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Spurred by the uncertainty created by Oracle over MySQL, a group of former employees of MySQL AB has come together to form a support and services firm for the database.

When will Oracle rub up the folk who contribute to MySQL the wrong way? That's the only open source project left, which Oracle inherited as part of its deal with Sun and has yet to antagonise.

A raft of improvements to the SUNA Traffic Channel service are arriving at a time when the number of compatible navigation devices is exploding.

McAfee has agreed to acquire tenCube, a provider of locate, lock, backup and wipe services for mobile devices.

IBM has claimed a new record for a Java applications benchmark.

Apple has released a new version of Safari for Mac and Windows claiming it to be faster than either Google Chrome or Firefox.

VMware and Google are collaborating to allow the deployment of Spring Java applications on the Google App Engine. This move stands to benefit developers and their customers alike.

Apple has released updates for the versions of Java running on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 (Leopard and Snow Leopard). The updates include security fixes.

Excel Software is shipping MacTranslator 2.1 for Mac OS X and WinTranslator 3.2 for Windows to generate design diagrams from source code. REALbasic, Objective-C 2.0 and Java generics are now supported.

What can Compuware's Uniface 9.4 environment do for enterprise developers?

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading independent enterprise software provider that enables companies to be operationally responsive, today announced the launch of Progress DataDirect Connect for JDBC, the industry's first Type 5 JDBC drivers. Progress Software developed this new class of drivers after recognizing the limitations in Type 4 JDBC driver architecture, which renders them impractical for use in modern Java applications. Type 5 Connect for JDBC drivers offer the same client-side, single-tier, 100% Java Type 4 architecture, while offering faster performance, better use of memory footprint, and simplified deployment, among other benefits.

China's phone manufacturers have cooked up all kinds of interesting smartphones, from iClones to the real deals under contract from western tech companies, and now Linux geeks can get their geek on with a tablet PC-like smartphone, but does it beat the Android gPhones or the real Apple iPhone?