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HP Targets SMBs With All-in-One PC Launch
The machine features an integrated design that puts the computing power inside the display. The company said its single console, which conceals antennas, cables and other peripherals, offers an ideal solution for use in space-constrained cubicles, executive conference rooms, schools, nurse stations and hotel lobbies. [...] Computing System Price / Keyboard Wireless Conference / Memory Power Systems st. [...]
iPhone 4 Is Apple’s Vista, Says Microsoft
While Apple held a hasty press conference to deal with the iPhone 4's signal problems, a Microsoft executive likened the device to a Microsoft product disaster - despite the looming problems his company faces in the mobile market. [...] Other executive keynotes at the conference hammered that point home. [...] It looks like iPhone 4 might be their Vista and I'm okay with that, Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told an audience during the Worldwide Partner Conference on 14 July. [...]
CA Acquires Yet Another Cloud Company
CA officials announced the all-cash acquisition of Nimsoft on 10 March, and said the deal is expected to close by the end of March. Nimsoft is the fifth cloud-centric company CA has purchased in the past year. [...] Read, who will become senior vice president and general manager of CA's Nimsoft business unit once the deal is complete, said for his 12-year-old company, combining with CA makes sense. [...] We are looking to build up that off-shore revenue, Chris O'Malley, executive vice president for CA's Cloud Products and Solutions Business Line, said during the conference call. [...]
Utilities Blamed For Stalling Smart Grid Roll-outs
Amid the concern about potential opposition to smart meter projects from utilities, Google teamed up with a small energy company last year to develop technology that effectively bypasses energy companies. [...] TED is designed specifically for the consumer, so that one can better manage the use and costs of electricity. TED puts you in charge, the company states. [...] That was the assessment from management consultant, Marchment Hill Consulting's Neil Gibbs, speaking in a panel discussion at HP's annual Executive Energy Conference in Dubai this week. [...]
Apple Patches Older Version Of Leopard OS
Snow Leopard, announced by Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2008, shipped at the end of August 2009. [...] A stack buffer overflow exists in [the] Java Web Start command launcher. Launching a maliciously crafted Java Web Start application may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. . [...] The Apple patch updates Leopard to Java versions 1.6.0_15, 1.5.0_20 and 1.4.2_22. In the update, Apple cautioned. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. [...]
Red Hat’s Whitehurst: What Next For Open Source?
Our technology is fantastic and the people who buy technology simply based on its merits buy our products, he told eWEEK Europe - repeating the comapny's claim to have minted a paradigm as new as that of Facebook or Wikipedia. But we're still a relatively small company. . [...] The company has only had an enterprise edition product and sold to the corporate world for six years, he said. The company's older, but it's been six years sine we started down this enterprise path. So, in that time, we've made a lot of progress. We're growing double digits right now, when everyone else [in the commercial IT industry] is shrinking. [...] Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst is on a high after the company's annual customer conference. The event, launched RHEL 5.4, it also took JBoss middleware to the cloud, and included new cloud projects. [...]
HP: Sensors May Prevent Repeat Of BP Oil Disaster
The company is already working with oil giant Shell on sensor technology. The companies announced a plan to collaborate on a wireless sensing system to collect seismic data to aid drilling and exploration. [...] BP has been struggling to contain a significant oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico since the 20 April when a rig operated by the company suffered a major fire which killed several workers. NASA has deployed planes equipped with sensing equipment to help map and monitor the spill. [...] Responding to a question from eWEEK Europe UK at HP's Executive Energy Conference in Dubai, Peter Hartwell, master engineer at HP labs, said that sensor technology was fundamentally about detecting problems before they escalate. [...]
Green Expert Warns Energy Execs About Complacency
Speaking at the HP Executive Energy Conference in Dubai this week, climate change expert Gabrielle Walker told the audience of technology and energy industry executives that climate change was an opportunity, not something to be feared. [...] Walker, who co-authored the best-selling climate change book The Hot Topic with UK chief scientist Sir David King, said that climate change wasn't a threat to the planet but to the current conditions that man had grown accustomed to. [...]
Apple iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Sold Out
This is beyond doubt one of the most precise, beautiful things we've ever done, said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs at the at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on 7 June. He described the device as the biggest leap since the original iPhone. [...] Apple's iPhone 4 will be available from all of the major UK operators after it launches on 24 June, as well as Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U and Tesco. New features include a larger battery, a thinner body, a proprietary A4 processor under the hood, a front-facing camera for video conferencing, and a 5-megapixel camera paired with a rear illuminated sensor. [...] Apple has stopped taking pre-orders for the 24 June launch of its iPhone 4, and Tesco has joined the list of companies selling the phone in the UK. [...]
Oracle Announces Results Ahead Of Sun Purchase
Net income was $1.12 billion, or 22 cents a share, compared with $1.08 billion, or 21 cents, a year earlier. Including revenue from acquired companies, sales dropped 6.6 percent to $5.06 billion, Oracle Executive Vice President and CFO Jeff Epstein said in a conference call with analysts and journalists. [...] Our applications team also executed especially well in North America, where our applications business grew 8 percent versus negative 50 percent for SAP, Phillips said. [...] Founder and CEO Larry Ellison said his company has come a long way in its competition with IBM in the enterprise middleware space, and that it will continue to gain marketshare. [...]
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