Scott Ferguson

Oracle wants to make its pricing model easier to handle. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company announced its new pricing model on Dec. 19, one day after posting a 26 percent revenue gain during its second fiscal quarter. Oracle also announced that its profits grew 21 percent compared with the same period last year. In offering […]

For the past five years, industry observers and IT professionals watched as notebooks have taken bigger chunks of the PC market, with corporate users and consumers looking for increased mobility and flexibility in their PCs and turning away from the traditional desktops that once permeated the desk and cubicles of enterprises for years. Still, the […]

Virtual Iron Software, which has been looking to increase its market share in the virtualization space, will start bundling the latest version of its virtualization software with hardware from server vendor Fabric7 Systems. The two companies will announce this new joint agreement on Dec. 19. Fabric7, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., will start […]

Hewlett-Packard is bundling new security features with its HP-UX 11i v2 operating system. The additional security features, which the Palo Alto, Calif., company will start making available to its customers Dec. 18, will include new encryption and hardening capabilities for its Integrity servers, which are powered by Intels 64-bit Itanium chip. By offering the additional […]

Matsushita and Texas Instruments are looking to improve the safety and performance of lithium-ion battery cells that are commonly used in notebooks and have come under increasing scrutiny after several high-profile battery fires. On Dec. 18, Matsushita, the Japan-based electronic giant which is best known for its Panasonic line, announced that it would begin to […]

IBM and Intel are looking to create new standards for enterprise customers and IT administrators looking to deploy virtualization in the data center. One of the first initiatives from the two companies is a new methodology for IT managers to compare processor platforms and various system configurations within the data center. Called vConsolidate, the new […]

Apple Computer has told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will delay filing its annual report as the company continues to investigate how stocks were distributed to top executives. In the Dec. 14 filing with the SEC, Apple executives said that following an internal investigation into the backdating of stock options, the company […]

A pair of Democratic congressman from Michigan are asking Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd to explain why he cashed in more than a $1 million worth of stock options just before a scandal concerning boardroom leaks became public. In their letter, which was written on Dec. 12 and released this week, U.S. Reps. John Dingell and […]

NEW YORK—Advanced Micro Devices, the worlds second largest maker of microprocessors, plans on taking an even larger piece of the PC processor market in 2007. At a meeting with Wall Street analysts here on Dec. 14, AMD executives said the companys core PC processor business would grow at twice the rate predicted for the industry […]

With its conversion to Intel processors, the so-called “halo effect” of the iPod and the availability of the Boot Camp software, Apple Computers Macintosh will gain market share in 2007, according to one analyst. Apple will hold about 3 percent of the worldwide PC market in the fourth quarter of 2006, and that number could […]