Maureen O'Gara

iPhone Developer Summit There are now 100,000 Apple iPhone/iPod apps – obviously some of the loneliest apps in the world – and two billion downloads. Apple’s App Store is now open in 77 countries. It started 16 months ago with 500 apps. By the way, Fortune has named Steve Jobs “... (more)

Google Wave Someone has volunteered to try to explain what the heck Google Wave is. Whether it was worth her time remains to be seen. See http://completewaveguide.com/. More than 2,200 Delegates Present at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo st the Sta.Clara Convention C... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Microsoft and the government of Taiwan are going to set up a cloud research center before the end of the year. It should help local contract manufacturers develop cloud devices and services. Quanta, for instance, intends to start churning out cloud ser... (more)

Cisco Virtualization Journal Cisco has made yet another acquisition spending ~$44.5 million to buy the set-top box business of China’s DVN Holdings, giving it a toehold in China’s great and expanding cable market. Meanwhile, Tandberg isn’t going gently into the Cisco fold. Its s... (more)

C++ Developer The Utah district court, Judge Ted Stewart, a new face, presiding, has set November 23 for a status conference in the matter of SCO v Novell, the case over who owns Unix that the appeals court sent back to be heard by a jury. Novell is expected to do what it can to... (more)

Cloud Computing Journal Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaS... (more)

Uniloc USA, which is good at identifying network devices, has launched WebAnchor, extending its physical device recognition technology to the cloud. The widgetry includes a physical, tangible identifier for online services and SaaS applications such as business applications, banki... (more)

Open Source Journal The European Commission Tuesday responded in kind to Oracle’s contention that its decision to potentially block Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun because of MySQL – whose revenues are barely a rounding error in Oracle’s books – shows “a profound misund... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Eucalyptus Systems Thursday released the first major update of its open source private cloud software since it was launched. The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly o... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The European Commission Monday served Oracle and Sun with a statement of objections (SO) that takes exception to their $7.4 billion combination. Sun immediately told the SEC that "The Statement of Objections... (more)

Desktop Virtualization on Ulitzer VMware figures to push virtualization onto more desktops with the release next week of its next-generation View 4.0, advertised as the only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution in the industry. The gussied-up vSphere-based widgetry, a gat... (more)

Poor beaten-up Sun Microsystems confided the financial results of its September quarter to the SEC on Friday and they weren't pretty. Sun was supposed to be part of Oracle by now and not washing its linen in public anymore but the European Commission hasn't sanctioned the union, a... (more)

Microsoft has cut a broad cloud alliance with Taiwan's number one telecom company, the erstwhile state-owned Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. (CHT). The pair Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to develop software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructu... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Microsoft and the government of Taiwan are going to set up a cloud research center before the end of the year. It should help local contract manufacturers develop cloud devices and services. Quanta, for instance, intends to start churning out cloud ser... (more)

This may not be the best time to mention this - given New York's antitrust suit - but Intel's share of PC processors was up marginally year-over-year in Q3 from 81.2% to 81.5% according to Mercury Research and AMD gained a tenth of point year-over-year to 17.8%, but lost 0.7% seq... (more)

Carly Fiorina, HP's ousted CEO, has formally made herself a candidate to run for the U.S. Senate on the Republican ticket seeking to dethrone three-term Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer on the strength of her business background. Actually HP has done quite well with her acquisi... (more)

Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer Microsoft, which announced its very first mass layoffs even in January, canning 5,000 people, is on to a second round of 800 cuts to adjust to economic conditions. The company said they were 25% at home, the rest worldwide and did not identify any ... (more)

Ubuntu Linux Journal on Ulitzer Hitachi has joined Red Hat's year-old Advanced Mission-Critical Program and offer high-end to mission-critical workloads on Linux to customers in Japan. The program is meant to mimic the kind of workloads, services levels, support and long lifecyc... (more)

Cloud Collaboration on Ulitzer Skytap today will start dangling the chance to collaborate over the web using cloud-based virtual data centers (VDCs), something Amazon, say, can’t do, certainly not with the flick of a single URL. Like SharePoint and WebEx enable teams to collaborat... (more)

SOA and WOA Magazine Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s ... (more)