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Japanese telecom partners with EnterpriseDB Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan's largest telecommunications company, has formed a "wide-ranging strategic partnership" with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed financial investment in the open source database maker. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Siemens to cut 3,800 jobs in telecom unit Siemens plans to cut 3,800 jobs at its Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) subsidiary, including 2,000 jobs in Germany, the company announced Tuesday.The layoffs are part of an effort to transform SEN into a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Senate rejects amendment to strip immunity from telecom The U.S. Senate defeated on Tuesday an amendment that would take away legal immunity from telecommunications providers that helped the U.S. National Security Agency conduct surveillance on U.S. residents, earning criticism from two civil liberties groups. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft sets hosted-services pricing, irks partners Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing for its forthcoming hosted business productivity services and unveiled its channel model for allowing partners to resell those services. However, while the company painted a rosy picture for the partner opportunity around its evol Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Advocacy group: No free pass for telecom spying Civil liberties and media reform group Free Press called on the U.S. Congress to reject bills that would give retroactive legal immunity to telecommunication carriers that helped the government monitor phone calls and e-mail after Vice President Dick Cheney pushed for Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Telecom industry poised for strong growth Despite fears of an economic downturn in the United States, the telecommunications industry should see strong growth in the next three years, driven largely by increasing demand for broadband, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) said Friday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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I.B.M. Takes Small State in EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB announced that it had raised $10 million from funders including I.B.M. , which took a small but symbolically laden stake in the 4-year-old open-source database maker. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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I.B.M. Takes Small Stake in EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB announced that it had raised $10 million from investors, including I.B.M., which took a small but symbolic stake in the open-source database maker. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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IBM's EnterpriseDB stake: not what you think Look out Oracle Ever since Sun anteed up a billion in cold cash for MySQL a couple months back, we wondered when the next shoe would drop. Recently, EnterpriseDB announced that IBM was one of several venture backers to fund its third $10m round of financing.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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A Brief Tour of the Japanese Web I'm sitting in a smoky room on the second floor of a Tully's Coffee in Western Tokyo, looking over the shoulder of Ichiroo Kiyota as he types on his laptop. Kiyota, an executive at Six Apart Japan, is showing me around some of the most popular — and useless — Web apps in the countr Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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EnterpriseDB Snags Red Hat Sales VP as CEO Computerworld: "Open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc. today said it has appointed a senior sales executive from Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. as its new CEO..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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FCC will seek more comment on telecom reforms The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has decided to seek more comment on proposed changes to two programs, the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation, that have been controversial for years.I Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Hosted SharePoint stifles partners, for now Microsoft's announcement on Monday that it would host SharePoint for businesses of any size left some third-party software providers surprised -- and even annoyed.Late last year the company began hosting SharePo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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EMC reaches out to Chinese partners with joint venture EMC signed an agreement with distributor Digital China on Tuesday to establish a joint-venture company that will work with Chinese vendors to make sure their offerings are interoperable with EMC's products.The a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Space Station with Japanese Lab - Space.com VNUNet.comShuttle Discovery Arrives at Space Station with Japanese LabSpace.com - 1 hour agoBy Clara Moskowitz HOUSTON - After a two-day chase, NASA's shuttle Discovery and its seven-astronaut crew caught up with the International Space Station (ISS) Monday to deliver a Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Activists claim rough tactics in battle with Japanese whalers - Guardian Unlimited KVALActivists claim rough tactics in battle with Japanese whalersGuardian Unlimited - 3 hours agoThe battle of wills between Japanese whalers and environmentalists in the Antarctic took a dramatic turn yesterday when two members of the marine conservation group Sea She Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Space shuttle with Japanese lab cleared for launch - Reuters Scientific AmericanSpace shuttle with Japanese lab cleared for launchReuters - 7 hours agoBy Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 9 (Reuters) - NASA on Sunday cleared the space shuttle Endeavour to launch early Tuesday to begin attaching a Japanese laboratory to the Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |