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Sun eyes energy-efficient servers

Improvements planned for power management; datacenter suggestions also aired

Enterprise search pervasive by 2012

Gartner analysts predict that enterprises will significantly scale up their data location and analyzation capabilities over the next four years

Windows is ‘collapsing,’ Gartner analysts warn

Due to poor response to the marketplace and decades of legacy issues, Microsoft must either radically change Windows or risk its collapse

FCC calls for mobile alert system

FCC advances plans for national system to transmit text alerts to people on their mobile phones in case of natural disasters and other emergencies

Sun’s Project Caroline proposed for Internet services

Effort involves platform-as-a-service concept and provides a hosted platform, a computing grid, and virtualization

Intel selling optical communications assets to Emcore

Emcore will get optical transceivers and cable interconnects as Intel continues to sell off its optical business assets

Europe rejects plan to criminalize file-sharing

In a close vote, the European Parliament rejected attempts to criminalize the sharing of files by private individuals and to ban copyright abusers from the Internet

Opera previews mobile browser for Google Android

Opera released a technical preview as well as an SDK for bringing its mobile browser to Google's mobile OS

Ubuntu: more doomed than ever

Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers

SecureWorks survey estimates the top 11 botnets are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day

Experts hack power grid in no time

Security consultant says it took less than a day to take over machines at a power company and gain control over networks overseeing power production and distribution

WiMax certification not enough for some vendors

Interoperability between products from different vendors is important for WiMax's success, and some vendors wish certification would happen faster

Enterprise 2.0, corporate agility big themes at Interop ’08

Interop will focus on helping IT departments cope with the drift of consumer-oriented products and Web sites into corporate IT

SAP loses bid to keep ‘highly confidential’ info from Oracle

Court-appointed official rejects SAP's contention that sensitive and strategic info could find its way into the hands of Oracle's top execs

Wireless carriers tout move toward a more open network

Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel change their tune and now see the openness of their networks as a key asset

Daily news beat for April 10, 2008

Analysts say Microsoft takeover most likely future for Yahoo

IBM to buy FilesX for data protection software

FilesX's storage software will become part of IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager product line

Fujitsu to monitor datacenter heat with optical fiber

Prototype monitoring system uses a single optical fiber to measure temperatures in a datacenter in up to 10,000 points

April’s coolest gadgets

Four PC makers offered a glimpse of their upcoming Mobile Internet Devices and LG teased the launch of its latest style-focused Black Label handset

iSuppli slashes 2008 chip industry growth forecast

Market researcher lowers its global chip sales growth forecast for 2008 by nearly half on expected declines in sales of electronics equipment

Preview: Sun’s two-way eight-way

Startup pushes virtual labs as a service

Skytap's virtual labs-as-a-service software lets development teams create multiple test machines in various configurations without tying up much hardware

A battle brewing in the cloud

6 resources to help you move to green IT

DLP experts preach taking the long term view

Benefits of DLP cannot be achieved overnight, but by selecting the proper technologies the process can be made more effective, experts say

Acceptance growing for PCI security standard

PCI chief says the PCI DSS security requirements have gained considerable momentum in the U.S. and globally

Lessons learned in Cyber Storm II

Interview: Manager of New Zealand's Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection shares his thoughts on the cyber attack simulation

What’s wrong with VMware

DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise

Department of Homeland Security has completed its second week-long, cyber-security simulation and is now beginning planning for Cyber Storm III in 2010 Cyber Storm II was

Symantec to buy AppStream

Acquisition of AppStream will help Symantec better compete with Microsoft

Why IT needs to get over cloud-aversion

Report: Yahoo, AOL may combine; News Corp. may make bid

Possible deal between Yahoo and AOL is a bid to thwart a Microsoft takeover, but News Corp. reportedly is in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo

Yahoo to test Google search ads

Yahoo's move to test displaying Google Adsense for Search in some of its search engine queries is seen as a maneuver to resist Microsoft's acquisition attempt

AMD finally ships quad-core Opterons

However, concerns about AMD's ability to stay on track with the product remain after the problems that plagued the launch of its Barcelona chip

Sun to tout hosting platform

Project Caroline among research efforts featured on Open House agenda

Newest iPhone SDK hints at 3G possibilities

Upcoming versions of the iPhone could include Infineon Technologies' S-GOLD3 chipset, which would enable access to 3G networks

Microsoft makes C++, Visual Basic 6.0 moves

C++ feature pack offered, but Visual Basic 6.0 IDE extended support has been discontinued

Google pulls real-time chat app

Less than a day after launching its App Engine, Google has pulled its HuddleChat real-time chat app that was strikingly similar to 37Signals' Campfire service

Microsoft: Ask us and we’ll kill your ActiveX control

Microsoft said that it would lock down other vendors' vulnerable ActiveX controls if the vendor requests the help and the software is delivered via Windows Update

Burned by Windows and Acrobat updates on same day

Developers ponder Web 2.0 app dev needs

A panel at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference also considered other trends in software development, such as standardization and Web-based software access

Daily news beat for April 9, 2008

As VC flows toward China, Valley resembles days of bust

High marks for U.S. Internet

Microsoft jumps into European health-care market

Microsoft's Amalga health-care software covers everything from handling patient care records to tracking research projects and finance department tasks

Ex-AT&T CEO to head Motorola’s board

David Dorman will take Ed Zander's place when he retires as chairman of Motorola's board on May 5

Update: Adobe fixes seven flaws in Flash Player

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Flash software has become increasingly popular with hackers

Linux showing signs of solid growth

IDC study shows workloads running on Linux servers are shifting to become more business oriented, including databases and line-of-business apps