Microsoft, Novell sign joint deal with Renault
While many deals on operating systems for corporations result in a loss for one side or the other, this case could be seen as a net benefit for both.
Instead of Renault switching over to Linux completely, the French car manufacturer will purchase more than 1,000 priority support certificates from Microsoft to use with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Linux mobile developer releases Web 2.0 platform suites
The mobile Linux company Azingo announced a new line of open source software it hopes can satisfy new phone applications developers' needs to offer Web 2.0 technology to mobile phone users.
Azingo's software package includes Mobile Communications, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Internet and the Mobile Productivity software suites. The company hasn't publicly named which manufacturers are interested in using its technology, but promises fireworks when new partners are announced next week.
Intel, Micron announce faster NAND flash chips
The two companies have collaborated on a new NAND flash memory technology which is said to speed up data transfer rates fivefold.
Intel and Micron first came together in November 2005 to co-develop new flash technologies, and are already supplying chips through 2010 to Apple, who uses them in various flash-based iPods.
Nine-hour network outage cripples AT&T mobile data traffic
Beginning at around 5:30 EST on Thursday, AT&T's EDGE and UMTS data networks went down for reasons even now unknown to company technicians.
AT&T has not reported what the cause of the outage was, or even how many customers were affected. Message boards tracking user complaints counted 18 states among those suffering from lost 2.5/3G connectivity. These states were: Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Indiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Motorola steers clear of Trolltech after Nokia acquires it
After Nokia announced plans to acquire open source technology maker Trolltech earlier in the week, Motorola ended the week by showing its support for open source technology, while also stating how it will shift away from Trolltech technologies.
Motorola began its relationship with open source five years ago, after releasing the A760 phone with Trolltech's Qt technology in 2003, and has shipped millions of Linux-based devices.
Ballmer: Yahoo would give Microsoft a 'consumer face' online
It would be a merger whose size and scope could only be rivaled by pharmaceutical companies earlier this decade. But Microsoft's objective now is to somehow convince everyone -- Yahoo's shareholders, its board, their combined customers, and let's not forget the trade regulators -- that the whole of the two companies will somehow be greater than the sum of all the other sums of their parts put together.
There are an inordinate number of questions arising from Microsoft's announced takeover bid of Yahoo, only a few of which financial analysts managed to successfully squeeze in this morning, during a conference call that was abruptly cut short at under a half-hour.
FTC hands down sanctions against 'free product' spammer
The agency said this week that it had settled with a spammer who had failed to tell consumers they actually had to spend money to receive "free" products.
MemberSource Media will be required to pay $200,000 in fines, as well as clearly disclose the requirements to qualify for the products or services. The company did business as ConsumerGain.com, PremiumPerks.com, FreeRetailRewards.com, and GreatAmericanGiveaways.com.
A potential buyer for Motorola's mobile division: Ericsson
Sony Ericsson has recently been trailing behind competitors Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola in sales, but with Motorola's recent announcement of mobile business restructuring, its co-parent Ericsson is considering an uncharacteristic move.
Ericsson's company strategy has never been to seek out acquisitions and deals, but rather to focus on R&D and "organic growth." But with a new president, Hideki Komiyama, for its Sony Ericsson division jointly owned with Sony, Ericsson could be poised to move in a new direction. Komiyama recently told Reuters that the company would be giving higher priority to North America and higher-income consumers in emerging markets in 2008.
Apple TV 'Take 2' update delayed, MacBook Air ships
Owners of the set-top device will have to wait a little longer for the highly-anticipated upgrade that allows the renting of movies from iTunes.
Apple says it needs an extra week or two to finish the upgrade to the $229 device, which should make it a much more attractive item to consumers. At Macworld, CEO Steve Jobs had promised the software by the end of January.
Microsoft makes colossal bid for Yahoo in wake of chairman's departure
Confirming that his company had indeed been in discussions with Yahoo's senior management about a possible takeover throughout the last 18 months, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed this morning he has personally placed an offer to Yahoo's board of directors, proposing a takeover whose value it estimates at $44.6 billion.
"We've been engaged in conversations with Yahoo management off and on for the last 18 months," Ballmer told reporters early this morning. He confirmed that he had a personal conversation with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang yesterday, to discuss his formal offer to the board.
Motorola is considering restructuring its mobile business
In an extraordinary public admission Thursday afternoon, Motorola CEO Greg Brown issued a statement saying his company is indeed considering ways to restructure its mobile devices and services business.
Brown's statement this afternoon reads as follows: "All of our businesses have exceptional people, products and intellectual property and the ability to achieve category leadership in their markets. We are exploring ways in which our Mobile Devices Business can accelerate its recovery and retain and attract talent while enabling our shareholders to realize the value of this great franchise."
Applying the 'community' ideal to Web advertising
Business leaders in the Web advertising and network-building industries convened today at Fordham University to discuss how they can remake the Web advertising model so that it helps forge communities the way Web sites already do.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - While the metaphor of the Web typically invokes images of spreading out, the modern model of Web sites and services is actually more geared toward congregation -- building a community, and supporting it with a strong software platform. But that model applies generally to Web sites, destinations, portals as we've come to know them.
Meebo looks to monetize its chat rooms for partners
Meebo is looking to open up its interactivity platform in an effort to increase both its reach and ad revenues, which will be shared with partners.
At launch, the company is announcing that Piczo, Revision3, RockYou, Social Project, and Tagged would employ the API and Network platforms. Advertising revenues will be split 50 percent between meebo and the partner. It also will provide licensing options for those wishing to eliminate ads.
EchoStar wins partial reversal of TiVo verdict on DVR infringement
A complex tangle of technological arguments ended up being untangled in EchoStar's favor, in an appeals court decision today that could lead to DVR service being restored to Dish Network.
A technically replete, yet still dramatic, decision handed down today by Federal Circuit Appeals Court Judge David Folsom has found that two of EchoStar lines of digital video recorders, including its own 50X line and another, using technology supplied by Broadcom, did not infringe upon two patents held by TiVo.
TiVo's revolution in audience measurement snags CBS
CBS Corporation has announced it will enter into a partnership with TiVo, utilizing the DVR pioneer's Stop||Watch viewer metric.
TiVo's Stop||Watch service is a second-by-second system, which is used to measure program and advertisement ratings for both live and time shifted DVR viewing. It was the first company to use such a comprehensive system, and major network NBC began using Stop||Watch earlier this year.
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