Icahn Moves To Force
Microsoft & Yahoo
Together
Corporate raider Carl
Icahn started his proxy
fight for control of
Yahoo this morning,
beginning with the
classic Icahn opening,
the letter of reproach to
the Yahoo board telling
them they have acted
'irrationally and lost
the faith of shareholders
and Microsoft.'May. 16, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 895
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel...
Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source...
At Java One this week Sun
has been selling its year
-old-but-still-upcoming -
and definitely
late-to-the-party - Adobe
AIR- and Microsoft
Silverlight-competitive
JavaFX Rich Client
environment as a
potential
revenue-generator capable
of putting ads on mobile
appl...
Hewlett-Packard is
supposed to be this close
to buying Electronic Data
Systems for somewhere in
the heady neighborhood of
$12 billion-$13 billion,
according to the Wall
Street Journal, a pretty
premium over its $9.5
billion market cap
Friday. The paper thinks
ther...
3Leaf Systems, the
four-year-old start-up
that has raised $32.5
million in funding - some
of it from Intel - is
promising - once it gets
all its ducks in a row -
to virtualize the whole
x86 data center
infrastructure - memory,
CPU and I/O. Such a feat,
it says, ha...
VirtualLogix, the
real-time virtualization
outfit that some might
better remember as Jaluna
and that used to belong
to Sun, has come out with
VLX Developer 2.0 with
enhanced support for
performance-critical
Intel systems, a first
for Intel systems and a
boot up fo...
Altor Networks, a
14-month-old start-up
backed by $6 million in
funding from Accel
Partners and Foundation
Capital, says the kind of
security used on physical
machines flat-out doesn't
work in the virtual world
and that you've got to
think of virtualized
machines ...
Citrix says that Dell has
started pre-installing
XenServer on PowerEdge
servers at the factory
for worldwide
distribution. It said
XenServer Dell products
are the only
virtualization solutions
to integrate Dell's
OpenManage agent
technology, which is
supposed to...
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...
The US Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
en banc heard oral
arguments Thursday in the
Bilski case, which, if
their honors get to
feeling radical and rule
broadly, could outlaw not
only business methods
patents in the United
States but - by extension
- void ...
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...
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarca...
Contrary to what you may
have read elsewhere, AMD
has not added anything
new to its antitrust
charges against Intel -
just some color - mostly
black redactions - even
after riffling through
the 145 million pages of
discovery that Intel
turned over to it.
According...
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...
Sun's mule train has
finally pulled into
Indiana after three years
on the road. Indiana is
the Linux-friendly
Fedora-like OpenSolaris
project meant to move the
Solaris-shy Linux
community off Linux and
on to Solaris tempted by
Solaris widgetry like the
highly scal...
MySQL has backed off a
plan to charge for some
encryption and
compression backup
widgetry in the next
version of the database -
and, heavens, NOT OPEN
SOURCE THE STUFF, an idea
it trotted a few weeks
ago and predictably
caught hell for. Sun,
which bought MySQL for...
Intel wants to transition
from 300mm to 450mm
wafers in 2012 and has
gotten Samsung and TSMC
to agree to an
'industry-wide
collaboration' to ensure
that everything's in
place and there are pilot
lines being tested by
then. It should mean
lower-cost MPUs, diminish ...
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google co...
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means...
As oil headed in the
direction of $200 a
barrel this week, VMware
claimed that its
virtualization widgetry
has saved users 39
billion kWh since 1998,
more power than it takes
to heal and cool Denmark
a year. It calculates the
savings at $4.4 billion.
Dell will take a big
giant step out ahead of
HP and IBM in the
virtualization
sweepstakes when it
announces that it is
OEMing PAN, Egenera's
data center
virtualization and
management software.
Egenera, which has been
doing virtualization way
longer than most peo...
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...
Dell builds appliances
that it sells to OEMs
like Google's search box.
Its latest effort is the
OEM CR100 server, a
simple, stripped-down,
entry-level platform,
built with PowerEdge R200
technology. The
short-depth 1U is good
for a two-year lifecycle.
Dell is talking with
Tecom Investments, an
investment arm of the
Dubai government, about a
joint venture that could
raise Dell's sales
profile in the Middle
East. Michael Dell
mentioned it at a press
conference in Dubai but
offered no details and
early reports sug...
MokaFive, another me-too
desktop virtualization
company, this one started
in 2005 by three Stanford
PhDs and their professor,
Moka chief scientist
Monica Lam, is in the
process of pushing out
its widgetry, which works
on Windows, Mac and
Linux. It started going
co...
Yahoo's stock dropped
roughly 19%-20% this
morning at the open,
shaving $8.7 billion off
its value, its first
installment on the price
of its independence from
Microsoft. Yahoo, whose
position improved a
couple of percentage
points in the first
half-hour of tradin...
Dell was supposed to cut
10% of its workforce,
about 8,800 jobs. That
was last year's plan. Now
it's saying it will go
deeper in an effort to
save $3 billion a year by
2011. Michael Dell made
the announcement Thursday
at the company's first
meeting with financial
...
Rumor has it that
Salesforce.com, that CRM
paean to cloud computing,
is going to start selling
Gmail and Google Docs
integrated into its
system. The pair cut a
deal nine months ago for
Saleforce to include
Adwords in its
applications. 
AMD, which hasn't
penetrated the commercial
space, is gonna try to
pick up some share with a
Business Class line of
energy-efficient
commercial desktops and
notebooks targeted at
SMBs, government and
education. The desktops
are based on seven AMD
'image stable' ne...
Apple picked up PA Semi,
the low-power PowerPC
start-up, last week to do
who knows what with, and
Sun picked up the assets
of Montalvo Systems, the
laconic,
heading-for-the-crapper
start-up that was
supposed to be doing an
Intel-competitive
low-power/mobile
four...
Intel and Cray, which
when last seen was
exclusively an AMD house
and a feather in AMD's
cap, are now going to
work together on HPC and
Cray's going to use the
multi-core Xeon and fancy
interconnect developments
in future Cray servers,
apparently starting in
the s...
A Philippines-based Web
2.0 start-up called Morph
Labs thinks its cloud can
rain on Google's
newfangled App Engine.
Morph Labs was founded by
Winston Damarillo, the
guy who did Gluecode, the
only open source company
IBM ever bought, a move
made to protect its
prec...
Sun's back in the red
again after five
profitable quarters and
five years in the red
following the dot.com
bust. The March quarter
turned sour on it,
starting, it said, with
the first week in March
when the channel stared
reporting a drop in
sales, a miasma that
...
At press time the Wall
Street Journal was
reporting that Yahoo! and
Google think they've come
up with a way around the
Justice Department's
anticipated objections to
them climbing into bed
together - one of
Yahoo!'s alternatives to
being acquired by
Microsoft - an...
