IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 27/05/2010

Intel cancels Larrabee graphics chip but has plans for its features

Intel won't ship its Larrabee graphics processor, but elements of the chip will be used in future server and laptop processors, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

The company on late Tuesday said it wouldn't bring its first discrete graphics processor to market, ending speculation about the chip's fate after the company last year said it would miss its scheduled 2010 commercial release.

Ruby on Rails 3.0 moves nearer release

Ruby on Rails 3.0, the next major version of the popular Web development framework, is expected to reach a release candidate phase -- generally the last phase before a general release -- in two weeks.

Available in a beta release since February, Rails 3.0 features the merger of Rails with the Merb framework.

Amazon CEO: Kindle won't compete with iPad

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos says that his company won't try to make the Kindle more iPad-like. At the company's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday, Bezos stressed that the Kindle targets what he calls "serious readers," while the iPad aims for a far broader audience.

Of course, the Wall Street Journal reports that Bezos added: "90 percent of households are not serious reading households."

Oracle buys telecom billing technology

Oracle announced Wednesday it is acquiring technology for prepaid telecommunications billing from eServGlobal, boosting its hand in the telecom market.

The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year. Terms were not disclosed. EServGlobal, based in Sydney, Australia, will continue as a separate company, focusing on mobile payments and value-added services.

Update: New browser add-on blocks Google Analytics

Google has released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service, which Websites can use to collect data about their visitors.

Google said it developed the tool "to provide Website visitors with more choice about how their data is collected."

Ballmer: No change in Microsoft's mobile strategy

The management shakeup at Microsoft's entertainment and devices division doesn't reflect dissatisfaction with the company's mobile and game console strategies, company CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday.

"Robbie Bach's been thinking about the possibility of retiring and spending more time with his family. He and I talked about whether we should go ahead and announce that now or wait until after Christmas," said Ballmer, who was in Singapore as part of a trip to Southeast Asia.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff loves the iPad

Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, was full of enthusiasm for cloud computing at his company's CloudForce 2 conference in Singapore this week, but he was also pumped up by something else: Apple's iPad.

Google sued over Wi-Fi sniffing

Galaxy Internet Services, an ISP for homes and businesses in Massachusetts, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google over the search company's admitted blunder that it sniffed and stored data from Wi-Fi networks.

Through its legal representative, Carp Law Offices, Galaxy said on Tuesday that Google violated U.S. federal and Massachusetts privacy laws when it captured residential and business Web activity data.

Gartner: HP tops IBM in worldwide server revenue

Hewlett-Packard knocked IBM from the top spot in worldwide server revenue during the first quarter, as the market for x86 systems picked up but sales of Unix and mainframe systems continued to decline, Gartner said on Tuesday.

Worldwide server revenue climbed 6 percent from a year earlier, to $10.8 billion. Unit shipments climbed 23 percent to 2.1 million, meaning selling prices were generally lower.

McAfee to acquire Trust Digital to further mobile security

McAfee Tuesday said it's signed an agreement to acquire privately held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, the enterprise sector in particular. The acquisition price for Trust Digital was not disclosed.

Google building speech capabilities for browsers

Google technologists are hopeful that speech capabilities they are developing for browsers could serve as industry-standard technology.

The company is developing voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers, said Ian Fette, product manager for the Google Chrome team, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco late last week. Chrome is Google's Web browser.

VoltDB OLTP database exits beta

VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday.

Google Chrome browser exits beta for Mac and Linux

Google has removed the beta label from the latest version of its Chrome browser, marking the first time a "stable release" is available for the Linux and Mac OS platforms, not just Windows.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 27/05/2010

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