What will Google gain from an online tablet store?
Will an online store selling Android tablets help Google compete against the market-leading iPad and the less-expensive Kindle Fire?
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Qualcomm's quad-core chips to counter Intel's ultrabooks
Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for thin and light Windows 8 laptops, which the chip maker hopes will steal some thunder from Intel's second wave of Ultrabooks due later this year. The S4 chips will go into laptops that are thinner and lighter than Apple's MacBook Air or today's ultrabooks, according to Rob Chandhok, senior vice president at Qualcomm. Ultrabooks are being promoted by Intel as a new category of thin and light laptops.
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Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud
Dell said this week it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company. Dell's Simplified DaaS (Desktop as a Service) is a cloud-based virtual desktop offering targeted at companies of any size. Dell partnered on the offering with Desktone, a company that makes software to access cloud-based desktops. The product is expected to be available at some point this quarter and pricing details have not yet been released.
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Red Hat: Beware of cloud 'open-washing'
Open source software company Red Hat believes that companies like VMware and Microsoft are skewing the definition of open cloud by claiming that their virtualization products are open when in fact they are closed. Speaking at a round table conference in London this week, Scott Crenshaw, head of Red Hat's Cloud Business Unit, said that several virtualization vendors have started to claim they are open as a marketing gimmick.
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Possible massive data breach of Visa-MasterCard accounts under investigation
A massive data breach of a payment-card processor's network could involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers, according to security news writer Brian Krebs in his online posting today.
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Intel plans superchip for high-performance computing
Intel this week said it was investing in the development of a "superchip" for high-performance computing systems that the company hopes will raise its supercomputing profile. The superchip is aimed at providing high-bandwidth throughput with the use of InfiniBand interconnect technology, said Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager for the datacenter and connected systems group, this week.
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Vote on nano-SIM standard postponed after row
The ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has decided to postpone a vote on a specification for nano-SIMs, after a row erupted between Apple and the backers of a competing proposal, Nokia, RIM (Research In Motion), and Motorola Mobility. ETSI is working on a standard for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM (or 4FF for the fourth form factor, which is the official name).
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Analysts: Foxconn's overtime reduction will not affect product prices
Low labor costs and a growing reliance on automation will ensure Apple supplier Foxconn's newly announced efforts to reduce overtime for its employees and hire extra workers has no effect on product prices, according to analysts.
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Micron settles memory price-fixing lawsuit from Oracle
Micron Technology has reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by Oracle over an alleged conspiracy to increase DRAM prices, it said on Thursday. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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How IBM manages 80,000 bring-your-own devices
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time. The IBM workforce is "hugely mobile," with many working at client sites, home offices, and other locations outside corporate buildings, Horan said in a recent interview at IBM's office in Cambridge, Mass. IBM has long had a corporate managed mobile phone plan that historically has focused on BlackBerrys, she said.
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Printer ink: How to spend less
Human blood costs about $17.27 an ounce, silver about $34 an ounce. But both are bargains compared to the ink sold to the owners of inkjet printers, which can exceed $80 an ounce. Meanwhile, the ink used to print newspapers costs about 16 cents an ounce.
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Gnome 3.4 brings a bevy of big changes
Roughly a year after the launch of Gnome 3, the project's developers have unveiled Gnome 3.4, the second major update to the controversial desktop environment.
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Google takes CAPTCHA security to the streets
In a move that could make CAPTCHA challenges a bit easier for humans and more difficult for bots, Google is experimenting with using street-number images from Street View to strengthen its reCAPTCHA authentication technology.
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