Archive for March, 2007
Apple TV is taking the digital media world by storm this week, but the company’s much-anticipated next version of Mac OS X is taking a back seat in more ways than one.The rumor mill is reporting that the release of Leopard, version 10.5 of OS X, might be delayed until October thanks to Microsoft 
Windows Vista compatibility issues. At issue is the Mac-maker’s Boot Camp software, according to industry reports. Boot Camp software lets Intel-based Macs run Windows. The application will come packaged with Leopard.
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March 23rd, 2007
Piggybacking on news of Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube, News Corp. and NBC Universal unveiled plans to launch a rival site that will offer free, premium content to the masses.Codenamed Caterpillar, the site will make its debut this summer with thousands of hours of full-length programming, including movies and clips from at least a dozen networks and two major film studios. The two media giants are joining forces with Internet Goliaths such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and MySpace to distribute the content.
“This is a game changer for Internet video,” Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp., said in a statement. “We’ll have access to just about the entire U.S. Internet audience at launch. And for the first time, consumers will get what they want — professionally produced video delivered on the sites where they live.”
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March 23rd, 2007
With the iPhone waiting in the wings, Apple said Wednesday it is shipping its long-awaited set-top box that can wirelessly play or download iTunes content from a PC or Mac on a TV.Although Apple TV doesn’t bear the “i” prefix that characterizes many of its most popular products, it does promise to continue the Mac-maker’s tradition of sleek design and user friendliness. The slender, square, silver box will sell for $299. That’s $50 more than the 30-GB iPod and $50 less than the 80-GB iPod.
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March 23rd, 2007
There are plenty of shakeups in the wireless world this week. After Google killed rumors of a self-branded mobile phone, speculation emerged over Palm selling itself to rival Motorola, Nokia, or a private equity investor.Meanwhile, Motorola is announcing a series of changes that make its rumored intentions to purchase Palm muddier. On Wednesday, the mobile giant named a new president, CEO, and acting CFO. In the next breath, the No. 2 handset maker slashed about $1 billion off its earnings forecast and warned Wall Street to brace for a loss.
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March 23rd, 2007
IDC ’s new report on virtualization and multicore servers backpedals from previous server forecasts, indicating that x86-based server deployment patterns are changing dramatically.IDC’s new server market report, titled “Virtualization and Multicore Innovations Disrupt the Worldwide Server Market,” indicates that multicore and virtualization will cost the x86 market more than 4.5 million shipments and $2.4 billion in customer spending between 2006 and 2010. Overall, x86 shipments that were once projected to increase 61 percent by 2010 are now facing just 39 percent growth during that same period.
But not all analysts view the impact of virtualization in the same way. Frank Gillett, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, said he hasn’t reviewed the IDC report, but expects server virtualization to impact far less than half of server sales for the next few years.
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March 21st, 2007
According to published reports citing unnamed sources, Palm might sell out to rivals Motorola or Nokia as the mobile market braces itself for the arrival of Apple’s iPhone.The news comes on the eve of the Treo maker’s quarterly earnings conference, with online industry publication Unstrung.com reporting that Morgan Stanley wants to close a deal before Thursday. Palm apparently hired the investment banker several weeks ago to explore its strategic options, including the possibility of selling itself.
Besides Nokia and Motorola, private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners have been named among the potential buyers. Neither Palm, Morgan Stanley, nor any of the alleged mobile shoppers could be reached for comment on the possible buyout. However, wireless industry analysts are not ruling out a quick sale.
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March 21st, 2007
In a first-to-market move, IBM and Cisco on Tuesday announced a partnership to provide emergency crisis-response capabilities as an end-to-end managed service. The new IBM Crisis Management Services for Crisis Response service taps the experience of both tech titans, which have dealt with more than 70 major worldwide catastrophic events in 49 countries.The companies said they are combining their advanced communications, collaboration, and coordination technologies with their satellite and wireless capabilities to help businesses, governments, and other organizations prepare for, respond to, and rapidly recover from disruptive events.
“Businesses and governments operating in today’s environment require capabilities across all three phases of crisis: readiness, response, and recovery,” Philippe Jarre, vice president, IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, said in a statement. He called the partnership with Cisco a “state-of-the-art approach” to end-to-end, crisis-response solutions.
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March 21st, 2007
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