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Headlines – Issue 684 (January 23-27, 2012)

rhall2091 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:32:49 +0000

Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware
AWS Offers Free Windows Instances
Piston Delivers First OpenStack-Based Cloud OS
AWS Fields DynamoDB
Yang Quits Yahoo
RIM Supposedly Up for Sale; Samsung Touted as Possible Buyer
Apple Sues Samsung Again
Ex-US CIO Joins Salesforce.com
Flexiant Positioning for Growth
HP Gets New Chief Strategist
AppDynamics Gets $20 Mil
Court Finds RPost Patent Valid
Code 42 Gets $52.5 Million in Funding
Apple Loses Infringement Case against Motorola Mobility
Nexenta Raises $21 Million C Round
Dell Center of Latest Insider Trading Allegations
Google Puts Diane Green on its Board
Kodak Sues Samsung over Tablets
MMI & Lenovo Support Intel’s Mobile Ambitions

Headlines – Issue No. 683 (January 16-20, 2012)

rhall2091 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:37:33 +0000

Oracle Goes to Cloudera for Hadoop
AT&T Joins OpenStack, Floats Cloud Architect
Dell Reorgs Again, Loses a President
IBM’s Top Management Changes
PCs Weak, HP Bleeds Share
Microsoft Warns of Flood-Related Drop in PC Sales
Kodak Sues Apple & HTC
Brocade’s Reportedly Entertaining Bids
Google Buys More Patents Off IBM
Rackspace Gets its First CMO
LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft
Gartner Cuts its IT Spending Forecast
Oracle v Google Java Trial Up in the Air
Yahoo Picks PayPal Chief for its Next CEO
webOS Doomed from Conception: NYT
Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in Italy
AMD Names Chief Strategist
Ozzie’s On His Way Back
Cook Gets Million Apple Shares He Can’t Touch
HP Gets No Itanium Relief from the French
Judge Blocks Oracle’s Appeal in SAP Case
Yahoo Cuts New CEO a Multimillion-Dollar Deal
SAP a Big iPad User
Yahoo Reportedly Looking To Replace Board Members
Hortonworks Hires Strategist
Intel Achieves Mobile Breakthrough
IBM Top Patent Collector
Apple Confirms Anobit Buy
Google Gets its Biggest Apps Deal Yet
Target To Test Apple Boutiques
HP Hires New Chief Communications Officer
Dell Gets New CIO
HP Reportedly Pushing on webOS
Dell Promises Tablet Later This Year

Headlines – Issue No. 682 (December 26, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:46:26 +0000

Oracle Misses Badly, Spooks Everybody; Leaves Bloody Trail
Floods Lift HDD Prices
ITC Says Motorola’s Android Widgets Infringe Microsoft IP
Apple’s German Galaxy Tab Ban Looking Doomed
Apple Gets HTC Android Phones Banned in US
HTC’s German Resellers Sued for Selling its Phones
Rumor True, Akamai Buys Contendo
Computers Link WikiLeaks Chief to Source
AWS Opens Cloud Data Center in Brazil
Saudi Prince Puts $300 Million in Twitter
BT Sues Google for Patent Infringement
Salesforce Follows SAP into Cloud-ified HCM
Yahoo May Sell its Precious Asian Assets
Workday Reportedly Prepping To Go Public
OpenOffice.com Lives
RIM Has a Bad Case of Yahoo-itis
Schmidt Hints Google’s Own Tablet Coming
Jury Wouldn’t Have Given Novell Any Damages: M’soft
Apple Reportedly Buys Anobit
Oracle & Google Bicker over Trial Date
Ex-HP Big-Wig Named to Fusion-io Board
Google Agrees To Support Firefox for Three More Years
China Top Patent Filer
Qualcomm Founder To Hang Up His Spurs

Issue No. 681 (December 19-23, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:33:57 +0000

Microsoft Tries Hadoop on Azure
Intel Reorgs Search for Mobile Holy Grail
ITC Delays Android Import Ban Decision Again
Industry Bigwigs Back Anti-VMware League
Virtustream Buys Enomaly
Intel Cuts Q4 Projections Because of HDD Shortages
Apple Reportedly Wants To Buy Flash Memory Maker
SOASTA Gets $12 Million More in Funding
Rackspace Names Moorman President
Court Says Motorola Mobility Can Stop Apple Widgets from Getting to Germany
StorSimple Supports OpenStack
Jury Gets Novell Antitrust Case against Microsoft
Huddle Integrates with Zimbra
IBM & the EC Settle
HP Expands its HANA Alliance with SAP
EC Delays Decision on Google Acquisition of MMI
Amazon To Fix Some Kindle Fire Problems
Ex-SUSE GM’s Got His Own Start-up
EC Reportedly Working on Massive SO against Google
Apple App Store Clears 18 Billion Downloads
HP’s General Counsel Leaving
Microsoft Replace Phone Leader
New iPad 3 Rumor
Beijing’s Thinking BIG Cloud
Three HLDS Execs To Spend Time in American Jail
Microsoft’s SkyDrive To Service iPhone
Google Back in the Market for More Patents?
That Snap was HP’s Change Purse
Google Starts Building First Asian Data Center
Correction
HTTP Status Cats

Headlines – Issue No. 680 (December 12-16, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:18:22 +0000

Cisco Packages the Cloud
Greenplum Delivers Unified Analytics Platform for Big Data
Microsoft & HP Turn Cloud Buddies
Last Call for TouchPads
Windows 8 to Go into Public Beta in February
Gee, And Google Thought Microsoft was the Evil Empire
SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
IBM Buys DemandTec for its Cloud-ified Analytics
MapR Pushes the Hadoop Envelop
Court Order Forces RIM To Change Name of New OS
Proview, Not Apple, Owns iPad Name in China, Court Says
IBM To Settle with EC To End Mainframe Probe
Apple Loses US Bid To Enjoin Samsung
EC2 GM Dies in Plane Crash
Dell Quits Selling Tablets in America
WikiLeaks Founder Get Last Chance To Defeat Swedish Arrest Warrant
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn Dies
Cloud Player Drops IPO Plans
HP Buys German Cloud Printing Outfit
SuccessFactors Makes its Own Cloud Acquisition
SAP Opens Lab in Russia
Oracle Amends Itanium Countersuit
Bill Gates, Nuclear Reactors & China
Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in France
EC Investigating Apple & Publishers for Antitrust
$99 Android Tablet Surfaces
IBM Buys Cúram Software
Rackspace Gets New EMEA Boss
Google Buying a Company a Week on the QT
Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads
McAfee To Lay Off 3% of Workers
Dell Adds Salesforce Service Cloud
Android Starts Move to x86

Headlines – Issue No. 678 (November 28 – December 2, 2011)

rhall2091 — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:51:31 +0000

HP’s Putting a Back Door in the Itanium Alamo
HP Trying To Sic EC on Oracle
Microsoft Signs Yahoo NDA: NYT
Meg Lowers HP Expectations
ITC Throws Out S3 Complaint against Apple
Wyse Buys Trellia Networks for its Cloud Smarts
Apple Wants Motorola Mobility To Post $2.7 Billion Bond
HDD Crisis To Screw Things Up for the Next Two Years
DHL Makes Special Box for High-Tech Shipments
Gates Defends Microsoft against Antique Novell Charges
Adobe Promising Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich Android
Court Block Release on HP Report on Hurd Resignation
Google, Facebook Server-Building Stymied by HDD Shortage: Meg
Chromebook Prices Drop
Apple Getting’ Paid in Yuan
Kindle Fire To Get Bigger Brothers: DigiTimes
Icahn Dumps Some MMI Shares
No Anxiety Separation with Lenovo Tablet
EC Probe Broader than Thought
iPad 3 Watch
If iPads are PCs…

Headlines – Issue No. 677 (November 21-25, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:20:25 +0000

Adobe Sends Flex to the Apache Foundation
Big Data Bug Bites GE
HP Puts Activist Shareholder on Board
Samsung Modifies Galaxy Tab To Frustrate Apple Ban
Warren Buffet Buys 5.5% of IBM
Buffet Buys Intel Too
Amazon To Rent Out Supercomputers
Apprenda Upgrades its .NET Private PaaS
Rambus Loses $12 Billion Private Antitrust Suit
AMD Delivers 16-Core Chip
AMD To Chase the High-Volume 1U Market
Steve Jobs’ Two Empires Meet in Apple’s Boardroom
Dell’s Lack of Fanbois Hits its Numbers
Amazon Émigré Starts Network Monitoring Firm
Zuora Raises $36 Million To Push into Europe
Skytap Fleshes Out its Cloud Widgetry
HP Goes into the Ultrabook Biz
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Ships Early
Birst Intros Cloud-Based Mobile BI SDK for iPad
ScrumWorks Agile Widgetry Goes SaaS
Fancy That, an ARM Supercomputer
HTC Reportedly Working on Quad-Core ARM Tablet
Nokia Win 8 Tablet Due in June
Globalfoundries Scraps Middle East Expansion Plans
Savvis Hires AWS Vet To Run its Cloud
Google Reported Setting Up Israeli Incubator
SAP To Invest in China
A Run for the Tablet Door?
Rackspace Settles on CFO

Headlines – Issue No. 676 (November 14-18, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:32:18 +0000

Amazon Tipped To Buy webOS
Rackspace Productizes OpenStack
Disk Drive Crisis Worsens
Oracle Bills Solaris 11 as ‘First Cloud OS’
OpSource Offers Oracle Database, SQL Server & SharePoint On-Demand
Azul Stops Being Agnostic, Gets that Old Time ‘Come to Linux’ Call
Adobe To Restructure, Let 750 Go, Can Mobile Flash
Abiquo Figures It’s Got Everybody’s Back
NetApp Teams with Cloudera on Turnkey Storage Device
EC Investigating Samsung for FRAND Abuse
Motorola Mobility Gets Sweeping Injunction against Apple
Cloudera Gets $40 Million
Move Over, Best Buy’s Getting on the Cloud
SCO Wants Its Suit against IBM Revived
Quest Releases Toad for Cloud Databases
Amazon Sets Up Cheaper West Coast Region
Google Appeals To Protect Compromising E-Mail
Fedora 16 Out
The Restless & Impatient Could Make Hostile Bid for Yahoo
AMD Strategy Chief To Leave
Rajaratnam Will Have a Little Less To Come Home To
LC Licenses IV Patents
Samsung Windows 8 Slates Due in 2H12
Apple Ordered To Turn Over its Carrier Contracts to Samsung
MapR Starts Training Academy
ARM President To Retire
Ex-EC Antitrust Chief May Form Emergency Italian Government
Schmidt Not Quite Believable
John Opel, Former IBM CEO, Dead at 86

Headlines – Issue No. 675 (November 7-11, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:38 +0000

Arm Cracks the Code on 64-Bits
AMD To Fire 1,400
HP Starts the Wheels Spinning To Roll Out ARM Servers
Start-Up Turns ARM Chip into a Palm-Sized Server
Cloud Spend Tracker Goes to Open Beta
China Reportedly Develops its Own Processor
ForeScout Intros NAC-as-a-Service Platform for MSPs
All-SSD Cloud Start-Up Gets $25 Million from Some Familiar Faces
Samsung Wants iPhone 4S Source Code
WikiLeaks Founder Ordered Extradited
Lenovo Earnings Up 88%
Apple Loses Android Tablet Tussle to Little Spanish Firm
IBM To Hawk Solar Power for Data Centers
HP Hires Boeing Exec for New Position
If Nothing Else, Yahoo is Sticky
HP’s PC Group Loses its CTO
AWS May Be Bringing in $1 Billion
ITC Finds AMD Unpersuasive
Rajaratnam Scandal To Be Made into a Movie
HDD Prices Looking as Ugly as the Floods
Globalfoundries Gets Permanent CEO
First Ice Cream Sandwich Device Due in Days
Cloudera Founder’s New Start-up is Odiago
Antitrust Complaints against Google Mount
The iPad 3’s Not the iPad 3: Digitimes
Intel Abandons TVs: iSuppli

Headlines – Issue No. 674 (October 31 – November 4, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:42:40 +0000

HP Going with ARM Servers
HP To Keep PC Division
OPC Formalized with a Foundation
Jobs Vowed To Destroy Android
Kindle Fire Burns Amazon
Nexenta Gets into VDI
Facebook To Build Date Center Near Arctic Circle
Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5 Billion
Half of All Android Licensees Now Paying Off Microsoft
SaaS House Workday Picks Up an $85 Million Round
Oracle-Google Trial Slips into Next Year
Hadoop Start-Up Gets $9.5 Million
Google Eyes Yahoo Again
IBM & Jaspersoft Pair Up on Big Data
WikiLeaks Stops Leaking To Raise Money
HTC Import Ban Now in Doubt
Meg Doesn’t Seem To Have Enough To Do
Galleon Investigators Charge Biggest Cheese Yet
Rim PlayBook Upgrade Delayed Four Months
CFEngine Moves to the US
Android Bites Apple
Apple Rustles Yahoo Datacenter Chief
Siri Co-Founder Leaves Apple
IBM Names New Board Member
Jobs’ Advice to Cook
Dropbox Wooing SMBs
From iPod to Thermostat
Google Underwrites Internet Institute
Samsung Appeal Gets Fast-Tracked in Australia