Archive for September 18th, 2008
Jerry Seinfeld is signing off again, this time from Microsoft 
‘s television commercial series with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The popular comedian’s work for the software behemoth is complete, and the next phase of the multiyear, $300 million Windows marketing campaign to reconnect with customers is beginning.According to Microsoft, the next ads will celebrate the diversity and passion of consumers around the world who use Windows to stay in touch with people, information and ideas that they care about.
“Windows is truly the shared language of creativity and connection for more than one billion people,” said Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Windows business group. “Starting today, we want to reflect the passion and excitement of this community in how we tell the story of the Windows brand.”
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September 18th, 2008
T-Mobile is expected to be the first carrier with a Google Android-based cell phone, with an announcement Sept. 23. And HTC says it will be the first handset maker to use the open-source mobile -phone operating system.T-Mobile promised to unveil details of the first mobile phone based on Android at a Sept. 23 press conference in New York, according to The New York Times. T-Mobile could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Times reported the HTC phone probably won’t be available until October, which is in line with Google’s forecast that devices running Android will be on the market by the fourth quarter. Pricing details are not yet available.
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September 18th, 2008
VMware this week announced a string of new products with a single goal in mind: to expand its flagship virtual-infrastructure suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources — servers, storage and network — into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.
“The first 10 years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. “The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing — where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity.”
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September 18th, 2008
