Oracle will acquire $ 1 billion for the e-commerce software provider Art Technology Group (ATG). This is equivalent to $ 6 per share, as Oracle has announced. The deal is expected to be completed in early 2011. The approval of the shareholders and the competition authority is still pending. Oracle sees ATG e-commerce software to [...]

Until recently, mankind has used only the sun’s energy in two ways: by heating the water as a coolant for the turbine and heat buildings or converting it into electricity using solar cells. In the 70s of last century it was suggested to accumulate energy from the sun by means of structural changes in the [...]

Facebook has acknowledged that developers of Facebook applications, user data are sold to a firm dealing with data. The developers involved were expelled as a result of a period of six months from Facebook. In mid-October had confirmed the social network a report in the Wall Street Journal, which many of the most popular Facebook [...]

For owners and fans of home theater universal remote controls will be unpleasant to know that Philips has decided to stop production line of remotes Pronto, because they no longer comply with its policies. Philips Pronto TSU9400 In a nutshell, for the vague wording of this hides the fact that sales were below Pronto devices [...]

An announcement of the rights management company Consor has thrown new light on the dispute over the trademark “IAD”. iAd be called Apple introduced simultaneously with the beginning of April IOS advertising program. An action of Innovate Media, which believed the older rights to the name have been set in July and quietly – Consor, [...]

Interesting news from our editorial darlings, the Japanese company Thanko – the engineers and marketers think of this organization, without exaggeration, the unusually (if not more). When creating the hero of this news, the developers certainly have speculated so – why photographers are all working conditions, while mobile laptop users are not so lucky? Obtain [...]

company NEC Display Solutions of America has added a line of LCD monitors enterprise-class new environmentally friendly model with LED backlighting. 19-inch MultiSync EA192M and 20-inch E201W monitors compared to its predecessors use more materials that are recyclable and contain a minimum quantity of hazardous substances. The monitors built-in light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness [...]

Dell and the online retailer Notebooksbilliger.de have extended their partnership. The online store now also sells servers from Dell. Through close cooperation, it is possible for him to deliver Dell PowerEdge servers and TX10 RX10 series within 24 hours. Model thus allows for the first time one eTailer the sale of certain server models for [...]

Due to disagreements with the main sponsor of Oracle have been 33 volunteer developers their retreat from the German group known OpenOffice.org project. Among them, nearly all leaders of the German department, whose positions are currently open. They want to continue to the end of September, founded The Document Foundation (TDF) involved. The independent Foundation [...]

Company Thecus has added to its range of new NAS-server N4200PRO. Novelty is a powerful “stuffing” – the new 1.8-GHz dual-core Intel Atom D525, GB DDR3 memory and a Gigabit Ethernet-controller can drive this network to solve a variety of tasks. N4200PRO provides up to four 3.5-inch hard drives. Drives can be combined in RAID [...]

company Transcend Information announced the entry into the market a new line of flash card format CFast. New items take advantage of high-speed protocol SATA, which is integrated into a compact form factor card standard CompactFlash (42,8 x 36.4 x 3.3 mm). CFast is the latest specification for the CF-card, developed by the Association CompactFlash [...]

One of the leading developers of Google Maps and Google now set wave, Lars Rasmussen, switched to Facebook. The company has confirmed the change. Now Rasmussen said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald about his reasons. Former Google developer will begin his new job in December. One reason for the change is the [...]

smartphones with Google’s Android mobile operating system in the third quarter of 2010 risen year on year by 1309 percent. In the same period in 2009, according to Canalys, 1.4 million units were sold in the third quarter 2010, there were about 20 million. Overall, the smartphone market is growing year on year by 95 [...]

study the most important part of the operating system, Google Android, conducted by the group Code Analysis Coverity, found bugs, some of which allow attackers or malware to gain access to e-mail or other valuable information of the user. were analyzed core Android – an open heart mobile OS from Google, which comes with the [...]

Following appeared earlier information about the characteristics of the accelerator GeForce GTX 580, Chinese resource eNet revealed two important indicators of a new flagship NVIDIA: maximum power and the number of texture units. It is reported that the most powerful accelerator-based chip GF110 will not consume more than 244 watts, that is, when the same [...]