Update: AT&T buys mobile development company Plusmo
September 30, 2009
AT&T has acquired mobile-application development company Plusmo and plans to use its technology to more quickly build applications and widgets for mobile phones as well as PCs and TVs.
iSuppli: Chip sales to grow in 2010
September 30, 2009
Worldwide semiconductor sales will grow in 2010 as chip sales gain steam in response to stabilizing economies, analyst firm iSuppli said on Wednesday. Semiconductor sales could grow by 13.8 percent on a year-over-year basis to reach $246 billion in 2010. Chip revenue will keep growing through 2012 a…
Microsoft looks to move SourceSafe users to newer technology
September 30, 2009
With Microsoft set to wind down support for the Visual SourceSafe software version control system, the company is encouraging developers to move by to Microsoft’s more full-featured ALM (application lifecycle management) server, the TFS (Team Foundation Server) product featured in the Visual Studio …
Oracle fined by benchmarking claims
September 30, 2009
Oracle has been fined by claims it made in an advertisement about the performance of its software running on Sun Microsystems server hardware. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), of which Oracle is a member, said it had asked Oracle to pay a $10,000 fine for the violation.[ Cut st…
Free StarWind iSCSI Service
September 30, 2009
Have you ever used Windows homegroup operate? You know, all these fancy printer and document sharing functions built into Windows operating system. It is an awesome opportunity to extend the practical use of computers and connect several machines into a net where each can get files from others conne…
SAP, Salesforce.com catch the Google Wave
September 30, 2009
Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP. Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available…
HP prepares new Integrity servers for Tukwila launch
September 30, 2009
Hewlett-Packard will construct some significant updates to its Integrity server line next year to coincide with the launch of Intel’s first quad-core Itanium processor, known as Tukwila, an HP executive said. HP won’t supply details about the new systems yet, but one analyst said HP may introduce a …



