Archive for September, 2007
What do you get when you cross the producers of hit shows like Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life with MySpace? The answer is Quarterlife, a new online series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.Beyond My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething, the dynamic duo produced Legends of the Fall and Blood Diamond. Now, they’ll try their hand at Web television with the launch of the Quarterlife series on MySpace TV on November 11. The initiative marks the first time a network-quality series will be produced specifically for the Internet.
“This is the most exciting project I’ve worked on in a very long time, and part of that is the level of creative autonomy we can have on the Internet. For better or worse, Quarterlife is truly our own vision,” Herskovitz said in a statement.
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September 18th, 2007
Sun Microsystems and Microsoft 
, once bitter rivals, are growing ever closer through interoperability agreements that aim to make life easier for their respective customers.On Wednesday, Microsoft and Sun announced a new facet to their relationship: Sun is now a Windows Server OEM. What’s more, Sun and Microsoft will collaborate to facilitate deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems.
“Today’s announcement is another example of Microsoft’s commitment to 64-bit computing,” Bob Muglia, a senior vice president at Microsoft, said in a statement. “The Sun hardware platform is an excellent foundation for Windows-based enterprise solutions.”
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September 18th, 2007
Seven states have banded together to challenge Microsoft . California led the charge in seeking to extend the government’s antitrust oversight of Microsoft until 2012. That would mean adding five years to a federal court’s original judgment.Microsoft reached its antitrust settlement with the federal government and 17 states in 2002. The oversight is scheduled to expire November 12. But California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown filed a report in late August questioning the effectiveness of the Microsoft consent decree.
Brown has publicly stated the decree has not lived up to its goal of increasing market competition. Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia joined Brown in filing the report. Now, the case is in the judge’s hands.
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September 13th, 2007
On Monday, I.T. services company Capgemini announced a new partnership designed to make Google Apps a more viable option for large enterprises. The partnership between the Paris-based consulting, technology, and outsourcing-services firm and the world’s leading search engine could have implications for Microsoft and its Office suite.Capgemini has agreed to provide Google Apps Premier Edition, which includes Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Start Page, to its clients. With Capgemini having a client base of one million, the partnership could mean a significant number of new installs for Google Apps. For Capgemini, the deal means a broader portfolio of desktop solutions to support more of its clients.
“Our corporate vision is designed to help our clients achieve better, faster, more sustainable results by linking them with their partners, suppliers, and the latest technologies,” Paul Spence, CEO of Capgeminis’s Global Outsourcing unit, said in a statement. “Incorporating Google Apps Premier Edition into our offering is yet one more way that we are helping our clients adopt technological innovations within a robust and tested framework.”
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September 10th, 2007
I.T. admins can breathe a sigh of relief this month — at least on the Microsoft front. While new Storm worm attacks and Skype viruses make their way across the Internet, Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday is a breath of fresh air compared to the past few months.Originally slated were five sets of patches, but the number of security bulletins shrunk to four late Friday. Of those four, one is rated critical. The critical patch, which will require a restart, fixes a bug that potentially allows a hacker to take control of the victim’s computer from a remote location.
Another security bulletin describes a vulnerability for Windows Services for Unix and the subsystem for Unix-based applications. The patch to fix this bug is rated important and will require a restart.
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September 10th, 2007
On Wednesday, Network Appliance threw down the gauntlet. NetApp filed suit against Sun Microsystems, claiming that Sun’s storage software in Solaris violates seven NetApp patents. In addition, NetApp is seeking a declaration that it is not infringing on three of Sun’s patents — and that the patents in question are invalid.NetApp’s move comes in the wake of what the company perceives as Sun’s “prolonged and aggressive claims” against it. Sun’s demand for NetApp to license some of its intellectual property caused the company to examine the issue more closely, NetApp said. Its conclusion? Sun’s ZFS technology infringes several NetApp patents.
“We firmly believe that everyone is best served by fair and responsible treatment of intellectual property,” stated Dave Hitz, founder and executive vice president of Network Appliance. “What concerns us is that through its distribution of ZFS under its own terms and conditions, Sun is unfairly encouraging others to adopt and distribute the infringing technology without informing them of our applicable patents.”
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September 7th, 2007
On Wednesday, Microsoft said it will acquire Chicago-based Parlano and will integrate the company’s enterprise group chat technology, known as MindAlign, into Microsoft’s unified communications products.The deal is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2007. At that time, Microsoft will add group chat to Office Communications Server and Office Communicator. Microsoft will offer the group chat functionality as part of the standard client access license for Office Communications Server 2007 Software Assurance customers.
“Parlano has been successful in meeting the rigorous communications needs of companies in financial services and other vertical markets,” Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft, said in a statement. Microsoft is betting MindAlign will give its enterprise presence, instant messaging, conferencing, and VoIP software suite an upper hand.
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September 4th, 2007
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