HIGHLIGHTS
News: HP quadruples income for fourth quarter
News: Attack code posted for latest Microsoft bugs
News: Wall Street Beat: Open source in turmoil
News: Avaya buys Traverse to make voice mail easy
Storage Tip: RAID 6 to Replace RAID 5
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Geek comic of the week: Double Helix
NEWS UPDATES
HP quadruples income for fourth quarter
Capping a year when it reclaimed the title of world's largest PC vendor despite a boardroom scandal, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Thursday reported net income of $1.7 billion for the fourth quarter, more than four times its mark for that period last year.
Attack code posted for latest Microsoft bugs
Hackers have posted code that could be used to target Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system in a worm attack. It takes advantage of a flaw in the Windows Workstation service, which Windows uses to do things like file-sharing or printing over the network.
Wall Street Beat: Open source in turmoil
Major software vendors are shaking up the open-source market. Microsoft Corp.'s deal with Novell Inc. and Oracle Corp.'s move to support Red Hat Linux have sent IT investors scurrying to figure out what it all means.
Avaya buys Traverse to make voice mail easy
Avaya Inc. moved to make voice mail easier to use on the road, acquiring a maker of software that lets users get their office messages without dialing in.
YouTube strikes video deals to dodge lawsuits
Google Inc.'s YouTube signed a contract with the National Hockey League (NHL) to offer game highlights, the latest deal struck by the video sharing sensation as it attempts to stamp out pirated clips from its site and avoid copyright lawsuits.
IBM blasts energy-efficiency of HP's blade servers
IBM Thursday released test results that show that its BladeCenter line of servers uses up to 30 percent less electricity than HP's BladeSystem servers. Although the tests were done internally by IBM, a company executive said IBM would welcome an independent analysis of the energy efficiency of both company's systems.
SugarCRM supports full open-source stack
SugarCRM Inc. became the latest open-source player to offer users a way to more simply install and support a full software stack comprising its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and other third-party offerings.
Google hires spreadsheet company founders
Google Inc. may be planning to beef up its online spreadsheet offering by hiring the founders of iRows, a browser-based spreadsheet service.
STORAGE TIP
RAID 6 to Replace RAID 5
By David Hill, Mesabi Group
The introduction of RAID technology has been a boon that made the use of open systems storage for a wide range of business applications (including mission-critical) practical. To continue to harp on a subject that has been discussed previously, RAID is great, but only one failure can safely be tolerated. Enterprises run a risk during the time that it takes to rebuild an array after a disk failure. That risk is having a much longer downtime than can be tolerated with today’s 24X7 applications to rebuild from tape if a second disk fails. Multiple-parity RAID is the solution. RAID 6 is the currently most popular implementation of multiple-parity RAID.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
Skype launches mobile VOIP service ... Google looks to protect YouTube from lawsuits ... Hackers post Windows 2000 exploit
ITWHIRLED
Geek comic of the week: Double Helix
Ned and Traslar are two vaguely unkempt white-lab-coated fellows who star in this comic. Probably at some point they were supposed to be scientists of some kind, but today they mostly trade comics and video-game related bon mots while all hell breaks loose around them.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Skype launches first mobile service ... Sony seen losing big money on PS3 hardware
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Skype launches first mobile service
News: Sony seen losing big money on PS3 hardware
News: Qualcomm buys IT monitoring and management vendor
News: BenQ weighs on Infineon's earnings
Security Tip: When security through obscurity makes sense
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: The seven phases of owning an iPod
NEWS UPDATES
Skype launches first mobile service
Skype Ltd. launched its first mobile voice-over-IP service in collaboration with an operator, 3 Group, whose customers will soon be the first to use it.
Sony seen losing big money on PS3 hardware
Sony Corp. is taking a big loss on each PlayStation 3 console it sells but end users are benefitting from "supercomputing performance" at the price of a cheap PC, according to research company iSuppli Corp., which dismantled the console to analyze the parts inside.
Qualcomm buys IT monitoring and management vendor
Wireless technologies developer Qualcomm Inc. has acquired nPhase LLC, a provider of "machine-to-machine" technology that helps large businesses manage and monitor dispersed computing devices, Qualcomm announced Thursday.
BenQ weighs on Infineon's earnings
Additional charges related to the spin-off of its memory chip unit and bankruptcy of a large mobile phone customer have widened the fourth-quarter loss at German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help webmasters
Strange bedfellows Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines.
Microsoft plans CardSpace plug-in for Firefox
Microsoft Corp. will write a software plug-in that allows the Firefox open-source Web browser to work with Microsoft's Cardspace identity management technology.
Apple iPhone rumors multiply
Rumors that Apple Computer Inc. plans to launch a mobile phone next year are gaining momentum, although the company's Taiwanese manufacturing partners are giving little away.
SECURITY TIP
When security through obscurity makes sense
By Brent Huston, MicroSolved, Inc.
For years you have been hearing how security through obscurity doesn't work. Pundits, auditors, security consultants and everyone else who has been through infosec 101 consistently hammer home the point that security through obscurity is a dangerous practice. But, with some of the recent things that have emerged, it just might be useful to your organization.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
Google, Microsoft, Yahooo collaborate .... iPhone rumors multiply ... Sony's loss on PS3 is users' gain
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
The seven phases of owning an iPod
Everyone knows about the "OH MY GOD IT'S SO SMALL AND SHINY" phase. Apple doesn't want you to find out about the next six, where you end up eating cardboard to survive.
News: Skype launches first mobile service
News: Sony seen losing big money on PS3 hardware
News: Qualcomm buys IT monitoring and management vendor
News: BenQ weighs on Infineon's earnings
Security Tip: When security through obscurity makes sense
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: The seven phases of owning an iPod
NEWS UPDATES
Skype launches first mobile service
Skype Ltd. launched its first mobile voice-over-IP service in collaboration with an operator, 3 Group, whose customers will soon be the first to use it.
Sony seen losing big money on PS3 hardware
Sony Corp. is taking a big loss on each PlayStation 3 console it sells but end users are benefitting from "supercomputing performance" at the price of a cheap PC, according to research company iSuppli Corp., which dismantled the console to analyze the parts inside.
Qualcomm buys IT monitoring and management vendor
Wireless technologies developer Qualcomm Inc. has acquired nPhase LLC, a provider of "machine-to-machine" technology that helps large businesses manage and monitor dispersed computing devices, Qualcomm announced Thursday.
BenQ weighs on Infineon's earnings
Additional charges related to the spin-off of its memory chip unit and bankruptcy of a large mobile phone customer have widened the fourth-quarter loss at German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft partner to help webmasters
Strange bedfellows Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites' content for indexing in the companies' search engines.
Microsoft plans CardSpace plug-in for Firefox
Microsoft Corp. will write a software plug-in that allows the Firefox open-source Web browser to work with Microsoft's Cardspace identity management technology.
Apple iPhone rumors multiply
Rumors that Apple Computer Inc. plans to launch a mobile phone next year are gaining momentum, although the company's Taiwanese manufacturing partners are giving little away.
SECURITY TIP
When security through obscurity makes sense
By Brent Huston, MicroSolved, Inc.
For years you have been hearing how security through obscurity doesn't work. Pundits, auditors, security consultants and everyone else who has been through infosec 101 consistently hammer home the point that security through obscurity is a dangerous practice. But, with some of the recent things that have emerged, it just might be useful to your organization.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
Google, Microsoft, Yahooo collaborate .... iPhone rumors multiply ... Sony's loss on PS3 is users' gain
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
The seven phases of owning an iPod
Everyone knows about the "OH MY GOD IT'S SO SMALL AND SHINY" phase. Apple doesn't want you to find out about the next six, where you end up eating cardboard to survive.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
E.C. may fine Microsoft again ... AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs
HIGHLIGHTS
News: European Commission may fine Microsoft again
News: SAP, Microsoft plan more Duet features and new version
News: AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs
News: Microsoft releases six security updates
Unix Tip: Automating Analog
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: New Zealand allows "text-speak" in test answers
NEWS UPDATES
European Commission may fine Microsoft again
The European Commission has threatened Microsoft with daily fines of €3 million (US$3.8 million) if it doesn't provide interoperability information about its Windows operating system by Nov. 23, the Commission said Wednesday.
SAP, Microsoft plan more Duet features and new version
Businesses interested in Duet, the software application jointly developed by Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG, can look forward to new features and a new version of the product over the next several months.
AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs
AOL LLC has upgraded its popular AIM instant messaging service with new features like the ability to send messages to offline users and to store IM sessions in a PC.
Microsoft releases six security updates
Microsoft Corp. has issued six security updates, fixing critical bugs in Windows components ranging from Internet Explorer to the Microsoft NetWare client service.
Security group ranks human error as top security worry
The SANS Institute has some controversial advice for computer security professionals looking to lock down their networks: spear-phish your employees.
Nokia releases Sourcefire-based security appliance
Nokia Corp. has introduced a security appliance aimed at helping enterprises keep their networks secure, particularly in the face of threats that arise as more employees access corporate data remotely from devices like smartphones and laptops.
Pirated Vista may be useless, Microsoft says
Pirated copies of Microsoft's new Vista computer operating system "will be of limited value" to those who use them. "This unauthorized download relies on the use of pre-RTM [release-to-manufacture] activation keys that will be blocked using Microsoft's Software Protection Platform," Microsoft said in a prepared statement.
Former CA sales executive gets seven years in jail
The former head of worldwide sales at Computer Associates has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to financial fraud charges in April.
No stores and no phones means no clients for EasyMobile
EasyMobile Ltd. plans to shut its mobile phone service in the U.K. on Dec. 13, leaving its 80,000 customers to find a new service provider. The EasyMobile low-cost offering launched first in the U.K. last year, with plans to become available in 12 European countries. Mimicking a successful model spearheaded in Denmark, EasyMobile initially only sold SIM cards but no phones, and had no stores, selling exclusively online.
UNIX TIP
Automating Analog
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
For those of us who use Analog routinely to understand how well our web sites are doing, a little automation goes a long way. To prepare monthly reports, for example, you will want to rotate your log files, keeping each month's log data separately. Whether you retain old log files or only the Analog reports, you can set up for your sites in a way that lends itself to month by month comparisons.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
E.U. threatens additional fines against Microsoft ... AOL upgrades AIM service ... Borland to spin off developer tools group ... Microsoft issues six security updates
ITWHIRLED
New Zealand schools give up: "Text-speak" to be accepted in test answers
Kiwi high schoolers will be permitted to use "text-speak" -- the sort of abbreviations common in text messages and instant messaging conversations -- in national exams this year, as long as the answer "clearly shows the required understanding." Throwing a bone to everyone over the age of 19 who is righteously horrified by this idea, the nation's educational authority noted that on English tests and others where good language use is specifically required, text abbreviations would be penalized.
News: European Commission may fine Microsoft again
News: SAP, Microsoft plan more Duet features and new version
News: AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs
News: Microsoft releases six security updates
Unix Tip: Automating Analog
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: New Zealand allows "text-speak" in test answers
NEWS UPDATES
European Commission may fine Microsoft again
The European Commission has threatened Microsoft with daily fines of €3 million (US$3.8 million) if it doesn't provide interoperability information about its Windows operating system by Nov. 23, the Commission said Wednesday.
SAP, Microsoft plan more Duet features and new version
Businesses interested in Duet, the software application jointly developed by Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG, can look forward to new features and a new version of the product over the next several months.
AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs
AOL LLC has upgraded its popular AIM instant messaging service with new features like the ability to send messages to offline users and to store IM sessions in a PC.
Microsoft releases six security updates
Microsoft Corp. has issued six security updates, fixing critical bugs in Windows components ranging from Internet Explorer to the Microsoft NetWare client service.
Security group ranks human error as top security worry
The SANS Institute has some controversial advice for computer security professionals looking to lock down their networks: spear-phish your employees.
Nokia releases Sourcefire-based security appliance
Nokia Corp. has introduced a security appliance aimed at helping enterprises keep their networks secure, particularly in the face of threats that arise as more employees access corporate data remotely from devices like smartphones and laptops.
Pirated Vista may be useless, Microsoft says
Pirated copies of Microsoft's new Vista computer operating system "will be of limited value" to those who use them. "This unauthorized download relies on the use of pre-RTM [release-to-manufacture] activation keys that will be blocked using Microsoft's Software Protection Platform," Microsoft said in a prepared statement.
Former CA sales executive gets seven years in jail
The former head of worldwide sales at Computer Associates has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to financial fraud charges in April.
No stores and no phones means no clients for EasyMobile
EasyMobile Ltd. plans to shut its mobile phone service in the U.K. on Dec. 13, leaving its 80,000 customers to find a new service provider. The EasyMobile low-cost offering launched first in the U.K. last year, with plans to become available in 12 European countries. Mimicking a successful model spearheaded in Denmark, EasyMobile initially only sold SIM cards but no phones, and had no stores, selling exclusively online.
UNIX TIP
Automating Analog
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
For those of us who use Analog routinely to understand how well our web sites are doing, a little automation goes a long way. To prepare monthly reports, for example, you will want to rotate your log files, keeping each month's log data separately. Whether you retain old log files or only the Analog reports, you can set up for your sites in a way that lends itself to month by month comparisons.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
E.U. threatens additional fines against Microsoft ... AOL upgrades AIM service ... Borland to spin off developer tools group ... Microsoft issues six security updates
ITWHIRLED
New Zealand schools give up: "Text-speak" to be accepted in test answers
Kiwi high schoolers will be permitted to use "text-speak" -- the sort of abbreviations common in text messages and instant messaging conversations -- in national exams this year, as long as the answer "clearly shows the required understanding." Throwing a bone to everyone over the age of 19 who is righteously horrified by this idea, the nation's educational authority noted that on English tests and others where good language use is specifically required, text abbreviations would be penalized.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services ... Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services
News: Idea sharing leads IBM to invest $100M in new areas
News: Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips
News: Microsoft puts corporate AV client into beta
Windows Tip: Are cached credentials secure?
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Powerbook vs. microwave
NEWS UPDATES
Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services
Microsoft Corp. is nurturing a plan to expand its work in managed services over the next year as companies look to reduce the cost of their internal IT management, a top company executive said Tuesday.
Idea sharing leads IBM to invest $100M in new areas
IBM Corp. will invest $100 million over the next two years in 10 potential new business opportunities after conducting a massive trawl for ideas among its staff, partners, customers and academic institutions.
Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips
Intel Corp. has launched a family of quad-core processors, hoping to take back its crumbling share of the server market and win users in the trendy gaming PC segment.
Microsoft puts corporate AV client into beta
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will take a step toward competing with McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp in the enterprise security market by releasing a beta version of its Forefront Client Security desktop software.
Longhorn beta 3 due first half of 2007
Microsoft Corp. will release beta 3 of the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, in the first half of 2007. Beta 3 of Longhorn is expected to be feature complete and will be tweaked only for performance and quality control before the first release candidates of the product appear.
IBM holds lead on Top500 Supercomputers list
IBM has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world. IBM holds a 47.8 percent share of the biannual Top500 Supercomputers list. Second-place HP holds a 31.2 percent share of systems on the list.
HP brings its quad-core servers to market
Tuesday's debut of Intel Corp.quad-core-powered computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. completes the introduction of quad-core hardware from major computer and server manufacturers.
WINDOWS TIP
Are cached credentials secure?
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
A reader recently contacted me concerning a previous tip Troubleshooting Cached Logons where I shared a script that could be used to query your event logs to determine whether your machine is currently logged on using cached credentials. When you try to log onto your domain and your Windows XP computer can't contact a domain controller, your computer uses cached credentials to authenticate. These credentials are cached locally on your machine from a previous successful domain authentication, and are designed to enable you to log onto domain members when domain controllers are unavailable.
The reader told me that he heard from "some security experts" that storing domain credentials locally on client machines like this poses a security vulnerability since anyone who can gain access to your computer can run a password cracker against these stored credentials and extract your domain username and password from them. But how serious a vulnerability is this? To find the answer, I cracked open one of my all-time favorite books, Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter To Data by Jesper M. Johansson and Steve Riley.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
Zune to hit store shelves today ... IBM tops supercomputer list ... Sun releases Java under open-source license
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
Powerbook vs. microwave
We know that G3 Powerbooks are really outdated these days, but does that mean you should just stick them in a microwave to see what happens? This group of destructive types apparently thought so. Thankfully, Google Video exists to help document the "experiment."
News: Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services
News: Idea sharing leads IBM to invest $100M in new areas
News: Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips
News: Microsoft puts corporate AV client into beta
Windows Tip: Are cached credentials secure?
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Powerbook vs. microwave
NEWS UPDATES
Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services
Microsoft Corp. is nurturing a plan to expand its work in managed services over the next year as companies look to reduce the cost of their internal IT management, a top company executive said Tuesday.
Idea sharing leads IBM to invest $100M in new areas
IBM Corp. will invest $100 million over the next two years in 10 potential new business opportunities after conducting a massive trawl for ideas among its staff, partners, customers and academic institutions.
Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips
Intel Corp. has launched a family of quad-core processors, hoping to take back its crumbling share of the server market and win users in the trendy gaming PC segment.
Microsoft puts corporate AV client into beta
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will take a step toward competing with McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp in the enterprise security market by releasing a beta version of its Forefront Client Security desktop software.
Longhorn beta 3 due first half of 2007
Microsoft Corp. will release beta 3 of the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, in the first half of 2007. Beta 3 of Longhorn is expected to be feature complete and will be tweaked only for performance and quality control before the first release candidates of the product appear.
IBM holds lead on Top500 Supercomputers list
IBM has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world. IBM holds a 47.8 percent share of the biannual Top500 Supercomputers list. Second-place HP holds a 31.2 percent share of systems on the list.
HP brings its quad-core servers to market
Tuesday's debut of Intel Corp.quad-core-powered computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. completes the introduction of quad-core hardware from major computer and server manufacturers.
WINDOWS TIP
Are cached credentials secure?
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
A reader recently contacted me concerning a previous tip Troubleshooting Cached Logons where I shared a script that could be used to query your event logs to determine whether your machine is currently logged on using cached credentials. When you try to log onto your domain and your Windows XP computer can't contact a domain controller, your computer uses cached credentials to authenticate. These credentials are cached locally on your machine from a previous successful domain authentication, and are designed to enable you to log onto domain members when domain controllers are unavailable.
The reader told me that he heard from "some security experts" that storing domain credentials locally on client machines like this poses a security vulnerability since anyone who can gain access to your computer can run a password cracker against these stored credentials and extract your domain username and password from them. But how serious a vulnerability is this? To find the answer, I cracked open one of my all-time favorite books, Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter To Data by Jesper M. Johansson and Steve Riley.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
Zune to hit store shelves today ... IBM tops supercomputer list ... Sun releases Java under open-source license
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
Powerbook vs. microwave
We know that G3 Powerbooks are really outdated these days, but does that mean you should just stick them in a microwave to see what happens? This group of destructive types apparently thought so. Thankfully, Google Video exists to help document the "experiment."
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sun open sources Java under GPL ... Hands on with PlayStation 3
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Sun open sources Java under GPL
News: Qualcomm makes headway in Europe and against Nokia
News: Samsung offers look at future of mobile phones
News: SAP appoints head of new SME unit
Storage Tip: The long tail of data storage
Product Review: Hands on with PlayStation 3
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: 10 Reasons why Opera is better than Firefox
NEWS UPDATES
Sun open sources Java under GPL
It's no surprise that Sun Microsystems Inc. is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor's choice of open-source license - the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).
Qualcomm makes headway in Europe and against Nokia
Motorola Inc. will use Qualcomm Inc. chips in future UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service) phones in a deal that could give Qualcomm leverage in an ongoing patent licensing dispute with Nokia Corp.
Samsung offers look at future of mobile phones
Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, including sensors to monitor a user's health and a wider range of entertainment and online services.
SAP appoints head of new SME unit
Keen to carve out a larger chunk of the global market for enterprise applications, German business software vendor SAP AG has established a new global unit to target small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and appointed a company veteran to head the assault.
Google gives 'start' page to hosted apps suite
Google Inc.'s Apps for Your Domain has a new component: an entry Web page that organizations can use as a central point for users to access this suite of hosted applications.
Iran nukes, not Iraq, biggest concern, Netanyahu says
Iran's potential development of nuclear weapons is a bigger threat to Middle East peace than the ongoing war in Iraq, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of technology investors Sunday in Palo Alto, California.
Samsung plots showdown between flat-panel TVs
PDP and LCD TVs occupy different segments of the flat-panel television market, with PDPs generally used for larger screens, or those that measure more than 40 inches across the diagonal. However, Samsung hopes that a new factory set to start production late next year will permit volume production of LCD TVs with screens that measure 50 inches or more across the diagonal.
STORAGE TIP
The long tail of data storage
By David Hill, Mesabi Group
Thinking about how to approach the abundance of data caused by fixed content data isn't easy but thinking about how to create tiered storage and active archives to take advantage of the data "niches" of the "Long Tail" of storage is a start.
Read the full article here.
PRODUCT REVIEW
Hands on with PlayStation 3
Are first impressions meant to last or made to be broken? On Friday I wrote of my first impressions of the PlayStation 3 console. Based on gaming last week, I found the graphics great but otherwise the experience wasn't much different from other games consoles. I picked up the PlayStation 3 Saturday morning when it launched here in Japan and after a weekend with the device find myself with a new opinion of the industry's latest hot product.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
PlayStation 3 debuts in Japan ... Novell deal binds Microsoft with exclusivity ... Google downplays Google Video lawsuit
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Top 10 classic commercials ... 10 Reasons why Opera is better than Firefox ... Top 10 QB rivalries of all time ... 10 Coolest Lego creations ... 10 confusing signs
News: Sun open sources Java under GPL
News: Qualcomm makes headway in Europe and against Nokia
News: Samsung offers look at future of mobile phones
News: SAP appoints head of new SME unit
Storage Tip: The long tail of data storage
Product Review: Hands on with PlayStation 3
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: 10 Reasons why Opera is better than Firefox
NEWS UPDATES
Sun open sources Java under GPL
It's no surprise that Sun Microsystems Inc. is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor's choice of open-source license - the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).
Qualcomm makes headway in Europe and against Nokia
Motorola Inc. will use Qualcomm Inc. chips in future UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service) phones in a deal that could give Qualcomm leverage in an ongoing patent licensing dispute with Nokia Corp.
Samsung offers look at future of mobile phones
Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, including sensors to monitor a user's health and a wider range of entertainment and online services.
SAP appoints head of new SME unit
Keen to carve out a larger chunk of the global market for enterprise applications, German business software vendor SAP AG has established a new global unit to target small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and appointed a company veteran to head the assault.
Google gives 'start' page to hosted apps suite
Google Inc.'s Apps for Your Domain has a new component: an entry Web page that organizations can use as a central point for users to access this suite of hosted applications.
Iran nukes, not Iraq, biggest concern, Netanyahu says
Iran's potential development of nuclear weapons is a bigger threat to Middle East peace than the ongoing war in Iraq, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of technology investors Sunday in Palo Alto, California.
Samsung plots showdown between flat-panel TVs
PDP and LCD TVs occupy different segments of the flat-panel television market, with PDPs generally used for larger screens, or those that measure more than 40 inches across the diagonal. However, Samsung hopes that a new factory set to start production late next year will permit volume production of LCD TVs with screens that measure 50 inches or more across the diagonal.
STORAGE TIP
The long tail of data storage
By David Hill, Mesabi Group
Thinking about how to approach the abundance of data caused by fixed content data isn't easy but thinking about how to create tiered storage and active archives to take advantage of the data "niches" of the "Long Tail" of storage is a start.
Read the full article here.
PRODUCT REVIEW
Hands on with PlayStation 3
Are first impressions meant to last or made to be broken? On Friday I wrote of my first impressions of the PlayStation 3 console. Based on gaming last week, I found the graphics great but otherwise the experience wasn't much different from other games consoles. I picked up the PlayStation 3 Saturday morning when it launched here in Japan and after a weekend with the device find myself with a new opinion of the industry's latest hot product.
PODCAST
Daily IT News Audio Update
PlayStation 3 debuts in Japan ... Novell deal binds Microsoft with exclusivity ... Google downplays Google Video lawsuit
More podcasts
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Top 10 classic commercials ... 10 Reasons why Opera is better than Firefox ... Top 10 QB rivalries of all time ... 10 Coolest Lego creations ... 10 confusing signs
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