Tuesday, February 5, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 06/02/2013


Intel shrinks its solid-state drives, aims for tablets Intel's new solid-state drive 525 packs performance identical to a standard 2.5-inch SSD into a device one eighth of the size, the company said in an announcement last week. The SSD 525 comes in 30GB, 60GB, 90GB, 120GB, 180GB, and 240GB sizes, and uses the same 25nm memory architecture as Intel's larger solid-state options. The drives use mini-SATA connectors, which allow them to be plugged into smaller PCIe slots common to notebooks while still providing a full SATA 6GB/s data rate. Read More ...
SAP to hike Standard Support fees on new contracts SAP is planning to impose a higher price on its Standard Support software maintenance offering later this year, with the increase applying only to new contracts. "In order to ensure the same high level of quality support in the future, we will change the maintenance rate for new maintenance contracts with SAP Standard Support from 18 percent to 19 percent, effective July 15, 2013," SAP said in a statement released Monday. "This adjustment does not apply to any existing maintenance contracts for SAP Standard Support closed before July 15, 2013." Read More ...
WebRTC creates interop between Chrome and Firefox Developers now can create audio and video communications applications that work across the Chrome and Firefox browsers without the need for plug-ins. This is possible via the use of WebRTC standard technologies for high-quality audio and high-definition video communications in Web-based applications, according to Google and Mozilla. Read More ...
Mac users pick the name they want for OS X 10.9 With rumors heating up that the developer beta for OS X 10.9 may be right around the corner, InfoWorld Read More ...
Good-bye PC maker Dell and hello cloud company Dell Back in May, "Mad Money"'s Jim Cramer declared Dell's stock dead, citing the company's inability to compete with the likes of Ap Read More ...
Top 10 tech upgrades to make your small business run faster If you run a small business, you know that things happen faster than they do in the corporate world. Thats all the more reason to make sure your technology is up to date and is able to keep up with you and your employees. If you're lucky enough to have extra funds in this year's IT budget, or if you're planning to invest in incremental improvements, here are 10 tech upgrades that will help your employees get things done faster in 2013. Read More ...
U.S. patent production at highest point since Industrial Revolution U.S tech companies lead all other industries in patent production, and Silicon Valley has the highest patent-producing population, says a new study. Moreover, the rate of patenting by U.S. inventors "is at its highest point since the Industrial Revolution," says a report by the Brookings Institution, titled "Patenting Prosperity." Read More ...
HTC says phones with larger screens are on the way Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will release phones with screens larger than 5 inches, and develop more budget-friendly handsets for the Chinese market, its CFO said Monday. "We will not limit ourselves to below 5 [inches]," said HTC CFO Chialin Chang during a conference call Monday. "We will have a more exciting product line up in the coming months. You will see." Read More ...
HP ships Chromebook, looks beyond Windows laptops Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook has a 14-inch screen and runs on a dual-core Intel processor. The laptop is roughly 21 millimeters thick, and weighs 1.8 kilograms. It offers just over four hours of battery life, said David Conrad, director for product management at HP's consumer products group. Read More ...
Neo Technology execs: How Neo4j beat Oracle Database Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem Read More ...
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