Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S.
InfoWorld: Top News by Jeremy_Kirk@idg.com (Jeremy Kirk) - Jul 9, '07 9:12am(InfoWorld) - Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.
More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday.
"I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote.
Dell is also encouraging more members of its Linux engineering team to post technical updates about specific distributions and open-source projects, he added.
Dell began selling two desktop PCs and a laptop with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution preinstalled in the U.S. in May, a move the company said was in response to consumer demand.
Although Linux's success has been squarely in the server market, consumers are showing increased interest in the open-source operating system as a desktop OS alternative to Microsoft's Windows. Desktop Linux has tended to have more appeal among developers and computer enthusiasts.
Dell already offers other Linux distributions from market leaders Red Hat and Novell on some of its servers and its Precision workstation line.
Welcome, Postini team
Official Google Blog by Karen - Jul 9, '07 8:05amWe launched Google Apps so that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than 1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.
Larger enterprises, however, face a challenge: though they want to deliver simple, useful hosted applications to their employees, they're also required to support complex business rules, information security mandates, and an array of legal and corporate compliance issues. In effect, many businesses use legacy systems not because they are the best for their users, but because they are able to support complex business rules. This isn't a tradeoff that any business should have to make.
We realized that we needed a more complete way to address these information security and compliance issues in order to better support the enterprise community. That's why we're excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Postini, a company that offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications. Like Google Apps, Postini's services are entirely hosted, eliminating the need to install any hardware or software. A leader in its field, Postini serves more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users, and was one of our first partners for Google Apps. Their email and IM management services include inbound and outbound policy management, spam and virus protection, content filtering, message archiving, encryption, and more. We will continue to support Postini's customers and we look forward to the possibilities ahead.
Here's the press release announcing the deal, and there's more detail in our FAQ and on the Enterprise blog.
eBay chokes on iPhones
The Register - Jul 9, '07 6:18amSpeculators return them to stores
Some were boasting from their camps outside Apple stores before the iPhone rush began, of how much money they would make on eBay auctions; and apparently, at least one optimist let it be known that $2,000 would be needed to buy a $600 iPhone.…
Sony cuts price on PlayStation 3 by $100
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Yahoo! News: Technology News - Jul 9, '07 12:58amMosh, Yahoo’s New Social Network Initiative
TechCrunch by Michael Arrington - Jul 8, '07 11:01pmQuestions remain after Microsoft disavows obligation to GPL 3
Ars Technica by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) - Jul 8, '07 9:47pmMicrosoft has firm beliefs about what the GPL v3 requires from the deal with Novell, but that doesn't mean the company wants to test the issue in court.
Google Scalability Conference
ASP.NET Weblogs by laghari78 - Jul 8, '07 6:14pmSome of the sessions from Google scalability conference are now available on Google Video.
YouTube Scalability
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6304964351441328559
Building a Scalable Resource Management
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3937025764791991714
Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2727172597104463277
Lessons In Building Scalable Systems
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6202268628085731280
MapReduce Used on Large Data Sets
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=741403180270990805
Scaling Google for Every User
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7039469220993285507
SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=210885113635893162
Dell's Linux desktop line keeps expanding
DesktopLinux.com - Jul 8, '07 10:07pm[PHP Magazine] Go PHP5...
PHP Magazine - Jul 8, '07 4:43amAfter long discussions about adopting PHP5 against PHP4, and dropping the PHP4 support forever from PHP.net site, a new initiative GoPHP5 have been launched to promote and help this transition.
Google announces new data center in Iowa
ZDNet Blogs by Garett Rogers - Jul 7, '07 2:02am