Seagate moving its HQ from the Cayman Islands to Ireland
This week Seagate has filed a report with the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), announcing its deciding to relocate its place of incorporation from the Cayman Islands to Ireland. According to the company, one of the reasons for the move is that legislative and regulatory bodies in various jurisdictions, have actively considered proposals and/or introduced legislation that could increase tax burden if it remained incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
The world's largest hard drive manufacturer has chosen Ireland as the new home for its base of operations, saying that the country presents a well-developed corporate, legal and regulatory environment with a long history of international investments as well as an extensive network of tax treaties that will help minimize tax burden in the future. Seagate has an office in Dublin and that will be registered as the very base of the publicly traded parent of the Seagate group.
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Symbian platform goes open source ahead of schedule
Today, the still most widely-used smartphone software platform around, Symbian, has went open source and is available for free to anyone who'd like to take a peek at it or modify it for use on other types of devices. This move is supposed to help grow the Symbian platform which, despite its great backing from Nokia, has been falling behind its rivals in many areas.
As an open source offering, Symbian is expected to accelerate innovation in and around it and become more attractive to individuals developers, as well as hardware and software companies.
"The development community is now empowered to shape the future of the mobile industry, and rapid innovation on a global scale will be the result," said Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. "When the Symbian Foundation was created, we set the target of completing the open source release of the platform by mid-2010 and it's because of the extraordinary commitment and dedication from our staff and our member companies that we've reached it well ahead of schedule."
Those interested can find the 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform here under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses. Also available are the development kits compatible with Symbian^3, which is set to be 'feature complete' later this quarter.
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Nokia 6303 classic getting an update
Nokia has just revealed its plans to release the 6303i classic, an updated version of the 6303 classic, released back in May 2009. The tweaked candybar, will come in two new colors - silver and khaki gold, have more internal memory (55MB as opposed to the 17MB of its predecessor), support for larger microSD memory cards, improved battery life ( 8 hours of calls, up from 7 hours), and a better bundle - a 2GB card, compared to the 1GB microSD of the 6303.
Other than those described, there's nothing much 'new' to report, the Nokia 6303i classic still boasting a 2.2-inch QVGA display, a 3.15 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, tri-band GSM and EDGE support, plus Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 connectivity.
The Nokia 6303i classic is expected to ship later this quarter costing 105 Euro before subsidies and taxes.
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Thunderbird 3.1 alpha 1 ready for testing
Mozilla has let loose the first alpha version of Lanikai aka Thunderbird 3.1, which is the first significant update for the December-released email client. Tbird 3.1 alpha 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine (version 3.0 uses Gecko 1.9.1.5) just like Firefox 3.6 and includes the following:
- Several improvements to IMAP.
- Several fixes for Smart Folders, message filters, and attachment handling.
- Several design improvements and corrections to the interface.
- Download Manager is now accessible as a menu item (Tools > Saved Files).
- Stability and memory improvements.
Those interested in testing the Thunderbird 3.1 alpha 1 can find it here in multiple languages and for Windows, Mac OS X, as well as Linux.
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I-O Data preps slim new external 8x DVD drive
In addition to the BRD-UH8LE Blu-Ray writer, I-O Data has this week announced another external optical drive, the DVDP-U8S. Seen below, the black-painted drive measures 137 (W) x 154 (D) x 20 (H) mm and weights 340 grams, has a USB 2.0 interface (mini USB connector), and can read DVDs at speeds of up to 8x and CDs at 24x.
The DVDP-U8S is paired up with a one-year warranty and should become available in Japan later this month priced at $87.
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Monster to buy HotJobs from Yahoo for $225 million
Monster Worldwide has confirmed the signing of a deal that will see it buy Yahoo-owned recruitment site HotJobs for $225 million in cash. HotJobs, which has been on the market since summer 2009, is expected to help Monster provide an even bigger job seeker pool for employers, more job postings, better job matches and higher search efficiency, and a broader reach for recruitment advertising.
In addition to the HotJobs deal, the two companies have also entered a three-year agreement through which Monster will become Yahoo's provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada. Moreover, Monster will be able, for a limited time, to exclusively negotiate deals with Yahoo for traffic agreements covering countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
"HotJobs with its significant customer base plus the traffic agreement are an ideal complement to Monster's innovative recruitment solutions and global reach," said Sal Iannuzzi, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Monster Worldwide. "These agreements, combined with Monster's career Communities and our recently introduced 6Sense semantic search technology, will bring substantial new benefits for employers seeking more qualified candidates and job seekers searching for more relevant opportunities across a wider range of industries - globally."
The HotJobs deal is expected to be closed in Q3 and see to the beginning of the agreement described above.
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Microsoft acknowledges yet another Internet Explorer flaw
Microsoft has yesterday issued a security advisory regarding a newly-reported Internet Explorer issue that could allow attackers to access files on a user's system (if the filename and location of the data is known). According to the Redmond-based company, the flaw affects IE5, 6, 7 and 8 on Windows XP (SP2/SP3) and Windows Server 2003 SP2, and can also be a problem for people using Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, but only if Internet Explorer Protected Mode is disabled, for whatever reason.
No exploits of the IE bug have been observed but even so Microsoft has provided a few workarounds to help people keep safe while it continues investigating the issue. After making its analysis, the company will decide the next step which may just be an update. Stay safe!
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Gigabyte delivers USB 3.0 PCIe add-in card
Gigabyte has recently introduced the GA-USB3.0, a PCI-Express expansion card that provides older (but also current) PCs with two USB 3.0 ports for use and abuse. Seen below, Gigabyte's card used a PCI-Express x1 interface, has two USB 3.0 connectors and stands out of the crowd of similar offers due to its 2oz copper blue PCB, and the MOLEX power plug which is there to help supply up to three times more watts to connected devices.
The Gigabyte GA-USB3.0 is selling for $39.99 / 31 Euro.
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Two VTX3D Radeon HD 5450 cards unveiled
PowerColor sister brand, VTX3D, has stepped up today to announce a couple of Radeon HD 5450s, one with 512MB of DDR2 memory and one with 1GB DDR3. Both cards feature 80 Stream Processors, a 64-bit memory interface, DirectX 11 and software CrossFireX support, a GPU clock of 650 MHz and a memory frequency of 800 MHz (DDR3) or 1334 MHz (DDR3).
"VTX3D HD5450 is a perfect solution for online games and other high definition entertainment of your HTPC," said Willie Huang, Sales Director of VTX3D, "With the support of latest DirectX 11 technology, VTX3D HD5450 enables the amazing entertainment experience, provides the best performance in its class!"
VTX3D's Radeon HD 5450 models take up a single PCI slot, are equipped with passive coolers and include D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs. Their prices should be under 60 Euro.
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Samsung plans to sell up to 270 million phones this year
The second-largest mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, is hoping that 2010 will be a good year for growing its influence in the mobile market and especially the smartphone zone. In 2009 Samsung's phone market share was of around 20% thanks to sales of 227 million units, and in 2010, the South Korean company wants even more, its shipping targets being of 260 million to 270 million phones.
Despite its good 2009 results, Samsung has been lagging behind most of its rivals when it comes to smartphones, a segment which will continue to grow healthy in the years to come. To combat that, the company will be pushing forward its bada platform which is expected to help with the shipping of some 18 million smartphones this year - three times more than in 2009.
The first bada phone is expected in the coming months (either in March or April) so things are moving fast for Samsung. Let's just see if it can keep the pace in the recovering phone market.
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