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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Relative newcomer Convirture believes it is plugging a major hole by specializing in managing open source Xen, KVM virtualization and private cloud deployments. - VMware's ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT systems. Some some IT people believe that number is too conservative.
Microsoft's Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in use but still mired in ...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
VI, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical application performance. - Three months after taking over leadership of storage optimization startup Virtual Instruments, CEO John Thompson -- who for 9 years was CEO of Symantec -- has mapped out the path his company is going to be taking for the next few years.
As virtualization continues to become more prominent in IT p...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
IT service provider CSC has launched an online forum for health care IT professionals to share notes on how to achieve meaningful use of electronic records to quality for incentives under the Obama administration's ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment) Act. IBM's Initiate software arm is also focused on providing software for health care information exchanges to adhere to the federal mandate on EMRs. - IT service provider CSC launched its Meaningful Use Community Web site on July 21 to provide an online forum for the health care industry to share ideas and learn from experts on how to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.
According to David Hampshire, CSC's senior partner and manag...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
HTC, with its popular Android-running smartphones, blows past estimates with second-quarter net profits of $269 million and shipments of 5.4 million handsets. - Like rival Motorola, HTC is finding that
closely aligning its smartphone strategy with Google's Android mobile operating
system makes good business sense.
When releasing HTC's second-quarter
results July 29, company officials said earnings rose 33 percent year over
year, and they announced a n...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft said it is challenging the Japanese Fair Trade Commission's acceptance of Yahoo Japan's search deal with Google. Google is powering Yahoo Japan's search and search ad platform while Yahoo is switching to Microsoft Bing. - Microsoft July 30 said it planned to challenge the
Japanese Fair Trade Commission's acceptance of Yahoo Japan's search deal with
Google.
Yahoo Japan July 27 agreed to let Google power its search and search advertising platform despite
the fact that its U.S.-based investor Yahoo is switching to M...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser sometime in September. Better performance, “same markup” and improved Acid3 test scores are expected. - Microsoft
plans to release a beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser
sometime in September.
Speaking
at the Microsoft
Financial Analyst Meeting on July 29, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Turner said the company will be moving ahead with a beta of the next
generatio...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft is pursuing a strategy of Windows 7 tablets in a bid to counter the Apple iPad. But one analyst suggests that could result in cannibalization of the traditional Windows 7 PC market. - If Microsoft pursues its strategy of Windows 7-equipped tablets, one analyst
suggests the company could risk cannibalizing the traditional Windows 7 PC
market.
During Microsoft's July 29 Financial Analyst Meeting, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer acknowledged that the Apple iPad had a substantial ...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
A special master appointed by a judge ruled that Intel's business practices, including giving OEMs discounts to limit their use of AMD products, did not harm consumers, and in some cases those discounts were passed onto consumers. He denied the request for class-action status for the lawsuit. - Intel got a rare win in court when a special master in a case filed by
consumers ruled that he had found no evidence that consumers had been hurt by
the giant chip maker's business practice of giving discounts to computer
makers.
Special Master Vincent Poppiti, ruling on the case, which was
fil...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Novell delivers Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform applications. Mono Tools 2.0 features new Mac OS X support. - Novell
has delivered Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source
tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform
applications.
Mono
Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 is an add-in module for the Visual Studio
integrated development environm...
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Posted in E-Week on July 30th, 2010 by E-Week
Apples App Store is the worlds most popular mobile marketplace. With more than 200,000 applications available, it has quickly become the place where users go to extend the functionality of their iPhone, iPod or iPad. And with the competition lacking in terms of available apps and the diversity of programs available, Apple has little to worry about going forward. But there are still some glaring issues with the companys App Store that need to be overcome. Yes, it might be the worlds biggest app store, and it offers some really nice programs, but there is much to be desired in Apples store. And its about time Apple starts working on fixing those issues before the competition finds ways to capitalize. This slide show examines some of the problems that still plague Apples App Store. - ...
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