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XM and Sirius on Tuesday took two key steps closer to having their merger finalized as shareholders from both companies gave their blessing to the deal, which is still awaiting regulatory approval Sirius shareholders voted at a special meeting to amend the company's certificate of incorporation to allow the merger and approved the issuance of the s...
Taking on entrenched players in the virtualization realm, including VMware, Oracle has unveiled a new server virtualization software product that it claims is much more efficient than its competitors' offerings Oracle is touting the product, Oracle VM, as being faster, cheaper and scalable. It was first announced earlier this week at the Oracle Ope...
Information systems and outsourcing giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS) will buy a controlling interest in Saber Holdings, a firm that provides software and services to government agencies across the country EDS will pay US$420 million in cash for the 93 percent stake in Portland, Ore.-based Saber, with the software firm's CEO and chief operating o...
It's not a comforting thought, but while you're sleeping peacefully, your PC may be hard at work acting as a spam server or peer-to-peer node, providing processing power to a malware network engaging in any of a variety of criminal activities online Spam is being used by botnet operators in a multiplicity of new forms -- such as those behind the no...
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) made good on its promise to deliver a software development kit (SDK) for the new Android platform Monday, and Google sweetened the offering with a new US$10 million developer's challenge The Android SDK is now available as an early look release, enabling developers to both start working on applications for the open m...
Microsoft on Monday announced its intention to buy France-based mobile music services provider Musiwave in a move that could dramatically boost the software giant's presence in the cell phone music space Redmond reached a deal with Musiwave parent company Openwave Systems that gives it the exclusive right to negotiate an agreement to purchase Musiw...
Former U.S. vice present and Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmental activist Al Gore has linked up with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with similar street cred in the investment community Generation Investment Management, which Gore cofounded, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have announced plans to collaborate on identifying and fundin...
Another best-of-breed business intelligence vendor has been snapped up: This time, it is Cognos, which IBM has agreed to acquire for US$5 billion in cash, or roughly $58 per share The move was widely anticipated, given the recent acquisitions made by IBM's rivals in this space. Earlier this year, SAP announced it would acquireBusiness Objects for a...
Microsoft revealed specific details about its upcoming Windows Server 2008 Monday at this year's Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, including packaging, pricing and licensing information. One major difference from previous iterations of Windows Server, the software maker announced, are two sets of the operating system (OS). One set includes its new Hyper-V virtualization technology, formerly codenamed "Viridian;" the other does not...
Google's search technology may infringe on a patent that was awarded in 1997, a year before the Internet giant's founding, according to a lawsuit filed last week Northeastern University and Jarg, a Massachusetts startup, which brought the action, say that Kenneth Baclawski, a Northeastern professor of computer science who cofounded Jarg, applied fo...
Intel announced Sunday it has made two important leaps with its new server and high-end PC processors: They are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside the processors; plus, they are the first to be manufactured on the company's 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process...
Shares of E*Trade plummeted more than 50 percent Monday after the online stock brokerage firm backed down from previously announced profit targets, said it would be forced to take more write-downs due to its exposure to the subprime mortgage industry and disclosed it was being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) E*Trade's a...
Cable TV companies are swarming like angry bees over the Federal Communications Commission's desire to tighten its regulatory grip to spark competition and programming diversity According to published reports, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will try to enforce a 1984 rule that would force the cable companies to change some practices....
The world of commercial radio is getting ever more homogenized, as media giants are running thousands of stations in hundreds of markets with remarkably similar formats and playlists. On the other hand, specialized radio services have begun offering increasingly particular formats and programming options. On satellite service XM Radio, for instance, users can listen to one channel that plays only the music of classic rockers like Led Zeppelin and another that focuses on bluegrass...
In the summer of 1999, I was researching potential software partners for a Web hosting company. I originally thought it would take only a few days to identify the leading vendors in areas ranging from ERP (enterprise resource planning) to CRM (customer relationship management) and e-commerce, but after weeks of research I had barely scratched the surface...
Terra Soft Solutions, the developer of Yellow Dog Linux, has teamed up with Circle-S Studios to create Y-Film, a suite of VFX (visual effects) management and productivity tools coupled with DNA Research's 3Delight RenderMan compliant rendering engine and Terra Soft's Y-HPC cluster construction suite Terra Soft will display the alpha version of its ...
Probably the biggest announcement last week was Google's entry into the cell phone space. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the entry will likely change dramatically what we will be using, even in the PC space, in a few years For me, one of the most fun things I did was test-drive the Vectrix high-end electric scooter. Given that gas i...
The holiday season may bring joy to consumers and retailers alike, but hand in hand with that joy comes the inevitable pain of post-holiday returns Gift returns can be a hassle for consumers, but for retailers they pose a daunting logistical challenge, requiring speedy adjustments throughout the pipeline as consumers are reimbursed and products are...
More than two years after the filing of the first complaint, Take-Two Interactive Software announced Friday the proposed settlement of all U.S. consumer class action lawsuits over the "Hot Coffee" modification that could be used to enable sexual content in its "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" video game The settlement stipulates that class members w...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game Electronic Arts (EA) announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OLPC Foundation for the organization to i...
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