Stories by Nancy Gohring

Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform

Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.

By Nancy Gohring | 10 February, 2012 10:51

Tags: software, open source, internet, Cloudscaling, cloud computing

New York attorney general settles case against Intel

The New York Attorney General settled an antitrust case it brought against Intel in 2009, the chip maker announced on Thursday.

By Nancy Gohring | 10 February, 2012 09:00

Tags: mergers and acquisitions, Intel, Components, business issues

Google, Microsoft and Apple letters aim to keep regulators at bay

As patent infringement lawsuits continue to pile up in the mobile industry, Google, Apple and Microsoft appear to be trying individually to reassure regulators and standards bodies that they won't use their patents to build a monopoly, experts said.

By Nancy Gohring | 10 February, 2012 09:03

Tags: patent, mobile, Microsoft, legal, intellectual property, Google, Apple

Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology

Femtocell developer Airvana is charging Ericsson with breaching their contract over femtocell technology, in a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

By Nancy Gohring | 09 February, 2012 06:51

Tags: mobile, legal, intellectual property, Ericsson, Airvana

Chrome comes to Android, but only for the 1 percent

Google on Tuesday began offering a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android phones, finally beginning the move to unify its computer, tablet and mobile phone browsers.

By Nancy Gohring | 08 February, 2012 06:20

Tags: software, mobile, Google, browsers, applications, Android OS

HP to let partners host LoadRunner

Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner performance validation software will become available on a hosted basis through HP partners, the company announced Tuesday.

By Nancy Gohring | 07 February, 2012 23:50

Tags: software, internet, hewlett-packard, cloud computing, application development

Cloudyn monitors and optimizes AWS usage

Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs.

By Nancy Gohring | 06 February, 2012 16:06

Tags: internet, Infrastructure services, Cloudyn, cloud computing, Amazon Web Services

Micron CEO dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday.

By Nancy Gohring | 04 February, 2012 07:01

Tags: personnel, micron technology, Components, business issues

Apple removes, than replaces products from German online store

Apple on Friday removed some of its products from its online store serving Germany due to a court injunction in its dispute with Motorola, but shortly after it removed the products a suspension of that injunction allowed Apple to again start selling them.

By Nancy Gohring | 04 February, 2012 05:41

Tags: patent, Motorola Mobility, mobile, legal, intellectual property, Apple

Sprint to sell $100 tablet from ZTE

Sprint is rolling out one of the lowest cost tablets on the market -- a ZTE tablet with midrange specs -- but you'll have to sign a two-year service contract to get the low US$100 price tag.

By Nancy Gohring | 03 February, 2012 06:12

Tags: ZTE, tablets, sprint nextel, mobile, hardware systems, Android tablets

Lease program would offer users new phone every year

Wish you could have the latest hot smartphone even with a year left on your contract? TMNG Global has devised a leasing program that could let you upgrade your phone every year.

By Nancy Gohring | 03 February, 2012 05:33

Tags: TMNG Global, mobile

OpenStack removes Hyper-V support in next release

Despite Microsoft's stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday.

By Nancy Gohring | 02 February, 2012 11:05

Tags: Virtualization, server virtualization, OpenStack, Microsoft, internet, Infrastructure services, cloud computing

Microsoft opens door to Kinect for Windows apps

As promised, Microsoft has shipped version 1.0 of the Kinect for Windows SDK and runtime and said partners have started selling the Kinect hardware.

By Nancy Gohring | 02 February, 2012 07:49

Tags: Microsoft, hardware systems

Kindle sales soar but Amazon mum on actual numbers

Amazon said flooding in Thailand and economic problems in Europe weighed on its financial results for the fourth quarter but it also said it was pleased with the results, which disappointed investors.

By Nancy Gohring | 01 February, 2012 11:25

Tags: internet, Infrastructure services, financial results, e-commerce, cloud computing, business issues, Amazon Web Services, amazon.com

Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support

Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack.

By Nancy Gohring | 01 February, 2012 08:53

Tags: software, OpenStack, open source, Microsoft, internet, Infrastructure services, cloud computing

 
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