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Headlines – Issue No. 919 (February 6-10, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:34:35 +0000

Xeon as Microserver Chip
Dell Hires CA’s Old CEO
Tilera’s New Server Chips Arrive
EMC’s Touts Isilon for Hadoop
IBM Buys Worklight
EC To Probe Samsung for FRAND Abuse
Apple Hires Dixons CEO To Run its Stores
For What It’s Worth, German Galaxy Tab Ban Stays in Place
Jon Rubinstein, Father of webOS, Leaves HP
Apple Unseats HP in Client PCs: Canalys
Three Down: Another HP Director To Leave Board
Salesforce Trots Out Desk.com
IBM May Reportedly ay Off German Workers
S3’s One Big Storage Locker
Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5 Billion Fund
Assange Awaits Verdict on His Fate
Microsoft Lays Off Marketing Types
Google Complains to ITC about Its Own Lawyer

Headlines – Issue No. 918 (January 30 – February 3, 2012)

rhall2091 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:48:03 +0000

Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data
Google & MMI Seek US Ban of iPhone 4S & iCloud
HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule
Apple’s a WOW!
Tucci’s Reign Extended
Intel Buys QLogic’s InfiniBand Unit
Apple Quietly Appeals ITC’s HTC Decision
There’s a New Fair-Haired Boy at Intel
Big Data Start-Up Gets Seed Money
Apple Loses Samsung Tablet Appeal
RIM Replaces CEOs
InterDigital Gives Up Looking for a Buyer
Red Hat Sets Up GlusterFS Advisory Board
Intel To Buy RealNetworks IP
VMware Opens Up Online Shop
HTC Costing Apple
MapR Get a Bit Incestuous
Mozy Launches Stash
Dell To Bundle SUSE with OEM Offerings
ICOS and Joyent Partner Up
EnterpriseDB Fields Postgres Plus Cloud Database on AWS
Workday Signs Sallie Mae
Assange Aiming for a TV Slot
No Poach Trial Starts
Suggested Reading

Headlines – Issue No. 916 (January 16-20, 2012)

rhall2091 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:39:19 +0000

Oracle Goes to Cloudera for Hadoop
AT&T Joins OpenStack, Floats Cloud Architect
Dell Reorgs Again, Loses a President
IBM’s Top Management Changes
PCs Weak, HP Bleeds Share
Microsoft Warns of Flood-Related Drop in PC Sales
Kodak Sues Apple & HTC
Brocade’s Reportedly Entertaining Bids
Google Buys More Patents Off IBM
Rackspace Gets its First CMO
LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft
Gartner Cuts its IT Spending Forecast
Oracle v Google Java Trial Up in the Air
Yahoo Picks PayPal Chief for its Next CEO
webOS Doomed from Conception: NYT
Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in Italy
AMD Names Chief Strategist
Ozzie’s On His Way Back
Cook Gets Million Apple Shares He Can’t Touch
HP Gets No Itanium Relief from the French
Judge Blocks Oracle’s Appeal in SAP Case
Yahoo Cuts New CEO a Multimillion-Dollar Deal
SAP a Big iPad User
Yahoo Reportedly Looking To Replace Board Members
Hortonworks Hires Strategist
Intel Achieves Mobile Breakthrough
IBM Top Patent Collector
Apple Confirms Anobit Buy
Google Gets its Biggest Apps Deal Yet
Target To Test Apple Boutiques
HP Hires New Chief Communications Officer
Dell Gets New CIO
HP Reportedly Pushing on webOS
Dell Promises Tablet Later This Year

Headlines – Issue No. 915 (December 26, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:49:07 +0000

Oracle Misses Badly, Spooks Everybody; Leaves Bloody Trail
Floods Lift HDD Prices
ITC Says Motorola’s Android Widgets Infringe Microsoft IP
Apple’s German Galaxy Tab Ban Looking Doomed
Apple Gets HTC Android Phones Banned in US
HTC’s German Resellers Sued for Selling its Phones
Rumor True, Akamai Buys Contendo
Computers Link WikiLeaks Chief to Source
AWS Opens Cloud Data Center in Brazil
Saudi Prince Puts $300 Million in Twitter
BT Sues Google for Patent Infringement
Salesforce Follows SAP into Cloud-ified HCM
Yahoo May Sell its Precious Asian Assets
Workday Reportedly Prepping To Go Public
OpenOffice.com Lives
RIM Has a Bad Case of Yahoo-itis
Schmidt Hints Google’s Own Tablet Coming
Jury Wouldn’t Have Given Novell Any Damages: M’soft
Apple Reportedly Buys Anobit
Oracle & Google Bicker over Trial Date
Ex-HP Big-Wig Named to Fusion-io Board
Google Agrees To Support Firefox for Three More Years
China Top Patent Filer
Qualcomm Founder To Hang Up His Spurs

Headlines – Issue No. 914 (December 19-23, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:34:02 +0000

Microsoft Tries Hadoop on Azure
Intel Reorgs Search for Mobile Holy Grail
ITC Delays Android Import Ban Decision Again
Industry Bigwigs Back Anti-VMware League
Virtustream Buys Enomaly
Intel Cuts Q4 Projections Because of HDD Shortages
Apple Reportedly Wants To Buy Flash Memory Maker
SOASTA Gets $12 Million More in Funding
Rackspace Names Moorman President
Court Says Motorola Mobility Can Stop Apple Widgets from Getting to Germany
StorSimple Supports OpenStack
Jury Gets Novell Antitrust Case against Microsoft
Huddle Integrates with Zimbra
IBM & the EC Settle
HP Expands its HANA Alliance with SAP
EC Delays Decision on Google Acquisition of MMI
Amazon To Fix Some Kindle Fire Problems
Ex-SUSE GM’s Got His Own Start-up
EC Reportedly Working on Massive SO against Google
Apple App Store Clears 18 Billion Downloads
HP’s General Counsel Leaving
Microsoft Replace Phone Leader
New iPad 3 Rumor
Beijing’s Thinking BIG Cloud
Three HLDS Execs To Spend Time in American Jail
Microsoft’s SkyDrive To Service iPhone
Google Back in the Market for More Patents?
That Snap was HP’s Change Purse
Google Starts Building First Asian Data Center
Correction
HTTP Status Cats

Headlines – Issue No. 913 (December 12-16, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:20:41 +0000

Cisco Packages the Cloud
Greenplum Delivers Unified Analytics Platform for Big Data
Microsoft & HP Turn Cloud Buddies
Last Call for TouchPads
Windows 8 to Go into Public Beta in February
Gee, And Google Thought Microsoft was the Evil Empire
SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
IBM Buys DemandTec for its Cloud-ified Analytics
MapR Pushes the Hadoop Envelop
Court Order Forces RIM To Change Name of New OS
Proview, Not Apple, Owns iPad Name in China, Court Says
IBM To Settle with EC To End Mainframe Probe
Apple Loses US Bid To Enjoin Samsung
EC2 GM Dies in Plane Crash
Dell Quits Selling Tablets in America
WikiLeaks Founder Get Last Chance To Defeat Swedish Arrest Warrant
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn Dies
Cloud Player Drops IPO Plans
HP Buys German Cloud Printing Outfit
SuccessFactors Makes its Own Cloud Acquisition
SAP Opens Lab in Russia
Oracle Amends Itanium Countersuit
Bill Gates, Nuclear Reactors & China
Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in France
EC Investigating Apple & Publishers for Antitrust
$99 Android Tablet Surfaces
IBM Buys Cúram Software
Rackspace Gets New EMEA Boss
Google Buying a Company a Week on the QT
Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads
McAfee To Lay Off 3% of Workers
Dell Adds Salesforce Service Cloud
Android Starts Move to x86

Headlines – Issue No. 912 (December 5-9, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:43:10 +0000

Egnyte Says You Can Dump Your FTP Servers Now
RIM Enters the Once Unthinkable MDM Market
HP Mates Autonomy & Vertica
HP Wants Third Parties Selling its Cloudware
Apple Reportedly Broadens its Samsung Injunction Horizons
Cisco, Google & VMware Back Puppet Labs
Microsoft Reportedly Moving Office to the iPad
Injunction May Lock HTC Smartphones Out of Germany
Microsoft Updates Office 365
Evidently Somebody’s Going to Buy Cotendo
Massive Facebook IPO Apparently on the Runway
Cisco Says Cloud Traffic Will Be Up 12x by 2015
Yahoo Reportedly Entertaining Offers
Samsung Gets Australian Tablet Injunction Overturned
Boies Swings Both Ways on Android
Amazon Claims Kindle Fire is a Hot Property
Samsung Reported Dropping Netbooks
Google Asks EC To OK MMI Buy
Red Hat’s Sales Chief Leaving
Chrome Browser Close To Displacing Firefox
Foxconn To Put $63m into R&D
Microsoft’s Losing Market Share It Never Had: Forrester
HP Denies Millions of Printers Can Be Hacked
High-Tech No Unemployment Cure

Headlines – Issue No. 911 (November 28 – December 2, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:22:26 +0000

HP’s Putting a Back Door in the Itanium Alamo
HP Trying To Sic EC on Oracle
Microsoft Signs Yahoo NDA: NYT
Meg Lowers HP Expectations
ITC Throws Out S3 Complaint against Apple
Wyse Buys Trellia Networks for its Cloud Smarts
Apple Wants Motorola Mobility To Post $2.7 Billion Bond
HDD Crisis To Screw Things Up for the Next Two Years
DHL Makes Special Box for High-Tech Shipments
Gates Defends Microsoft against Antique Novell Charges
Adobe Promising Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich Android
Court Block Release on HP Report on Hurd Resignation
Google, Facebook Server-Building Stymied by HDD Shortage: Meg
Chromebook Prices Drop
Apple Getting’ Paid in Yuan
Kindle Fire To Get Bigger Brothers: DigiTimes
Icahn Dumps Some MMI Shares
No Anxiety Separation with Lenovo Tablet
EC Probe Broader than Thought
iPad 3 Watch
If iPads are PCs…

Headlines – Issue No. 910 (November 21-25, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:20:09 +0000

Adobe Sends Flex to the Apache Foundation
Big Data Bug Bites GE
HP Puts Activist Shareholder on Board
Samsung Modifies Galaxy Tab To Frustrate Apple Ban
Warren Buffet Buys 5.5% of IBM
Buffet Buys Intel Too
Amazon To Rent Out Supercomputers
Apprenda Upgrades its .NET Private PaaS
Rambus Loses $12 Billion Private Antitrust Suit
AMD Delivers 16-Core Chip
AMD To Chase the High-Volume 1U Market
Steve Jobs’ Two Empires Meet in Apple’s Boardroom
Dell’s Lack of Fanbois Hits its Numbers
Amazon Émigré Starts Network Monitoring Firm
Zuora Raises $36 Million To Push into Europe
Skytap Fleshes Out its Cloud Widgetry
HP Goes into the Ultrabook Biz
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Ships Early
Birst Intros Cloud-Based Mobile BI SDK for iPad
ScrumWorks Agile Widgetry Goes SaaS
Fancy That, an ARM Supercomputer
HTC Reportedly Working on Quad-Core ARM Tablet
Nokia Win 8 Tablet Due in June
Globalfoundries Scraps Middle East Expansion Plans
Savvis Hires AWS Vet To Run its Cloud
Google Reported Setting Up Israeli Incubator
SAP To Invest in China
A Run for the Tablet Door?
Rackspace Settles on CFO

Headlines – Issue No. 909 (November 14-18, 2011)

rhall2091 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:32:25 +0000

Amazon Tipped To Buy webOS
Rackspace Productizes OpenStack
Disk Drive Crisis Worsens
Oracle Bills Solaris 11 as ‘First Cloud OS’
OpSource Offers Oracle Database, SQL Server & SharePoint On-Demand
Azul Stops Being Agnostic, Gets that Old Time ‘Come to Linux’ Call
Adobe To Restructure, Let 750 Go, Can Mobile Flash
Abiquo Figures It’s Got Everybody’s Back
NetApp Teams with Cloudera on Turnkey Storage Device
EC Investigating Samsung for FRAND Abuse
Motorola Mobility Gets Sweeping Injunction against Apple
Cloudera Gets $40 Million
Move Over, Best Buy’s Getting on the Cloud
SCO Wants Its Suit against IBM Revived
Quest Releases Toad for Cloud Databases
Amazon Sets Up Cheaper West Coast Region
Google Appeals To Protect Compromising E-Mail
Fedora 16 Out
The Restless & Impatient Could Make Hostile Bid for Yahoo
AMD Strategy Chief To Leave
Rajaratnam Will Have a Little Less To Come Home To
LC Licenses IV Patents
Samsung Windows 8 Slates Due in 2H12
Apple Ordered To Turn Over its Carrier Contracts to Samsung
MapR Starts Training Academy
ARM President To Retire
Ex-EC Antitrust Chief May Form Emergency Italian Government
Schmidt Not Quite Believable
John Opel, Former IBM CEO, Dead at 86