Dell previews ultra-thin Adamo laptop design
Hoping to generate some buzz around its Adamo laptops, Dell showed off an ultra-thin design on Wednesday that could heat up the race between PC makers trying to build the world's thinnest laptop.
Dell put up a Web page Wednesday showing an Adamo that measures just 9.9 mm (0.4 inches) at its thinnest point. That's almost half as thick as the current Adamo 13, which measured 16.39 mm (0.65 inches) at its thinnest point.
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Mozilla patches 10 Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities
Mozilla on Wednesday patched 10 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.5, all but one ranked critical, as it delivered the first update that automatically checks for outdated versions of the popular Flash Player plug-in.
In four separate sets of patches, Firefox 3.5.3 fixed a total of 10 flaws, the majority of them stability issues in the application's browser and JavaScript rendering engines, some of which Mozilla said might be exploitable by hackers.
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Update: Microsoft enterprise licensing deals still tough to come by
Despite efforts from Microsoft over the years to simplify its software licensing for businesses, a new analyst report said it's more complex than ever for companies to figure out the most cost-effective way to acquire products from the vendor.
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AMD's new laptop platform improves on graphics
AMD on Thursday introduced new processors and improved graphics capabilities as part of its latest laptop platform that could up the ante in its battle with rival chip maker Intel.
The platform, codenamed Tigris, includes processors belonging to the Turion II X2 and Athlon lines that deliver greater system performance while drawing less power compared to their predecessors. The platform also include a number of power enhancement and graphics features that could improve multimedia performance on laptops while improving battery life.
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Adobe upgrades, changes name of rich media content controller
Adobe Systems is renaming Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, which controls access to streams of rich media content,آ to Adobe Flash Access and adding capabilities to control downloaded Flash content.
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SAP: Still no ship date for long-promised small business ERP suite
A top SAP executive said Wednesday that the vendor's Business ByDesign on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite for small businesses will take "the world by storm" one day, but declined to reveal when a long-anticipated broader release will occur.
SAP initially announced the suite in late 2007, and predicted it would generate $1 billion in revenue by 2010. But it subsequently limited the rollout to a handful of markets while working to make sure the SaaS (software as a service) application will be profitable enough at scale.
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Apple announces iPhone 3.1
Apple released on Wednesday the iPhone 3.1 software update, as predicted. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the update on stage at the Yerba Buena Center during the "Rock and Roll" event. The software includes a handful of new features and bug fixes.
With over 75,000 apps in the App Store, it can be difficult to find new applications. Apple's extended its Genius media-recommendation algorithm to iPhone applications. It looks at the apps you already own and makes recommendations based on that information.
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Introducing the Pre’s smaller sibling: Palm’s new Pixi
Palm on Wednesday introduced the Pixi, its second phone designed to use webOS, the same operating system that powers its much-ballyhooed Pre model. It's coming to U.S. carrier Sprint in time for the holidays at a price to be announced later.
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Verizon secures large firms' mobile devices
Verizon Business on Wednesday announced Managed Mobility Solutions, a new service for large multinational businesses that provides security for mobile devices and mobile expense management.
Verizon officials said the offering is different than those from other carriers such as AT&T since it brings its professional services consulting practice together with mobility management tools from Sybase for security and Quickcomm Software Solutions for expense management.
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Salesforce.com to revamp its customer service app
Salesforce.com on Wednesday will make a series of announcements regarding its Service Cloud customer-service applications, which are a major part of the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's long-term growth plans.
First unveiled in January, the Service Cloud strategy presumes that in order to find answers to product and service questions, customers are increasingly using means besides traditional call centers, such as search engines or social-networking and messaging services like Facebook and Twitter.
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