iPhones & Snow Leopards
Apple is supposed to
unveil its
next-generation 3G iPhone
Monday, June 9 at its
Worldwide Developers
Conference. An iPhone
Apps Store, peddling
Apple-approved
third-party applications
for a 30% cut of the
proceeds, is also
expected to debut. The
new iPhone reportedly has
GPS support.
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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
...
IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firm...
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 ...
Novell made $5.87
million, or two cents a
share, in its second
fiscal quarter ended
April 30 on flat revenues
of $235.7 million, up
only ~$3 million. A year
ago it lost $2.9 million,
down a penny. Legal and
R&D cost it $4.5 million.
On a non-GAAP basis,
income fro...
VIA's got a so-called
OpenBook Mini-Note
Reference Design and has
open sourced the CAD
files for the 2.2lb
clamshell case design to
push adoption of its
1GHz-1.6GHz C7 x86 chips
and companion chipsets by
reducing development
costs and speeding
time-to-market. It?s...
Intel is supposed to
unveil its second Atom
chip, the one for
low-cost PCs and
so-called netbooks -
along with the
Atom-optimized
Diamondville chipset
that'll make the thing a
netbook platform - at
Computex Taipei, which
starts Tuesday June 3.
Atom-bearing MIDs ...
When Microsoft bought
Fast Search & Transfer
ASA and its vaunted
enterprise search
widgetry last month for
$1.23 billion cash to
compete against Google it
bought itself police
investigation. When
Microsoft agreed to buy
it in mid-January, the
publicly traded Norwe...
Bill Gates and Steve
Ballmer previewed Windows
7 at the Wall Street
Journal's D6 conference
in California Tuesday.
The next-generation
operating system is due
in late 2009, Ballmer
said, confirming what we
reported weeks ago, which
probably means December
31, 2009.
The closing bell in New
York had barely sounded
when Dell's results moved
across the wire, it was
that excited to let
everybody know that it
had done better than
anybody expected. Dell
increased its revenues
and earnings, lowered its
operating expenses
(thanks to ...
NetSuite, Larry Ellison's
other company, the SaaS
one, and rival of CRM
SaaS pioneer
salesforce.com, which of
course was started by
former Ellison lieutenant
Marc Benioff - ah, incest
- has named Per Brondum
Jakobsen, the former head
of product strategy at
salesfo...
South Africa has formally
objected to the fast
track used to get OOXML
to the brink of ISO
standardization. South
Africa, which has given
the world Mark
Shuttleworth and Ubuntu,
is one of the so-called
'P' members of JTC 1 -
meaning it's got enough
clout to delay ...
In the largest
third-party win yet for
the year-old Google
Gears, as well as a win
for the
browser-as-a-platform,
they say, News Corp's
MySpace social networking
site has used the Google
widgetry to upgrade its
mail so users can search
and sort their mail in
rea...
Adobe has put out three
free public betas:
Dreamweaver, Fireworks
and Soundbooth, all of
which will be part of the
next-generation Creative
Suite when it arrives.
Its delivery date is
still a big secret. The
betas are only good for
48 hours once they're
downloaded...
Google is opening 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 lock them into
Google instead of
Microsoft - h...
Some of Dell's service
chickens have come home
to roost. A New York
State Supreme Court judge
Tuesday found Dell and
Dell Financial Services
(DFS) guilty of fraud,
false advertising,
deceptive business
practices and abusive
debt collection
practices. It will take ...
