Chris Preimesberger

The Associated Press, for decades one of the world’s vital news content producers, is developing a new copyright management method that it believes will better protect its news articles, photos and videos from unauthorized use on the Internet.The venerable news cooperative said July 23 that it is now testing a microformat that will include metadata […]

Some international lawyers now might have to start looking for another case to keep them busy.The protracted European Commission-versus-Microsoft antitrust case, a thorn in both parties’ sides since the Clinton administration, may soon be coming to a resolution.The EC confirmed July 24 that the world’s largest software maker, in a good-faith effort to resolve the […]

Storage giant EMC, which had enjoyed double-digit profits for 21 quarters up until this year, reported July 23 that it lost ground in the second quarter of 2009 as its profit fell 43 percent from a year ago.The company’s virtualization subsidiary, VMware, reported a 36 percent drop in profits July 22. However, executives from both […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has resulted in Eucalyptus Systems, a three-month-old startup which has produced new open-source cloud infrastructure software that is a key component in Ubuntu 9.04 and its upcoming 9.10 edition. Ubuntu is a popular […]

Enterprise virtualization software kingpin VMware on July 22 reported a 36.5 percent falloff in its second-quarter profit from the same period a year ago, but CEO Paul Maritz and his fellow executives remained optimistic about the company’s prospects for the next six months.VMware, which is owned and operated as an independent subsidiary by storage giant […]

Apple, maker of the iPods and iPhones that are sucking up large quantities of NAND flash chips practically by the minute, announced July 22 that it has entered a long-term agreement with Toshiba for Toshiba to keep supplying even more of those chips.Computer and mobile device maker Apple obtains its NAND flash chips from a […]

Intel on July 21 introduced the world’s first 34-nanometer solid-state NAND Flash drives for desktop and laptop computers, then immediately tagged them with a “60 percent off” sale price.How is this possible? Simple enough: Intel said that its move to put its X25-M processor on the 34nm chip allows lower prices due to the reduced […]

EMC hasn’t wasted any time in taking control of its latest acquisition, storage deduplication provider Data Domain. The world’s largest provider of storage-related software and hardware said July 20 that it already has acquired about 82 percent of the company’s common stock at $33.50 per share in cash since July 8, when competitor NetApp decided […]

The news July 20 that EMC had taken over 82 percent of Data Domain’s outstanding stock shares only eight days after outbidding NetApp has some people’s heads spinning.We’re not talking about a small transaction here. EMC is ponying up $33.50 a pop per share in cash; the deal ultimately will be worth somewhere between $2.1 […]

Not even highly successful IT companies with plenty of cash in the bank are immune from layoffs during this down economy.Cisco Systems, the world’s largest IT networking vendor and the builder of much of the Internet, said July 16 that it is laying off between 600 to 700 employees-about 1 percent of its work force […]