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Journal Journal: Apple and Cisco Settle iPhone Dispute

Journal by anaesthetica on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:02AM

AppleInsider reports that Apple and Cisco have settled their dispute over the iPhone trademark. Both companies will be free to use the iPhone mark throughout the world. Additionally, the two companies will "explore" interoperability opportunities.

Submission + - Google Apps goes premium

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @04:47AM

prostoalex writes: "Google Apps for Your Domain is going premium as custom 10 gig Gmail box, Google Calendar, GTalk instant messenger, Writely, Google Pages, Google Custom home page iGoogle and Google SpreadSheets for $50 a year per employee. CBS Marketwatch is calling it the "boldest move yet to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s flagship Office brand of business computer programs." The New York Times also provides some details on competitive pricing: "By comparison, businesses pay on average about $225 a person annually for Office and Exchange, the Microsoft server software typically used for corporate e-mail systems, in addition to the costs of in-house management, customer support and hardware, according to the market research firm Gartner.""

AOL 9.0 Called Badware 295

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 28, 2006 @01:00PM from the been-called-worse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The bad news at AOL keeps coming. First they get in trouble for releasing search data on more than half a million customers, then it gives away security software with a nasty EULA, now its free client software is accused of acting like badware according to Stopbadware.org, the Google-funded rating group."

Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 202

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 20, 2006 @01:45PM from the chip-fight dept.

Grooves writes "Intel has said that the company is stepping up the pace of its Core 2 architecture rollout to compete with AMD's 4x4. Two "quad-core" parts originally slated for release in the first half of 2007, Kentsfield for the desktop and Clovertown for servers, will make their debut as early as the end of this year. The Ars article warns that per-core bandwidth problems could end up giving a performance advantage to AMD's 4x4 approach."

Google Accessible Search Released 134

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 20, 2006 @12:27PM from the what-about-one-for-people-like-me dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google today released Accessible Search, a Google Labs product aiming to rank higher pages which are optimized for blind users. Google asks you to adhere to the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines if you want to make sure your pages are accessible (and thus, rank better on Google Accessible Search). I wrote a small tool to compare results of default and accessible results."

What Spore May Spawn 205

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 20, 2006 @11:40AM from the all-purpose-cleaner dept.

ches_grin writes with "A new look at Spore, including a slideshow that examines the broad influence that the game is expected to exert on fields ranging from law to education. From the article: 'Spore's unprecedented level of user-generated content is sure to send ripple effects through and beyond the video-game world. Could the mass-market game provide the tipping point for the burgeoning retail trend of mass customization? How will it redefine the roles of game designers and publishers alike? We asked a variety of experts to predict the economic, educational, legal, and other effects of the game.'"

Automated Tiered Storage Coming to Desktops? 110

Posted by timothy on Monday June 26, 2006 @01:54PM from the not-the-droid-jpgs-you're-looking-for dept.

roj3 writes "Tiered storage has been the scourge of administrators because the vendors tell us to hold meetings with all departments and then classify data to storage tier based on its type or relative importance. eWeek has a story about a new approach to tiered storage — sorting it all by usage patterns. Regularly used data goes on high-performance storage, idle data goes on slower/cheaper storage. Volumes and files even span several types of drives or RAID levels. Is automated tiered storage headed to desktops?"

Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 495

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @03:11PM from the hope-they-are-ready-for-the-support-calls dept.

feminazi writes "Computerworld has a review and visual tour of the newest installment of Office. No more toolbars & menus; those have been replace with 'ribbons.' Of the various products in the suite, Word is the most changed. Styles are easier to invoke, but no easier to create or understand. A couple of the redeeming characteristics is the ability to save as PDF and XPS and an improved Track Changes. Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet -- and new and better visualization abilities. Lots new in Outlook including multiple calendars and direct support for RSS feeds. And the apps all work together better than before. From the article: 'The major change in Beta 2 was the introduction of Office SharePoint Server.' This means that Sharepoint Server is required, but it also means more & better collaboration and advanced search abilities are supported."

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