4th January 2010 Archive

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• Market tempts Micronyx to get in the ring

  Comment Ringmaster Intel could whip up Micron/Numonyx merger

  There are renewed suggestions coming into El Reg that flash suppliers Micron and Numonyx could join up later this month. The possibility surfaced in September, as it became clear how weak Numonyx was in terms of NAND flash sales. In December Micron recorded its first profitable quarter after several loss-making ones, while …

  Enterprise 4 Jan 10:17

• Seagate may face noise reduction patent payout

  But it's not shouting about it

  Just as Seagate is getting back to health after a year of recovery, it has been accused of destroying evidence pertinent to a 10-year old noise reduction technology lawsuit instigated against it by Convolve and MIT. In the 1990s, MIT academics developed "input shaping" vibration and noise reduction technology that steadied a …

  Enterprise 4 Jan 16:44

• Microsoft tosses Windows, Office discounts at XP holdouts

  The timeless art of bending over backwards

  Microsoft has kicked off 2010 with steep discounts on copies of Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010 Professional for businesses still clinging to Windows XP and Office XP. Last week, the company announced that it has extended an existing half-off volume discount offer to small-and-medium-sized organizations running Windows …

  Software & Security 4 Jan 19:22

• Yahoo! to offload Zimbra on...VMware?

  Up the stack

  Yahoo! is on the verge of selling its Microsoft Exchange–battling Zimbra unit to VMware, according to a report citing multiple sources "close to the situation." AllThingsDigital reports that Yahoo! and VMware will announced a Zimbra deal "soon," but it says the Zimbra price tag is "unclear." A Yahoo! spokesman declined to …

  Enterprise 4 Jan 22:26