Oracle makes a fresh run at Microsoft SharePoint
Oracle is hoping to make new inroads against the likes of Microsoft SharePoint with WebCenter Suite 11g, which was announced Tuesday. The company has pulled together a superset of capabilities from its various portal products for the new product, said Andy MacMillan, vice president of product management.
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Memory-chip prices set to rise with DRAM demand in Q2
Taiwan’s largest computer memory chipmaker on Tuesday forecast a jump in demand for its components in the second quarter of the year as orders from contract computer manufacturers pick up, heralding an all-but-certain DRAM price hikes. Powerchip Semiconductor Chairman Frank Huang said that between April and June demand for DRAM -- dynamic random-access memory -- would exceed supply, Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported.
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MicroStrategy ramps up its BI strategy for iPad, iPhone
MicroStrategy will announce a series of new BI (business intelligence) products for Apple mobile devices, transactional data systems, and on-demand deployments at its annual user conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft takes a swing at the iPad and misses by a mile
Yesterday ZDNet posted a handful of PowerPoint slides aimed at Microsoft resellers who are trying to sell
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Vid.ly offers answer to HTML5 video standards war
A site called Vid.ly this week is debuting its answer to the emerging battle between Google, Microsoft, and others over the future of HTML5 video standards.
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Cisco adds Mozy cloud service to Smart Storage box
Cisco Systems today unveiled a cloud storage feature for its series of entry-level desktop NSS 300 Series Smart Storage storage arrays. The Mozy hosted backup service, which has been added to the array's management software, is designed to let users set up automatic cloud-based backups, said David Tucker, vice president of Cisco's small business technology group.
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HP lays Neoview BI platform to rest
Hewlett-Packard has officially consigned its Neoview to history, less than four years after introducing it to the market as the company's core offering in the business intelligence (BI) space. In a brief statement today, HP said it has decided to "stop actively selling" Neoview.
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HP to launch enterprise cloud service
Rounding out its portfolio of cloud-related offerings, Hewlett-Packard will launch a cloud compute service next month aimed at enterprises. The company will also start offering computing systems for internal use that will interoperate with the cloud offering, as well as a set of workshops to aid organizations in developing cloud strategies, said Bill Veghte, HP executive vice president overseeing software and solutions.
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Google Android tablets gain traction with developers
Although Apple's iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers' interest, according to a survey conducted earlier this month.
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VMware sales up 37 percent due to spending on virtualization software
VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 percent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday. Revenue for the three months to Dec. 31 was $835.6 million, up from $608.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 and ahead of analysts' expectations, Thomson Reuters said.
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Report: Motorola Xoom to launch on Feb. 17, priced at $700
The Motorola Xoom 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet will cost $700 when it first appears on Feb. 17, according to leaked documents and an unnamed Engadget.com source. The Xoom runs Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, which is maximized for tablets.
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U.S. broadband speeds lag behind global counterparts
South Korea and Japan collectively boast the top 45 of the 100 cities with fastest average broadband connections worldwide, while the United States has just 13 cities on the list, most in the bottom 20 percent. These are the findings in Akamai's recently released quarterly "The State of the Internet" report [PDF], which provides Internet statistics on areas such as broadband adoption, mobile connectivity, and attack traffic.
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Report: Oracle confining Java future to enterprise use
Oracle is limiting the development of Java by focusing the future development of the language on enterprise use, to the detriment of a wider, more diverse Java community, charged a pair of analysts at Forrester Research. "Sun had a very broad focus for Java, including enterprise middleware but also PCs, mobile devices, and embedded systems. Oracle's focus will be on enterprise middleware first and foremost, because that's where the money is," concluded the report, authored by Forrester analysts Jeffrey Hammond and John Rymer.
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