INTEL'S LOWER REVENUES, COST CUTS

Intel has recorded Q4 revenue of USD 9.7 billion representing a gross margin of 49.6 per cent, up from Q3's 49.1 per cent. "Intel's product and technology leadership yielded a strong fourth quarter with higher selling prices and record unit shipments in the fastest growing segments of the market," said Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini.

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Windows Vista Available Online

Microsoft is making its new Windows Vista operating system available for sale and download online marking a new strategy than its usual method of selling Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.

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Former HP Chairman Offered Plea Deal

California’s Attorney General has offered a plea deal to the former Hewlett-Packard Chairman, Patricia Dunn and four others accused in the HP spying scandal. Stephen Naratil, an attorney for data broker Bryan Wagner who is one of the defendants in the case, told the Associated Press that the plea agreement tendered by state prosecutors would allow all five defendants to avoid four felony charges stemming from an investigation launched last year by HP to find the source of a news leak.

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Apple in Profit with iPhone

ISuppli, a research firm has established that Apple stands to make fifty per cent profit on each iPhone sold. But the figure is preliminary, as no actual production models have been made available to the public. This high profit margin is not new to Apple as the company regularly has a margin of forty-five per cent or more in its Mac and iPod products.

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Hewlett-Packard Leads Over Dell in PC Sales

The US computer maker Hewlett –Packard (HP) is basking in glory of taking the lead as the world’s top personal computer vendor late last year, giving stiff competition to its rival Dell.

According to the reports of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, HP had an annual sales growth of 24 per cent and took ‘a clear lead in global shipment volume’ from October-December last year. Meanwhile, Dell stumbled with the beginning quarter of 2006 but it sales nose-dived in the end of the year with international growth dropping to 1.5 per cent as the IDC reported.


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INTEL'S LOWER REVENUES, COST CUTS

Intel has recorded Q4 revenue of USD 9.7 billion representing a gross margin of 49.6 per cent, up from Q3's 49.1 per cent. "Intel's product and technology leadership yielded a strong fourth quarter with higher selling prices and record unit shipments in the fastest growing segments of the market," said Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini.

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Calling all PHPers to the 2007 International PHP Conference (Spring Edition)

The Spring Edition of the International PHP Conference (IPC) is back after a year's hiatus. This year the annual premium event for the International PHP community will be held in Stuttgart from 21–23 May, in parallel to Webinale 07. Webinale is a brand new conference covering the next generation web technologies, providing a platform for networking and knowledge exchange about Web 2.0.

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Intel Prepares to Fight Two-front Antitrust Battle

The European Union is planning to file formal antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel regarding the complaint filed in 2000 by rival AMD. The spat between the two companies is about whether Intel would share information from operations outside the United States. AMD alleges Intel used its dominant position in the microprocessor business to pressure system makers not to use AMD chips in their products.

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Ascom Appoints Bernie Hydock as Vice President of Sales

Ascom has appointed Bernie Hydock as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Hydock will be responsible for driving Ascom's North American sales team, serving as a key member of the management team, and working closely with existing and future Ascom channel partners and system end users.

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Sony Ericsson 4Q Net Profit Triples

Japanese-Swedish mobile phone company Sony Ericsson has posted record fourth-quarter earnings. It believes the market for mobile phones is steadily escalating.

The company’s 2006 pretax profit was euro 1.3 billion (USD 2.15 billion), more than double the euro 512 million (USD 846.4 million) of 2005.

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MICROSOFT, HP, FIRST DATA PARTNER ON POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM

First Data, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have come together to create a point-of-sale solution for smaller retailers. According to the companies, the First Data POS Value Exchange replaces a cash register and traditional POS terminal with a computer-based system that delivers a complete store-management solution with greater information security, speed of transactions and more flexible payment options for customers.

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Apple Shows USD 1 Billion Holiday Profit

Apple has reported a staggering profit in its fiscal first quarter. The reasons that drove profit margins are the holiday sales of iPod music players and Mac computers. The company announced that their profits increased by 78 per cent. This is close to an earning of USD 1 billion or USD 1.14 per share.

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Dell Sued in Canada Over Defective Batteries

Dell seems to be getting into hot soup over the exploding batteries yet again. In October 2006, Dell had recalled 4.2 million Sony battery packs used in its systems. The batteries were said to short-circuit and have been blamed for causing some computers in which they used to overheat. Separately, Toshiba said that it is recalling 830,000 batteries made by Sony for its laptops at Sony's request. It was the latest in a growing global recall involving Sony batteries, bringing the tally of recalled batteries to about 7 million worldwide. Now, Dell is still being plagued by the faulty batteries as the company is being sued in Cannada.

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Microsoft Software to Power Nortel Telecom Servers

Nortel and Microsoft have come together to launch a slew of products and services. Theses new releases aim to disribute business communications over software and Internet networks. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies aim to provide cheaper Internet-based communications.

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GOOGLE, YAHOO GAIN SHARE IN US WEB SEARCH MARKET

According to the report, Google retains all advertising revenue from its own web sites, and around 22 per cent from its partner sites. Yahoo! may be in second place to Google, but it is also growing substantially, with around 42 per cent growth in net advertising revenue in 2005. User Generated Content (UGC) web sites, such as Flickr and Wikipedia were among the fastest growing websites between 2005 and 2006. An annual report has been issued on Internet, e-mail, permission based marketing, B2B, B2C, e-retailing, e-commerce, triple play, Spam, Cybercrime, web sites, web hosting, and search engines, by Paul Budde Communication, through MarketResearch.com.

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HP Appoints Two New Leaders to HP Services Executive Team

HP has named two industry leaders to join HP Services. Onagh Ash will serve as senior vice president of HP Services’ Consulting and Integration unit, and Bob Pryor has been named senior vice president of Global Business Development. Both will report to John McCain, senior vice president and general manager of HP Services.

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LUXPRO LEVELS USD 100M SUIT AGAINST APPLE

Luxpro, a manufacturer of music players and other mobile products, has won the lawsuit that it had filed against Apple. The battle goes a long way, Apple in July 2005, had sued the Taiwanese company from making its line of Tangent music players, alleging that they too closely resembled the iPod Shuffle. A Taiwan court agreed, but the decision was reversed on appeal. Luxpro, now sued Apple Computer for USD 100 million after a court ruled it could continue producing a portable music player resembling Apple's iPod Shuffle.

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Cisco Beats Apple to Releasing iPhone

Apple launched the iPod, and was in the process of launching mobile phones called iPhones. There were reports in November 2006 that Apple had hired a Taiwan based contract manufacturer HonHai Precision to build 12 million Apple branded mobile phones. Given that this is a product untested in the market, it would certainly demonstrate how serious Apple is in attacking the phone market.

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EMC to Cut 1350 Jobs with Restructuring

EMC, a provider of data systems, is loaded with many a one acquisitions in its wake, is cutting more jobs as it consolidates its operations. The company plans to slash 1,350 jobs by the end of 2007, 100 more than the company originally announced in October.

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Yahoo Optimises Messenger for Vista

Yahoo is all set to join hands with Micvrosoft. The company plans on giving a sneak preview on the usage of Yahoo Messenger on Microsoft's Windows Vista at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Yahoo will display a beta version of Yahoo Messenger optimised for Vista. The new messanger boasts of new features that will be in sync with the user interface enhancements Microsoft has added to the OS.

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Who Needs Google? With Amazon’s , Askville Service

Google Answers saw a shut down a month back, but Amazon sees a lot of potential in a service of this kind. It is launching a similar answering service, the only rival it has as of now is Yahoo's answering service. The service is dubbed Askville.

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Intraware Signs Agreement with Gracenote

Intraware, a provider of electronic software and license delivery and management solutions for enterprise technology companies, has revealed that Gracenote, a provider of digital media technology and services, has signed a multi-year agreement to use Intraware’s SubscribeNet Software Manager and Evaluation Manager services. In addition, Gracenote will use Intraware’s Digital Fastball services to provide software delivery capabilities and information sharing to its developer community. Gracenote was among the four unnamed new customers the company previously announced at the end of its third fiscal quarter.

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APPLE, GOOGLE, NAPSTER GET SUED

Apple, Google, and Napster are being sued by an online movie distributor Intertainer for copyright infringement. The lawsuit involves the business model for offering video content from various providers to consumers over the TV and the Internet, Intertainer said.

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Crossroads Products Receive Microsoft WHQL Certification

Crossroads, a provider of Business Information Assurance (BIA) solutions, has made known that Crossroads’ NearEdge iSCSI Storage Router 6220i and NearEdge iSCSI Storage Bridge 6220i-b received Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification and are qualified to carry the 'Designed for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Family, x86' designation.

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Arkeia Partners with TIG to Offer Data Protection Solutions

Arkeia, a provider of data protection software, has entered a partnership with national systems integrator Technology Integration Group (TIG) to bring data protection solutions to midsized and large enterprises.

The new partnership features sales, marketing and technical coordination so that enterprises with large amounts of critical data can reduce the cost and complexity of protecting that data. The partnership extends the availability of recently launched Arkeia Network Backup Version 6.0, a backup solution for large environments, officials of the company said.

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Indians Immigrants in US Drive Tech Engine

Indian immigrants are faring rather well in the technology department in the United States.A study, by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that 7 per cent of all engineering and technology companies founded in the US over the past decade have an immigrant Indian as a key founder—far more than all other immigrants put together.

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In-Fusio Sues Microsoft Over Mobile 'Halo'

A complex battle comprising legalities has been ensuing between Microsoft and a French video game publisher In-Fusio. In 2005, Microsoft had entered a contract with In-Fusio to develop a version of Halo for mobile phones and other devices. Allegedly In-Fusio is suing Microsoft for breach of contract.

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Co-founders Quit Microsoft Game Studio Rare

Microsoft has confirmed the resignation of Chris Stamper and Tim Stamper from Rare Game studios. The Redmond, WA -based company had acquired the British company in 2002 for USD 375 million.

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I-Flex Acquires Singapore Subsidiary of Capco

i-flex Solutions, an banking and financial software solutions provider has said that its Singapore headquartered subsidiary, i-flex solutions Pte. Ltd. , has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Singapore subsidiary of Capco. The transaction is said to be between USD 100-150 million.

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Arrow Acquires InTechnology Storage Business

Arrow, provider of services to industrial and commercial users of electronic components, has completed its acquisition of the storage and security distribution business of InTechnology for a purchase price of approximately USD 80 million. "The acquisition of InTechnology’s storage and security distribution business enables us to further expand our Enterprise Computing Solutions business into the United Kingdom, Europe’s second largest IT market. We expect this transaction to create further opportunities for us in the growing storage and security software markets", stated M. Cathy Morris, president, Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions. "We expect this transaction to be USD .02 cents to USD .04 cents accretive in 2007."

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ChinaCache Establishes Partnership with China CERNET Network

ChinaCache, the Content Distribution Network (CDN) service provider in China, has inked a partnership agreement with China CERNET Network Limited. Under the terms of the agreement, ChinaCache will provide CDN solutions to CERNET Network to serve its nationwide customers. ChinaCache will set up CDN service nodes at CERNET Network's data centres across the country.

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Atempo Teams with Tandberg on Mac Data Protection

Atempo, a data protection and storage security company, has joined hands with Tandberg Data Corporation to provide SMB customers with data protection and archiving solutions. Both companies offer storage products specifically designed for Apple customers, and now these joint customers can take advantage of the integration of Tandberg Data’s and Atempo’s Mac OS and heterogeneous data protection solutions. Atempo Time Navigator for Mac OS X is now certified on Tandberg Data’s Exabyte Magnum 224 and 448 LTO Tape Libraries, as per a statement issued by the company.

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Hutchison, Essar Differ on Refusal Rights

Relations between Hutchison Telecommunications and India's Essar group—who own India’s third fourth largest mobile operator Hutch— have already hit a rocky patch, as there is difference in opinions on the interpretation of a first right of refusal clause in their Indian joint venture.

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Broadcom Completes Acquisition of LVL7 Systems

Broadcom, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has completed the acquisition of LVL7 Systems, a privately-held developer of production-ready networking software that enables networking Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) to reduce development expenses and compress development timelines, the company said.

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Migo Completes Acquisition of StompSoft Software

Migo, a vendor of mobile computing products has announced that the company has acquired privately held StompSoft’s entire line of software titles. Migo had in October last year announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to acquire StompSoft’s software titles. Under the terms of the agreement, the purchase price consisted of 20,000,000 shares of Migo Common Stock and USD 650,000 paid to StompSoft.

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Archivas Adds Four New Channel Resellers

Archivas, a provider of digital archiving solutions, has expanded its Partner Program to include four new strategic channel resellers—Kinney Group, Paragon Systems, Regan Technologies, and TriAxis Storage Solutions. As members of the Archivas Partner Program, each company will now be able to expand their solutions portfolios to include Archivas Cluster (ArC) archiving software technology, the company said.

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