IDG News Service – MySQL users are set to receive fresh information about Oracle’s road map for the open-source database during a keynote address by chief corporate architect Edward Screven at Tuesday’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California.
“We’re looking forward to outlining our plans for MySQL and providing the development community with [...]

Computerworld – Apple’s iPad is proving to be a big user of Wi-Fi in airport hotspots and other locations managed by Boingo Wireless, jumping quickly into second place behind the iPhone and ahead of Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices since its Saturday launch.
Laptops are still the biggest users of Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots in 58 [...]

IDG News Service – Vodafone is working with Opera Software to embed the company’s Mini 5 browser on 20 low-cost phones designed for emerging markets.
The phones and browser will first be rolled out in India, South Africa, Turkey, Tanzania and Egypt. Other markets are expected to follow in the near future, Vodafone said.
Most of the [...]

Macworld – Apple introduced a new advertising platform designed specifically for the iPhone OS platform during the company’s iPhone OS 4 preview event on Thursday. The new technology, dubbed “iAd,” will be built straight into the forthcoming update to Apple’s mobile operating system.
“A lot of the apps on the [iPhone] are free, or 99 cents, [...]

IDG News Service – Salesforce.com’s Facebook-like application Chatter has been integrated with a range of products from partners, setting the stage for a new standard in the business software user experience, the vendor said Thursday.
Earlier this year, Chatter entered a private beta program that has now been opened up to about 500 companies, including 250 [...]

IDG News Service – Oracle has augmented the capabilities of its Hyperion financial analytics software with new modules to help bean counters streamline specific financial management tasks.
The new modules — Hyperion Disclosure Management, Hyperion Financial Close Management and Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting — are all components in the latest update of the Oracle [...]

InfoWorld – Oracle’s absorption of Sun is complete. Now that the European Commission has blessed the merger, the Oracle logo is proudly displayed to anyone who types “sun.com” into a browser. Yet if you visit mysql.com, you’ll see hardly any mention of Sun, the company that purchased MySQL for $1 billion in 2008, and Oracle’s [...]

CIO – The next iteration of the Internet Explorer browser, IE9, is only in its barebones “Platform Preview” state, but Microsoft is beating the big drum early and giving developers more time to test the preview for speed, compatibility and performance.
As more business applications go online, browser performance and reliability are high on the minds [...]

IDG News Service – IBM shot back at Oracle’s Exadata platform this week with new server products that combine IBM hardware and software in preconfigured systems for companies doing large-scale data analytics and transaction processing.
The products mark a new push by IBM toward selling complete systems based on its own hardware and software that are [...]

InfoWorld – Windows Phone 7, which is Microsoft’s revamped smartphone operating system, and Silverlight, the company’s rich Internet application platform, might seem geared primarily to glitzy, for-fun applications. But Microsoft observers see an enterprise business application case for these two budding technologies. (Silverlight is being paired with the XNA gaming app dev platform to serve [...]