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03/18/2010 10:23 PM
Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV, a platform and service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other Web applications through set-top boxes and onto televisions. Google TV will leverage a version of the Google Chrome Web browser, letting users search through the Web and video content just as if they were accessing the Web from their desktops and mobile phones. Google applications would be paired with Google's stock-in-trade digital ads. Twitter, Facebook and associated gaming applications would be fair game for this service.
- Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV, a
platform and service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other Web applications
through set-top boxes and onto televisions, according to The
New York Times.
The report comes days after eWEEK reported that Google was testing a TV service...
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03/18/2010 10:22 PM
Amazon introduced Kindle for Mac, a free application that extends Kindle capabilities to Apples Mac. A book started on a Kindle can now be finished on a Kindle DX, an iPhone, an iPod touch, a BlackBerry, a PC or, as of March 18, a Mac.
- Amazon added a few bricks to its Kindle kingdom on March 18, with the
introduction of Kindle for Mac, a free application that lets readers pull up
Kindle books on a Mac computer.
quot;Kindle for Mac is the prefect companion application for customers who own a
Kindle or Kindle DX, quot; Jay ...
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03/18/2010 10:21 PM
News Analysis: Apple's lawsuit against HTC could prove to be a long-lasting headache for the Mobile industry. HTC says it will vigorously fight Apple's lawsuit and prove that it doesn't violate the company's patents. But if HTC loses, or even if some of Apple's patents infringement claims are upheld in court, the lawsuit could set the mobile industry back in a number of ways. This is how it could happen.
- In a statement released earlier this week, HTC said that it plans vigorously fight the patent infringement suit Apple recently filed against it. The company contends that it is without fault and in no way violated patents Apple currently holds in any of its Android-based phones or Windows Mobile dev...
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03/18/2010 08:16 PM
Recent announcements from Twitter and Digg.com underscore the growing awareness of NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational database management systems. But just what the future holds for NoSQL is an open question.
- The buzz around the NoSQL movement in the past year has grown considerably, to the point where advocates organized a one-day conference in
Boston
just last week to discuss its future.
Recent announcements from Twitter and Digg.com supporting a NoSQL approach added fuel to this buzz, and whi...
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03/18/2010 08:15 PM
Reportedly preparing to spin off its IT division in the fall of 2010, tech giant Siemens is downsizing 2,000 jobs in Germany and plans to eliminate another 2,200 technology jobs globally by 2011.
- Engineering and industrial-technology conglomerate Siemens
announced March 18 it will lay off 4,200 employees in the IT division, in what
some news sources are claiming is preparation for an IT division spinoff. Siemens
said it plans to invest $500 million euros in SIS, its IT solutions and
serv...
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03/18/2010 07:57 PM
A new template for Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers of managing the lifecycle of the operating system or the middleware database component within their appliances.
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Novell and open source database provider Ingres March 18 announced that they have hooked up to make the long-established, enterprise-class Ingres DB available in Novell's SUSE Studio.
SUSE Studio is a toolkit used by independent software vendors to build virtual machine-based app...
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03/18/2010 07:05 PM
Mobile device maker Palm warns that its revenue for the current quarter will fall far below analyst estimates and reports a net loss of $22 million, or 13 cents a share, for its third fiscal quarter. Palm executives say fourth-quarter revenue will be less than $150 million as a result of slow sales of the company's smartphone models.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) Palm Inc. warned that revenue for the current quarter
would be far below Wall Street's expectations, after tepid demand for its
smartphones left wireless carriers with piles of excess inventory.
The company's shares fell 14 percent in after-hours trade on Thursday.
Palm's stoc...
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03/18/2010 05:55 PM
The Minnesota company's Virtualization Performance Pack is optimized to work with the three major hypervisors: VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V, and remove I/O bottlenecks.
- Xiotech, which positions its storage software as quot;intelligent quot; because it can store files automatically across different neworks, March 18 released a new virtualization optimization package that it claims improves the speed and scale of its products.
The Eden Praire, Minn.-based company...
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03/18/2010 04:47 PM
Hewlett-Packard announced March 18 that it had settled an ongoing patent dispute with three different vendors of printer ink cartridges. The agreement calls for these other vendors to stop selling certain types of printer ink and some vendors must pay HP. HP is still expecting to settle one case, but seven other patent disputes remain.
- Hewlett-Packard
and three companies have settled several ongoing patent disputes concerning
printer ink cartridges, although HP is still legal action against seven other
vendors for similar patent violations.
HP
announced on March 17 that it had ended its dispute with three different
companies...
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03/18/2010 04:14 PM
Microsoft has delivered a peek at the next version of its popular web browser, known as Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). The Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is the first look at what's coming in IE next version of the world's most popular Web browser. Internet Explorer 9 has been designed to help the Web development community create rich, standards-compliant, interoperable Web applications by providing the platform, tools and features they need to build the modern Web. Microsoft has designed this platform preview to deliver on the company's promise of transparency, and to provide early and frequent access to Internet Explorer 9. IE9 features a new JavaScript engine and hardware-accelerated graphics capabilities in addition to support for web standards such as HTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) and more.
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03/18/2010 03:42 PM
Tandberg is unveiling the EX90, a telepresence offering that brings the immersive video collaboration technology to the desk. At the same time, Avaya is teaming up with LifeSize to add more video conferencing capabilities to its Aura platform.
- Tandberg and Avaya are making moves in the video collaboration space.
Tandberg on March 18 launched EX90, which extends the companys telepresence capabilities to the desk.
The EX90 brings the functions available in Tandbergs Telepresence offerings including video and audio quality, and InTouch tou...
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03/18/2010 03:41 PM
Microsoft finds itself on the receiving end of a second lawsuit by small IT company VirnetX, after being hit with a $105.7 million judgment in the first suit. VirnetX is alleging that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 infringe on its patents. Microsoft's recent legal troubles in East Texas include a patent-infringement suit by Toronto-based i4i, which won a substantial judgment against Microsoft in 2009.
- Microsoft found itself subjected to yet another lawsuit by VirnetX on March
17, a day after losing a $105.7 million judgment to the smaller IT company in
an East Texas court.
The second lawsuit alleges that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
infringe on the same two VirnetX patents at issue in...
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03/18/2010 03:20 PM
Microsoft and Citrix Systems announce a broad-based partnership designed to promote the two companies' end-to-end solutions for virtualization, such as applying Citrix XenDesktop's HDX technology to the Microsoft RemoteFX platform. Microsoft and Citrix also announce a promotion that aggressively targets virtualization rival VMware's customer base. On its own, Microsoft has been updating its virtualization options for businesses.
- Microsoft has announced a partnership with Citrix Systems aimed at promoting
the two companies' end-to-end virtualization packages for businesses. One
particularly aggressive facet of the new alliance has Microsoft and Citrix
offering VMware View customers the ability to trade in 500 licenses at ...
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03/18/2010 03:05 PM
Mobile technology solutions to prevent texting while driving are now being introduced into the market. The initial focus is to prevent teens from texting while driving but, eventually, enterprises will demand some control over corporate cell phone use to help reduce their liability in case of an accident caused by an employee. As Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy explains here, mobile software and hardware to assist in preventing texting while driving will eventually become an active part of every vehicle.
- You've undoubtedly seen a news segment on TV or in the press recently about the dangers of texting while driving. I can tell you that I've stopped doing it. My current rule: only text when Im stopped at a traffic light or when not in a car. I feel I'm protecting myself and those around me by simply ...
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03/18/2010 02:28 PM
Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out its Ultimate Wireless Packet Core, which not only helps service providers manage the explosion of mobile data on their 3G networks, but also gives them an easier migration path to 4G LTE networks and tools for moving to a tiered pricing model.
- Alcatel-Lucent is looking to help service providers handle the growing surge
of mobile data and more easily migrate to next-generation network capabilities.
Alcatel-Lucent on March 18 unveiled its Ultimate Wireless
Packet Core, a host of new and enhanced products and services that address
servic...
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