CSR has agreed to buy the leading GPS vendor SiRF, in a bid to merge another technology into its chips - and cash in on a projected boom in GPS handsets.
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IBM pushes for 21st century infrastructure
IBM has a set of new management functions and a "cloud czar", in a bid to provide the management and control that virtualised data centres and outsourced IT will require.
IBM’s Cloud Announcements – Not Just Fluff
System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.
“No-fuss” Linux net-top updated
French computer maker claims solid-state, low power desktops are the future
PC Power Management Can Save £28,000 a Year, Says Gartner
An organisation with 25,000 PCs can save $43,000 (£28,800) per year by using power management, according to research by analyst Gartner - but other analysts have called the figures a simplification.
Facebook SupportsOpenID
Facebook has joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, joining Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo in a big to to let users port port their data around the Web.
IBM Puts Zend PHP stack on System i
IBM is to preload Zend's PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of System i, the operating system for for IBM Power Systems. Around five million developers and 22 million Internet domains use PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook.
RFID Puts Us All at Risk
I've never really thought of myself as much of a seer, prognosticator or predictor of the future, but based on a column I wrote back in 2005, I may just have a future in the prediction field.
UK Academics Launch Open Source PC Power Saver
The University of Liverpool's PowerDown can shut down idle PCs, saving users thousands of pounds.
NetApp Drops SMB Storage
Storage company NetApp quietly axed its line of midmarket-based storage solutions, StoreVault.
Microsoft Changes Windows 7 UAC
Microsoft has agreed that Windows 7 will generate a prompt if there is an attempt to change the user account control settings - in response to pressure from bloggers who claimed the planned OS was vulnerable.
Wozniak Joins Storage Startup
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has signed up as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-basedcompany that makes compact NAND flash storage arrays.
Intel Delays ‘Tukwila’ Chip Again
Intel has delayed the four-core "Tukwila" `version of its Itanium processor, originally billed as the first 2 billion transistor chip and scheduled for 2007.
Green Grid Measures Data Centre Efficiency
The Green Grid consortium has issued a set of guidelines to solve one of the trickiest issues facing sustainable computing - how to measure the efficiency of a data centre.
Where Does Malware Come From?
Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be so productive? It turns out the numbers aren't really as big as all that.
Lenovo Boss Quits as PC Maker Reports A Loss
ThinkPad maker Lenovo posted its first quarterly loss in three years, and CEO William Amelio has said he will resign.
MySQL Founder Leaves Sun
MySQL founder Monty Widenius has left Sun after a very public flap over bugs in MySQL 5.1 and months of rumours.
W3C Calls for Web 2.0 Data Sharing
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter to share profiles and data, to grow further Web 2.0 opportunities.
Google Latitude Let Users Track Colleagues on Maps
A Google application called Latitude lets users track friends, family and colleagues via Google Maps on a PC or mobile device. Google says Latitude is available on BlackBerry, S60 and Windows Mobile devices, and is coming to the Apple ...
EMC and Microsoft Renew Alliance Despite Virtualization Conflict
Microsoft and data storage giant EMC are renewing their product partnership, despite growing competition in the fast-growing area of virtualization.
Intel Plans Eight-Core Nehalem and Smarter SOCs
Intel will give details of a 2.3 billion transistor, eight core processor, and smarter system-on-chip (SOC) modules that include wireless networking and graphics on the die itself, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ...
New VMware Open-Source Client Heralds New Devices
VMware View Open Client, released 3rd February, will most likely boost the number of thin-client devices from Wyse, HP and Sun.
SAP’s CIO Customers Won’t Do Business on iPhone
The Apple iPhone is not a business tool, according to CIOs speaking at a SAP software launch. Despite burgeoning iPhone sales, executives from IBM, healthcare company Roche and others are backing BlackBerry.
Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT
Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers. What, we asked Citrix, is so green about virtualization?
Skype 4.0 for Windows Updates VOIP
The VOIP calling service releases Skype 4.0 for Windows. The latest version of Skype features full-screen video calling, a bandwidth manager, a new audio codec that improves call quality and easier setup, Skype says.
Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo
Many people send e-mail messages while exhausted, angry or inebriated that they later regret. As part of Google's quest to attract users to its Gmail service, the Internet search and messaging and collaboration company has introduced d ...
Box.net Becomes Social Content Management Service
Box.net, which began life as a file management and file-sharing platform in a cloud computing environment, is becoming a more robust content management provider. The startup adds profiles, discussions, bookmarks and other messaging, co ...
New Citrix XenDesktop Release Enhances Desktop Virtualization, User Experience
The new release of Citrix's XenDesktop product aims to make desktop virtualization cheaper and friendlier for office workers, by increasing the number of desktops that one server can support while improving multimedia and voice deliver ...
Microsoft to Blitz Market with Six Editions of Windows 7
It's official: Microsoft will release at least six versions of Windows 7, following the same marketing approach it took with Vista. Joe Wilcox says some things Vista shouldn't have been repeated.
Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting ...