http://www.shanglian.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:50:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to the article, Toshiba (yes, you read that correctly) and Samsung have been asked to come up with the external Blu-ray solution for the Xbox 360. Rumors are also floating around claiming a $100-to-$150 price point. If this information is accurate, we're left wondering how Microsoft will play this. ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/09/microsoft-has-xbox-360-blu-ray-drives-ready-to-go/ While MySQL has not disclosed revenue for 2007, it is believed that its revenue in 2006 was $34 million, up from $16 million in 2005 and $14 million in 2004. We estimate trailing 12-month (i.e., 2007) revenue to be about $48 million, and if we assume slightly slower growth in ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/mysql-jboss-zimbrawhat-is-an-open-source-comp/ While the attacks at this point are proof-of-concepts, they could be done if someone has the requisite knowledge and toolkits, said Dearing. Trust Digital recently announced software called EMM 8.0 that can help organizations protect employee phones from these types of attacks, he said. In what it calls a ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/sms-messages-could-be-used-to-hijack-a-phone/ John Brennan (Credit: Adobe Systems) John Brennan, a senior vice president of Adobe's Platform group, has left the company to join the middle-market effort of private-equity firm Silver Lake, called Silver Lake Sumeru. An important executive in Adobe's merger with Macromedia, Brennan had led Adobe's Creative Suite product group, as well as development ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/adobe-platform-executive-bolts-for-private-equity/ Update: 10:25 p.m. with photo, more details Handset maker Sony Ericsson is announcing plans for its first Windows Mobile device, a move aimed at boosting the company's presence in the North American smartphone market. The first product is a business-oriented phone with a QWERTY keyboard, but a family of devices is expected. ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/sony-ericsson-to-do-first-windows-phone/ commentary Apparently Microsoft has a thing for conservative Japan. Just when I thought Microsoft had closed patent cross-licensing deals with every Japanese firm ever to have considered corporate existence, Microsoft surprises me with a deal with Onkyo. So far Microsoft's list includes the needy (the various second-rate Linux distributions and Novell, which ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/microsoft-continues-to-prey-upon-the-overly-cautio/ Nokia BH-504 stereo Bluetooth headset (Credit: Nokia) Along with the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and its Comes with Music promotion, Nokia also announced a slew of stereo headsets to match its new music-focused products on Thursday. The Nokia BH-504 is the only Bluetooth headset of the bunch, with the ability to ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/nokia-releases-slew-of-stereo-headsets/ SAN FRANCISCO--At the FinovateStartup conference, one thing is clear: a lackluster economy can be the best time for financial start-ups to get new users. Apps that help people track and manage funds outside of their bank or investment service's site are in high demand, and many of the services presenting at ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/at-finovate-a-bad-economy-means-good-start-ups/ Updated 5:20 p.m. PDT with more details and comments from Microsoft executive. Microsoft will begin offering its first hosted security service under the Forefront brand on Thursday, dubbed Forefront Online Security for Exchange and designed to help keep malware and spam out of e-mail in-boxes. The hosted service, ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/microsoft-to-offer-hosted-security-for-exchange/ Add Canonical to the roster of companies offering technology to help enterprise customers build their own cloud-computing setups. But unlike most of the better-known players in this nascent market, the twist here is that the technology will be supplied by an open-source shop. Canonical is best known as being ... http://www.shanglian.org/2010/08/ubuntu-planning-move-to-the-cloud/