VMware to acquire software, personnel from parent EMC
Virtualization software company VMware will be taking over a line of data-center management software from parent company EMC, the companies announced Thursday.
Stories by Joab Jackson
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Citrix buys Paglo to boost asset management
Desktop management and virtualization software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider <a href="http://paglo.com">Paglo</a> for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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Microsoft pitches multiuser OS for education market
Microsoft will release a new version of its Windows Server software configured to let multiple users access a server simultaneously from multiple screens.
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FSF to Google: Free the On2 video codec
In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation has urged Google to open source a video codec that it acquired in its purchase of On2, completed Monday.
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Lego creating multiplayer online game
Toy construction set company Lego Group plans to launch an MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) in the second half of this year, to be called Lego Universe, said Mark Hansen, director of business development and LEGO lead for the project.
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Oracle calls for JavaOne papers
Oracle has issued a call for papers for a rescheduled JavaOne conference, to be held this year alongside Oracle OpenWorld, Sept. 19-23, in San Francisco.
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IBM explores cheaper solar cells
IBM has found what it claims to be a less costly way to build solar cells.
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ShmooCon: Web app storage open to attack
New forms of off-line client-side storage, such as those specified by the emerging HTML 5 set of standards, could open entirely new kinds of attacks to Web application users, said Michael Sutton, vice president of security research for cloud security firm ZScaler.
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IBM details world's fastest graphene transistor
Thanks to a change in recipe, IBM has created a graphene-based processor that can execute 100 billion cycles per second (100GHz), almost four times the speed of previous experimental graphene chips.
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IETF turns introspective with new wiki
The Internet Engineering Task Force has set up a wiki to document which of its standards were successful and why.
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NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization
New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.
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IBM to debut info management software
Next month, IBM will release a beta version of a software application designed to keep track of how information flows across different systems, sending alerts when source data has been altered or isn't properly ingested into some target system or report.
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Citrix sees smartphone as thin client
Remote application software provider Citrix and mobile virtualization software vendor Open Kernel Labs have joined to author a specification for turning tomorrow's smartphones into mobile thin-client devices, the two companies announced today. They call their creation the Nirvana Phone.
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VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees
Virtualization company VMware has reported a healthy increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, thanks largely to gains from software maintenance fees.
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Microsoft revenue boosted by Windows 7
Thanks largely to the Windows 7 launch, Microsoft on Thursday reported a strong increase in net income and revenue for its second quarter of fiscal 2010.
