Intel promotes app store model for netbooks
Intel took a step in bringing application stores to netbooks on Tuesday, announcing a program that will help developers build applications for mobile devices.
The chip maker’s Atom Developer Program will help developers optimize and port existing programs for use on mobile devices based on the Atom processor, said Intel [...]
Intel took a step in bringing application stores to netbooks on Tuesday, announcing a program that will help developers build applications for mobile devices.
The chip maker’s Atom Developer Program will help developers optimize and port existing programs for use on mobile devices based on the Atom processor, said Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a keynote speech at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. The program will also provide tools and software development kits to write applications that could be sold through app stores, he said.
LeapFILE released to public beta today a cloud-based file collaboration service for enterprise workers that it says is more powerful than SharePoint and less restrictive than Google Docs.
LeapFILE Folder lets workers automatically share and collaborate on documents and other files from their desktop file explorer without having to e-mail them or manually upload them to a server, said CEO Peter Chang in an interview at the DEMO conference. LeapFILE Folder’s technology handles all of that in the background. It also keeps track of and backs up older versions.
Google introduced on Tuesday push e-mail for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, stepping up its enterprise offerings.
The push e-mail service is available through Google Sync, the technology that already pushes contacts and calendars to phones. Google Sync is free for Google Apps customers.
Hewlett-Packard is building collaboration software with video, application-sharing, and 3-D graphics support into several of its workstation models, giving the high-definition conferencing market an option well below the cost and scale of telepresence.
The HP SkyRoom software, which was set to be announced on Tuesday, works on systems with a fairly modest set of requirements, starting with a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent processor. It needs only an Internet connection of 400Kbps, plus a VPN to connect to systems outside an enterprise firewall.
Oracle is planning to escalate cost-cutting activities during the remainder of its fiscal year 2010, which began in June, according to a filing the company made Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
During its first quarter, which ended Aug. 31, Oracle recorded $48 million in costs associated with a fiscal year 2009 restructuring plan, and expects to “incur the majority of the approximately $300 million that is remaining during fiscal 2010,” the filing states.
Microsoft is buying technology from four of its partners in order to bolster its Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) product with commonly needed functions across various industries, according to a senior company executive.
Microsoft sells ERP products across five industries, and three of those categories, manufacturing, retail and professional services, will benefit from the purchase, said Crispin Read, general manager for Dynamics ERP.
Zoho has added a discussion forum application to its Web-hosted software suite, the company announced Tuesday.
Organizations can use Zoho Discussions for internal forums where employees can discuss projects and for external forums to provide support for customers.
Nirvana in the cloud world, as in the ability to easily move from cloud service to cloud service without vendor lock-in, might be on its way for application developers.
Tackling portability issues in cloud deployments, Zend Technologies, backed by heavyweights IBM and Microsoft, is launching an open source project Tuesday to provide an API for developers to implement cloud services amongst multiple platforms.
Leaders in the Linux community seemed resigned to the fact that Linux still hasn’t made headway in the desktop market, but they made it clear on Monday that their success in other markets, such as mobile, is at least as important.
At the LinuxCon event in Portland, Oregon, panelists on one session that included Linux’s founder, Linus Torvalds, seemed ambivalent when asked whether next year is finally the year for Linux on desktops.
A startup company founded by former Microsoft and Amazon engineers is launching a distributed cloud storage service that uses the spare disk drive capacity in the back offices of small and medium-size businesses to create a collective pool of storage shared by all participants.
Symform’s Cooperative Storage Cloud service is being touted mainly as a technology for resellers, who will pay $15 a month for unlimited capacity and can then offer it to customers as an off-site disaster recovery backup service.
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