Several readers lauded the notion of Google becoming a phone carrier to service their voice and data needs. eWEEK enlisted some industry analysts to parse the theory. eWEEK started the new year by skewering the popular, but quite speculative notion that Google could become a phone carrier, offering these five reasons why this wouldn’t happen. To [...]
By: Clint Boulton The DOJ is reportedly drafting a lawsuit to block Google’s $700 million bid for ITA Software. This is good news for the FairSearch.org group, which wants the deal nixed. Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITASoftware may be halted by the U.S. Justice Department, which is reportedly preparing for a possible antitrust lawsuit to [...]
By: Clint Boulton Google’s next Android build, likely called Ice Cream Sandwich, is slated for liftoff at Google I/O and launch on smartphones in the summer. What’s with the numbering scheme? Tablets running Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system haven’t even launched and already the blogosphere is fraught with speculation about the next version of Google’s [...]
By: Nathan Eddy 2011-01-12 GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) and CloudTran partner to speed up database transaction processing. GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of virtualized application platforms delivering end-to-end scalability, announced CloudTran has integrated its transaction management middleware with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). The end result is a Java-based solution that runs largedatabase infrastructures in public, [...]
Server, video surveillance and network-based media player manufacturer QNAP Systems announced the expansion of its Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-419U+ rack-mounted NAS server targeted specifically at the small to medium-size business and workgroup market segments. The TS-419U+ features four hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity (using [...]
The acquisition includes the brand name and OrgPlus licensed software product line designed for the SMB market segment. Administaff, Inc., a provider of human resources services for small to medium-sizebusinesses (SMBs), announced the acquisition of certain assets from HumanConcepts, a provider of workforce decision support solutions. Administaff has acquired ownership of the current OrgPlus software [...]
Canon unveils five Pixma office printers, including one with the capability to print 13-in. x 19-in. photos. Digital-imaging specialist Canon launched five Pixma office printers, four of which have the ability to print, copy, scan and fax while the remaining printer has 13-in. x 19-in. printing capabilities. The printers also offer features such as Advanced Media [...]
The GPUs offer enhanced performance for media-rich HD, 3D, Web, and gaming applications and enhanced battery life. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia announced the GeForce 500M series of notebook graphics-processing units, designed to power laptops featuring next-generation Intel Core CPUs, known as Sandy Bridge. The GPUs offer enhanced performance for media-rich HD, 3D, Web [...]
Secunia PSI 2.0 adds the ability to auto-update third-party applications such as Flash or Java in order to avoid in-the-wild exploits and threats that antivirus software might miss. PSI 2.0 offers critical enhancements to Secunia’s free application vulnerability assessment tool, adding remediation and update capabilities on top of the old notification engine. Secunia PSI has [...]
Fortune said 2011 will be the year Google’sAndroid operating system “explodes” across the technosphere on smartphones, tablet computers and other devices hardware manufacturers cook up. Time for a level set: “Explodes,” or some variation thereof, is the dramatic euphemism people in the technology industry employ to proclaim that a product is set for some super definitive growth. [...]
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