Microsoft pulls PerformancePoint Server after just 15 months

From InfoWorld: Microsoft said Tuesday that it was folding its business process management (BPM) software, PerformancePoint Server, into its popular SharePoint Server product.

First released in September 2007 , PerformancePoint Server 2007's features will in future be available via...

Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access

From CNET News.com: Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.

Google believes almost religiously in cloud...

AT&T earnings dip 23.6 percent

From CNET News.com: AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, reported Wednesday that its earnings for the fourth quarter fell 23.6 percent year over year, amid a tough economic climate.

The company said it earned $2.4 billion, or 41 cents per share, during the fourth quarter...

IBM Settles With Apple Over iPod Chief Lawsuit

From DailyTech: With iPod creator Tony Faddell bowing out of Apple, and Mark Papermaster, former manager of IBM's critical blade server business and mastermind of the PowerPCs, stepping in as the iPod division head, things were looking good for Apple. However Big Blue was a little...

AMD Launches 45-nm Opteron Line

From Tom's Hardware: With the rising demand for low power consumption, AMD answers the call with its new line of Opteron (aka Shanghai) 55-watt ACP processors, now available in five flavors through global OEMs and "solution providers." Currently HP utilizes AMD's processor in eight...

AMD Has No Replacement for Geode LX Processors

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is not developing any new Geode processors for embedded applications and has no replacement for them in sight, the company said on Monday. It is no secret that AMD officially stopped the development of Geode years ago, but it has been assumed...

Microsoft repeats IE8 lock-in warning for XP users with SP3

From InfoWorld: Microsoft again warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they may not be able to uninstall either the service pack or Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).

The warning, made by Jane Maliouta, a Microsoft program manager as the company delivered Release Candiate 1...

Cisco Goes Green With Software Upgrade

From PC World: Cisco Systems is looking to reduce the energy consumption of network attached devices such as IP phones, laptops and access points using a new architecture called EnergyWise, the company announced at its user conference in Barcelona on Tuesday.

Using EnergyWise...

Yahoo's quarter: All eyes on Bartz

From CNET News.com: Brand-new Chief Executive Carol Bartz deserves exactly zero blame or credit for the fourth-quarter financial results Yahoo will announce Tuesday afternoon, but the judgment of her abilities will begin in earnest when she bears the Internet pioneer's tidings.

That...

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