Archive for July, 2010
Google Spiffs Up for Uncle Sam
Google’s got a special new version of its standard Premier Edition Google Apps that’s supposed to meet basic toe-in-the-door government security requirements. Well, at least the data generated by the government’s use of Gmail and calendaring will be segregate from everybody else’s cloud-borne data on servers located in the continental US. Other apps will eventually [...]
Kindle Wars Quicken
Facing what looks like a tablet tsunami and already feeling stiff competition from Apple’s $499-$829 iPad, Amazon Thursday pushed its purpose-built black-on-white Kindle e-book reader into the mass market by announcing two comparatively cheap next-generation versions of the dingus, Having started at $399 in late 2007, it’s now offering a $139 model fitted with Wi-Fi [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 614 (August 2-13, 2010)
Google Spiffs Up for Uncle Sam Kindle Wars Quicken Justice Department Sues Oracle for Fraud How Intel Kept Dell Afloat HP & Dell To Sell Solaris, OpenSolaris Hung Out To Dry Adobe Buys Day Software Terracotta Swells Encache to a Terabyte Yahoo Japan Bolts to Google Nvidia Found Guilty of Infringement Android Shifts Application Copy [...]
EC Opens Two Antitrust Investigations of IBM
by Maureen O’Gara Monday, July 26, 2010 – The European Commission said this morning that has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position. IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and the [...]
RackSpace Wants To Define the Cloud
Rackspace Hosting wants to be the one that defines the public and private commodity cloud, denying bigger competitors the chance to do it. So the other day – in the name of fostering standards, ensuring cloud interoperability and defeating vendor lock-in – it set in play OpenStack, an open source cloud platform to which it [...]
The Dells, Both Company & CEO, Pay the Piper
Dell said Thursday that it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC over its accounting sins in 2001-2006. CEO Michael Dell will pay a separate $4 million for not talking straight about Intel. The AP remarks that the fine isn’t that large but “the decision to charge a sitting chief executive of a [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 613 (July 26-30, 2010)
RackSpace Wants To Define the Cloud The Dells, Both Company & CEO, Pay the Piper An Anti-Oracle Play, IBM’s Succession Plan, or Both? IBM Unveils its ‘System of Systems’ Unisys To Offer Price Fixe Cloud Hackers Create First Industrial Control Trojan Microsoft Money Machine Grinds On Color Hollywood’s Cloud UltraViolet Dell Motherboards Pre-infected with Malware [...]
Microsoft: O Cloud, O Cloud, O Cloud
Bentley Radcliff, who used to work in marketing at Apple and Sun – no Microsoft fanboy he but curious about Redmond’s approach to the cloud – wanted to go to its Worldwide Partner Conference this week so we handed him a reporter’s notebook and sent him on his way. Miracle of miracle he returned impressed. [...]
VMware Goes Cloud Size
VMware is expected to make its vSphere virtualization platform “cloud scale” Tuesday, capable of juggling 3,000 virtual machines in a single 32-node cluster, double what it could before. And its vCenter management software will be able to keep tabs on 1,000 hosts and somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 VMs, triple its previous capabilities. The company [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 612 (July 19-23, 2010)
Microsoft Packages Up Azure VMware Goes Cloud Size Microsoft: O Cloud, O Cloud, O Cloud Intel Hits It Up, Up & Away EC2 Goes into the Supercomputer Biz Microsoft Expands Intune Cloud Beta PC Sales Up Better than 20% in Q2 Eucalyptus Rival Gets Funding Microsoft Amassing Slate Army Google Gets its China License Renewed [...]