Canonical made available on Thursday the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7.
Read MoreFriday, October 23, 2009
Google's Sergey Brin laments Yahoo's Microsoft search deal
Google cofounder and President of Technology Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, answering a variety of questions on hot-button issues affecting the search company.
Interviewed on stage by conference chairman John Battelle, Brin lamented Yahoo's decision to enter into a search outsourcing deal with Microsoft.
Read MoreApple must upgrade Boot Camp to support Windows 7
Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7 .
In a short support document posted to the Apple site, the company said it would soon revise Boot Camp, a utility that lets users run Windows and its applications in a separate disk partition on an Intel-based Mac.
Read MoreApple must upgrade Boot Camp to support Windows 7
Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7 .
In a short support document posted to the Apple site, the company said it would soon revise Boot Camp, a utility that lets users run Windows and its applications in a separate disk partition on an Intel-based Mac.
Read MoreYou don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
This week was so chock-full of news we really needed two quizzes to cover it all. Apple unveiled heaps of new hardware, not quite 48 hours before Microsoft officially served up Windows 7 -- a sorbet of an OS designed to help users lose the bitter aftertaste of Windows Vista. But wait, there's more. With new e-book readers, new "iPhone killers," and new music services, our holiday wish list overfloweth. Your task: Navigate our knotty questions on your way to a perfect score. Award yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now begin.
Read MoreMicrosoft releases major update to Hyper-V R2, closes feature gap with VMware
Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.
VMware dominates the server virtualization market, but Microsoft hopes to change that with its new offering, Hyper-V R2. The update adds important capabilities that help Microsoft close the functionality gap with VMware and other rivals. But analysts still see the product falling short in a few areas required for running enterprise-class applications.
Read MoreWiMax to go on sale in Chicago next month
WiMax will finally go on sale next month in Chicago, a city that was to have been one of the first places where the high-speed wireless service was offered in the U.S.
Read MoreLack of information makes it hard to know if the federal stimulus is creating tech jobs
WASHINGTON -- One obvious follow-up question to the U.S. government's announcement this month that the federal stimulus has created or saved 30,000 jobs so far is this: How many were IT and engineering jobs?
Unfortunately, there isn't an answer.
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Read MoreAOL hard at work on Internet 'content platform'
As it braces to be spun off and struggles with revenue, Time Warner's AOL Internet unit is busy crafting a new strategy focused around content creation that represents a shift in its focus, AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday.
"We're focused on growing a large platform around content and monetizing that content," Armstrong said on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Read MoreMicrosoft seeks ISO security certification for its cloud services
Microsoft Corp. wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to try and assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services. It comes amid broad and continuing doubts about the ability of cloud vendors in general to properly secure their services.
Read MoreU.S. man to serve prison term for selling counterfeit software on eBay
A 46-year-old Falls Church, Virginia, man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for selling counterfeit software on eBay, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Gregory William Fair was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In addition to the prison term, Judge R.W. Roberts ordered Fair to pay US$743,098 in restitution.
Read MorePHP frameworks square off
Advocates of different PHP development frameworks squared off in a debate of sorts Thursday, with each touting the merits of their particular entrant.
Frameworks represented during a panel discussion at the Zend/PHP conference in San Jose include Agavi, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony and Zend Framework.
[ Earlier this week, PHP 6 plans were revealed at the conference. ]
Read MoreUpdate: Microsoft sales and earnings drop less than expected
Microsoft reported revenue that was down 14 percent year-on-year for its first fiscal quarter, with net income down 17 percent -- but it still beat analyst expectations on both counts.
The figures were dragged down by deferral of revenue from sales of Windows 7 to PC manufacturers ahead of the operating system's launch on Thursday, the company said.
Read MoreThursday, October 22, 2009
Update: Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members' public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.
Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Audience Business, made the announcement on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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Read MoreIBM revs up enterprise-class disk storage arrays
For the first time in three years, IBM has unveiled a new high-end model in its DS8000 series enterprise-class disk storage arrays.
Based on IBM's latest Power6 processor, the new DS8700 model announced today offers up to 2.5 times the performance of IBM's current DS8300 array and is up to 50 percent more energy efficient, the company said in a statement.
Read MoreUpdate: EU chides Oracle over lack of cooperation in probe of Sun deal
Europe's head of competition has criticized Oracle for what she characterized as a lack of cooperation over the investigation of Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a spokesman for the European Commission said.
Read MoreCan Windows 7 help PC, chip sectors rebound?
The global economy may not be robust, but the PC and chip sectors are hoping to gain some ground with the help of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS, which will start shipping on Thursday.
Read MoreEquinix expands datacenters through buyout
Equinix has agreed to acquire Switch & Data Facilities in a $689 million deal that will bring together two of the world's largest operators of datacenters.
Equinix already operates 45 datacenters in the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, which house infrastructure for customers including Google, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Netflix and the Nasdaq stock exchange. With the Switch & Data acquisition, expected to close in the first quarter of next year, it will add 34 more across the U.S. and Canada.
Read MorePC makers look to cash in on Windows 7 hype
PC makers will ship new laptops on Thursday to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 in an effort to drum up excitement around the new OS.
Read MoreAT&T adds 3.2 million iPhones in Q3
AT&T said Thursday it activated 3.2 million iPhones in the third quarter, its best-ever for a quarter, adding that nearly 40 percent of those iPhone activations were for new subscribers to the wireless carrier.
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