Saturday, August 28, 2010

IT News HeadLines (IT World Canada) 28/08/2010



HP makes US$2B bid against Dell’s US$1.8B
The bidding war continues Friday with Hewlett-Packard upping its bid to $2 billion, trumping Dell’s $1.8 billion. While the ball is still in 3PAR's court, Dell still has an opportunity to answer with another bid
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RIM clarifies three misperceptions about BlackBerry
RIM proposes establishing an industry forum to work with Government of India on encryption issues and stresses the need to ‘unequivocally clarify’ three misperceptions, in a statement Thursday. But RIM isn't clarifying the difference between BES, BBM and BIS, says one analyst
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Intel closing in on deal with Infineon, reports say
The buying spree could be continuing at Intel. In effort to get a stronger footing in smartphone market, the company is reportedly ready to buy Infineon's wireless chip unit
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Mozilla mulls end of support for PowerPC Macs
Firefox 4 "not likely" to support aging Macs, Mozilla says. Apple discared IBM's PowerPC architecture in 2005 after making the shift to Intel processors
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Canadian Tire, McCain Foods share BI adoption tactics
The business intelligence vendor has broadened its platform to Apple’s iPhone and iPad with sensory-based functionality like shaking the device to refresh it. Customers Canadian Tire, McCain Foods and Bank of Montreal share their BI tactics for user adoption
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HP acquires automation vendor Stratavia
HP buys Stratavia to help enhance its Cloud Service Automation for automatic deployment of databases, middleware and packaged applications in cloud computing environments
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Microsoft boosts access to secure development docs
The Redmond giant hopes more developers will take up SDL best practices with a move to Creative Commons license
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HP makes US$2B bid against Dell’s US$1.8B
The bidding war continues Friday with Hewlett-Packard upping its bid to $2 billion, trumping Dell’s $1.8 billion. While the ball is still in 3PAR's court, Dell still has an opportunity to answer with another bid
Read More ...

RIM clarifies three misperceptions about BlackBerry
RIM proposes establishing an industry forum to work with Government of India on encryption issues and stresses the need to ‘unequivocally clarify’ three misperceptions, in a statement Thursday. But RIM isn't clarifying the difference between BES, BBM and BIS, says one analyst
Read More ...

Intel closing in on deal with Infineon, reports say
The buying spree could be continuing at Intel. In effort to get a stronger footing in smartphone market, the company is reportedly ready to buy Infineon's wireless chip unit
Read More ...

Mozilla mulls end of support for PowerPC Macs
Firefox 4 "not likely" to support aging Macs, Mozilla says. Apple discared IBM's PowerPC architecture in 2005 after making the shift to Intel processors
Read More ...

Canadian Tire, McCain Foods share BI adoption tactics
The business intelligence vendor has broadened its platform to Apple’s iPhone and iPad with sensory-based functionality like shaking the device to refresh it. Customers Canadian Tire, McCain Foods and Bank of Montreal share their BI tactics for user adoption
Read More ...

HP acquires automation vendor Stratavia
HP buys Stratavia to help enhance its Cloud Service Automation for automatic deployment of databases, middleware and packaged applications in cloud computing environments
Read More ...

Microsoft boosts access to secure development docs
The Redmond giant hopes more developers will take up SDL best practices with a move to Creative Commons license
Read More ...

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