• Dell Plans to Sell Computer Factories: Report

09/05/2008 06:35 AM
Dell is trying to sell computer factories around the world in efforts to cut cost and improve profitability, the Wall Street Journal said. The most likely buyers of Dell's factories will be big contract manufacturers, most of which are based in Asia.
- (Reuters) - Dell Inc. is trying to sell computer factories around the world in efforts to cut cost and improve profitability, the Wall Street Journal said. In recent months, Dell has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell the plants, the paper said, citing people famili...

• Comcast Sues FCC over Network Neutrality Ruling

09/04/2008 03:58 PM
Comcast claims the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 ruling finding the cable giant violated FCC network neutrality principles by throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent. Comcast renews its contention that throttling network P2P traffic is acceptable under the FCC's reasonable network traffic management rules.
- Comcast has fired the next shot in its ongoing battle with the Federal Communications Commission over the management of the cable giant's broadband network, asking a federal court to overturn the FCC's Aug. 1 decision that Comcast violated the FCC's network neutrality principles. The FCC ruled ...

• OpenAjax Alliance Pushes AJAX IDE Interoperability

09/04/2008 03:54 PM
At the Rich Web Experience conference, the OpenAjax Alliance promotes OpenAjax Metadata, a specification to facilitate interoperability across AJAX IDEs. Another version of the OpenAjax Metadata specification supports widget interoperability and security.
- VIENNA, Va. The OpenAjax Alliance is working to address interoperability issues among development environments for AJAX as well as to facilitate the creation of secure mashups. At the Rich Web Experience conference here on Sept. 4, Jon Ferraiolo, an IBM engineer and director of the OpenAjax All...

• Microsoft Plans 4 Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday

09/04/2008 03:23 PM
Microsoft officials have four security bulletins planned for September's Patch Tuesday. The security fixes address remote execution vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player, the Windows operating system and other Microsoft products.
- Microsoft has announced plans to release four security bulletins next week for its September Patch Tuesday to address vulnerabilities across a number of products, including Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office. In an advisory released Sept. 4, Microsoft officials stated they would release ...

• NebuAd Abandons DPI Scheme

09/04/2008 02:46 PM
Controversial Silicon Valley advertising startup NebuAd drops its plan to sell deep packet inspection technology to ISPs after Congress and public interest groups slam the privacy implications of deep packet inspection. NebuAd suffered through a summer of losing customers and congressional hearing before bailing on the plan that promised ISPs additional revenue sources through DPI.
- The year began promisingly enough for NebuAd, a Silicon Valley advertising startup promising a new source of revenue for ISPs through the use of deep packet inspection. DPI allows ISPs to track the behavior of Internet users without their consent in order to more accurately target advertising. C...

• Red Hat Acquires Desktop Virtualization Specialist Qumranet

09/04/2008 02:30 PM
Red Hat is jumping into the desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, which leverages the open-source KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) hypervisor for its Solid ICE desktop virtualization platform. The Red Hat acquisition of Qumranet will put Red Hat in a position to offer its own virtual desktop infrastructure product that is integrated with its own operating system and can compete against Citrix XenDesktop and VMwares VDI.
- Red Hat is looking to jump into the desktop virtualization market and announced Sept. 4 that it would acquire startup Qumranet for $107 million. Red Hat, which is developing its own embedded hypervisor, is clearly targeting the emerging desktop virtualization market, which is beginning to take shap...

• LinkedIn Social Network Hugs CNBC to Friend Financial Buffs

09/04/2008 01:47 PM
LinkedIn, the social network that professionals also use as a messaging and collaoration tool, joins forces with financial news site CNBC. The deal will see LinkedIn's networking functionality integrated into CNBC.com, allowing users to share and discuss news with their professional contacts. With such deals, LinkedIn aims to remain independent and grow its user base beyond its current 27 million members.
- (Reuters) CNBC has entered into an alliance with LinkedIn under which the financial news channel will air content generated by the professional networking site's 27 million members. CNBC, which is part of General Electric Co, will integrate LinkedIn's networking functionality into its website ...

• For Shure: FCC Wireless Mic Inquiry No Surprise

09/04/2008 01:05 PM
Wireless microphone maker Shure says it has been anticipating Federal Communications Commission rules banning the use of wireless microphones in the 700MHz spectrum for years. Problems, though, still remain for wireless microphone users as the FCC proposes limiting use of the devices to the interference buffer zones between Channels 2 and 51, the same space being eyed by Google, Microsoft, Motorola and other tech companies for the delivery of unlicensed wireless broadband and other advanced services.
- Shure, the country's dominant wireless microphone maker, said Sept. 4 the Federal Communications Commission's recent proposal to ban all wireless mics from the 700MHz spectrum band comes as no surprise to the company. quot;We've seen this coming for some time, quot; said Mark Brunner, Shure's s...

• Google Chrome Loses Luster over EULA, Privacy Concerns

09/04/2008 12:47 PM
Google's Chrome Web browser may be a highlight for open-source application development. Yet Google has moved to quell concerns that the EULA afforded Google a little too much control with regard to what happens to the information people entered into the browser window. Google's Omnibox also raises privacy concerns, but these don't seem to have much merit. Are you comfortable using Google Chrome?
- For all of the glitz and glamour swirling around its Chrome Web browser, Google is working out to put out fires among corporate users concerned that the EULA enables Google to own source code and other proprietary information. One day after Google's beta launch of the Web browser Sept. 2, users...

• How to Create an Energy-Efficient Green Data Center

09/04/2008 11:15 AM
Green computing is a hot topic on data center managers minds. Using green drives in a green data center can help improve operating efficiencies and reduce overall energy consumption costs. But how can you know that you truly have green drives? Knowledge Center contributor George Crump explains the key components of green drives and how to use them to create the most low-cost, energy-efficient green data center possible.
- Greening the data center is a marathon that will take years to complete, if we ever truly will. A recent EPA report on data centers found that data centers consumed 1.5 percent of the nations energy. This is also a global problem. Consumption, worldwide, will increase by almost 57 percent from now...

• Taking an Open Approach to Unified Communications

09/04/2008 11:12 AM
In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Unison CEO Michael Choupak and Chief Marketing Officer Rurik Bradbury explain why an open-source approach to unified communications may ultimately prevail over any number of rival proprietary options.
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• How to Deal with Managing Smart Phones

09/04/2008 11:08 AM
In the IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, VirtualLogix CEO Peter Richards talks about the evolution of smart phones and the challenges IT people are now facing when it comes to managing these devices.
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• Dell Enters Low-Cost Notebook Market with the Inspiron Mini 9

09/04/2008 10:41 AM
The first Dell low-cost notebook is called the Inspiron Mini 9 and this small laptop looks to compete against the likes of the HP Mini-Note, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 and the Asus Eee PC. In addition, Dell is selling the Inspiron Mini 9 notebook on its own, but the PC vendor is also teaming with wireless carrier Vodafone to sell broadband technology with the Inspiron Mini 9 laptop in Europe.
- Dell is now preparing to jump into the low-cost notebook market with its own creation called the Inspiron Mini 9, which looks to compete against a group of similar offerings from Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Asus and other PC vendors. Dell officially released the Mini 9 notebook or “netbook” on Sept. 4...

• Asia Leads Mobile Growth, but Lags on Internet

09/04/2008 09:56 AM
The Asia Pacific region has about 1.4 billion mobile phone subscribers, representing 42 percent of the global market, and it is expected to exceed 50 percent within the next two years.
- BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia will continue to deliver strong growth in the mobile phone market due to sustained demand from China and India, the world's two biggest markets of such services, industry officials said. But, even if Asia is the world's largest broadband market in terms of absolute numbers,...

• Sony Recalls Vaio Laptops on Overheating Concern

09/04/2008 09:36 AM
Sony said the recall is for its VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300 and VGN-TZ2000 series. Sony has been dogged in recent years by recalls of laptop computer batteries, amid concerns they would overheat and catch fire.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp. is recalling thousands of its Vaio portable computers, citing a potential hazard that could cause them to overheat or short circuit. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission said on Thursday the recall is for 74,000 machines in the United States, after So...