Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation says Linux is the platform of choice for the mobile and embedded platforms. Zemlin will speak on the state of mobile Linux at OSCON.
After AMD CEO Hector Ruiz leaves his post and President Dirk Meyer takes day-to-day control of the chip maker, AMD will embark on a less ambitious agenda that will focus on chips for servers and PCs as well as processors for the low-cost notebook market.
Rejecting NebuAd's deep packet inspection model, Ed Markey calls for user permission before ISPs could deploy the DPI technology, which tracks Web users' complete travels over the Internet and serves up ads based on those patterns. ISP customers can opt out of the online advertising program but not online tracking.
IBM and Major League Baseball ink a deal to let umpires create mashups with Google Gadgets and IBM WebSphere Portal software. The partnership is a sign of the snowballing momentum of Web 2.0 technology in the mainstream.
VideoMining launches a Web-based analytics tool designed to give retailers more insight into what customers are doing in their stores.
Sony Ericsson reports a Q2 operating loss of $3.1 million and calls the worldwide handset market a "challenge" as its smart phone sales slump. Sony Ericsson falls to No. 5 in worldwide unit sales behind leaders Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and LG Electronics.
Google takes Begun off Russia's Rambler Media's hands for $140 million, seeking to cement its contextual ad assets and boost international expansion. What's next for the search giant?
IBM manages net income growth of 22 percent selling services, software and systems in a largely international market.
Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform for notebooks, released earlier this week, includes several updates to its vPro technology that should improve the way IT departments manage and secure business laptops.
Administrators still cannot access San Francisco's main IT system, thanks to a now jailed employee who changed all the passwords and won't give them to authorities.
DNSstuff has released a new tool to help organizations detect if their DNS servers are vulnerable to the DNS protocol flaw revealed last week.
AMD's colorful CEO Hector Ruiz is stepping down after the chip maker posted a large second-quarter loss. AMD will replace Ruiz with company President Dirk Meyer as the Intel rival tries to return to profitability.
Google posts a $1.25 billion profit that would thrill most companies, but Wall Street is cringing because it falls short of expectations. Google Chief Economist Hal Varian joins the call to soothe the analysts' fears about online ad weakness.
The Beijing Games give human rights groups a new platform for targeting Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other IT companies that do business with China. Amnesty International launches a social media campaign defending human rights in the run up to the China Olympics.
Some say a San Francisco network administrator charged with holding the city's FiberWAN hostage underscores the threat insiders can pose. But is the damage done by rogue employees more myth than reality?
Tomax links its Retail.net and CXA offerings to WHI's Nexpart modules to improve customer service for automotive retailers.
SCO Group must pay Novell $2.5 million after a judge rules that Novell, not SCO, owns the rights to the Unix operating system. Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO owes Novell for royalties it collected when it licensed Unix to Sun Microsystems.
A new backup bundle integrates external portable storage drives with Retrospect local and Mozy online backup services in an effort to combine on-demand cloud-based computing with on-premises storage and backup systems.
The OpenAjax Alliance establishes a Future Browser Feature Wish List to identify capabilities developers hope to see in next-generation browsers.
Nokia is the first of the world's top handset makers to announce its quarterly results since research firm Gartner slashed its forecast for the cell phone market to 10 to 11 percent growth from a May estimate of 10 to 15 percent. Samsung, LG Electronics, Sony Ericsson and Motorola come next. Despite robust sales of Apple iPhones and RIM BlackBerrys, the smart-phone market may feel the squeeze.
Deloitte finds that marketing teams have been running corporate social communities for product development. Fortunately, Forrester Research says that is a changing Web 2.0 paradigm, with IT taking the reins in the latter half of 2008.
Security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, is currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to include remote vulnerability testing, malware filtering, URL blocking, browser proxy security and other areas as the enterprise work force relies more on mobility and applications in the cloud.
Google Gmail takes some collaboration license by bifurcating contacts into two groups: explicitly entered or frequently e-mailed. Will Google Gmail users revolt or embrace this move, which is designed to clean up contact lists?
Gartner and IDC both show that worldwide PC shipments increased by double digits in the second quarter of 2008 despite the downturn in the U.S. economy. Hewlett-Packard and Dell remained the top-selling PC vendors with notebooks sales helping to increase their overall PC shipments.
SAP is moving all its customers to a single-tier Enterprise Support program regardless of size and IT budget.
Symantec aims to boost its profit margin by allowing its largest customers to skip the distribution channel.
Is there a strange bug involved in Intel's implementation of Wi-Fi on Centrino 2?
Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other tech powers hope testing on Motorola and Phillips devices will lead to unlicensed use of television interference buffer zones for the delivery of wireless broadband. The earliest white spaces devices could be used is February 2009, when broadcasters are scheduled to abandon their analog signals as part of the digital television transition.
Twitter buys search tool Summize, hopefully to make money from its popular social networking utility. Summize's search technology could help Twitter actually monetize its platform with contextual ad placement. Twitter doesn't want Google and other rival platforms to render it obsolete so it needs to make money from all of its Web users somehow.
Citi analysts expect Google to post another fine quarter as it seeks to grapple with video, display and mobile ad challenges.
The new antitrust charges would expand the case against Intel. European regulators say Intel's antitrust actions hurt AMD.
RIM is planning a global expansion and new handsets and software in an effort to stay competitive. RIM wants to grow Blackberry service to Russia, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Blinkx offers a white-label video search service as it seeks to compete with Google and other Web service providers.
The Hewlett-Packard Performance Optimized Data Center, or POD, is HP’s latest attempt to help businesses build out a dense computing infrastructure for Web 2.0 applications or cloud computing, or to provide additional capacity for disaster recovery or high-performance computing.
Converged communications, or the integration of voice, e-mail, instant messaging and a variety of other forms of communication, makes everyone reachable anywhere, at any time. Richard Garboski, president of eTechHelp, tells you how to know if your business is ready for it and how to get there.
Business-class e-mail vendor Mailtrust offers wireless synchronization between the iPhone and hosted Microsoft Exchange.
Intel posted a 9 percent increase in revenue and a 25 percent increase in net income during the second quarter of 2008 compared with 2007. Revenues were driven by strong demand for the company's notebook processors and chip sets, Intel says.
The Gears on Rails project by Google Gears enables Ruby on Rails developers to take their applications offline, as some sharp developers put Gears to new and different uses.
The Oracle Patch Update includes 45 security fixes, including 11 for the Oracle Database. Also included are nine security fixes for Oracle Application Server, seven for Oracle WebLogic Server, two for Oracle Enterprise Manager, six for Oracle E-Business Suite and Applications, and seven for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise products.
Storage vendors Omneon and Isilon will handle a record 3,000 hours of hi-res and low-res video at the event.
Google and YouTube get a breather on the user-privacy issue that Viacom has been lording over them.
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009 betas reduce Norton's time and resource footprint. Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009, uses Norton Insight, which identifies trusted files via data from millions of Norton Community members. If the files are determined to be common and not harmful, the user can avoid including them in system scans.
Google claims the deal with Yahoo will not increase the company's search traffic share, though Microsoft warns of anticompetitive behavior. The Google-Yahoo deal also faces scrutingy from the DOJ.
Juniper rolls out new WAN acceleration appliances designed for better scaling and manageability. The appliances from Juniper, which competes with Cisco and others in the space, also fits into Juniper's common hardware strategy.
Linux originator Linus Torvalds announces the July 13 release of Linux 2.6.26.
Symantec is stealing business from its own channel partners and resellers, according to the accounts of several partners. Symantec has encouraged several large enterprise accounts to deal directly with Symantec, cutting partners out of the deal, a report says.
Database security vendor Sentrigo offers software to block Oracle and Microsoft databases while patches are prepped. Sentrigo Hedgehog vPatch acts like a band-aid, shielding Oracle and Microsoft databases from exploits targeting known vulnerabilities by monitoring for suspicious behavior and terminating or quarantining user sessions.
Microsoft claims Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told Microsoft officials that the Google-Yahoo partnership would eliminate both Yahoo and Microsoft as serious players in the online advertising market. Jerry Yang's comments then were about eliminating competition, Microsoft told a Senate hearing examining the anti-competitive nature of the Google-Yahoo deal.
Dell is offering 128GB solid state drives with some of its Latitude and Precision notebooks. The move comes after Toshiba updated its Portege laptops with a 128GB solid state drive.
Intel has extended TXT to notebooks with Centrino 2 with vPro in a move to bolster data security.
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