Monthly Archives: October 2008
Rackspace Looks to Expand Cloud Computing Options with Acquisitions
Rackspace Hosting, which had an initial public offering in August, is looking to expand its hosted cloud computing offerings with several acquisitions and partnerships...
Questions for the Cloud
Over the past year or so, I've been pretty breathless in my enthusiasm for cloud computing, and my enthusiastic writings around the topic have...
Green Costs Green
Green--nearly everyone wants to be green. Lots of people who would hardly consider themselves "tree huggers" have realized that investing in green products and...
Microsoft Launches Global Effort to Fight Software Piracy
Microsoft is partnering with customers and governments around the globe to combat counterfeit software.Dubbed Global Anti-Piracy Day, the effort includes a series of education...
HP Practicing What It Preaches with Internal Green IT Initiatives
Hewlett-Packard has been enabling its server/storage array and data center design customers to save power and cooling costs since long before it became the...
Sun Microsystems Adds UltraSPARC, AMD Processors to Blade Server Portfolio
Sun Microsystems is expanding its portfolio of blade servers to include new systems that take advantage of the company's own UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor...
NAB Seeks White Spaces Vote Delay
You didn't really believe the broadcasters were going to go gently into that digital good night, did you? No sooner had Google, Microsoft, Motorola,...
Microsoft Sues VARs and Channel Resellers in Anti-Piracy Roundup
Microsoft has announced that it is suing 20 software resellers in the United States as part of a global anti-piracy initiative.According to Microsoft, all...
Why Google’s Android Market Kill Switch Is Good for Users
Last week, blogs were abuzz with the discovery that the terms of service for Google's Android Market application Web site has a "kill switch"...
Google Open-Sources Android on Eve of G1 Launch
Google and the Open Handset Alliance released the complete Android platform source code, which means you can actually build a phone with the software...