Oracle takes stake in Infiniband vendor Mellanox
Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 percent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of InfiniBand interconnects for servers and storage systems. Mellanox's InfiniBand technologies were already being used in Oracle's growing line of high-performance appliances, which include the Exadata database machine and Exalogic, a large-scale application server announced at the recent OpenWorld conference.
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Top IT vendors join in effort to create SSD PCIe standard
A coalition of top IT vendors today announced the creation of the Solid State Drive (SSD) Form Factor Working Group to create a standard that will allow manufacturers to add a PCIe interface to NAND flash products and significantly boost throughput.
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Microsoft slaps product activation on Mac Office 2011
For the first time, Microsoft has made product activation mandatory for users of Office for the Mac. But Microsoft has saddled the new Office for Mac 2011 with an activation process that's significantly more draconian than that demanded of customers running the Windows version of the suite.
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The high price of China's tech metal monopoly
China is producing 97 percent of the world's supply of rare earth elements, and is using its monopoly power against the U.S. by cutting exports, raising prices, and fashioning its power as an incentive for electronics makers to increase or shift production to China.
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Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers
Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half. The company is contributing chips, motherboards, and software to the project, as well as other engineering expertise, said Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region for Intel, in an interview.
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Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code
Oracle has updated its lawsuit against Google to allege that parts of its Android mobile phone software "directly copied" Oracle's Java code. Oracle filed a surprise lawsuit against Google in August, claiming portions of Google's mobile OS platform infringe Java-related copyrights that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems.
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Mozilla: No Firefox 4 until 2011
Nearly six months ago, Mozilla said that Firefox 4 would be released in November and that if it wasn't ready by then, the company would skip a December
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Big businesses get serious about an open cloud
If you were a business operating in the perfect cloud computing world, everything would work in harmony. The stuff under your roof or hosted elsewhere would all operate with plug-and-play simplicity, thanks to open standards.
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Verizon launches iPad sales in stores on Thursday
Verizon Wireless kicks off sales of Apple's iPad bundled either with a MiFi mobile hotspot or as Wi-Fi-only units in 2,000 stores on Thursday. Also tomorrow, AT&T will offer the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models in 2,200 stores with data plans starting at $14.99 a month.
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SAP: Larry Ellison is wrong about HP CEO Apotheker
SAP fired back Wednesday against a broadside Oracle CEO Larry Ellison leveled Tuesday at its former CEO Léo Apotheker, saying Ellison made a significant error in the heated missive. Oracle is suing SAP over intellectual-property violations committed by its now-defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary, in a case set to go to trial next week.
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Chip giants investigate more power-efficient chip design
A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume less energy when in use and leak less energy when in stand-by mode. Called Steeper, the research project aims to eliminate processor power consumption almost entirely when chips are in stand-by mode, as well as cut power usage by 10 times when in use.
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