IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 30/09/2009

Open-Xchange adds push e-mail to mobile phones

Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is launching OXtender for Business Mobility, which adds support for push e-mail to mobile phones that use Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, it said on Wednesday.

OXtender for Business Mobility also lets users synchronize contacts, calendar and other information from Open-Xchange accounts over the air. It can also be used to send information from social networks, including LinkedIn, Xing and Facebook, to mobile phones, according to Rafael Laguna, Open-Xchange CEO.

Wi-Fi Alliance launches full 802.11n certification

The Wi-Fi Alliance is launching a certification program based on the completed IEEE 802.11n standard on Wednesday and looking toward a future peer-to-peer specification it is developing on its own.

Testing has now begun in the "Certified n" program, which succeeds the Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n draft 2.0 program that the industry group began two years ago. The testing begins with two labs but will expand to 13 locations within the next few weeks.

U.S. regains chip gear spending crown

Who says the U.S. is losing its edge in manufacturing? The nation will spend more on new chip manufacturing equipment this year than any other country, regaining a title it last held in 1994, according to the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).

Unisys uses the cloud to manage mobile devices

Unisys is introducing a new service on Wednesday that will allow its customers to better manage, secure and support mobile devices carried around by employees, company executives said on Tuesday.

Staff now expect to use their choice of devices anytime and anywhere, and this causes problems for CIOs around cost, the cost of support, and the security of applications and data, said Tony Doye, president of Unisys' Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services group, in a telephone interview.

Google at 11: Taking the battle to Microsoft

Eleven years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google with a search engine and a plan. Now their company has grown into an online behemoth battling head-to-head with industry giant Microsoft while the term Google is a verb that means Internet search.

Obviously, a lot has changed for the company and its founders since Sept. 27, 1998.

Smart Grid vulnerabilities could cause widespread disruptions

A cybersecurity coordination task force released a report this week that assesses various security and privacy requirements for the U.S. Smart Grid , as well as strategies needed to address them.

Salesforce.com, Coda form new SaaS financials company

Unit 4 Agresso and on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com will announce Wednesday they are launching a new company called FinancialForce.com that will incorporate the Coda 2go on-demand financial application.

Unit 4 Agresso is the parent company of venerable financials software vendor Coda, maker of Coda 2go and a range of on-premises applications. Coda CEO Jeremy Roche will serve the same role at FinancialForce.com, and the new company's board will include members from Unit 4 Agresso, Salesforce.com, and Coda.

Arm chips for mobile devices find a place in commercial laptops

After comfortably residing for years in mobile devices like cell phones, chips based on the Arm design are finding their way into commercial laptops.

However, Arm processors could be relegated to co-processor status alongside Intel CPUs in commercial laptops unless the chips are able to run full-featured, Windows-based PC applications, analysts said.

Oracle beefs up financial reporting capabilities with HyperRoll software

Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday.

HyperRoll develops so-called financial reporting acceleration software, which is used by large companies to aggregate data from different sources and close their books faster at the end of a financial quarter. Oracle plans to add the software to its Enterprise Performance Management suite.

Will Windows 7 really be worth the investment?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put on his sales hat Tuesday and made a case for why businesses should upgrade to Windows 7, despite an economy in which many IT budgets have been frozen or are lower than in years past.

"It's a different environment today than the environment we all sat in a year-and-a-half ago," Ballmer told a roomful of business customers at an event in San Francisco.

Will Windows 7 really be worth the investment?

"It's a different environment today than the environment we all sat in a year-and-a-half ago," Ballmer told a roomful of business customers at an event in San Francisco.

Sun communications suite upgraded to version 7

Sun Microsystems is shipping version 7 of its the Sun Java Communications Suite, offering a Web 2.0 client as well as wireless email, آ interoperability and search capabilities, the company said.

Featuring capabilities for mail, calendaring, group scheduling and instant messaging, the suite has been deployed in more than 170 million seats in previous versions, Sun said. Featured in version 7 are a "state-of-the-art AJAX Web 2.0 client experience" and wireless "push" email, Sun said.

100,000 early users catch Google's Wave

Google's highly anticipated communication and collaboration tool - Google Wave - is one big step closer to its first customer shipment.

The company is inviting about 100,000 users and developers to preview the new technology, Lars Rasmussen, an engineering manager, and Stephanie Hannon, a group product manager at Google, said in a blog post today . The users and developers will get the invitations tomorrow, they said in the post.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 30/09/2009

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