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2010-02-09
Microsoft reacted to the Feb. 9 launch of Google Buzz, which allows Gmail users to post status updates and swap media, by insisting they had already been working on aggregating user posts from Facebook, Twitter and other partners for some time. Many features of Google Buzz seem to present a direct competitive counterpoint to their equivalents on Twitter and Facebook. Between Microsoft, Google, Facebook or and number of smaller companies, the battle for social-networking users and the advertising dollars that come with them is fiercer than ever.
2010-02-09
The world's highest-volume producer of HHDs has begun shipping a new 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise drive to its OEMs that runs at 10,000 RPM. This doubles the capacity of conventional 3.5-inch drives.
2010-02-08
Hewlett-Packard introduces Total Records Information Management 7, which enables an enterprise to manage all of its Microsoft SharePoint Server records within a single environment regardless of the source of each document.
2010-02-08
It may be two years late, but Intel's Itanium processor code-named Tukwila offers twice the number of cores as the current version code-named Montecito, with significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel's high-end Xeon server chip, and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes as IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
2010-02-08
Montana’s “Big Sky” supercomputer, powered by technology from IBM, Microsoft, NextIO and Nice, is aimed at revitalizing the Rocky Mountain region by attracting business and jobs to the area. Officials with the Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers wanted to create an environment where any business can get access to HPC capabilities, regardless of their size.
2010-02-08
The company's data backup and storage solution, aimed at cost-conscious businesses, offers users a tiered, monthly pricing structure.
2010-02-07
Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
2010-02-06
The amended Google Book Search agreement to scan millions of books online and sell them to readers remains in limbo in the wake of the Department of Justice's statement that the deal stands to make Google a monopoly in the digital book market. Not only did the DOJ conclude that the deal would make Google a monopoly power in the nascent e-book space, but it questioned whether the lower court even has the authority to preside over the case. Google, authors and publishers may find themselves back at the bargaining table later this month.
2010-02-05
Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results.
2010-02-05
Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly visited New York City to talk with New York Times executives about porting their content onto the company's iPad tablet PC, which is widely expected to be a formidable competitor in the e-reader arena. Companies such as Amazon.com have previously signed deals with The New York Times and other media companies to port media onto their e-readers, although recent tussles between Amazon and book publishers suggest that more deal-wrangling is imminent as the iPad heads towards release.
2010-02-05
The Department of Justice Feb. 4 urged a New York District Court not to bless Google's amended Google Book Search deal with authors and publishers, citing copyright and antitrust issues that render the deal anticompetitive. The DOJ said the deal would let Google be the only competitor in the digital marketplace with the rights to distribute many works in multiple formats. The DOJ further agreed to work with Google, authors and publishers on a viable, fair solution. District Court Judge Denny Chin will hold a hearing on the amended settlement agreement Feb. 18.
2010-02-04
Environmentalist identifies wind, solar and geothermal exchange as three renewable resources with the potential to monetize the power system in the United States in a different manner, wresting control away from "big carbon" industrial companies with profits -- and not the environment -- as their top priority.
2010-02-04
At the Green Grid's Technical Forum, the organization introduces a Power Efficiency Estimator that enables data center operators to compare different possible situations involving power topologies and technologies inside their facilities. The new Power Usage Effectiveness Calculator allows managers to easily input their facilities' specific data at regular intervals to determine their PUE.
2010-02-04
There is a lot to like about storage in the cloud, but getting it wrong can come at a great cost.
2010-02-04
Fusion Garage announced that its controversial JooJoo tablet PC has entered full production, with devices expected to reach consumers by the end of February. The move comes days after Fusion Garage moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by Michael Arrington, which alleges that the JooJoo’s design is a rip-off of his unreleased CrunchPad tablet PC. The name "JooJoo" may be derived from "Ju-Ju," a West African term for objects such as skulls possessed by spirits.
2010-02-04
IBM has upgraded its free Lotus Symphony productivity suite, adding several features that make its word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications work with Microsoft documents. Launched in 2007 to chip away at Microsoft Office, Symphony failed to budge Office's share of 500 million seats. Instead, Symphony has acquired a more potent rival in free, Web-based platforms such as Google Docs. IBM is working to build the Web-based version of Symphony under the Project Concord banner. Concord will initially allow Web-based editing for documents and proceed to Web-based spreadsheets and presentations.
2010-02-04
Astute says its storage system update, in addition to the NAS functionality, includes an enhanced graphical user interface for simplified storage management.
2010-02-03
Samsung says its 30-nanometer-class, 2GB DRAM reduces power consumption by about 30 percent over 50-nanometer-class DRAM. The data storage company says a 4GB, 30-nm module of its green DDR3 used in a notebook will consume only 3 watts per hour, or 3 percent of the total power usage of a notebook.
2010-02-03
IBM InfoSphere Business Information Monitor and IBM Optim Data Redaction are designed to help enterprises better manage the access and use of information across various platforms.
2010-02-03
Thanks to Apple’s iPad, ABI Research expects the media tablet market to hit 4 million units by year’s end and to climb to an annual 57 million units by 2015. In addition to Apple, HP, Dell, Google, Lenovo and several lesser-known vendors are all looking to benefit.
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In eWEEK Labs' tests, Lexar's ruggedized JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS survived a stint in the dishwasher and a four-story drop, among other torture tests. And, if anyone was able to compromise the actual device, the data stored on it would be wiped. Using a smart card for authentication and encryption, the JumpDrive SAFE S3000 FIPS is a safe (literally) bet for individuals, but it lacks some of the management capabilities of its rivals.
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The flagship backup solution boasts up to 240TB of raw, VTL- and NAS-accessible disk space, all wrapped in a management GUI that speeds implementation and eases backup administration burdens.
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