Daily Archives: 2 November, 2010
Google sues US government over Microsoft favouritism
CLOUD SOFTWARE OUTFIT Google is not going to stand for the US Department of the Interior not taking its Google Apps seriously and is suing the government for favouring Microsoft.
Yesterday the company filed a lawsuit against the federal government for buying Microsoft Office BPOS-Federal without allowing it to pitch Google Apps for Government.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Google is furious at the US government for specifically excluding it from consideration. It says that this is “unduly restrictive of competition”.
New Apple iPad TV Commercial counters Dell Streak Ad?
Apple published a new iPad TV commercial. This iPad ad tries to bring home the point that you can do just about anything with the iPad. This actually is pretty much the same message as in the new Dell Streak Android mini-Tablet
Apple has 95pc of tablet market
Apple controlled 95 percent of the emerging market for tablet computers with its iPads in the July-to-September quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said on Tuesday.
The competition in the market is, however, tightening fast with handset vendors and PC makers moving into the new category of devices, between traditional PCs and smartphones, taking a cue from the success the iPad, a 10-inch touchscreen tablet that began selling in April.
The total market grew to 4.4 million tablets in the September quarter from 3.5 million in the previous quarter, the researcher said.
“The tablet wars are up and running. Apple has quickly leveraged its famous brand, an extensive retail presence and user-friendly design to develop the tablet segment into a multi-billion-dollar global business,” said SA analyst Neil Mawston.
Mawston said the other platforms — Android, Microsoft, MeeGo of Nokia and Intel, Hewlett-Packard’s webOS and RIM’s Blackberry — have already much ground to make up.
Motorola introduces Wireless Manager
Flexibility and visibility into all elements of a wireless broadband network deployment
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola has introduced Wireless Manager, which is a management offering that will enable IT departments manage their network infrastructure.
The new management offering allows flexibility and visibility into all elements of a wireless broadband network deployment, the company said.
The new offering provides network administrators with real-time monitoring and management of their mesh, point-to-multipoint (PMP), point-to-point and any other Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) enabled network elements from a single Google map view.
Motorola said that the third generation Wireless Manager features template-based configuration; ultra-light thin client; map-based visualisation; and high availability architecture support.
DOCOMO Provides Digital Photo Frame Technology to KT Corp. in Korea
TOKYO, JAPAN, November 1, 2010 — NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it is providing technology for a digital photo frame service, called Otayori Photo Service™ in Japan, which leading Korean telecom operator KT Corporation used to launch a similar service in the South Korean market on October 29.
The service enables users to e-mail photos from a mobile phone or PC to a server, which then transmits the photos to a recipient’s digital photo frame.
DOCOMO is licensing its server software and providing support for related technologies that KT used to localize the service for the Korean market.
