Monthly Archives: July 2012
Spring Creator Rod Johnson Leaves VMware, Makes Mark on Java
Rod Johnson has left the building, but he left a sign on the wall for the Java elite: Rod was here.Johnson, the founder and...
JPMorgan Chase Unit Buys MModal Clinical Documentation Vendor
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s private investment arm One Equity Partners has agreed to acquire MModal, a developer of clinical transcription software, for approximately $1.1...
Android Malware Creates Smartphone Botnet, Researchers Say
Spammers have developed malware that is creating a botnet from Android mobile devices, the latest example of the explosive growth in attacks on Googles...
Google Axes iGoogle, Google Mini, Others as House Cleaning Continues
The Google Mini enterprise search appliance, the iGoogle personalized home page and several other Web-based services will be phased out by the company in...
BYOD Era Requires Software-Based Authentication Platforms: Encap
Demand for safe, authenticated access to enterprise applications in an era of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives is growingand so is the cost...
Amazon Orders 2 Million Next-Generation Kindle Fire Tablets: Report
Online retailer and maker of the popular 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon, has ordered 2 million units of the forthcoming next-generation version of the...
Physicists Find Evidence of Higgs Boson Particle
The team of physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the outskirts of Geneva said the organizations latest experiments observe a...
Toshiba Hit With $87 Million Fine for LCD Panel Price Fixing
Consumer electronics and technology giant Toshiba has been fined $87 million by the US District Court in San Francisco for collaborating with other liquid...
Samsung Readying Fast New Memory Circuitry for Servers
Get ready for a technical mouthful.Samsung said July 3 that it has begun sampling the industry's first 16GB Double Data Rate-4 (DDR4), Registered Dual...
VMware Acquires DynamicOps for Cloud Automation
VMware added depth to its cloud offerings July 2 by acquiring DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based company that provides software for cloud automation with multi-cloud,...