What Does the Future Hold
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AMD has announced its
next-generation
Centrino-chasing notebook
platform Puma, touting it
as delivering the
'ultimate HD visual
performance' as well as
increased energy
efficiency. It's
depending on the widgetry
to fix some of its $4.3
billion in losses
accumula...
In a unanimous decision
Monday the Supreme Court
restricted patent
holders' from collecting
multiple royalties by
charging the supply chain
for IP that's already
been sold upstream. Their
Honors found for Quanta
and against LG
Electronics in a case in
which LG lic...
Sun is rushing in where
other server vendor have
so far feared to tread
and says that starting in
the second half it will
offer servers and storage
based on Flash, the
pricey kind of widgetry
found in cell phones and
MP3 players. It claims it
will be ahead of the
...
Right now Reiser faces a
sentence to 25 years to
life for first-degree
murder, a conviction
based on circumstantial
evidence. If he
cooperates it could mean
he's looking at
second-decree murder, a
mandatory sentence of 15
years to life and the
possibility of parol...
Microsoft is making
System Center, its
central management
scheme, natively manage
Linux, Unix and VMware
virtual servers. The
widgetry has always been
a Windows-only affair,
but now there are betas
available showing off
Microsoft's
cross-platform prowess,
import...
Adobe says Acrobat 9.0, a
major upgrade, will be
available in July and in
three different versions:
Standard, Pro and Pro
Extended. It will be sold
standalone and Pro will
be integrated into
Adobe's Creative Suite
3.3 Design Premium and
Standard editions. CS 3.3
is also due in July.
HP, which has previously
given the space to Yahoo,
is going to pre-install a
Silverlight-based Live
Search-enabled toolbar on
all consumer PCs it ships
in the US and Canada
starting in January.
That's when the HP-Yahoo
deal expires.
Microsoft says it's going
to ride the nettop wave
and push XP, which is
supposed to die this
month, onto the ultra
low-cost devices meant to
put e-mail, web browsing
and instant messages in
your pocket. It says it's
working with 20 OEMs.
It's unclear what it's
cha...
EnterpriseDB co-founder
and CEO Andy Astor has
stepped aside so Ed
Boyajian, brought in from
Red Hat, can take the
four-year-old company to
the proverbial next
level, they said.
Boyajian has been running
Red Hat's North American
sales under one title or
another fo...
In case you've been held
incommunicado for the
last few days, Yahoo's
twice-delayed
stockholders meeting,
which it pushed off until
the end of July after
legendary corporate
raider Carl Icahn
threatened a proxy fight
for control of the board,
is now scheduled for ...
Nvidia - which Intel
might say discounts the
processor - has gone into
competition against Intel
and its tiny Atom MPU
with a non-x86 family of
processors called Tegra
described as the first
single-chip computer
capable of accessing rich
high-definition
applicatio...
Intel has been fined
$25.4 million by South
Korean regulators for
abusing its dominant
position and discounting
its microprocessors,
thereby freezing AMD out
of the market. The
charges relate
specifically to $37
million in rebates
awarded to Samsung and
Trigem b...
Intel hit Computex
Tuesday with enough
design-wins in hand to
put its newfangled
netbook-, nettop- and
MID-bound Atom chips in
short supply at least for
the next six-eight weeks,
it said. The
manufacturing giant
confessed last week to
hiccups with its new more
c...
In the name of its
unified communications
interests and having
failed to come to
licensing terms,
Microsoft a few months
ago asked the Patent and
Trademark Office to
re-examine all 29 of
Avistar Communications'
patents, which cover
stuff like instant
messaging, ...
Wind River says it's
collaborating with Intel
and will develop an open,
extensible Moblin-based
Linux platform for
Atom-bearing MIDs. Both
open source and
commercial versions
should be available next
year. The commercial Wind
River Linux Platform for
Mobile Intern...
At the eleventh hour
Brazil, India and
Venezuela joined South
Africa in appealing ISO's
highly politicized
standardization of
Microsoft's Office Open
XML (OOXML) file format.
Meanwhile, the Danish
Open Source Business
Association has protested
the Danish Standard'...
HP Tuesday named Don
Grantham, Sun's global
sales and service boss,
and an ex-IBMer, its
chief sales officer
responsible for
enterprise accounts and
public sector sales as
well as sales to the
communications, media and
entertainment, financial
and manufacturing an...
Credit Suisse, the big
broker and investment
banker, has launched an
independent company
called DynamicOps LLC,
quietly formed in
January, to market a
virtual machine
management application
called Virtual Resource
Manager (VRM). It is
funded by Credit Suisse's
N...
AMD has rethought its
roadmap and, given its
limited resources and
near-death experience
with Barcelona, it's
scrubbing Montreal, the
eight-core chip that was
supposed to follow
Shanghai, the chip after
Barcelona, and
substituting a six-core
part code named Istanb...
Adobe, which is not
exactly unfamiliar with
the concept of the free
giveaway, has put out a
public beta of a simple
version of its popular
Photoshop photo-editing
software for free over
the web. Think of it as
an answer to Google's
Picasa. It's called
PhotoShop Ex...
Google has opened up App
Engine to one and all.
The cloud-sharing gambit
meant to entice
developers to build their
web applications on the
same infrastructure that
powers Google's own
applications - and in the
process locks them into
Google instead of
Microsoft - ...
For a 22% interest,
Intel, Google, Comcast,
Time Warner Cable and
Bright House Networks are
putting $3.2 billion into
a new company that Craig
McCaw's Clearwire and
Sprint Nextel, two of the
walking wounded, are
forming that combines
their WiMax wireless
broadband...
Yahoo has tied up with
Tata subsidiary
Computational Research
Laboratories (CRL) to do
cloud computing research.
Financial terms were not
disclosed. What CRL
brings to the party is
the fourth-fastest
supercomputer in the
world, a beast that Yahoo
figures has
'su...
Thanks to court
disclosures stemming from
a suit against Yahoo
brought by two Michigan
pension funds invested in
the firm, Microsoft's
offer of 40 bucks a share
in January of 2007, when
Yahoo's stock was in the
mid-20s like now, has
been confirmed. Obviously
that ...
HP's latest answer to
scale-out, which it
interprets as clouds,
grids, compute farms, Web
2.0 and HPC, is the
BL2x220c G5, which it
says is the world's first
two-in-one server,
offering the highest
compute density in the
industry or more than
three times the densi...
HP is racing to the
rescue of those
threatening to drown in
their own data, but that
Web 2.0 lot had better be
able to hold on until the
fourth quarter when HP
can deliver what it calls
'Extreme' storage, the
NAS-style ExDS9100. It's
a 10U BladeSystem that
can hol...
Intalio reckons it's got
the first open source
Business Process
Management System
delivered as a service.
It's running dedicated
servers on top of Amazon
Web Services (AWS). A
subscription for Intalio
On Demand starts at
$1,500 per dedicated
server and includes
...
Amazon is now offering
two premium support
levels for application
developers using its
cloud computing services,
to wit its S3 storage
service, its EC2
computing service and SQS
application messaging
service. It's got Silver
support, priced at $100 a
month or 10 c...
VIA is making a move up
the outside rail trying
to join the other two
ponies in the mainstream
PC market with a new x86
Nano processor while it
counters the dust from
Intel's sexy new Atom
chip. VIA says the 65nm
dingus, based on its
Isaiah architecture,
offers fo...
The European Commission's
spokesman Jonathan Todd
called a story by the
Financial Times
Deutschland - claiming
that the EC had reached a
provisional antitrust
decision against Intel -
'irresponsible
journalism.' Todd said
'no provisional or
internal decision' had ...
Steve Jobs may not think
much of Flash but
Qualcomm apparently feels
differently and has been
collaborating with Adobe
on a mobile platform that
integrates Flash with its
Binary Runtime
Environment for Wireless
(BREW) client software
and, voilà, the BREW
Mobile Pl...
Google's Web Toolkit
Release Candidate 1.5 is
out. That's the stuff
programmers can use to
develop and debug web
applications in Java and
then deploy them as
highly optimized
JavaScript. That way
they're supposed to be
able to sidestep common
AJAX headaches like
...
According to CIO.com,
Cisco has a new
SOAP-replacing messaging
protocol called Etch,
born out of its Unified
Application Environment
(UAE), to integrate
client/server
applications. Cisco
reportedly intends to
beta the thing this
summer as part of UAE 2.5
and ult...
Facebook, the social
networking site that
Microsoft owns a pricey
sliver of, says it's
going to open source its
year-old Facebook
Platform so it's easier
for developers to build
applications on it. It's
reportedly calling the
effort fbOpen and the
move puts it on ...