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Intel

Submission + - Intel to buy smartphone chipmaker Infineon for $2B 1

Submitted by sylverboss
sylverboss writes: Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, is close to an agreement to buy Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless business, three people with direct knowledge of the discussions said. When it comes to desktop, laptop and server chips, Intel’s pretty much got a lock on the market but everyone can see the writing on the wall: mobile chips and architectures are the future of computing thanks to the popularity of smartphones, but Intel doesn’t have anything to offer in that regard. Don’t know Infineon? You should: they are the guys who have supplied Apple with their iPhone baseband chips since 2007.
Programming

Submission + - Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs Adobe Flash 10.1 (techworld.com)

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes: HTML5, with its promises of plugin free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, would seem to spell the end of proprietary RIA (rich Internet application) platforms. But the reports of the death of Flash and Silverlight, as the saying goes, have been greatly exaggerated.

The richest RIA platforms today (and for the foreseeable future) come from clashing titans Adobe and Microsoft, whose Flash and Silverlight platforms both combine excellent tools for developers and designers, broad client support, strong support for server-side technologies, digital rights management capabilities, and the ability to satisfy use cases as varied as enterprise dashboards, live video streaming, and online games. And each has spawned new updates, to Flash 10.1/AIR 2 and Silverlight 4 respectively, which put them on a near-level playing field. Which one should you choose?

Submission + - Servers Ahoy: Startup Builds Floating Data Centers (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: Startup International Data Security says it is moving ahead with plans to build data centers on cargo ships docked in the San Francisco Bay. IDS first announced its plans in 2008 but saw its plans postponed by the credit crunch. The company says it has now lined up funding and an anchor tenant for a proof-of-concept "dataship" that will hold 500 racks of servers in its cargo holds. IDS isn't alone in contemplating ship-board server farms, as Google has applied for a patent for a "water-based data center."

Submission + - Nokia Siemens To Buy Motorola Unit For $1.2B (informationweek.com)

Submitted by sylverboss
sylverboss writes: Acquisition of Motorola's mobile network infrastructure business gives Nokia an entry to the U.S. market, where it has long struggled. After several months of failing to break itself up, Motorola finally succeeded Monday as it sold off most of its mobile network infrastructure unit for $1.2 billion to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The deal gives Nokia — the world's leading supplier of mobile handsets — an invigorated entrance to the U.S. market where it has lagged far behind other handset suppliers such as Apple.
Announcements

Submission + - Cisco Launching Blade Servers (minutetraders.com)

Submitted by
minutetraders
minutetraders writes: "According to some sources, by next year Cisco Systems will be in the blade server business. ChannelWeb has a story confirmed by several sources, here and here that the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-named California, for a release early next year. A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct competition against the likes of Dell, HP and IBM, companies it partners with on their respective blade server offerings" for control of the enterprise data center."
The Internet

Submission + - Amended Internet Tax Ban Will Not IncludeVoIP

Submitted by Spritzer
Spritzer writes: Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee approved an amendment to the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 which would prevent the tax ban from expiring. However, the amendment will eliminate protection for VoIP services.

From the article:
"The amendment, offered by committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat, would extend the ban on Internet access taxes until Nov. 1, 2011. ... The Conyers amendment would allow nine states with Internet access taxes to continue them. It would also narrow the definition of Internet access, excluding services such as VoIP from the tax ban."
Data Storage

Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? 391

Posted by CowboyNeal from the outlaw-drives dept.
Arathon writes "Apparently the International Trade Commission is beginning an investigation that could lead to the banning of hard drive imports from Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba, among others, on the grounds that they fundamentally violate patents held by Steven and Mary Reiber of California. The patent apparently has to do with "dissipative ceramic bonding tips", which are important components of the drives themselves. Obviously, a ban would be unthinkable, and yet the ITC has 45 days to settle on a fixed date for the end of the investigation. If the patents are found to be violated, and the Reibers do not allow those patents to be bought or otherwise dealt with, the importation of almost all hard drives would actually be ceased."

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