Archive for January 2008

HP Walks On The Open-Source Path With FOSSology - Video Included

Jan 28th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Video, linux

Open-source adoption for businesses and corporations come bundled with security concerns and financial projections. HP’s research and development group have come up with FOSSology.org to placate those concerns. In short, FOSSology is HP’s way of addressing open source software management for IT organizations. If HP is successfully able to address concerns of IT staff then [...]



Dell, Microsoft & Product Red Fight AIDS In Africa

Jan 28th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Hardware, Microsoft, Save The Planet

As reported previously Dell has followed through on its intent to introduce color options in their XPS product line. This offers a little variety in their product line – not in terms of product features but available customizations. More importantly every time customers buy a Red branded product they are contributing to fight AIDS cases [...]



HP Taking Interest In Green Technology

Jan 27th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Hardware, Save The Planet

Saving the planet seems to be one of the tiny factors behind HP’s business decisions. To appease the always growing environment conscious community HP introduced a couple of energy efficient desktop PCs. HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-slim Desktop and HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC are equipped with solid state drives reducing the dependence on spinning hard [...]



Automattic Raises $29 Million For Product Development

Jan 26th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Internet, Make Money

Wordpress parent company Automattic gets a huge injection of investment dollars. TechCrunch reported out of a total of $29.5 million that Automattic managed to raise $20 million came from Polaris Ventures and the rest came from an assortment of other sources including NY Times. The money is designated to give a boost to Automattic’s [...]