Nvidia to draw on graphics strength for Windows 8 on ARM
Nvidia is on the verge of delivering its own homegrown chips for Windows 8 devices, and the company hopes to use its extensive background in graphics to differentiate itself from competitors, according to a company executive. The company hopes to push its ARM-based Tegra chips to Windows 8 tablets and laptops that offer powerful graphics and long battery life, said Rene Haas, vice president and general manager at Nvidia. Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS will work on both ARM processors and x86 microprocessors.
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Microsoft patches critical Windows zero-day bug that hackers are now exploiting
Microsoft today delivered six security updates to patch 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE (Internet Explorer), Office and several other products, including one bug that attackers are already exploiting. The company also issued the first patch for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the beta-like build Microsoft released at the end of February.
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SAP aspires to become big player in databases and the mobile realm
SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM. The HANA in-memory database platform is at the center of SAP's strategy, and will eventually underpin all of its products. Many SAP customers currently run the company's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) application on rival databases, especially Oracle and IBM DB2. SAP is hoping over time to convince those customers to run HANA instead, but the necessary engineering work isn't yet finished.
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Chrome OS gets a desktop feel with new 'Aura' interface
Google's Linux-based Chrome OS may have started out as a pared-down operating system focused heavily on the browser, but a new interface that debuted on Monday is starting to feel a lot more traditional.
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Microsoft retires Vista from mainstream support this week
Microsoft is shifting Windows Vista into what it calls extended support. Vista, the problem-plagued operating system that never really took hold among users, will exit mainstream support today.
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U.S. mobile phone carriers to launch databases to identify stolen phones
Five U.S. mobile phone carriers will launch databases allowing customers to report stolen phones and prevent them from being reactivated, in a wide-ranging effort also supported by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and police chiefs to attack a growing problem of smartphone thefts.
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Gartner: Android won't challenge Apple's tablet dominance in 2012
Worldwide tablet sales to end users are expected to total 118.9 million units in 2012, with Apple continuing to dominate and the Android camp struggling to replicate its success in the smartphone market, according to Gartner. That global sales forecast, which was released Tuesday, represents a 98 percent increase from 2011, during which 60 million tablets were sold.
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Epicor lawsuit may show danger of going solo on ERP project
Epicor is being taken to court by a customer over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, but the case may illustrate the potential dangers customers engender by embarking on such IT projects by themselves. Group Manufacturing Services, a contract manufacturer for sheet metal and plastic fabrication, began speaking to Epicor about a potential software purchase in March 2011, according to the company's lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
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It's time to run Java out of town
I've been railing about Java for years, but enough is enough. Java exploits top all other infection vectors, on any platform, year after year. Oracle has shown repeatedly that it's organically incapable of keeping the Java Runtime Environment secure.
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HP advances public cloud as part of ambitious hybrid cloud strategy
After a year of chatter and
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Red Hat announces availability of Storage 2.0 beta
A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company. The product -- which is based on RHEL 6 -- provides a host of new options for software-based management of scalable storage, according to Red Hat, as well as integration with many top enterprise storage technologies like virtualization and Hadoop.
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Microsoft starts XP retirement countdown
Microsoft yesterday kicked off what it called a "two-year countdown" to the death of Windows XP, its longest-lived operating system. Windows XP and the business productivity suite Office 2003 both exit all support on April 8, 2014, a company spokeswoman said in a Monday blog post.
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Oracle attacks tape management with analytics software
Tape-storage administrators will be able to get performance information and immediate directions to prevent data loss in new management software, called StorageTek Tape Analytics, that Oracle introduced on Monday.
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