Oracle has officially put both legs on the cloud-computing bandwagon, recently launching a roughly 50-date global road show on the topic for developers and system administrators. The move stands in contrast to CEO Larry Ellison’s well-publicized mocking of cloud computing , which he has deemed a rebranding and conflation of existing technologies
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Oracle launches worldwide cloud computing tour
Red Hat is seeking REST standardization through an effort it is calling REST-*, which could serve as a counterpoint to the alternative WS-* specifications for Web services.
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Red Hat eyes REST standardization
VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that rival virtualization vendors claim they would not impose.
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VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns
Samsung will use Windows 7 Starter Edition on two new netbooks, it announced on Thursday. Both the N130 and N140 will come with the Starter Edition of Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, but Samsung isn’t putting all its eggs in the Windows 7 basket.
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Samsung brings Windows 7 to netbooks
Looking to boost the number of wireless devices in its arsenal, AT&T today opened up a wireless device certification lab to help put developers and manufacturers on a fast track to getting their devices running on AT&T’s network.
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AT&T opens device certification lab
Thanksgiving is more than two months away. But I thought we’d celebrate early by giving thanks for the most rockin’ laptops , best netbooks , and smartest smartphones on the market.
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The best laptops, netbook, and smartphones for travel
VMware is announcing a new program on Tuesday that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to those from AWS (Amazon Web Services). Using VMware’s vCloud virtualization software, managed service providers such as Terremark and Verizon Business will allow customers to configure virtual servers over the Web and pay for the computing capacity they use on an hourly basis with a credit card, much as AWS does today.
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VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services
Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market. The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 million hours of testing, according to Mark Townsend, vice president of database product management.
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Oracle 11g R2 makes its debut
Mini-laptops based on Arm chips are set to make their way to users, which could heat up the battle in a space dominated by netbooks with Intel’s Atom chips. Sharp last week announced the PC-Z1, also called the NetWalker, which will be one of the first mini-laptops based on an Arm chip to reach store shelves. The device has a 5-inch touch screen and a 68-key keyboard and offers 10 hours of battery life
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Smartbooks prepare to compete in netbook space
JBoss will deliver Tuesday on its plan to offer a microcontainer architecture for its Java-based JBoss Application Server middleware, in an effort to allow for more flexibility in application development. The company at the Red Hat Summit & JBoss World conference in Chicago will release JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0, positioned as core to the JBoss Open Choice strategy originally detailed in June
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