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Infrastructure

February 2009

February 27, 2009

TraceMonkey Forces Fourth Beta for Firefox 3.1

Mozilla continues to struggle with Firefox 3.1. The company has added yet another beta to the troubled release cycle, pushing it back a further three months.   Continued issues with the TraceMo... More >

Vodafone to Offer Microsoft Online Services

Vodafone has announced it will offer its business customers a range of Microsoft-hosted services as part of a unified communications and collaboration service. The combined solution, already availabl... More >

February 26, 2009

VMware Demonstrates Mobile Virtualization Platform

At the VMworld Europe 2009 expo, a Nokia N800 loaded with VMware's MVP hypervisor ran Windows CE and Android simultanesously. This would allow a user to run Windows Mobile for enterprise and Exchange... More >

Google Dashboard Lets Users Check Status of Apps

It did not take Google long to make good on its promise to keep its customers better informed about service outages after Gmail went down earlier this week .   The company introduced the Google... More >

Microsoft Ships SP2 RC for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Microsoft made the final beta of its Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. A public version is expected some time next week, reports Net... More >

HP, Sun Expand Distribution Agreement

Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have announced a new partnership agreement. According to the agreement, HP will sell and support Sun's Solaris operating system on its ProLiant line of server and... More >

February 25, 2009

Motorola Unveils New WLAN Solutions

Motorola unveiled a pair of WLAN products geared toward simplifying WLAN network maintenance and management. The company's Self-Monitoring at Run Time Radio Frequency (SMART RF) enables IT managers t... More >

Cable Providers Readying WebTV for Summer

Cable and sattelite television providers are working toward delivering content to their customers via their computers and mobile phones. Web-based TV follows the cloud computing model.   TG Dail... More >

Marvell Launches Plug Computer

Marvell Semiconductor has unveiled a wall plug that comes equipped with a processor, memory and storage that can serve as a networked computer. According to SFGate , users can plug their router and ... More >

Safari 4 Makes Immediate Impact on Browser Benchmarks

Apple's Safari 4 dominated other browsers using the SunSpider suite of JavaScript tests. According to this article posted on ZDNet , Safari was the quickest browser in terms of speed on both Windo... More >

February 24, 2009

VMware Unveils Cloud Computing Roadmap, Virtualization Products

According to eWEEK , VMware also used its user group meeting in Europe to outline its cloud computing road map.   VMware unveiled a series of virtualiztion products including vCenter Server Hea... More >

Ballmer: Office 14 Not Coming this Year

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer told investors that the company would not be releasing Office 14 in 2009. According to PC Pro , Ballmer admitted Office was not immune to the economic environment and has b... More >

Apple Releases Public Beta for Safari 4

Apple has announced the release of the Safari 4 public beta. According O'Grady's PowerPage , the browser includes the Nitro JavaScript Engine, Accessible Rich Interactive Applications, offline datab... More >

Nexsan Adds iSCSI to its Storage Lineup

Nexsan announced the shipment of its first iSCSI product this week. The company plans to target small and medium-sized companies with its new iSeries products, reports socalTech.com .   The iSe... More >

Gmail Undergoes Worldwide Outage

Around 9:30 a.m. GMT today, Google acknowledged that its Gmail service was unavailable to a set of users and that it was working to resolve the problem. Users worldwide reportedly couldn't access the... More >

February 23, 2009

Vendors Partner to Take on VMware

Companies are looking to wrestle a bit of virtualization market share away from VMware .   eWEEK reports that Citrix has launched Citrix Essentials virtualization software that integrates with... More >

Razorfish Selects Rackspace for Web Hosting

Microsoft's Razorfish has tapped Rackspace's Mosso cloud hosting platform to build Web sites and Web applications, reports Web Hosting Industry News .   According to InfoWorld , it's not waiti... More >

Microsoft Readies Windows 7 and Vista Releases

Microsoft is set to release new updates for PCs running the Windows 7 beta this week, reports vnunet.com . According to The Windows Blog , up to five test updates for Windows 7 could be released to... More >

Asustek Developing Android Netbook

According to Bloomberg , Asustek has a team of engineers working to develop an Android-based netbook before the year is out. The company has yet to decide on whether to proceed with a final product ... More >

February 20, 2009

Cloud Implementation Expected to Grow Amid Security Concerns

Despite Gartner's assessment that cloud computing is an immature market, as INQUIRER.net notes, its implementation is expected to double over the next three years, according to IDC. Gartner's Gen... More >

Yahoo Adds Rich Media to Search

Looking to continue to gain ground on Google's massive lead in the search market, Yahoo has added rich media capabilities to its search advertising product.   ClickZ reports Rich Ads in Searc... More >

Apple Cleans Out Samsung's NAND Flash RAM Inventory

All Things Digital reports that Apple has purchased all of Samsung's NAND flash RAM inventory through the month of April. Speculation is that Apple is buying up NAND flash memory for an iPhone refre... More >

February 19, 2009

Google Takes Slight Dip in Search Market

According to the latest numbers from comScore, search leader Google lost 0.5 percent of the search market in January. The dip is a small one and Google still claims 63 percent of searches, reports D... More >

Dell to Debut Inspiron Mini 10 on QVC

Dell made the launch of its Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook official on its Web site today. The Mini 10 makes its debut on the QVC shopping network tonight and will be available at Dell.com starting ... More >

Economic Stimulus Could Jump Start Battery Manufacturing in U.S.

The nearly $790 billion economic stimulus plan includes loans, grants and tax incentives for battery research and manufacturing. As a result, the U.S. battery industry stands to better compete with b... More >

February 18, 2009

IBM Seeks Slice of Stimulus Pie

IBM has set its sights on a portion of the $2.5 billion in stimulus funds that will go toward improving broadband service in rural areas. DailyTech reports that IBM will seek government funds in it... More >

Fujitsu, Toshiba Finalize HDD Deal

According to vnunet.com , Fujitsu and Toshiba have agreed to terms that will transfer Fujitsu's hard disk drive business to Toshiba, which plans to merge Fujitsu's HDD enterprise solutions with its ... More >

Apple Facing Decline in Mac Sales

It looks like not even Apple is immune to the economic downturn. According to analyst firm Piper Jaffray, Apple is facing its first decline in year-to-year Mac sales in six years.   All Things D... More >

Oracle Bolsters Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16

Oracle has announced five new add-ons to its Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16, which it initially launched January 27. The add-ons include Oracle Self-Service E-Billing On Demand, Oracle Sales Library... More >

February 17, 2009

SAS to Support R

With universities now teaching future statisticians the R programming language alongside SAS, the SAS Institute has decided it is more beneficial to support the trend than fight it.   According ... More >

February 16, 2009

Economy Having Negative Effect on Broadband

As IT Business Edge blogger Carl Weinschenk can attest, questions and skepticism remain over the broadband stimulus portion of the economic stimulus package.   This GigaOm post notes that ... More >

Intel, LG Team on MID

Intel has positioned itself to better compete with the likes of Texas Instruments and Qualcomm after adding LG Electronics as a customer. The union gives the chip giant an opening into the mobile m... More >

February 13, 2009

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Team on SEO

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are working together on an SEO standard that would focus on canonical representation. All three have agreed to manage the issue by using a common tag, reports Search Newz... More >

February 11, 2009

$350 Million to Map Broadband Service?

The New York Times marvels that the federal stimulus package passed by the Senate on Tuesday includes $350 million to map the availability of broadband service in the United States.   That's ... More >

Intel Accelerates Production of 32nm Microprocessors

Desktops, notebooks and servers all will be available with Intel's Westmere 32-nanometer microprocessors by 2010. The chip maker demonstrated the new processors in notebooks and desktops and predicte... More >

February 10, 2009

IBM Tapped for Europe's First Petaflop Supercomputer

IBM recently released details of its package of Sequoia and Dawn supercomputers as part of a joint venture with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Security Administration.   According to... More >

Tech Industry Largely Ignoring Green IT

BPM Forum has released the results of its Think Ecological survey of the computing industry. The leadership industry group found that while 82 percent of IT professionals said their companies were mo... More >

February 9, 2009

Microsoft Offers Free Green Dashboard

Microsoft is targeting mid-size companies with a dashboard that will aid organizations in monitoring their energy usage by utilizing enterprise resource planning software. Microsoft is anchoring the ... More >

AMD Adds to Phenom II Processor Family

AMD has increased the size of its Phenom II processor family. The company has added three new quad-core and two triple-core processors, all of which support DDR2 and DDR3 memory, according to this b... More >

February 6, 2009

American Airlines' Phone System will 'Know' You

American Airlines has added speech-recognition technology that allows frequent fliers to get flight information faster , according to The Associated Press in a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligen... More >

Green Grid Publishes New Efficiency Guidelines

At its second annual technical forum, the Green Grid published new data center efficiency guidelines. The two-year-old consortium is working on new efficiency measures that build upon the success of ... More >

February 5, 2009

Yahoo Trials Online Notepad for its Search Engine

Yahoo is conducting a limited test of an online notepad feature for its search engine. The tool, called Search Pad , enables users to save links, type notes, copy and paste information from Web site... More >

February 4, 2009

ASUSTek Launches External Optical Drive

IT analysts have panned netbooks for use in the enterprise , saying that the devices can't meet the demands of business.   A new external optical drive from ASUSTek looks to temper a little b... More >

Six Versions Planned for Windows 7

Computerworld and many other sources around the Web are reporting that Microsoft plans to deploy two primary versions of its Windows 7 operating system, but intends on offering six versions overall.... More >

February 3, 2009

VMware Announces View Open Client

Today, VMware introduced VMware View Open Client, a free virtual client system licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. The software enables IT to host and manage user desktops i... More >

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Ecosystem Readiness Program

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Ecosystem Readiness Program. The program is an effort to formalize the process of making sure hardware and software makers produ... More >

IBM Building Next-Generation BlueGene Supercomputers for DOE

IBM is at it again. Big Blue and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration have agreed to develop two of the most powerful supercomputer systems in the world. According... More >

February 2, 2009

Mac OS X Making Market Share Gains

New research from Net Applications indicates that Mac OS X is on the verge of capturing 10 percent of the operating system market. Apple's operating system grabbed 9.93 percent of the market in Janua... More >

IBM Deploying Green Data Centers to REL

IBM is deploying three energy-efficient Scalable Modular Data Centers (SMDCs) to Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) as part of a $3.1 million IT infrastructure services agreement. The three green dat... More >

Broadband Job Estimate Flawed?

A Brookings Institution economist says the number of jobs that will be created by the federal stimulus proposal to expand broadband service is being wildly exaggerated, reports Reuters .   Ec... More >

Virtualization Set for Banner Year

Virtualization is poised for a big year according, to Gartner. The research analyst says the technology will be the top initiative this year as cost savings continue to hold a high priority in the en... More >