Archive for September, 2008
Oracle and Intel 
on Tuesday announced a joint effort to accelerate enterprise readiness for cloud computing and make it more efficient and secure. The companies also plan to identify and drive standards to breed flexible deployment across private and public clouds.Cloud computing is an efficient way to run programs and store data that a large number of users can access through Internet technologies. Oracle and Intel already have common ground in the enterprise, where customers are running applications on shared infrastructure within their firewalls using Intel Virtualization Technology and Oracle Grid Computing technologies. This foundation sets the stage for private clouds of internal applications, as well as the ability to extend them to public, multi-tenant clouds, according to the companies.
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September 25th, 2008
Google took another step toward its vision of bringing more books online with the Monday launch of free tools that let retailers, publishers and Web site owners embed books from the Google Book Search index.As part of its latest push to digitize the world’s books, Google has partnered with booksellers, libraries, publishers and social book networks to enable preview functionality for their sites. That means consumers may see more sites with features like Amazon’s “Search Inside” function as they shop online for new reading material.
“We are also providing new ways for these sites to display full-text search results from Book Search, and even integrate with social features such as ratings, reviews, and readers’ book collections,” Alex Diaz, a product manager for Google Book Search, wrote on the company’s blog. “By providing tools that help sites connect readers with books in new and interesting ways, we hope publishers and authors will find even wider audiences for their works.”
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September 24th, 2008
T-Mobile on Tuesday gave the world a sneak peak of the highly anticipated, first-ever Android-powered mobile phone. Dubbed the T-Mobile G1, the phone touts touchscreen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, and a Google-centric mobile Web experience.Specifically, the G1 is loaded with Google Search, Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube and other popular Google software that PC users are familiar with. The phone will be available in the U.S. on Oct. 22 for $179 with a two-year voice and data agreement, undercutting Apple’s iPhone 3G through AT&T by $20. Customers can preorder the phone on T-Mobile’s Web site.
“The Internet and the mobile phone are both indispensable tools for our hectic lives, but only a fraction of us access the Web on our phones. The T-Mobile G1 is our opportunity in the U.S. to accelerate the mass adoption of the mobile Web by unleashing Google innovation with a unique software experience that mobilizes the Google services [that] hundreds of millions of consumers rely on every day,” said Cole Brodman, chief technology and innovation officer at T-Mobile USA.
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September 24th, 2008
T-Mobile and handset maker HTC are taking the cover off the first Android-based cell phone Tuesday at a press conference in New York. The Open Handset Alliance, a group that includes Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others, is billing Android as the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.What will a Google Android-based HTC look like? And how will it shake up the market? Here’s what we can discern from leaked photos: It’s a touchscreen device with a full, slide-out keyboard. Pricing rumors peg the device at $199, in line with Apple’s iPhone 3G.
“Based on what we publicly have seen, it looks like it’s going to be a very, very interesting offering,” said Michael Gartenberg, vice president of mobile strategy for Jupitermedia. “This offering is likely to have initial appeal to consumers more than business users, and particularly consumers that are already engaging with Google’s services like Gmail, Calendar and Reader.”
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September 23rd, 2008
Amazon is readying a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to compete with the likes of industry veterans Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks. It’s another step toward cloud computing, and it will be available later this year.Amazon is no stranger to the cloud. The retailing behemoth launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006. EC2 is a Web service that hosts business software applications. Then Red Hat tapped into the cloud last November with a beta version of its Enterprise Linux operating system on EC2. Now Amazon is expanding the cloud.
On Thursday, Amazon announced a new service that will give developers and businesses the ability to serve data to customers worldwide, using low latency and high data-transfer rates. Using a global network, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said the new service can deliver data stored in Amazon S3 to customers around the globe through local access.
“This is an important first step in expanding the cloud to give developers even more control over how their applications and their data are served by the cloud,” Vogels said in his blog. “The service is currently in private beta, but we expect to have the service widely available before the end of the year.”
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September 19th, 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
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