Wooing Women Aboard Ruby on Rails

When Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson put out a call to get more women interested in Rails he caused a bit of a stir. Now it appears some in the community are moving to bring more women into the Rails camp.

Oracle Releases New Version of PeopleSoft Enterprise

Oracle released an updated version of its personnel-management platform, PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1, which includes new Web 2.0 capabilities such as chat, wikis and discussion forums. New features to the platforms applications include Succession Planning, which helps identify key talent and visualize results to build an organizations leadership pipeline.

How to Turbocharge Microsoft Exchange Server Performance

In today’s digital economy, e-mail has become a veritable circulatory system, delivering that lifeblood for organizations of all sizes: information. With continuously increasing messaging loads, sluggish Microsoft Exchange Server performance can put a drag on employee productivity, customer service and responsiveness to market opportunities

How to Turbocharge Microsoft Exchange Server Performance

In today’s digital economy, e-mail has become a veritable circulatory system, delivering that lifeblood for organizations of all sizes: information. With continuously increasing messaging loads, sluggish Microsoft Exchange Server performance can put a drag on employee productivity, customer service and responsiveness to market opportunities. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Lee Dumas explains five steps you can take to tweak, configure and customize Microsoft Exchange Server for optimal performance

Kickfire Offers Data Warehouse Appliance for the Masses

MySQL-based offering targets 500-gigabyte to 5-terabyte range. Upgrades bolster enterprise performance and scalability.

Huntington Bank Names Chief Credit Officer

Daniel J. Neumeyer has been named executive vice president and chief credit officer at Huntington National Bank.

BlackBerry App for Mac Available Oct. 2

Research In Motion will release BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, allowing users to sync their BlackBerry devices with Apple computers.

BlackBerry App for Mac Available Oct. 2

Research In Motion will release BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, allowing users to sync their BlackBerry devices with Apple computers. The software allows users to not only sync data between their device and Mac applications such as iCal, Address Book and Microsoft Entourage, but also allows them to include playlists and songs from their iTunes music collections via integration with BlackBerry Media Sync. – Research In Motion plans on releasing BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, its new desktop software for syncing Apple computers with BlackBerry devices, on Oct.

Katharine Hepburn: A Short Bio

Born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, CT Katharina Houghton Hepburn was the best of the best actresses that Hollywood has seen. She was born to a highly respectable family, the mother being a feminist and a suffragist. He father was a doctor who led a struggle against the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. [...]

National Broadband Could Cost $350 Billion

An FCC task force said costs are far higher than available funding, but the plan would produce major economic and social benefits.