Red Hat and JBoss make a play for enterprise middleware
Red Hat is using JBoss World 2008 in Orlando as a launching pad for a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform designed to accelerate the deployment of open-source middleware by larger enterprises.
SOAs are system architectures of collaborating services that can be used to allow software resources to be addressed using standardized request/response protocols through a network. Because SOAs are not monolithic operating constructs that are rooted to old, inflexible infrastructures, it's often more cost-effective for businesses to construct new and more adaptable applications around simpler, more discrete protocols.
GSM version of Palm's Centro headed for AT&T
A GSM version of Palm's Centro is apparently on tap for the AT&T network for release next Thursday, according to a report in popular mobile blog The Boy Genius Report. Although details are scant, it appears that the phone carries much of the functionality that its CDMA counterpart has.
Palm released the Centro for the Sprint network last October at Digital Life in New York City, aiming to put all the functionality of the Treo into a smaller form factor. The Centro received generally positive reviews.
Yahoo faces new competition from QuadrantOne ad network
As if Yahoo didn't have enough uncertainty to contend with right now, three of the largest newspaper chains in the country have launched a new company called QuadrantOne, which may both compete and overlap with Yahoo's online ad network.
Spearheaded by the Hearst, New York Times Corp., Tribune, and Gannett newspaper companies, QuadrantOne will reportedly focus on selling display advertising, one of the very strengths Yahoo is touting for itself in an attempt to ward off acquisition by Microsoft.
Cloudbook Ultra-Mobile PC delayed yet again
Everex's Cloudbook ultra mobile PC has seen another delay in widespread availability.
The company's site previously had an announcement to customers that the 9-inch, 2 pound laptop would be available at Walmart.com and ZaReason.com on February 15. Today, that date was pushed back just under a week to February 21.
Oracle says it's broadening, not ending, its dispute with SAP
Settlement is the furthest thing from the mind of Oracle, which now contends that the wounds it suffered through SAP's alleged IP infringement cut deeper than at the time it filed its lawsuit.
Oracle today denied published suggestions that the company is on the verge of settlement talks with SAP in a lawsuit alleging intellectual property. Instead, the company says it will now file an amended complaint alleging infringement beyond its original complaint that SAP's TomorrowNow unit hacked Oracle's Web site, an Oracle spokesperson said.
SCO CEO McBride to step aside amid $100 million buyout
The chief executive officer of SCO will leave once it reorganizes through a deal with Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners.
McBride's exit will be effective as soon as the restructuring plans take effect. The company said Thursday that it was offered $100 million to go private and reorganize by SNCP, which would take it out of bankruptcy.
Nvidia prototype handset can display high-definition video, graphics
Nvidia has announced its APX 2500 processor, taking the multimedia handset processor into its second generation, and in a game-changing prototype design.
The effort began more than a year ago with Texas Instruments' introduction of the OMAP3430 mobile architecture. Then, Broadcom answered by showing off its VideoCore III multimedia processor. They promised sophisticated graphical processing with low power consumption.
Report claims Xbox 360 failure rate is 16 percent
While frustrated retailers claim that the failure rate for Microsoft's next generation console is near 30 percent, Microsoft has said it is likely closer to five percent. So who's right?
The first unbiased measurement comes from SquareTrade, whose business is in handling warranties for electronics. Using a sample of about 1,000 systems, it found that the 360 had about a 16.4 percent failure rate.
Updated: Microsoft clarifies its promise not to sue for OOXML
5:45 pm ET Feburary 15, 2008 - The question of which unilateral promise from Microsoft is supposed to apply to its Office Open XML format suite was supposed to have been clarified this morning by the company. At least that was the plan, and in the end, the matter may actually be settled, but in the middle, at least, there was more than a little confusion.
Here is the story as we now understand it: Microsoft's position, according to a spokesperson with whom BetaNews spoke this afternoon, is that the company did indeed originally release OOXML under the Open Specification Promise (OSP) in September 2006, as indicated by this blog posting at the time from the company's director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow.
European telcos agree to reduce roaming charges to ward off regulation
Europeans traveling abroad will be able to send text messages and use mobile Internet services with reduced prices just in time for the summer travel season, thanks to the European Union's chief telecom lawmaker.
During the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona yesterday, Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding gave mobile phone carrier executives a stern warning regarding the pricing of text messages and data plans when consumers are roaming in other nations. Comm. Reding spoke with executives of several major European telecom companies about the pricing issues.
One more go-round for Yahoo Video, this time in widescreen
Wal-Mart won't stock HD DVD movies, players past June
Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Best Buy publicly siding with Blu-ray in the next-generation DVD format war, Wal-Mart announced Friday it will no longer be stocking HD DVD players or movies by June.
The decision was announced on Wal-Mart's Check Out blog by retail buyer Susan Chronister who is "excited" that it will make her job easier.
Novell takes steps to harden security for shoppers
It is not an area of business where you'd normally think of Novell providing the infrastructure. But business and retail transaction security is becoming a burgeoning business for the company that helped create the PC network.
As more shoppers use their ATM debit cards for both small and large transactions, the need for tighter security to protect shoppers' identities and bank information has forced companies to scramble to develop security methods that adequately protect users. To that end yesterday, Novell announced it's upgrading its Sentinel security management platform for retailers.
iPhone users show affinity for Google searches
Maybe it's due to how easy Apple has made it to search the web via Safari on the device, but the number of search queries on the iPhone are shocking Google.
When Google first saw the results, executives actually asked its engineers to ensure that there wasn't an error in the calculations. The logs were run through again and the result was the same.
Sprint plans WiMAX soft launch, but budget finalization still looms
The products are out there for Sprint's WiMAX 4G wireless network, and the network service finally might follow, according to officials of Sprint and the WiMAX Forum.
At a press conference this week in Barcelona, Spain, WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick counted almost 50 exhibitors as on hand at the Mobile World Congress with WiMAX products, initially ranging from modems to USB dongles.
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