SAP, Salesforce.com catch the Google Wave
Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.
Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies, such [...]
Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.
Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies, such as document sharing and instant messaging, into a system for real-time collaboration.
Hewlett-Packard will make some significant updates to its Integrity server line next year to coincide with the launch of Intel’s first quad-core Itanium processor, known as Tukwila, an HP executive said.
HP won’t provide details about the new systems yet, but one analyst said HP may introduce a modular, bladelike design for more of its Integrity systems, much as it did last year for the Integrity NonStop. That could help to make the systems more energy-efficient and reduce HP’s manufacturing costs.
AT&T has acquired mobile-application development company Plusmo and plans to use its technology to more quickly build applications and widgets for mobile phones as well as PCs and TVs.
Without a radical change in the way much of it is written, software, sadly, just can’t go much faster anymore.
Speed improvements that typically came from faster processors with more transistors have come close to their limit, where if the chips run any faster, they will overheat.
Popular online retailer Newegg divulged details today on the OEM pricing of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7.
Microsoft Courier caught a lot of attention when an introduction video for the device leaked out last week. The leaking continued on Tuesday with a brand new demo video courtesy of Gizmodo, plus a rumored launch time frame and a deeper insight into what this project is all about.
Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is launching OXtender for Business Mobility, which adds support for push e-mail to mobile phones that use Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol, it said on Wednesday.
OXtender for Business Mobility also lets users synchronize contacts, calendar and other information from Open-Xchange accounts over the air. It can also be used to send information from social networks, including LinkedIn, Xing and Facebook, to mobile phones, according to Rafael Laguna, Open-Xchange CEO.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is launching a certification program based on the completed IEEE 802.11n standard on Wednesday and looking toward a future peer-to-peer specification it is developing on its own.
Testing has now begun in the “Certified n” program, which succeeds the Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n draft 2.0 program that the industry group began two years ago. The testing begins with two labs but will expand to 13 locations within the next few weeks.
Who says the U.S. is losing its edge in manufacturing? The nation will spend more on new chip manufacturing equipment this year than any other country, regaining a title it last held in 1994, according to the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
Unisys is introducing a new service on Wednesday that will allow its customers to better manage, secure and support mobile devices carried around by employees, company executives said on Tuesday.
Staff now expect to use their choice of devices anytime and anywhere, and this causes problems for CIOs around cost, the cost of support, and the security of applications and data, said Tony Doye, president of Unisys’ Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services group, in a telephone interview.
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