Thursday, 09 February 2012

Out & About

Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud
Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

SAP unveils HANA in-memory database offerings for SMBs
SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses

Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software
Microsoft has entered into a broad partnership with customer-service software provider 24/7

HP to let partners host LoadRunner
Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner performance validation software will become available on a hosted basis through HP partners

Microsoft to roll out wave of native mobile apps for its CRM software
Microsoft is gearing up to release a phalanx of native mobile applications for its CRM software

Lenovo ordered to pay €1920 for making French laptop buyer pay for Windows too
A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want

SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting

162,000 sign petition targeting Apple's Chinese factory conditions
An online petition asking Apple to protect the Chinese workers who make its more popular products has gathered more than 162,000 signatures in just over a week.

Sprint to sell $100 tablet from ZTE
Sprint is rolling out one of the lowest cost tablets on the market -- a ZTE tablet with midrange specs

AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology
Advanced Micro Devices will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel

Google Docs for Android gets offline access
Google Docs users can now get offline access to documents on their Android-based smartphones and tablets

Samsung scores win in German patent battle with Apple over its tablets
Samsung Electronics is allowed to continue to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N

Apple becomes third-largest mobile phone maker - IDC
Apple is now the third largest vendor of mobile phones in the world, with the iPhone accounting for 8.7 percent of all handset shipments

Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head
New group will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings

Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012
Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand

Apple releases Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3
Apple has today launched Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, what it describes as a "significant update" to its professional video editing app

Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G
Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities

ST Micro sees 40W LED flash in future smartphones
STMicro electronics hopes to make blurry low-light images from smartphone cameras a thing of the past

Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration
Oracle executives on Tuesday gave a more detailed picture of their plans to integrate technologies gained through the acquisition of RightNow

HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds
Hewlett-Packard has updated its DDMA software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud