Oracle stops software development for Intel's Itanium chips
Oracle on Tuesday became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a similar announcement by Microsoft last year and Red Hat the year before. "After multiple conversations with Intel senior management, Oracle has decided to discontinue all software development on the Intel Itanium microprocessor," Oracle said in a statement late Tuesday. "Intel management made it clear that their strategic focus is on their x86 microprocessor and that Itanium was nearing the end of its life," the company added.
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SAP takes on IBM, Oracle with new GRC suite
SAP is hoping to cement its foothold in the growing market for GRC (governance, risk and compliance) software with a new suite, announced Wednesday, that is nearly three years in the making. There is "virtually no part of the product that has not been touched," said Jim Dunham, group vice president of GRC solutions.
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HTC focuses on smartphone content, hardware with new exec
High Tech Computer (HTC) named its first chief content officer this week, showing how the Taiwanese smartphone maker aims to push more deeply into content, in addition to hardware, for a long-term competitive edge. HTC picked Shashi Fernando as chief content officer to signal its commitment to developing content as a pivotal component in its devices, the company said Tuesday. In February HTC bought Saffron Digital, the mobile video firm Fernando founded in 2006, another sign of its content development ambitions.
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Brocade unites IPv4 and IPv6
Brocade this week unveiled software for its application acceleration switches that enables them to function as gateways between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6. This gateway functionality allows Brocade ServerIron customers to support IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, with eventual migration to IPv6. Release 12.3 also doubles the performance of ServerIron ADX platforms.
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U.S. carriers battle over cutting-edge network features
The network chiefs of the three biggest U.S. mobile operators disagreed about some emerging network technologies during a Tuesday afternoon panel discussion at CTIA Wireless but agreed that the wireless industry is in a period of major change.
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Firefox 4 officially released
After more than a year of development work, Mozilla's Firefox 4 browser is no
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A faster, more reliable Internet, coming to a school or library near you
In the next two or three years, you may get to experience the awesome power of Internet2 (I2) on a fairly regular basis.
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Microsoft preps System Center for the cloud
Microsoft is updating the next version of its System Center IT infrastructure and server management suite so it can manage virtual machines in the cloud. It is also adding controls that will allow departmental IT chiefs to manage their own system resources, the company announced Tuesday. Both additions to System Center 2012 suite, slated for release later this year, are necessary to help central IT departments keep pace with the requests of individual departments within their organizations.
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False alarm! Windows Update not pushing out IE9
It all started on March 17 when the folks in charge of Microsoft's @IE official Twitter account responded to a question about manually downloading Internet Explorer 9.
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New weapons forged from botnet takedown
A million compromised PCs no longer have their malicious marching orders following a massive effort by Microsoft, the U.S. Marshals, and other security experts last week to break up the Rustock botnet.
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