message Service connectors for middleware products offered by IBM, Progress Software, Tibco and WebMethods

Cloudera expands Hadoop ecosystem

Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for version 3 of its data processing framework, CHD3. There are now seven additional programs

BMC exploits IBM DB2 for mainframes

BMC's new tools for IBM's DB2 version 10 leverages the recent hardware enhancements of the System z zIIP co-processor. How 23 of its mainframe service management applications have been upgraded

IBM will launch Websphere 8 middleware in June

The long-awaited update to IBM's flagship application server includes support for Java Enterprise Edition 6

NoSQL needs standardization, says Microsoft

The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing...

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