Friday, 03 September 2010

Out & About

3Par faces lawsuit as bidding war continues
Crossroads Systems has sued 3Par and six other companies for patent infringement

Fujitsu says green IT services can cut bills by 20 percent
Fujitsu is offering new services in the US and UK aimed at helping reduce IT energy bills

Is Charles Phillips leaving Oracle?
Co-president Charles Phillips may soon be leaving Oracle after a recent change in its upper management, according to a financial analyst

Blue Coat brings in new CEO
Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the company to instead work on product strategy

Updated Apple TV takes centre stage at event
Apple launched a smaller and cheaper Apple TV device at a press event on Wednesday

Gartner raises semiconductor revenue forecast for 2010
Gartner raised its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast for this year as sales of devices like smartphones and tablets gain steam

Salesforce.com rolls out contact-data service
Salesforce.com rolled out a new service on Wednesday that integrates business-contact information with its own CRM application and Chatter collaboration software

Oracle lawsuit unlikely to prompt Java forking
Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson says fragmentation probably won't happen, though Oracle's behaviour isn't helping

Gartner projecting weaker second half for PC shipments
Gartner projected a weaker-than-expected second half for worldwide PC shipments with mature-market economies recovering slowly

Dell hawks its new modular datacentre
Dell showed a new modular datacentre design that it has started selling to its largest "hyperscale" customers

Samsung: Glasses-free 3D TV not ready yet
A Samsung executive said that glasses-free 3D TV may not be ready for prime time yet

Trend Micro brings encryption to the cloud
Trend Micro is blazing a new trail with a service called SecureCloud intended to give enterprises a way to encrypt data in cloud-computing environments

VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps
VMware is developing a new hosted service that will allow delivery of cloud-based desktop applications to any sort of user device

NetApp, Syncsort team up on data protection
NetApp and SyncSort are bringing storage and data protection together in a single product, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup

VMware grows cloud stack with two acquisitions
VMware acquires Integrien and TriCipher to add to its growing stack of cloud software

AutoCAD coming to iPad, iPhone, returning to Mac
Design and engineering software back on Mac OS after 18-year absence

Scam preys on required TweetDeck update
With a forced TweetDeck update coming on Tuesday, scammers are trying to trick TweetDeck users into downloading Trojan programmes

Google scoops up fifth company this month
Google has acquired game developer SocialDeck

HP agrees to pay US$55 million to settle gov't fraud charges
Resolves charges that it engaged in a contracting kickback scheme involving the US government

3M offers US$943M for biometric security vendor Cogent Systems
Acquisition will allow 3M to expand its ID card business

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