Android 3.0 "Honeycomb," which could accelerate Androids presence in the tablet market, could also complicate Microsofts Windows tablet plans. – Google Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, could complicate
Microsofts nascent tablet efforts.
Scheduled for a media unveiling Feb. 2 at Googles Mountain
View, Calif., headquarters, Honeycomb has been designed with larger screens in
mind, including a retooled, tablet-friendly virtual keyboard and…
The list of apps affected by binary planting bugs includes programs such as Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Photoshop, as well as Microsoft apps like PowerPoint 2010. – The fallout from the binary planting vulnerabilities plaguing scores of
programs running on Windows continued today as more names of susceptible
applications became public and the number of exploits exploded.
Belgian security
site Corelan.be listed dozens of vulnerable applications, including se…
Thai Airways International Plc said plans for a budget airline alliance with Singapore’s Tiger Airways won’t be affected by news that two big Tiger shareholders and its chief executive sold discounted shares in the budget carrier.
Tiger said this week that substantial shareholders Indigo Singapore Partners and Ryanasia, along with chief executive Tony Davis, sold 65.796 million Tiger shares at a discounted price of $1.90 in a transaction worth about $125 million.
Intels $7.68 billion McAfee acquisition could have little direct effect on its relationship with Microsoft, unless Intel uses that deal as leverage to hurt ARM and attract Google into using its products. – Microsoft and Intel have a long-standing partnership.
Microsoft Security Essentials competes with McAfees portfolio of security
products. So will Intels $7.68 billion acquisition of McAfee affect the
chip-makers relationship with Microsoft?
Not really, said representatives from Intel.
“McAfee …
It turns out that critters so small that they can’t be seen with the naked eye might affect the weather, and perhaps even climate.As I pointed out last year, spacefaring bacteria might affect rainfall:In 2002, several scientists claimed that bacteria …
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has stated that the ICJ advisory opinion will affect the situation concerning Kosovo and Metohija (KiM).
He also expressed hope that the ICJ’s stand will facilitate establishing of negotiations over the status of the province.
The People’s Bank of China on June 19 indicated it’s abandoning the 6.83 yuan peg to the dollar adopted during the global crisis to shield exporters. The central bank said while there’s no basis for “large scale” moves in the currency, the exchange rate will be allowed increased “flexibility.”
The policy of a modest and gradual appreciation of Singapore’s currency policy band remains unchanged and “appropriate,” the central bank said. It stands ready to curb excessive volatility in the exchange rate, it said.
The expansion of data storage giant EMC’s alliance with enterprise applications maker SAP will not harm EMC’s relationship with Oracle, although that relationship will continue to be complicated. – <p>The fact that data storage hardware and software giant EMC
on May 17 announced an expansion of its global strategic alliance with Europe’s
largest software maker, SAP, will have
little or no effect on EMC’s longtime
relationship with Oracle SAP’s sworn
marketplace enemy.<br />
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The E…
Hewlett-Packard’s $1.2 billion Palm acquisition could change the landscape of the tablet PC market, especially if HP decides to incorporate the Palm WebOS into future devices. Analysts suggest that the Palm acquisition supports the rumors that HP’s so-called Slate tablet PC, reportedly running Windows 7, has been shelved. In theory, Palm’s mobile operating system would allow HP to build a tablet that minimizes the load on processor and battery. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s decision to end its Courier project suggests the company’s retreat from the tablet PC market, which has been heating up thanks to massive sales of the Apple iPad.
– Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion is widely expected to
change the smartphone landscape, not to mention save the Palm brand from implosion.
What’s less certain is how the deal might affect the nascent tablet PC market.
HP has a number of decisions confronting it, including h…
Apple’s decision to shut down Lala, the online music service it acquired in December 2009, could affect more than the music lovers who paid the Web service to stream tunes to their PCs. Given that Lala was a partner in Google Music, which provided audio previews in exchange for music-related search terms, and was once a piece in a 2009 acquisitions chess game between Google and Apple, its closing could herald another twist in the long-simmering battle between the two tech giants. Apple and Google are also contending in a number of other areas, notably smartphones and, by the end of 2010, possibly tablet PCs.
– Apple plans to shut down Lala, the online streaming music service, on May
31. After Apple acquired Lala Media in December 2009, speculation was rampant
that Apple would incorporate Lala’s streaming technology into its iTunes
service; nonetheless, both Lala and Apple remained tight-lipped about an…
Economist Ivan Nikolić said that the resignation of Radovan JelaÅ¡ić as NBS governor could affect the government if his replacement came from a different party. JelaÅ¡ić is a member of MlaÄ‘an Dinkić’s G17 Plus.
With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is bringing the MySQL database into the fold, which analysts agree will pose a challenge for Microsoft and IBM. IBM, however, says its strategy will be unaffected.
– As Oracle
lays out its integration plans for newly
acquired Sun Microsystems, the two rivals it has most obviously affected in
the database space are IBM and Microsoft.
The acquisition of Sun brings with it MySQL, a database that has grown in
popularity during recent years, particularly for bus…
Verizon Wireless has introduced some changes to its talk and data plans that will become effective Jan. 18. Among them is the expansion of its required 25 megabytes for $9.99 data plan to additional handsets, and prepaid plans will run just $5 more per month than those with a contract.
– Verizon Wireless announced several updates to its service plans that will go
into effect Jan. 18.
For new customers, its Nationwide Unlimited Talk plan which, as the name
implies, gets you a lot of nationwide talking but nothing more will be $69.99 a
month, down from $99.99. Nationwide Unlimite…
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The FTCs suit against Intel which is pursuing not monetary but business changes on Intels part may affect Intels Atom netbook business, which is already threatened by competitor ARM, according to ABI analyst Kevin Burden.
– The complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission against
Intel on Dec. 16 could affect Intels Atom processor business,
according to a report from ABI Research.
Specifically, the ABI report found that any action by the FTC could
have a big impact on Intels different businesses, including i…
The attacks on foreigners and the cancelation of the Pride Parade will not affect the visa liberalization process, says the Interior Ministry. Belgrade is due to inform the European Commission about progress towards meeting the set criteria for the abolition of visas for Serbian citizens by tomorrow.
A major new report to be published by Geophysical Research Letters, concludes that global warming will accelerate so quickly in the next 5 years – 150% of the IPCC’s predictions – that it is “expected to silence global warming sceptics”.What I find int…
