Our story on Oracle joining Microsoft and Red Hat in discontinuing support for Intel’s Itanium platform drew a swift response from Hewlett-Packard, questioning Oracle over its reasons in pulling the pin on Intel’s enterprise platform technology. HP released a statement on March 23 in response to Oracle saying that it plans to continue to Itanium [...]
Archive for March, 2011
The previous-generation Firefox web browser may have been showing its age but its popularity is undeniable as the final release of Firefox 4 has just passed 10million downloads in little more than two days. Firefox developer Mozilla Foundation is keeping a less-than-subtle live download count, which ticked over 10million less than a couple of hours [...]
Oracle has joined Microsoft and Red Hat in becoming the latest to stop all software development for Intel’s Itanium processor. The software giant today made a brief announcement, indicating that after discussions with the chip maker that it would stop all software development for the ageing processor. It cited Intel’s general focus on its X86 [...]
The man who led Intel’s Centrino development and brought us the Atom chip has resigned, Intel said today. In a brief announcement, the company said that Anand Chandresekher, general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobile Group (UMG) will be leaving the company to persue other interests. His place will be taken by two vice-presidents of Intel’s [...]
Smartphone maker HTC has announced the availability of the Incredible S in India. The Android phone features a four-inch capacitive touchscreen LCD panel, powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm single-core MSM8255 processor and runs Google’s Android 2.2 operating system but expects to be upgraded to Honeycomb (Android 3.0). HTC has announced the phone will sell for [...]