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Microsoft buys robotic process automation vendor Softomotive

Microsoft is bringing together Softomotive's RPA products, including WinAutomation, with its Power Automate to make building bots and automating Windows tasks easier.

May 19, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley

Incident response: Sorting the big problems from the small ones

PagerDuty aims to help companies get the help they need when systems go down.

January 24, 2017 by Colin Barker

JavaScript and jQuery, book review: An instant classic?

Forget dry references and cheesy examples. This beautifully designed visual guide takes you from the basics to sophisticated JavaScript techniques for making websites interactive and engaging in a way that is, in itself, interactive and engaging.

September 25, 2014 by Mary Branscombe

Microsoft's browser-based dev toolbox: How 'Monaco' came to be

What's the former technical lead on Eclipse Java development tools been doing at Microsoft for the past three years? Building a browser-based development toolset.

November 17, 2013 by Mary Jo Foley

EPA to developers: Think environmental, because we want an app for that

Wondering how clean your local lake is before you take a dip this summer? Wondering which beaches boast the healthiest ecosystems as you dig your toes into the sand?

June 13, 2011 by Heather Clancy

Scientific Conservation adds another high-profile retailer for building systems watchdog app

It always figures that the second I write about some cool newtechnology and post, the company involved issues some sort ofadditional news.So, consider this a minor addendum to the itemI wrote last week about Scientic Conservation, which sells software ana service to keep your buildings' systems from becoming less efficientover time.

September 14, 2009 by Heather Clancy

Nokia Qt Developer Days: from the show floor

After 36 hours of developer ‘show-submersion’ I think I have a pretty good idea of how the Nokia X-factor is playing out in the Qt cross-platform world. There are very few blue Nokia logos around and everyone is wearing Qt green.

October 14, 2009 by Adrian Bridgwater

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.

June 17, 2009 by Larry Dignan

News to know: Microsoft; Oracle patches; Google; HP; Facebook; Win 7 systems ;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.

April 15, 2009 by Larry Dignan

Keep your code clean to make it green

I think the unwritten law of blogging states that if you hadn’t particularly been thinking about a topic and you get one phone call and three e-mails from different sources focused on the same issue – then you have to blog.Yesterday, my contribution to the green ecosystem extended to recycling a few beer bottles and shredding some paper for recycling.

November 21, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater