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HP may lose the head of
its Personal Systems
Group (PSG), Todd
Bradley, to Motorola.
He's on Moto's list of
two candidates to run its
cell phone operation,
according to the Wall
Street Journal.
Everybody's still in
denial because
negotiations are at the
sensitiv...
HP has open sourced the
Tru64 Unix Advanced File
System (AdvFS) that it
got from DEC by way of
Compaq. It's sent the
16-year-old Alpha-based
source code, representing
what it calls 400 R&D
years, over to
Sourceforge under the
GPLv2 license as a
reference implement...
Moving in like a weather
front, IBM is opening its
first - or for that
matter anybody's first -
cloud computing center in
Africa, and a second one
China. The African site
is in Johannesburg, the
Chinese one in Beijing.
IBM said the new centers
are part of its overal...
Rumor has it that
Salesforce.com, that CRM
paean to cloud computing,
is going to start selling
Gmail and Google Docs
integrated into its
system. The pair cut a
deal nine months ago for
Saleforce to include
Adwords in its
applications. 
Sun has released a new
real-time,
shared-nothing,
carrier-grade version of
MySQL called MySQL
Cluster Carrier Grade
Edition 6.3 certified for
use in telecom
environments, such as
subscriber data
management systems (hlr,
hss) and service delivery
platforms. 
The two Detroit pension
funds suing Yahoo in
Delaware to invalidate
its severance plan
'poison pill' have been
denied the expedited
trial that they asked for
ahead of the August 1
stockholders meeting. The
plan is supposed to
incentivize Google staff
to leave if a...
Novell was foiled in its
attempt this week to
persuade the bankruptcy
judge in Delaware, who's
holding SCO life in his
hands, to deny SCO
another extension in
filing a formal plan of
reorganization. If the
judge had agreed with
Novell - which he didn't
- that woul...
Salesforce.com, which has
already linked its CRM
software to Google Apps
and integrated AdWords
tracking into its
platform, is deploying a
free new Force.com
Toolkit for Google Data
APIs so third-party
developers can interact
with data in Google
services. The tool...
Telstra, the old
Australian phone company
before government-owned
monopolies became
unfashionable and now the
country's leading telecom
and media house, is going
into the Software as a
Service (SaaS) business.
It's got a platform
called T-Suite and
intends to use ...
So the Shanghai
Securities News - sort of
the Wall Street Journal
of China but basically a
government house organ
often used for conveying
official announcements -
reports this week that
Microsoft is being
investigated for
antitrust violations and
might get sued w...
Hewlett-Packard has torn
a page out of Sun's book
- at least the Sun
edition that reads give
gear away for free to buy
market share - except
HP's target is IBM and
IBM's precious,
profitable mainframe
preserve. The notion,
called the 'NonStop
Freedom' incentive pl...
Red Hat is open sourcing
Project Spacewalk, the
Red Hat Network (RHN)
Satellite code base under
the GPLv2 license. RHN
Satellite is the stuff
behind the Red Hat
Network and lets
customers manage RHEL
updates inside their
firewall. It does systems
provisioning, upd...
Microsoft says it's going
to open a Search
Technology Center in
Europe in the fiscal year
that starts in July. The
center is supposed to
'accelerate Microsoft's
investments in Live
Search and disrupt the
search and advertising
marketplace to the
benefit of both th...
Microsoft has bought
Navic Networks, a move
that puts it in the
business of placing TV
commercials in near
real-time, one of the
things that Steve Ballmer
may have had in mind when
he said there were a lot
of things you could do
with $50 billion besides
buying Yahoo.
Having peered into
various crystal balls,
Cisco figures global
Internet traffic will
grow 46% a year between
now and 2012, nearly
doubling every two years.
The projection translates
into an annual bandwidth
demand of more than a
half a zettabyte, the
equivalent of...
The New York Times tried
putting a horse's head in
Jerry Yang's bed
Saturday, prophesying
that his 'days as Yahoo's
CEO are numbered.' In a
piece entitled 'Oh Jerry,
It's No Longer Your
Baby,' it excoriated him
for 'shafting' Yahoo
shareholders by running
off Micr...
It only took 15 years but
Wine, the open source
Windows rewrite, so to
speak, that lets Linux
run Windows applications
natively, has reached its
first stable release,
Wine 1.0. Compatibility
isn't perfect, the Wine
folk say, and not
everything will run
(particular...
After a bit of a breech
birth - caused by
visitors overloading its
web servers - Mozilla
released Firefox 3
Tuesday seeking to set a
Guinness World Record for
the most downloads in 24
hours as a way to stir up
interest and at the same
time stick it to
Microsoft. 
eXpresso, a year-old
venture-backed California
start-up, has taken Excel
to the clouds with
Microsoft's blessings.
PowerPoint, Word and PDF
files are set to follow
by the end of the summer.
eXpresso webifies legal
Excel users and lets them
share, edit, download and ...
GPLv3, the great General
Public License rewrite,
is now a year-old and
used by 2,345 open source
projects including
Ubuntu, SugarCRM and
Samba. Adoption has
reportedly been growing
at about 20% a month over
the past six months.
According to some figures
sent aroun...
HP, which is trying to be
stylish, is going up
against Apple's MacBook
Air with a Voodoo Envy
notebook that's all of
0.70-inches deep and
weighs 3.37 pounds
wrapped in a carbon fiber
skin. It's supposed to
boot in seconds to access
a browser or Skype, but
has shor...
Intel, Alcatel-Lucent,
Cisco, Clearwire, Samsung
and Sprint have formed
the Open Patent Alliance
(OPA) in hopes of
ensuring the future of
WiMAX with a patent pool
that helps participating
companies get access to
WiMAX patent licenses at
a predictable cost,
charged...
Apple has a history of
carriage trade pricing,
and, although such
practices cost it the PC
market - while imbuing it
with a certain cachet -
the policy was enshrined
in the original iPhone.
For the first time Monday
Apple sorta kinda changed
its tune, so to speak,
...
The AMD v Intel private
antitrust suit -
otherwise known as the
'No Lawyer Left Behind
Program' - is so big and
unwieldy that the special
master in charge of
sorting out discovery has
pushed the trial date
back from April of 2009
to February of 2010 to
give the pa...
Europe's antitrust chief
Neelie Kroes, who has now
taken on the role of open
standards evangelist,
gave a speech at
OpenForum Europe the
other day recommending
that business and
government adopt 'open
standards.' 'Open
standards' in Neelie's
mouth is code for 'ope...
After failing to come to
terms with Microsoft, and
with antitrust regulators
hovering in the
background, Yahoo has
gone and cut that
death-defying deal on
search advertising with
arch-rival Google saying
the agreement could clear
$800 million in annual
revenues. T...
Talks between Yahoo and
Microsoft have failed for
the second time. Yahoo
said Thursday afternoon
that Microsoft has
refused to buy Yahoo for
$33 a share, the price
Microsoft offered May 3
and then pulled off the
table when Yahoo's
co-founders held out for
$37. Mic...
John Gage, Sun employee
number 5 and its chief
researcher, head of its
science office - the guy
who coined the Sun tag
line 'The Network is the
Computer' - a seemingly
nonsense slogan Sun used
to wish it could shake -
has finally left the
building after 25 years.
...
Parascale, the
four-year-old firm with
the Cloud Storage system
software layered on the
Linux XFS file system,
the Linux operating
system and the Internet
Protocol networking
protocol stack, has hired
Sajai Krishnan out of
NetApp to be its CEO. He
ran NetApp's mid...
IDC and Gartner have
boosted their worldwide
PC growth projections for
the year. IDC thinks
shipments will be up
15.2% to 310 million
units compared to last
year, not 12.8% like it
said it March and Gartner
puts the number at 12.5%
rather than 10.9%.
The Federal Trade
Commission has decided to
formally investigate
Intel for antitrust for
pushing AMD to the wall
with its sales
incentives, an answer to
a prayer AMD has been
saying for years now. AMD
supposedly only brought
its mammoth private
antitrust suit agai...
eBay is opening its site
so third-party developers
can integrate
applications directly
into eBay Selling
Manager, an online tool
for managing and tracking
listings on eBay. It's
excepting a flurry of
sales optimization apps.
SUSE, which is packaged
up with Xen, has started
supporting VMware's
Virtual Machine Interface
(VMI), Vmware's brand of
paravirtualization.
Novell worked on the
widgetry with VMware for
nine months and modified
the SUSE kernel to
support VMI, a
communication mecha...
Citrix is losing its
sales boss John Burris to
one of the open source
contingent's few publicly
traded companies, the
struggling Sourcefire,
creator of Snort, the
security software, whose
$15 IPO price has pretty
been shaved in half since
its debut in March of
2007. 
In a Microsoft internal
e-mail that just
'happened' to get out,
Microsoft says it lost
interest in acquiring all
of Yahoo because of
Yahoo's foot-dragging and
offered instead $1
billion for just Yahoo's
search operation and
another $8 billion, the
equivalent of $3...
Red Hat is beta testing
its JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform as a
solution on Amazon's
Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2). It's a way to
tickle enterprise
adoption of its Java
application server. EC2
offers developers,
enterprises and startups
a web-scale compute
...
Pushing back against
VMware, its chief rival,
Tuesday, Citrix released
its ballyhooed, on-demand
XenDesktop, the widgetry
that delivers custom,
managed virtual Windows
desktops from a data
center server to a user
over the network, and
priced the stuff. Theres
a fr...
Microsoft figures that in
five years time half the
Exchange mailboxes in the
world - perhaps 160
million mailboxes - will
be running on its servers
in its cloud
infrastructure on
Exchange Online. At least
that's Microsoft senior
vice-president Chris
Capossela told...
Lehman Brothers analyst
Tim Luke thinks maybe,
just maybe mind, AMD
might try to move up
Shanghai, the 45nm
version of the 65nm
Barcelona from 4Q08/1Q09
to 3Q08, which by the
calendar is just around
the corner. However, he's
not giving the
scuttlebutt that much
...