Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Netflix launches direct download service for PCs ... IBM enhances entry-level storage products ... India nearly doubles mobile phone use in 2006

HIGHLIGHTS

News: India nearly doubles mobile phone use in 2006
News: IBM enhances entry-level storage products
News: HP advances fight to keep Moore's Law healthy
News: Intel selling Israeli flash fab, sources say
News: SAP launches new All-in-One version
News: 3 introduces new roaming policies
News: Joost is the new name of Skype founders' video venture
News: Netflix launches direct download service for PCs
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ITwhirled: 25 Titans in waiting


NEWS UPDATES

India nearly doubles mobile phone use in 2006
India added close to 74 million new mobile telephone subscribers last year, making it one of the most attractive markets for mobile telephone operators and wireless equipment vendors.

IBM enhances entry-level storage products
IBM Corp. is adding features and capacity to its entry-level disk storage array products for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) to match that of more expensive enterprise-level systems.

HP advances fight to keep Moore's Law healthy
Hewlett-Packard Co. researchers may have figured out a way to prolong Moore's Law by making chips more powerful and less power-hungry.

Intel selling Israeli flash fab, sources say
Sources at Intel Israel claim that the company's Fab 8 facility in Jerusalem is to be closed down and that its flash memory operations -- including the Fab 18 facility in Kiryat Gat - are going to be sold.

SAP launches new All-in-One version
Simple PC-like interfaces and integrated reporting capabilities are among the features of a new version of SAP AG's All-in-One business software targeted at midsize companies, the business software maker said Tuesday.

3 introduces new roaming policies
3 Group, the operator owned by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., is hoping to take the sting out of international roaming with a new policy that lets customers make and receive calls while traveling and pay the same as if they were on their home network.

Joost is the new name of Skype founders' video venture
Peer-to-peer technology pioneers Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have renamed their new online TV service under development and plan to open the gates to let more people test the software.

Netflix launches direct download service for PCs
Can't wait for that copy of "Talladega Nights" to arrive from Netflix Inc.? As of Tuesday, some users will be able to watch movies they rent from Netflix directly through their PCs, the company said.


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