Posted by: ADMIN on: July 30, 2007
Cisco will acquire 1.6 percent of virtualization company VMware from parent EMC for $150 million in cash. Unlike Intel, Cisco will not receive a board seat, but VMware said it would consider appointing a Cisco executive to its board in the future.
Cisco will work with VMware to develop virtualization products designed for networking and datacenters.
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
Canon Marketing (Philippines) Inc., strengthens its commitment to beef up its total digital imaging solutions offerings as it launches its latest models of DV camcorders, Powershot and Digital IXUS cameras and SELPHY compact photo printers.
Canon latest innovations are the Powershot S5 IS and IXUS 950 IS digital cameras, SELPHY CP740 and CP750 compact photo printers. HV20 camcorder and the DVD Camcorder Canon HR10.
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
Sony’s PlayStation 2 accounted for 42 percent of video game console usage during June, and PC gamers played World of Warcraft more than four times as much as any other PC game, Nielsen reported as it launched Nielsen GamePlay Metrics, the first service of its kind to electronically track video game console usage and [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
Electronic Arts announced a deal with Microsoft to put advertising in several popular sports games for the PC and Xbox 360. Microsoft’s Massive Network will place ads in Madden NFL’08, Nascar ‘08, NHL ‘08, Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘08 and SKATE.
Massive, which Microsoft acquired in 2006, allows game makers to insert appropriate advertising, such as [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
HP has announced that it signed a definitive merger agreement to purchase Neoware Inc., a provider of thin client computing and virtualization solutions, at a price of $16.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash) of approximately $214 million on a fully diluted basis.
HP acquiring Neoware is intended to accelerate the growth [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
NPD figures for the month of June shows that Nintendo Wii is leading the pack among other gaming consoles.
The company delivered 381,800 Wii consoles and 561,900 DS handhelds in June compared to 98,500 PlayStation 3 units and 198,400 Xbox 360 consoles. Wii sales are up 13 percent on the previous month.
Sony is celebrating though with a [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 26, 2007
Microsoft and the news site Digg.com have signed a deal in which the Redmond giant will become the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on the popular news site. The agreement was signed for the next three years and the two companies said they will work together on future technology and advertising initiatives.
Digg.com [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 24, 2007
A computer experts group has warned Apple of a serious security flaw that affects the company’s latest gadget, which could totally compromise the data contained inside the phone.
Researchers from Independent Security Evaluators, said that they could take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 24, 2007
Smart Communications and 360media Corp., a subsidiary of MediaQuest Holdings, recently launch the country’s first mobile TV called myTV. For a monthly fee of P 488.00, both post-paid and prepaid Smart subscribers can enjoy TV on the fly.
Currently 10 channels are available: CNN, MTV Philippines, Cartoon Network, National Geographic, Pinoy Box Office, the History Channel, Solar Sports, Basketball TV, ETC, and Jack [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: July 23, 2007
Microsoft Corp. reportedly started to discuss features and capabilities of the next-generation operating system code-named Vienna and which is now called 7, which will be available roughly in three years time or 2010.
Windows 7 will have 32-bit and 64-bit versions with different flavours of the new operating system targeting home and business customers. Microsoft [...]
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