A number of software giants who are using Linux kernels from different providers without owning the proper rights are expected to face patent violation issues in future.
The jury said that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) violated patent rules by using Linux in its backend servers. The search giant has been ordered to pay an amount of $5 million to Bedrock Computer Technologies, a Texas based small business. This may be the beginning of many future disputes.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) company shares are currently standing at 525.1.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Has Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) entered healthcare sector too?
Has the search giant Google unwittingly entered the health care sector?
I visited the doctor recently to seek medical advise and the doctor said that I can find a lot of health related information on Google. I am not sure if the doctor was trying to impress me with his knowledge of the IT world or he was simply too lazy to provide with good advice. No matter what his reasons were - healthcare providers are turning to the web to provide more information related advise.
Recently, I have received invites from my friends to join this new social networking site which provides health advise. Visit http://www.livehealthclub.com/ to find out more. Surely, health concierge services are on the rise and it may not surprise me that Google with its huge reputation may extend its dominance to this sector through a variety of partners.
Needless to say, what the doctor meant was that the information was readily available in the World Wide Web rather than on Google. What this basically means is that Google will continue to extend its dominance into other sectors and coner stone its competitors.
I visited the doctor recently to seek medical advise and the doctor said that I can find a lot of health related information on Google. I am not sure if the doctor was trying to impress me with his knowledge of the IT world or he was simply too lazy to provide with good advice. No matter what his reasons were - healthcare providers are turning to the web to provide more information related advise.
Recently, I have received invites from my friends to join this new social networking site which provides health advise. Visit http://www.livehealthclub.com/ to find out more. Surely, health concierge services are on the rise and it may not surprise me that Google with its huge reputation may extend its dominance to this sector through a variety of partners.
Needless to say, what the doctor meant was that the information was readily available in the World Wide Web rather than on Google. What this basically means is that Google will continue to extend its dominance into other sectors and coner stone its competitors.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
HP (NYSE: HPQ) Poised To Capitalize On Apple, Amazon Lessons
HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker, sees the broad pattern that Apple represents and seems to position HP (NYSE:HPQ) to do what Apple did — both in the enterprise and consumer business. A distinct departure from Mark Hurd.
HP is well positioned to be a dominant player in the cloud space with an assortment of partnerships from software vendors, ISPs and other service providers
HP is well positioned to be a dominant player in the cloud space with an assortment of partnerships from software vendors, ISPs and other service providers
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) downgraded to Neutral from Buy
Nomura expects Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) to guide Q2 below Street estimates given weak PC demand and for enterprise PC and server demand to moderate in 2H11. Price target lowered to $22 from $27.
Intel (NASDAG: INTC) Talks About Itanium and Xeon E5 CPUs
Just before this year's Beijing Intel Developers Forum closed its gates, the Santa Clara chip giant held one last keynote which reaffirmed the company's support for the Itanium architecture as well as the Q4 release of the first Xeon E5 processors.
During the presentation, Intel (NASDAG: INTC) admitted that its Xeon processors have come to catch up, and even surpass, Itanium in terms of reliability and performance, but the company still believes there is a place for this chip in the server world.
This is true especially for customers who need to run HP-UX (NYSE:HPQ), OpenVMS, HP NonStop and other mainframe operating systems that have full support for the Itanium architecture.
In addition, although the Itanium market represents only a fragment of the total x86 server shipments, this still accounts for about $4 billion US, which is considerably more than AMD's (NYSE:AMD) share of the same market segment.
“The Tukwila product is on the market place now, Poulson will double the performance [of Itanium product line in 2012] and we have the Kittson in development.
“But now Xeon is in the space when there is no workload on the planet that Xeon cannot handle,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel's data center group.
Poulson is Intel's first processor to feature more than 3.1 billion transistors, occupies a die area of 544mm2 and, during the keynote, Intel even presented a wafer that featured the new chips.
In addition to Itanium, Intel also wanted to reassure everyone that all is in order with its upcoming Xeon E5 processors and that these will be available by the end of the year.
The Xeon E5 CPUs are based on the Sandy Bridge EP architecture, feature up to eight processing cores and are targeting multi-socket servers. (via Computer Base)
During the presentation, Intel (NASDAG: INTC) admitted that its Xeon processors have come to catch up, and even surpass, Itanium in terms of reliability and performance, but the company still believes there is a place for this chip in the server world.
This is true especially for customers who need to run HP-UX (NYSE:HPQ), OpenVMS, HP NonStop and other mainframe operating systems that have full support for the Itanium architecture.
In addition, although the Itanium market represents only a fragment of the total x86 server shipments, this still accounts for about $4 billion US, which is considerably more than AMD's (NYSE:AMD) share of the same market segment.
“The Tukwila product is on the market place now, Poulson will double the performance [of Itanium product line in 2012] and we have the Kittson in development.
“But now Xeon is in the space when there is no workload on the planet that Xeon cannot handle,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel's data center group.
Poulson is Intel's first processor to feature more than 3.1 billion transistors, occupies a die area of 544mm2 and, during the keynote, Intel even presented a wafer that featured the new chips.
In addition to Itanium, Intel also wanted to reassure everyone that all is in order with its upcoming Xeon E5 processors and that these will be available by the end of the year.
The Xeon E5 CPUs are based on the Sandy Bridge EP architecture, feature up to eight processing cores and are targeting multi-socket servers. (via Computer Base)
HP (NYSE:HPQ) poised to take market share from Apple’s (NASDAQ:APPL) iTunes
PreCentral is reporting that HP (NYSE:HPQ) has sent VIP contacts a PowerPoint presentation which details features and functions being developed for the HP TouchPad, Veer, and Pre 3. It turns out that in that presentation HP also unwittingly revealed its plans for a cloud-based music and movie service. The service will cache tunes most likely to be accessed by a user to their device and even let folks listen to tracks not yet purchased. Will HP beat Apple (NASDAQ:APPL) and Google to the punch? With HP’s widespread channels and distribution, it may just edge out some market share from Apple’s iTunes.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Intel Redeploys Itanium Engineers to Xeon Projects
Intel Corp's (NASDAG: INTC) officially claims that Xeon processors may offer better level of performance and availability than the company's Itanium. According to people with alleged knowledge of the matter, Intel had been specifically reappointing engineers from the Itanium teams into development of Xeon central processing units (CPUs).
"Nearly all the Itanium engineers, save a small development team working on Poulson and then rotating over to Kittson, have been redeployed on Xeon-related projects," said person with knowledge of the situation, who wanted to remain anonymous.
At Protegesoft, we have migrated our flagship application Financial Portfolio Builder and have optimized it for the Xeon Chipset. With Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) and RedHat (RHT) withdrawing their support for the Itanium architecture, the commercial viability for Itanium market is suspect.
"Nearly all the Itanium engineers, save a small development team working on Poulson and then rotating over to Kittson, have been redeployed on Xeon-related projects," said person with knowledge of the situation, who wanted to remain anonymous.
At Protegesoft, we have migrated our flagship application Financial Portfolio Builder and have optimized it for the Xeon Chipset. With Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) and RedHat (RHT) withdrawing their support for the Itanium architecture, the commercial viability for Itanium market is suspect.
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