February 2, 2010
Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems’ Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, according to a Jan. 30 post on the project’s official blog.
After a protracted delay due to a European antitrust review, Oracle’s deal to buy Sun was finalized last week. While many of Sun’s products will be a strategic part of Oracle’s plans, that is apparently not the case for Wonderland.
Wonderland has “so much great momentum,” with three companies selling products tied to the project and eight others pushing services for building worlds, the blog adds.
Oracle’s move dovetails with Monday’s announcement that virtual-world provider Forterra Systems had sold its product line to Sciences Applications International Corporation (SAIC), said Erica Driver, principal of the analyst firm ThinkBalm.
January 14, 2010
Computer shipments in the United States and worldwide made a huge comeback in 2009 overall and the fourth quarter, according to Gartner and IDC.
The 2009 PC market closed with a remarkable 2.3 percent growth, largely thanks to end-of year discounts. Hewlett-Packard again dominated the market, while Acer and Dell fought for second place — which Acer grabbed worldwide for the quarter, but Dell claimed worldwide for the year.
Last year’s outcome was helped by a solid holiday shopping season, which saw price cuts of an “unprecedented duration,” according to IDC. In the United States, this trend lead to a new record of nearly 20.7 million units shipped during the fourth quarter of 2009, resulting in a year-on-year growth of 24 percent.
Apple’s Mac shipments were up in the fourth quarter of 2009, but the improvement wasn’t enough to help Apple keep pace with cheaper PCs from rival vendors.
December 2, 2009
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. Intel developed it as a prototype to demonstrate the massive scalability possible with future computers and to provide a workhorse for the development of new applications.
The long-term research goal is to add incredible scaling features to future computers that spur entirely new software applications and human-machine interfaces. The company plans to engage industry and academia next year by sharing 100 or more of these experimental chips for hands-on research in developing new software applications and programming models.
Intel is working with companies facing large-scale computing challenges that today require thousands of networked servers.
While Intel will integrate key features in a new line of Core-branded chips early next year and introduce six- and eight-core processors later in 2010, this prototype contains 48 fully programmable Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip.
December 2, 2009
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