Reuters - Chocolate maker Mars Inc, computer
giant IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said
on Thursday they would team up to map the DNA of the cocoa tree
to try to sweeten the crop's $5 billion market.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Location intelligence vendor adds another BI suite integration to take geospatial analysis mainstream. -- read full article
PC World - HP and Hitachi boosted blade offerings, with Hitachi upgrading blades to use new Intel chips and HP combining blade servers in... -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - With new compression, partitioning and star schema optimization features, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is catching up with the state of the industry in data warehousing. Here's why these three capabilities are crucial for scalability and performance on any platform. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs merges content from Google services with Salesforce.com's database, logic, and workflow capabilities. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The rack-mount designs feature twice the density of Rackable's existing systems and are aimed at financial, oil and gas, scientific research, and other organizations that need high-performance systems. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Finnish handset maker Nokia has taken GPS a step further with the announcement Monday that it is acquiring Plazes, the developer of a social-networking Web site that lets friends locate each other. -- read full article
PC World - Rackable Systems announced new "high-density" rackmount servers that provide more processing power and save electricity while... -- read full article
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up
Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet
services. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Jaspersoft has used Web 2.0 technologies, such as Ajax and dynamic HTML, to simplify the process of building queries and dashboards and generating reports in Business Intelligence Suite Professional Edition. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Telco Reliance scales with DW appliances. Web marketer TradeDoubler loads and queries faster, cuts cost with a column-store database. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Two rack-mount products offered this week can apparently run Mac OS X Leopard Server as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Ubuntu Server, and CentOS. -- read full article
