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10th May 2007 Archive

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  • Jajah taps Intel for $15m

    Capital news

    Intel Capital is the lead investor in a $20m funding round for Jajah, the internet telephony software firm. Intel is pumping in $15m to help Jajah in its goal to supplant Skype as the mass-market VoIP provider of choice, the company said today. Jajah uses PCs for internet phone calls - but only to set up the calls. It then …

    IT Channel 10 May 2007, 00:18

  • Ballmer: Submit and OBA-y

    Software 2007 Ignore Duet's sad song

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hawked Office Business Applications during his keynote at the Software 2007 conference, but conceded during a Q&A session that the company's best-known OBA, called Duet, has not made the progress desired, given the time invested in it. Duet is a joint project of SAP and Microsoft which integrates …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 02:42

  • Sun looks to outsiders to script Java's future

    JavaOne Step lively

    Sun is seeking developers outside the "Java rank and file" to join the Java Community Process (JCP) standards body. The company is eying up content authors and scripting developers as JCP recruits to deliver feedback and drive platform and language changes. Sun has already added byte code to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 04:19

  • Data centre firm in €50m expansion

    Interxion eyes up Europe

    Data centre firm Interxion is to invest up to €50m to expand its data centres across Europe. The company has seen a surge in demand for space across Europe, with the Irish business observing a similar trend. "Interxion has experienced strong growth in all European markets with 70 per cent of demand coming from the existing …

    IT Channel 10 May 2007, 10:04

  • Don't let Windows Indexing Service know too much

    Privacy workshop Keeping index files under control

    The Windows Indexing Service catalogues the contents of your hard disk, and even the contents of files, to make local searching faster. This service creates and later consults a number of small databases containing data about your disk's contents, including the actual contents of files, which can undermine the practice of good …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 10:33

  • Good news drowned by wave of security blunders

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    As always, we'll begin with the good news, not because we're people who like to look on the bright side of life, but because it's quicker to get it out of the way now. HP upped its sales and profits forecast for the second quarter, revealing it would add another billion dollars in sales, and earnings per share would be up seven …

    Channel Reg Weekly 10 May 2007, 11:02

  • Google Earth to get sound enhancement

    Hear the planet spinning

    The sounds of the planet are to be linked to Google Earth to enable users to hear what a place sounds like, as well as what it used to sound like. Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting the sounds, and his company Wild Sanctuary has accumulated over 3,500 hours of recordings, covering everything from the cracking of …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 11:08

  • Online ads rouse 33% hike in complaints

    Watchdog calls for better web regulation

    Complaints about online adverts in the UK rose by 33 per cent in 2006, according to an annual report from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). It found that internet adverts were second only to national press as the most complained about non-broadcast format, and said this reflected a need for tighter regulation of web- …

    IT Channel 10 May 2007, 11:11

  • Credit card fraud fears cloud Operation Ore

    Double jeopardy for fraud victims?

    Many of the child abuse download suspects snared in Operation Ore may have been innocent victims of credit card fraud, according to a BBC investigation. Operation Ore, the UK's biggest ever child pornography investigation, involved the prosecution of 2,000 suspects among 7,000 Brits whose credit cards were used to pay for …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 12:35

  • Big Blue puts power-guzzling data centres on a diet

    $1bn a year push to double capacity by 2010 using no more juice

    IBM is expected to announce a $1bn per year plan to double the worldwide computing capacity of its data centres by 2010 without increasing power consumption. An article on the New York Times' website suggests that Big Blue engineers will use a range of technologies to rein in electricity-guzzling computer facilities. These …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 12:37

  • Fujitsu Siemens hits the road

    Beating the drum with Primergy

    Computer maker Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) has said it plans a series of channel roadshows in the UK for its Primergy servers. The firm said sales of its Primergy range had risen strongly over the past three months off the back of a heavy channel marketing campaign. Events are scheduled for Birmingham, London, Edinburgh and Bolton …

    IT Channel 10 May 2007, 12:45

  • HDS gets new UK channel salesman

    Indirect ambitions

    Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has taken on a new UK sales boss with the aim of increasing its stake in the indirect channel market. Neil Evans, who previously ran his own technology consultancy business, SolutionsMTD Limited, will head up all indirect business in the UK, which includes value-added distributors and …

    PC Builder 10 May 2007, 15:09

  • Intel swallows Itanic Java pill

    JavaOne All roads lead to Sun

    It's a tough job. Convincing Java developers that any hardware vendor - let alone Intel in the wake of roadmap set backs - has any immediate relevance. It's an even harder task sidestepping Intel's thorny heritage with Sun Microsystems over its 64-bit Itanium chipset. And, it's all made harder by the fact Sun Microsystems …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 15:43

  • Red Hat sees GOD

    Summit Turns out it's a web service

    Red Hat confused world+dog yesterday by dishing out two, new desktop visions, while trying to catch both projects with the same glove. So, let's try and clean up the mess. On the visionary front, Red Hat has started discussing something called the Online Desktop. Red Hat claims that this software will rewrite the client market …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 16:53

  • Red Hat RHXes out to open source partners

    Summit Let's get rich together

    Red Hat has, at long last, rolled out a broad partner program around bringing better support for business software running on its operating system. The software maker today turned on RHX (Red Hat Exchange). At its most basic level, RHX is a web site that lists partner software, product details and customer feedback. Looking at …

    Software & Security 10 May 2007, 18:33

  • Migration tool builder eyes up broader market

    DW Blog Celona plans to move beyond telco roots

    With release 3.1 of its Celona migration tool, Celona Technologies claims to be a step nearer providing complete automation of data migration projects. At the same time, it plans to extend its patent migration technology to a broader business market. Celona's migration tool was originally built to support complex data …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 18:56

  • Horizon sees sunny skies ahead in 2007

    Buoyant UK and Ireland markets

    Horizon Technology, the Irish-owned reseller, expects 2007 results to be in line with market expectations. Speaking at the company's annual general meeting on Thursday, chairman Samir Naji told shareholders that the board was pleased with the group's performance during the first quarter. "The IT market in both the UK and …

    IT Channel 10 May 2007, 19:08

  • HP Neoview comes out to play

    Long-term competitor for Teradata and IBM

    Hewlett-Packard sort of announced its data warehouse appliance (if that is the right term—see later) last autumn. The company refers to this as a soft launch in the sense that they didn't talk much about it except to a few beta clients. Well, now it has had its hard launch (which is officially version 2.0) and the company is …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 19:41

  • Lenovo pays Microsoft $1.3bn for software

    The more the merrier

    Lenovo will pay up to $1.3bn over the next year to pre-install Microsoft software on its computers. Of course, it is not really doing the paying: it is a Microsoft OEM and so is reselling passing the costs on, along with a little margin for itself, to its customers. So the more it pays Microsoft, the more it is making in PC …

    PC Builder 10 May 2007, 20:24

  • NEC storage line plays its scales

    Online upgrades with modular design

    NEC is rolling out a line of modular storage arrays that scale from gigabytes to a petabyte without going offline. The D-series can scale from 219GB to 1.15PB capacity, using different hard drive classes in the same enclosure. The arrays can also be upgraded from 2GB to 128GB of memory and four to sixty-four 4GB/sec Fibre …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 20:35

  • Acer sues suppliers over HP patent lawsuit

    You want to fight me, buddy? There's me buddy. Go fight him

    Acer is suing a posse of suppliers to share the pain of patent infringement suits filed by rival PC maker Hewlett-Packard. The company confirmed today its US subsidiary has filed complaints against electronics contract manufacturer Hon Hai, notebook maker Quanta and Acer's former manufacturing arm, Wistron, to jointly face HP's …

    PC Builder 10 May 2007, 21:12

  • Microsoft misses performance and scale goals with Viridian – Microsoft

    One month trip from gloating to tears

    Viridian has gone on the Redmond Diet with Microsoft today ripping some of its most exciting planned features out of the virtualization software. In April, Microsoft's GM in charge of Viridian Mike Neil revealed that the company would have to delay the software's beta release from the first half of 2007 to the second half. The …

    Enterprise 10 May 2007, 21:47

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