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Red Hat to be cloud facilitator, not fluffer
OSBC Red Hat will help others build clouds, but is unlikely to following operating-system rival Microsoft by becoming a cloud service provider itself.…
Market for Mobile Apps will grow 10-fold, predicts...mobile App supplier
SAN FRANCISCO — A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years.
Downloads of mobile applications to handsets will leap from slightly more than seven billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion in 2012, according to the independent study commissioned by GetJar, the world's second largest app store.
"It is easy to see how mobile apps will eclipse the traditional desktop Internet," GetJar chief executive Ilja Laurs told AFP.
"It makes perfect sense that mobile devices will kill the desktop."
Ah, another piece of cautiously optimistic research work from Planet Mobile
For the record, a rule of thumb we have found to be pretty reliable over 10 years of watching the mobile industry is to halve the prediction and double the time it takes. $25bn by 2014? I could live with that......
First WiMAX phone to debut next week?
The first WiMAX-capable smartphone is said to be slated for introduction next week by Sprint Nextel.…
Cisco beefs up fixed port Ethernet switches
Switch maker and server wannabe Cisco Systems is making big bets that video streaming over the internet will be the next killer app - and one that will drive its revenue and profits in the new decade as voice over IP did in the prior one. Today Cisco put some new fixed-port Ethernet switches into the field to support video streaming better than current products and also to improve energy efficiency and security.…
Mobile apps to earn $17bn by 2012
The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less-capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.…
Cybercrime's bulletproof hosting exposed
Researchers at RSA have identified the network framework that endows some of the worlds most notorious botnets with always-on connections that are virtually immune from takedowns.…
Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook 'Beacon' Accord
Novell, Ingres partner for appliances
In January, Novell released its SUSE Appliance Toolkit after nearly a year of alpha and beta testing. Now begins the difficult task of getting systems, middleware, and database software makers to rejigger their code and make it available through the online tool so companies can spin up and spit out software appliances.…
IE9 - the big questions and Microsoft's half answers
“HTML5 will enable a new class of applications,” says Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's Internet Explorer general manager, speaking to the press at the company's Mix10 conference in Las Vegas.…
Google Apps punts kill-Microsoft-Exchange-now tool
While Microsoft has been failing to outfox Google in the web search and ad game, Google has - apparently - swiped a few of Redmond's customers away from MS Office.…
FCC plans spectrum-flog to fund broadband
The FCC's National Broadband Plan will be largely funded through the sale of radio spectrum the FCC doesn't own: a good trick if one can pull it off.…
Microsoft renews vows with JQuery Javascript
Microsoft has put more of its considerable weight behind the open-source JQuery Javascript library, vowing to provide additional code contribution, testing resources, and integration with new versions of its own development tools.…
Vodafone Spain supplies pre-Mariposa'd smartphone (again)
Vodafone Spain has again supplied a HTC Magic smartphone that came pre-infected with the Mariposa botnet client and other malware crud.…
<em>El Reg</em> insults 'millions of Irish Catholics'
It won't have escaped the attention of our US readers that El Reg Stateside today features an orange masthead - part of a temporary sponsored makeover.…
