The rise and fall of the Windows Desktop Gadget
In a move that took many by surprise, Microsoft dropped support for new Windows Desktop Gadgets.
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'iPad effect' produces surprising browser share results
September was a cruel month, at least for Internet Explorer.
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Adapteva aims 64-core chip at tablets, smartphones
Smartphones and tablets are demanding more computing power, and chip company Adapteva hopes to bring server-type performance to the devices with a chip it is announcing on Monday. The Epiphany IV chip packs 64 cores, and can provide 70 gigaflops of performance while consuming one watt of power, said Andreas Olofsson, Adapteva's CEO. A watt may be high for smartphones, but performance and power consumed by the cores can be scaled down to accelerate tasks such as hand-gesture recognition and face recognition, Olofsson said.
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Oracle launching 'Big Data,' in-memory appliances
Oracle is apparently adding two more members to its family of systems that combine hardware and software, including one that targets 'Big Data' and another with in-memory computing capabilities. The Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine were lined up outside the main keynote hall on Sunday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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Alibaba's Jack Ma interested in buying Yahoo
Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, said on Friday at an event at Stanford University that he was interested in acquiring Yahoo, according to reports, making this the first public overture by the Chinese company which is about 40 percent owned by Yahoo.
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Microsoft's IE9-first strategy fails to stem browser slide
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) last month continued to shed users, losing the largest chunk of share since December 2010, Web measurement firm Net Applications reported Saturday. During September, IE lost nine-tenths of a percentage point of share to slip to 54.4 percent, a record low for the browser. Last month's drop was the seventh straight decline and the most since last December, when IE fell by 1.1 points.
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Ellison unveils 'Exalytics' in-memory machine
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the Exalytics Intelligence Machine, the latest member of the company's products that combine software and hardware, during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference on Sunday in San Francisco.
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JavaOne celebrates the success of enterprise Java
Enterprise Java may not be as trendy these days as social networking, HTML5, or mobile computing, but it remains a mainstay in IT and will receive plenty of attention at this week's annual signature conference devoted to the now-16-year-old Java platform.
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Payroll giant ADP unveils major HR play in the cloud
ADP is arguably the first cloud service provider: The company has presented hosted payroll services for a big chunk of the business world since 1957.
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Verizon files challenge to FCC's Net neutrality rules
Verizon Communications has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality rules, the company said Friday. The FCC's Net neutrality rules, approved by the commission in December, are illegal because they would modify Verizon's existing spectrum licenses without the company's approval, the company said in its notice of appeal, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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