Israel has followed Australian footsteps in planning its own national broadband network. The country's Israel Electric Corporation plans a purely fiber-based network that will supply many of the country's homes with at least 100Mbps speeds. They picked fiber with the intention to scale and could theoretically hit 1Gbps in time.... Read more...
US home video spending up for 1st time since 2008 (AP)
AP - Americans' spending on home videos has finally emerged from the recession — helped by more purchases of higher-priced Blu-ray discs and greater outlays on cut-rate rentals from Netflix and Redbox. Read more...
Briefly: MacIT 2012 conference, Kudos mobile payment kit
MacIT has announced that its 2012 conference will offer nearly 40 new sessions for IT professionals looking to use iOS and Mac OS X in Enterprise settings. Educational sessions will be led by speakers from IBM, the University of Notre Dame, RAND Corporation, Good Technology, Kelly Services, and MGM Resort. The event will take place between January 26th and 28th at Moscone Center's West Hall in San Francisco during Macworld 2012. Registration packages start at $275 for the Pre-Conference Workshop and run up to $750 for an All Access Pass... Read more...
Centrify Suite 2012 offers AD-based access management
Centrify Corporation is now shipping its 2012 suite of security and access-management solutions for businesses and centralized server operations, which monitor, control and audit cross-platform systems and applications using Active Directory -- bringing those capabilities to UNIX, Linux and Mac environments. The new version improves centralized management of complex UNIX and Linux systems, employs real-time auditing, simplifies replacement of legacy NIS systems and expands platform support.... Read more...
RIM investor urges company to consider sale (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Jaguar Financial Corporation CEO Vic Alboini said today in an interview that he is uring BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to form a committee of independent executives to explore selling the company. The public move comes as RIM is seeing its once commanding presence in the smartphone market eroded by the likes of Android and Apple’s iOS: where a year ago RIM accounted for 19 percent of the market, second-quarter figures from Gartner put the company’s current share at 12 percent. Read more...
Jobs ‘very happy’ with Infineon takeover, says Intel CEO
Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't at all worried about the Intel takeover of Infineon, the CEO of Intel suggests. Speaking with Fox Business TV, Paul Otellini says he called Jobs before making the acquisition. "Steve was very happy," he explains. Read more...
Intel warns of low summer PC sales
Intel confirmed fears on Friday and dropped its expectations for its summer results based on a slump in PC sales. It dropped its revenue outlook from a range of $11.2 billion to $12 billion down to $11 billion with a range of $200 million above or below. The company pinned the drop on "weaker than expected demand" among home PCs.... Read more...
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