NetSuite unveils vertical on-demand ERP suite
NetSuite is stepping up its vertical strategy with an on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) edition aimed at discrete manufacturers, the term for companies that create customizable products by assembling parts.
NetSuite Manufacturing Edition includes functionality built by Rootstock Software on NetSuite's technology platform. The companies first announced a partnership some time ago. Until now, the product has been in beta with a few select customers, according to a spokeswoman.
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Major Oracle BI launch coming next month
Oracle is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, according to the company's Website.
Company President Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development, will deliver presentations at the event.
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Google wants to patent technology used to 'snoop' Wi-Fi networks
Google's secret Wi-Fi snooping was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed Wednesday alleged.
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Google App Engine's datastore falters under demand
Two weeks after announcing a business version of its Google App Engine application building and hosting service, Google is acknowledging that the performance of the product's datastore has been chronically deficient for weeks.
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FTC cracks down on spyware seller
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Florida spyware vendor CyberSpy Software, two years after suing the company for selling "100 percent undetectable" keylogging software.
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Microsoft opens cloud computing center in Taiwan
Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized computing services.
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HP unveils network, storage gear to feed small business demand
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced a variety of products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a segment that worldwide spends an estimated $234 billion per year on IT products, the company said.
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Chip giants set up Linux group for phones, tablets
A group of chip makers including IBM, Samsung Electronics, and Texas Instruments on Thursday unveiled Linaro, a new software-engineering foundation dedicated to improving Linux distributions, including Android, MeeGo, and Ubuntu, used in consumer devices.
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After buggy patch, criminals exploit Windows flaw
Online criminals are scanning the Internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven't had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, Symantec said Wednesday.
Symantec first spotted the attacks on Monday, saying that they are extremely limited. Symantec's detection network picked up just a handful of attempts, but the code used in the attacks is new and gives hackers a way to take over a system.
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Microsoft's Ozzie mum on tablet plans
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was happy to talk about the history of computing Wednesday at a Silicon Valley event but did not want to talk about its future, as least as far as what Microsoft's plans might be pertaining to tablet computing.
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How Sybase rescued itself and became worth $6 billion
Few companies get a chance at a second life. When John Chen signed on as CEO of Sybase in 1998, the database software vendor was, in Chen's own words, "a very, very dead company." Once a strong competitor to Oracle, Sybase had lost its way, in part because it missed the opportunity to enter the enterprise application market Oracle now leads.
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Engine Yard expands Rails apps cloud services
Engine Yard will extend on Thursday its services for cloud-based services for Ruby on Rails applications, giving users the option to deploy on Terremark infrastructure.
The company's xCloud service enables deployments of Rails applications onto Teramark. Engine Yard already has offered Rails application hosting on the Amazon cloud via the Engine Yard AppCloud service.
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Analyst: New iPhone could ship next month
Apple could ship the fourth-generation iPhone as early as July, a financial analyst wrote in a research note on Wednesday.
The new iPhone could ship a month after its official announcement, which is expected June 7 at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, said Doug Reid of Thomas Weisel Partners. It will succeed the iPhone 3GS, which was announced on June 8 last year and became available 11 days later.
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