Oracle, CedarCrestone settle lawsuit over third-party support
Oracle has settled a lawsuit it brought last year against a former partner it alleged was providing third-party support for its PeopleSoft application in an illegal fashion. "Oracle America, Oracle International Corporation, and CedarCrestone, Inc. announce that they have amicably resolved the litigation between them," Oracle said in a brief statement on its website. "The terms of the settlement are confidential."
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Android wins Q2 tablet battle against Apple and Microsoft
Both Apple- and Windows-branded tablets lost market share in the second quarter, each retreating in the face of increased pressure from Android, a market research analyst said today. In preliminary estimates for the quarter ending June 30, U.K.-based Strategy Analytics pegged Apple's share of the global tablet market at 28.3 percent, a dramatic decline from 47.2 percent the year before. When so-called "white box" tablets, which are almost exclusively powered by Android, are excluded, Apple's share fell to 40.4 percent from 48.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013.
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Manning acquitted of aiding enemy, found guilty on other charges
Military Judge Col. Denise Lind has acquitted Private First Class Bradley Manning of aiding U.S. enemies, but found him guilty of most lesser charges related to leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks.Lind found Manning guilty of charges related to espionage, computer fraud and abuse, and disobeying a lawful order. Those charges carry a maximum sentence of 154 years in prison.(More to come.)
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Cisco and NetApp tackle Hadoop
Cisco and NetApp this week expanded their FlexPod storage and switching portfolio with a new design for big data workloads.
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Windows RT on ARM chips is 'not promising,' Asus exec says
Even Asus, maker of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet, isn't impressed with the sales results of Microsoft Windows RT-based tablets. Asus Chairman Jonney Shih told tech news website AllThingsD that the Taiwan-based manufacturer won't be launching new Windows RT-based tablets running on ARM chips.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets cozy with MongoDB
Easing the path for organizations to launch big data-styled services, Red Hat has coupled the 10gen MongoDB data store to its new identity management package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
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Ubuntu Edge smartphone funding levels dying off
The first heady rush of support for Canonical's crowd-funded Ubuntu Edge smartphone appears to have tapered off, as donations for the eye-catching device have slowed substantially over the past several days. The project sits just above the $7 million mark at the time of this writing a large sum by the standards of crowd-funded projects, to be sure, but the $32 million goal is still a long way off.
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Dell's Project Ophelia could be more bad news for PCs
Dell is shipping Project Ophelia devices to early beta testers. PC sales are already suffering at the hands of mobile devices, and now Dell's Android PC-on-a-stick threatens the relevance of traditional PCs from a different angle.
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Salesforce touts new mobile tools for developers
As the BYOD movement takes hold in the enterprise, end-users expect access to their business apps all the time regardless of what type of device they're on, where their data is stored (locally or in the cloud), and even whether they're connected to the Internet. That's a tall order, and it puts a lot of pressure on app dev teams to support those scenarios.
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Sprint reports $1.6B net loss as it shuts down Nextel platform
Sprint Nextel made a net loss of $1.6 billion for the second quarter, swollen by the cost of shutting down its Nextel wireless network, but the company is more optimistic about future profitability. The net loss was 16 percent higher than the $1.37 billion reported a year earlier, and included a $430 million charge for accelerated depreciation of Nextel network assets, and $623 million of other charges related to the network shutdown. Revenue totalled $8.88 billion, almost unchanged from a year earlier.
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Sony and Panasonic collaborate to develop 300GB optical disc
Sony and Panasonic are teaming up to develop a recordable disc that can store up to 300GB of data. The companies announced today that they will work together to create a new standard for an optical disc and are aiming to have a product ready by the end of 2015.
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Flash breakthrough promises faster storage, terabytes of memory
In the ongoing quest for faster access to data, Diablo Technologies has taken what could be a significant next step. Diablo's Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture, expected to show up in servers shipping later this year, allows flash storage components to plug into the super-fast channel now used to connect CPUs with memory. That will slash data-access delays even more than current flash caching products that use the PCI Express bus, according to Kevin Wagner, Diablo's vice president of marketing.
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Why I'm keeping my Windows XP machine
Microsoft can throw its Windows XP retirement party, if it wants, but I won't count myself among the celebrants.
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