Sam Jaffe of IDC Energy Insights argues that the ballyhooed Bloom boxes aren’t so different from what other fuel cell makers have, and is expensive to boot.
Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
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Virtualization giant VMware is set to acquire select technologies from parent company EMC. VMware will be buying up certain technologies from EMC’s Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center.
The transaction is valued at $200 million and is expected to close in the second calendar quarter of 2010. VMware will acquire all technology and intellectual property of FastScale, Application Discovery Manager, Server Configuration Manager and Service Manager. As part of the agreement, EMC will retain the Ionix brand and have full reseller rights to continue to offer customers the products acquired by VMware.
EMC bought up VMware in 2003 for $635 million. Although VMware is traded separately it is majority owned by EMC, and therefore must still engage in arms-length transactions. EMC most recently acquired Archer Technologies in January and quite a few others in 2009. VMware says the acquired products will compliment the company’s development efforts in virtualization. VMware just snapped up Zimbra from Yahoo a few weeks ago.
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US forces are to be allowed to use social networking websites following a review by the defence department.
The N470 chip, a faster version of the “Pine Trail” processor for Netbooks, will be identical to the current 1.66GHz N450 but get bumped to a speed of 1.83GHz.
Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
A man who ran a website trading in stolen financial information linked millions of pounds in losses has been jailed.
Europe gives the Web giant a one-two punch, while clean energy blooms in a box. Also: the Olympics run XP.
Greater demand for PCs and rising memory prices should push global semiconductor revenue higher this year, reaching $276 billion, says Gartner.
Rural homes that cannot get broadband should get a grant to pay for cables to be laid, says a countryside lobby group.
Security experts are divided over Microsoft’s legal move to shut down the Waledac botnet that sent billions of junk messages.
A micro-ear could soon help scientists eavesdrop on tiny events just like microscopes make them visible.
