Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68 Billion to Add Software
The multi-billion dollar deal that would put McAfee in the hands of Intel took over high-tech industry news this week. Bloomberg Businessweek analyzed the chipmaker’s largest acquisition to date and speculated the addition of McAfee security software to Intel’s arsenal could make for faster chips and longer battery life as well as make Intel a security powerhouse.
Facebook Unveils New Batch of Updates, Features
Social networking is all the rage and industry giant Facebook decided to add more features to its platform to keep users enthralled with status updates. According to an article posted on CIO.com, beta tools such as Facebook Questions and an updated photo-viewing interface will provide users with additional information and ease of use. And for privacy concerns, Facebook extended its application to enable users to change security settings from a mobile device.
Who Should Hewlett-Packard Buy?
In the food for thought category this week, Informationweek presents its “Desirable Dozen” list of vendors that could potentially help HP continue to maintain its lead as the world’s largest computer vendor. Among the finalists are Silver Peak for its application acceleration technologies, SAP for its mother lode of enterprise software and RIM to make up for the Palm mistake and to compete in the enterprise smartphone market.
Microsoft Won’t Showcase Hyper-V at VMworld
With VMworld 2010 in San Francisco right around the corner, one might expect to find the latest and greatest virtualization wares from big-name vendors. According to Network World, one heavyweight won’t be contending for VMworld attendee attention at the show. The vendor said it would have a booth at the show and it would showcase its Azure platform, but those looking for Hyper-V demonstrations will have to keep looking. Microsoft cited a VMware clause telling vendors not to show competing products.
Getting Ready for the End of Open Source
CTOEdge delivers a report this week that scratches the surface of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Android. Since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, developers using Open Solaris have been told there will be no further updates, the report states. And MySQL competes with Oracle’s database products so industry watchers speculate how long it has as well.
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