Google updates the Google Buzz API and follows up on its real-time search efforts by giving Google Realtime Search its own address. – Google
has delivered on its promise to provide real-time search by giving Google
Realtime Search its own address.
The
search giant initially
delivered real-time search features to users in December 2009.
Back
then, quot;Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set
…
Microsofts week demonstrated its strengths and weaknesses in abundance. While the company touted sales of 150 million copies of Windows 7, its desktop-based flagship, rumors abounded that it was attempting to pay iPhone app developers to port their wares onto the upcoming Windows Phone 7. Windows Live Essentials and the new Bing "Entertainment" tab show how Microsoft is approaching the cloud for both consumers and business users, but indications are that the company overall is still trying to figure out its overall cloud strategy, particularly as it applies to endeavors such as smartphones. – Microsoft’s week seemed in many ways to encapsulate its marketplace
position: Even as the company announced 150 million copies of Windows 7 sold
since the operating system’s October 2009 release, reaffirming its primacy of
the desktop, rumors abounded of its attempts to gain traction in the cloud…
Today’s CPUs typically contain large amounts of on-chip cache memory, which speed up access to code and data, thereby improving overall performance and reducing power. Intel engineers are looking for ways to make these memories more dense, to either increase their capacity (for improved performance) or reduce their size (for lower manufacturing cost). Floating body cell (FBC) (PDF 371KB) is one candidate to one day replace the 6-transistor SRAM cells in use today. In two presentations at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits this week, Intel is presenting progress in developing this FBC. One paper describes the development of a 22nm FBC memory on a bulk wafer of the kind in use in high volume manufacturing today — earlier results were on much more expensive SOI (silicon on insulator) wafers. Another paper describes a procedure for selectively doping (introducing impurities) into an FBC’s back gate, without contaminating other parts of the device . quite a challenge, given its size. Further details are available here (PDF 40KB).
Blippy pledges to invest in security in response to the discovery that user credit card numbers had been exposed in Google search results. According to Blippy, the credit card information had been available since February.
– Blippy.com is on the lookout for a chief security officer, following a data
leak that exposed some users’ credit card numbers.
A social networking site that allows users to share information about their
shopping purchases, Blippy
found itself in the news the week of April 19 after reports surfa…
Firefox 3.6 may be just a point upgrade, but it does offer some welcome new capabilities and improvements over Version 3.5 that make it worthwhile. Most welcome are the new Personas feature and enhanced support for plug-in handling and for HTML5.
– The newly released Firefox 3.6 may be just a point upgrade, but it does
offer some welcome new capabilities and improvements over Version 3.5 that make
it worthwhile.
The most noticeable new feature in the new Mozilla browser is Personas,
previously available only through an extension. Essential…
AT T exec Ralph de la Vega tells a U.S. Bancorp investor conference that AT T is upgrading its networks in San Francisco and New York to handle network traffic in these iPhone-heavy markets, but warns pricing changes may still be in the works for bandwidth hogs. According to AT T, 3 percent of users are eating up 40 percent of the carrier’s network capacity.
– Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of
AT amp;T Mobility and Consumer Markets, had both good news and bad news Dec. 9
for iPhone users: AT amp;T is moving to improve service in iPhone-heavy San
Francisco and New York,
but the company also warned that quot;some form of usage-based pricing for
d…
Vodafone has announced it will be offering the BlackBerry Storm2, and many expect Verizon Wireless to soon do the same in the United States. The early word from several analysts is that while the Storm2 is only a slight improvement on the Storm, it may nevertheless be a holiday hit.
– UK wireless
carrier Vodafone
announced Oct. 15 that it will be offering the BlackBerry Storm2, the
update to Research In Motion’s Storm smartphone, in time for the holidays. The
BlackBerry Storm is currently offered in the United
States by Verizon Wireless.
The original BlackBerry
Storm …
eWEEK Labs tested Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on the AT T Pure device and found that while Version 6.5 is definitely an improvement over previous iterations of Windows Mobile, it has too many vestiges of the past.
– My experience with Windows Mobile dates back about a decade, when I purchased my first Windows CE device a PDA, not a phone. Since then, Microsoft has evolved the Windows CE operating system into what would become Windows Mobile in its various versions. The most recent version, Windows Mobile 6.5, w…
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used the platform of a company event in New York to tout his companys efficiency and growth, signified by a new partnership agreement with Cisco that will combine Salesforce.coms Service Cloud 2 functionality with the Cisco Unified Communications platform. Service Cloud 2 integrates social-networking features such as Twitter and Facebook into its platform, along with an integrated knowledge base for quicker problem-solving by customer-service agents.
– NEW YORK – Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff headlined an event at
Manhattans Time Warner Center designed to highlight both his companys new
partnership with Cisco Systems and new
additions to its Service Cloud 2 platform.
quot;The most thrilling thing with moving to the cloud isnt just
appli…
Intel has made significant improvements in its supply chain, as Intel Senior Vice President Bob Baker outlined in his keynote this week at the Intel Developer Forum. Intel’s ‘Just Say Yes’ initiative has led to significant improvements in customer fulfillment. Manufacturing cycle times have been reduced by 62 percent. Our ability to respond to customer change orders – both positively and quickly – has improved 300 percent. Our turnaround time from customer order placement to delivery has improved 25 percent just in the past 12 months. Our delivery performance to committed dock date has improved significantly. Each of these supply chain improvements has led to more satisfied customers. See Bob Baker’s keynote materials for more info on how Intel is improving its supply chain.
Product: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Manufacturer: AppleWired Rating: 8As the name implies, Snow Leopard appears to add just a little dash of flavor to Apple’s previous operating system, Leopard. But OS X 10.6, as it’s officially known, is paws-down the bes…
Microsoft’s Windows 7 recently reached the release-to-manufacture milestone, the last step before the new operating system’s official Oct. 22 launch. Delivering a good amount of eye candy, a number of user enhancements, a few interesting security additions (but only for the customers at the high end) and a decent performance boost, Windows 7 is certainly capable. But is it a compelling upgrade? Check out eWEEK Labs’ walk through Windows 7.
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Hyper-V, part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform, provides some improvements that were absolutely necessary for Microsoft to even think of competing with VMware’s latest offerings. Are they enough? eWEEK Labs’ early look at the new Hyper-V shows that Microsoft still has a lot of ground to cover.
– Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 R2 with a newly improved version of
Hyper-V. Even so, VMware is still miles ahead in terms of the features and
innovation that lay the foundation for sustainable virtualization for midsize and
large enterprises.
In fact, I think VMware with its just-release…
