Today is Box’s first user conference, BoxWorks. I’m here covering the event live. LiveBlog: BoxWorks LiveBlog: BoxWorks Disclosure: Motorola announced it will give free Xooms to attendees. I’m not yet sure if the press are getting them as well.

Today platform-as-a-service provider Engine Yard will announce support for JRuby, an implementation of the Ruby programming language designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). All existing Engine Yard customers will need to do to run an existing Ruby application as an JRuby application is make a small change to its config file and, ...

10gen, the sponsor of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, announces today that its MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) will now be available for free to all users. During beta the tool, a fully hosted hosted service including a dashboard, was available only to 10Gen’s enterprise clients. 10gen president tk says that there will be no ...

Box announced the winners of its Mobile Dev Challenge this morning, a contest I helped judge. Participants were tasked with creating a mobile enterprise app that integrates with Box’s service. Bizmo, an accounting application took the top honors, and TouchDraw, a vector drawing app, took second place. Bizmo is walking away with $25,000 Ccsh, a ...

Riak, an open source NoSQL database based on Amazon.com’s Dynamo architecture, reached the 1.0 milestone today. Basho, the project’s sponsor, offers an commercial version of the database with enterprise support. Like Apache CouchDB, Riak is written in Erlang and designed to handle easy replication across multiple data centers. Wikia, one of the most popular sites ...

Starting today all new documents uploaded to SlideShare will be converted to HTML5 instead of Flash. Meanwhile, the company is running a process to re-convert all old documents into HTML5 with the goal of completely eliminating flash. SlideShare is a presentation and document sharing site. SlideShare VP of Business Development Ross Mayfield says that the ...

The Internet ran out of addresses earlier this year when the primary pool of standard IP addresses, based on Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), was depleted. To help ease the transition towards the new IPv6 protocol, CloudFlare today announced a new free service today called Automatic IPv6 Gateway. The new service will allow website owners ...

We still don’t know much about what Do.com will be, but Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just tweeted about the service, confirming for the first time that it is in fact a Salesforce.com property. Benioff wrote: “Do.com is salesforce’s new app to get work done with anyone. Sign up to be the first to receive an ...

Microsoft’s microblogging offering OfficeTalk may never see the light of day, but the company is adding Facebook-like social interface to cloud-hosted version of its Microsoft Dynamics product. The new feature, called Activity Feeds, was reported by CRM Buyer earlier this month, and pointed out today by Mary Jo Foley. Microsoft Dynamics is being offered as ...

Enterprise IT automation solution provider Puppet Labs will announce version 2.0 of its flagship Puppet Enterprise product at its PuppetConf event today. Most notably, the version brings support for provisioning virtual machines directly on Amazon EC2 or VMware. “Puppet has always integrated with existing provision tools,” CEO Luke Kanies explained in an interview. “But most ...