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One Laptop Per Child, the
effort to put technology
in the hands of
third-world kids, has
lost its number two guy
Walter Bender, who was
president, software and
content until last month
when he was shifted to
head of deployment
although not many of
OLPC's novel Lin...
BT is going to distribute
and support both
SugarCRM, the commercial
open source CRM people,
and its rival NetSuite,
Larry Ellison's other
company. Both companies
are competing against
salesforce.com, the
brainchild of former
Ellison lieutenant Marc
Benioff, with o...
Time is running out on
Microsoft's deal-or-else
ultimatum to Yahoo!
Basically Yahoo! has to
move off the dime by
Saturday or else
Microsoft could try
taking the place by
force, lowering its
rejected $31-a-share bid
in the process or -
scarier still for Yahoo!
- ...
Red Hat has filed a
friend of the court brief
with the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals
complaining that the
patent system is a
hindrance to open source
and asking it to bar
software patents - or at
least put a leash on
them. The court is
supposed to hear the
so...
In the last 36 hours -
thanks to a posting on
one of its blogs - Red
Hat has gotten itself in
a pretty mess over
whether it's in or out of
the desktop market, with
the influential Wall
Street Journal, among
others, reporting that
'Red Hat Abandons PC
Plan.' Well, ...
AMD, in distress with
none of its units
profitable, losses over
the last six quarters
topping $4 billion, heavy
in debt from its ATI
acquisition and facing a
resurgent Intel, is going
to take stock of all
operations, core and
non-core, and jettison
anything in whi...
Seagate Technology, the
disk drive biggie, sued
STEC, the solid-state
memory comer, on Monday
charging it with
infringing four of its
patents and raising fears
in some corners that
solid-state innovation
could suffer. The suit is
first time a hard drive
maker has ...
Despite the
'sky-is-falling' weather
forecasts and
slowdown-induced panic
that the bottom is
falling out of PC demand,
Intel managed to pull out
a solid first quarter
with record revenues of
$9.7 billion, up 9%
year-over-year, and
income of $1.4 billion,
or 25 c...
Zoho's resident blogger
and CEO of its parent
company AdventNet,
Sridhar Vembu, was
dumping on Salesforce -
an understandable
exercise since Zoho's
stash of SaaS
Office-wannabe
productivity programs
includes a Salesforce
rival CRM module - when
he happened to me...
Last Friday AMD said its
CTO Phil Hester was
resigning to 'pursue
other opportunities,'
claiming it had nothing
to do with the 10%
reduction in force it
intends making to cut
costs in the face of its
sales shortfall. It also
said it won't replace
him. So observers...
Worldwide PC shipments
were up 14.6% in the
first quarter to 69.5
million unit, better than
the 13.2% IDC thought it
would be, but the US was
up only 3.5%
year-over-year as the
states struggles through
whatever economic bug
it's caught. IDC expects
the belt-tighte...
Yahoo! is reportedly
getting closer to that
controversial deal that
would outsource its
search advertising to
Google. Sources told the
Wall Street Journal that
the limited test of
Google that Yahoo! set up
went well. The Google
strategy, which could
potentially be...
It looks like Google is
back on track to be that
$1,000 stock. Having been
in the $400 doldrums
since February 22, it
crashed through $500 and
clear into the $520s, up
over 75 bucks in
after-hours trading
Thursday on the strength
of its over-the-top Q1
results and...
OpenLogic and friends are
going to try to plum the
depths of open source
adoption in the
enterprise by asking the
enterprise to take part
in a voluntary
self-administered Open
Source Census. The global
multi-year exercise
kicked off on Wednesday
when the
www.oss...
Novell wants ISVs to
create appliances that
marry their applications
to the SUSE and to
underpin the idea has
trotted out a beta of
SLES JeOS, a 'Just enough
Operating System,' so
it'll all make sense. Red
Hat also has an Appliance
Operating System in the
works an...
A two-year-old start-up
came out of the woodwork
this week claiming to
have turned MySQL -
which, let's face it, has
its limits - into the
best darn data warehouse
in the world bar none and
to have the
price/performance
benchmarks to prove it.
It has in hand TPC-H...
Dell's off-again on-again
relationship with AMD has
resulted in five
PowerEdge servers that
can be had with the now
fixed and shipping B3
Barcelona quad, giving
AMD 13 global OEM
platforms using the part.
Dell's contribution
includes the two-socket
SC1435, 2970 an...
At the first MySQL user
conference since it spent
a billion dollars
acquiring the open source
database, Sun said this
week that a near-final
release candidate of
MySQL 5.1 could be
downloaded at http://dev.
mysql.com/downloads. It's
supposed to be generally
availab...
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's certifying is
Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu
8.04 rev that's due out
later this month. Sun
told the wire s...
The US Citizenship and
Immigration Service
closed the windows on
this year's crop of
temporary H-1B visa
Tuesday, a week after it
opened. It's refused to
say for the moment how
many applications it got
but you can safely assume
it's a lot. The cap is
65,000 visas ...
Remember that swat of 15
infringement complaints
that Lucent made in 2003
against Dell and Gateway?
A couple of which,
concerning MP3 audio
technology in the Windows
Media Player, resulted in
a record $1.5 billion
decision against
Microsoft that
subsequently got
...
Samba leader Jeremy
Allison says be careful
what you wish for. Now
that Samba has everything
that it wants from
Microsoft, it doesn't
have enough hands to do
the coding. Meanwhile,
the Linux Foundation says
that in the last three
years the number of
developers con...
Microsoft posted 14,000
pages of what it called
'preliminary versions' of
technical documentation
covering the protocols in
Office 2007, SharePoint
Server 2007 and Exchange
Server 2007. The move is
Microsoft's latest step
since some bright
Microsoftee realized the
...
Against the backdrop of a
noisy protest march
through downtown Oslo
Wednesday by 60 Norwegian
software experts -
including Opera CTO
Haakon Wium Lie -
objecting to Norway's Yes
vote for Open XML
standardization by the
International Standards
Organization, ISO took...
Google has ripped a page
out of Salesforce.com's
handbook and has started
up an AppExchange-like
Solutions Marketplace
site to cultivate
third-party programs that
complement its own
widgetry, initially stuff
like Google Apps and
enterprise search. But
Google says ...
Well, at least somebody
in the Yahoo spectacle is
keeping their head.
Capital World Investors,
Yahoo!'s biggest
institutional investor,
has doubled its position
to 10.1% figuring there
must be some money to be
made out of the fact that
Rupert has abandoned
Jerry t...
Sun and Fujitsu have
unwrapped their first
Solaris-based dual-socket
UltraSparc T2 Plus
servers described as
packing the power of
5,000 systems into a
single rack and
delivering up to three
time IBM's Power6
performance in half the
space. Oh, and let's not
forge...
Monday evening, at a
gathering called Campfire
One, Google unveiled App
Engine, a hosted web
application platform that
offers web developers
free use of Google's
mighty infrastructure and
all the building blocks
that Google uses for its
own applications.
Amusingly...
AMD says it's going to
lay off 10% of its
workforce by the end of
September and take the
charge this quarter. It
is still trying to figure
out how much that'll be.
The company, which
reports on April 17, also
pre-announced its Q1
results and said the
revenue numbe...
HP has ignored Intel's
netbook design - as
evinced by the Classmate
2s Intel's rushing to get
on the American and
European markets - in
favor of its own
concoction, a Via
C7-M-based mini-notebook
that, like the Classmate,
is theoretically for kids
and education bu...
There is now something
called the Rich Creek 2
platform at Intel that
will offer systems
builders like New
York-based Seneca Data,
reportedly its first
taker, an Intel mobile
motherboard and more
flexibility in notebook
components, sort of like
the top tier has. S...
Intel is still thinning
the herd after its
AMD-induced near-death
experience and has sold
its enterprise and
storage optical assets
and Connects Cable
business for stock to New
Mexico-based Emcore
Corporation. Emcore
previously took over the
telecom-related assets...
The circumstantial
evidence case against
Linux programmer Hans
Reiser, accused of
murdering his estranged
wife although her body
has never been found,
looks like it could go to
the jury in the next few
days after a trial that
started November 6 and
has suffered th...
The European Commission
may crack down on Google,
Yahoo!, Microsoft et al
and tell them they can't
keep personal search data
longer than six months -
and even that may be
pushing it. The EC's
international advisory
body, the Article 29 Data
Protection Working Party,...
The patent reform
legislation that
companies like Microsoft,
Intel, Oracle and Cisco
were hoping would reduce
litigation and improve
patent quality hit a wall
in the US Senate just
days before it was to go
to the floor for debate
and a vote this week. Its
sponsor ...
Google's paid-clicks in
the US, the source of its
fortune, showed weak,
almost imperceptible
growth for the third
month in a row, according
to comScore, just a
couple of days before
Google was scheduled to
post its Q1 financial
results. The tabulator
says they wer...
The widely rumored mating
of Salesforce.com and
Google Apps has taken
place. There is now
something called
Salesforce for Google
Apps; Google's
productivity programs
have been integrated into
Salesforce's CRM suite -
so data in one can be
moved into the other and ...