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Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings Offers a Mobile Linux Solution

Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings sees the future of mobile phone communication in the cross-platform solution that Linux can provide. His vision was buffeted recently by a prediction by market research firm ABI that Linux will ship in more than 200 million phones in 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007 Based in Oslo, Norway, Trolltech has 200 employees...

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Imperva CEO Shlomo Kramer: Security Is All About Visibility

Imperva specializes in data security and compliance solutions for the data center. Its product lineprovides an automated and transparent approach to protecting and controlling sensitive datathroughout transactional data systems. The Imperva database and Web application appliances aredeployed in leading financial, retail, telecommunications, healthcare and government organizations around the globe. CEO Shlomo Kramer, who founded Imperva more than five years ago, is recognized by someindustry publications as one of the 20 luminaries who changed the network industry...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Toshiba's New Value-Priced Vista Notebook Shines

Hard-core gadgeteers never need a rationalization to buy a new piece of hardware, but for those who need at least a tissue of temperance whenseeking new tech, the introduction of Microsoft's new operating system,Vista, is an invitation to splurge Where should you start your shopping? How about a new laptop? Toshibarecently released a new series of ...

Behind the Curtain of the MySpace Legal Drama

The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information The whole mess has unfolded like a bad soap opera -- and it must be particularly baffling for MySpace, because it has invested a significant amount...

SC Tosses Telecom Class Action, Tightens Limits on Antitrust Suits

A lawsuit that began as a quest to reimburse customers for alleged collusion among telecom providers to lock upstart companies out of the market and keep prices high has ended with new restrictions on how such class action suits can be brought into court Attorneys Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman brought the class action, Twombly v. Bell Atlantic C...

XM Solves Satellite Software Snafu

XM Satellite Radio fully restored its service Tuesday, the company said, after outages affected an unknown number of subscribers for parts of two days XM believed all service had been restored by early Tuesday afternoon, more than 24 hours after outages were first reported midday Monday. The company did not know how many of its 8 million subscriber...

Dell Reveals Preloaded Ubuntu Linux Due Date

Dell reportedly will launch three models of its much anticipated laptop and desktop computers loaded with Ubuntu Linux this Thursday Although the company has refused to provide any details, blogger Jeremy Garcia -- a Linux advocate who runs the Web siteLinuxquestions.org -- released an e-mail from an unnamed Dell employee providing a sneak peak int...

Panasonic Puts Wide Angle in Small Box

Not long ago, consumers had a clear choice to make when shopping for a digital camera: size versus power. Smaller cameras traveled well and fit into a pocket, but they were lacking in resolution and cutting-edge features Cameras with bells and whistles such as zoom and anti-blur technology were big and clunky. Only professional photographers were w...

T-Mobile Wing Smartphone First to Fly With Windows Mobile 6

T-Mobile Tuesday became the first U.S. cellular carrier to introduce a device powered by Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft's latest operating system for mobile devices The latest offering, called the "Wing," is an upgrade to the company's discontinued MVA smartphone. It is priced at US$299 with a two-year contract....

Intel, STMicro Dive Into Flash Memory Venture

Tapping deeper into one of the fastest-growing segments of the memory chip market, Intel has joined with STMicroelectronics and a private equity firm to establish a new flash memory company The two chipmakers entered into the agreement to combine existing assets of businesses that last year generated US$3.6 billion in revenue, the companies said Tu...

Intel, AMD Wage High-Stakes Battle Over Low-End Laptops

A tiff between the world's largest chipmaker and an organization selling low-priced laptops to the developing world will ultimately benefit poor kids, according to one tech aid expert "I think it's wonderful that Intel and OLPC [One Laptop Per Child] are now competing," Wayan Vota told LinuxInsider. Vota is editor of OLPC News and director of Geekc...

New Trends Tool Tells Googlers What's Hot

List lovers, take note: Google on Monday added a new feature to its Google Trends report that reveals the top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries Much like Google Zeitgeist, a manually compiled list of popular searches that Google has produced for several years, Hot Trends takes the popularity list to a new level, with more up-to-date informat...

Is EMI Playing Musical Chairs?

The record label home to some of the world's top pop groups, such as the Beatles and Coldplay, has agreed in principle to a US$4.7 billion takeover by private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners The London-based music companyEMI Group spurned a proposal from Warner Music Group earlier this year, but now considers Terra's offer to be "fair an...

Oracle Folds Siebel, PeopleSoft Features Into New E-Business Suite

Oracle has taken what it deemed to be the best CRM features from Siebel 8 and PeopleSoft 9, as well as some of its own native functionality, and incorporated them into its latest E-Business Suite release, version 12 "There have been improvements made across all three applications," Mike Betzer, vice president of Oracle's CRM Strategy, told CRM Buye...

Vying for Slices of the E-Payment Pie

Google shook up the e-payment market last summer with a ballyhooed entry into this space with its Google Checkout service. While many positioned the move as a salvo against eBay and its PayPal subsidiary, traditional banks may have more to lose if Google is successful as the Internet increasingly reshapes how financial transactions are completed "G...

OPINION

A Sneak Peek at IBM's Jazz Collaboration App

IBM helped the Eclipse Foundation score a huge hit with the Eclipse development framework and community. Now the software engineering target is even higher, but the methods and approaches are similar IBM in June will unveil details about its Jazz framework and community for automation and governance of complex, collaborative application development...

At the Movies: Digital Delivery Takes Off, Part 1

It was a time-tested tactic during ancient Roman times for generals to embrace their adversaries and bring them into the fold when they represented significant threats to the Empire that they could not otherwise defend against A modern variation of this practice is becoming common across the media and communications landscape. Long-established ind...

AT&T Disconnects Cingular Name

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

AT&T Disconnects Cingular Name

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

AT&T Disconnects Cingular Name

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

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