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- News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- The chief value of open source
- Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...
- Tags: open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Google: Aiming for 99.99 percent uptime with business Gmail
- Google executives addressed recent Gmail outages and noted that the company is currently running at a 99.9 percent reliability rate. The goal: Be at 99.99 percent by the end of the quarter. Speaking at a powwow with reporters, Google Sergey Brin spent a bit of time talking...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Uptime, Sergey Brin, Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time
- Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Xen, About Time Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Xen.org, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Essential student Office applications brought to Nokia phones
- Just announced in an online press conference, news of which broke yesterday, Microsoft and Nokia have formed an alliance to create and develop a slimmed-down Microsoft Office suite designed for Nokia mobile phones. Both Nokia and Microsoft will begin designing and building the software together. It will...
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Microsoft Office, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
- VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Microsoft scraps Windows 7 E
- Microsoft scraps Windows 7 EAs long as one of the ballot choicesis "none of the above", then I could live with it.Misguided, meddling governmentThis is a perfect example of why government entities need to stay out of private enterprise.If users are incapable of finding and downloading the FREE browser of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Vertical industries, Windows 7 E, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, government, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?
- Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...
- Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- News to know: Windows 7; Dell; IT salaries; Enterprise 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different? Microsoft: Windows 7 Upgrade deal maxes out at 25...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Photograph, Salary, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?
- Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...
- Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing
- It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor, virtualization manager for servers and virtualization manager for the desktop -- moved into beta testing on Tuesday....
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Xen, KVM, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Eaton gives you more power over your power
- Power equipment manufacturer Eaton has compressed the design for a new three-phase data center uninterruptible power systems UPS, called the Eaton 9390IT, which is 61 percent smaller than units from rival manufacturers. The technology also uses a double-conversion process, which Eaton says helps the 40kVA UPS deliver efficiency of 99...
- Tags: Data Center, Eaton, Uninterruptible Power System, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble
- The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...
- Tags: Istanbul, Quad-core, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about. Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Open Source Softswitch Adds Skype
- Here's an interesting teaser for you Skype aficionados. Later this month, the new release of FreeSWITCH, the first open source softswitch, will enable carriers and enterprise to integrate Skype into their VoIP services and platform. For the first time, developers will have a free, high-performance voice switching...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Open Source Softswitch, ESL, Skype API, Asterisk, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- News to know: Office 2010 leak; Windows Mobile; Wolfram/Alpha; SOA; Zappos; ;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Mobile Dev team: 'Windows Mobile 6.5 is done' New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks Zack Whittaker: Screenshots:...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Microsoft Office, Wireless And Mobility, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Office Suites
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Advances in TREKnology
- Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, Corporate communications, Geordi, computer, Kirk
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
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