Lavenya Dilip

According to latest report from research firm IDC, Apple's iPhone and Android phones from a variety of manufacturers were instrumental in lifting second-quarter smartphone sales in Western Europe by 48 percent year on year to nearly 22 million but the boost came at the expense of the Finnish handset maker Nokia. The company's Western European smartphone market halved from the previous three months to just 11 percent behind Apple, Samsung, BlackBerry developer Research In Motion and Taiwan's HTC. In the first quarter, it had dropped to No. 2 with Apple grabbing the top spot in smartphones and Samsung Electronics in overall cellphone sales. The reason behind the hard decline has been the increasing popularity of Google Android powered devices made by Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson. Nokia on the other hand has been concentrating on making the transition from its Symbia... (more)

Red Hat Tackles Big Data by Acquiring Open Source Storage Provider

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that it will be acquiring Gluster, Inc., a provider of open source storage solutions aimed at unstructured data management for approximately $136 million. With the acquired scale out storage technology, Red Hat seeks to harness the onslaught of big data that is deployed in both private and public cloud environments. Sunnyvale, California based Gluster has developed GlusterFS, a software-only, scale-out storage system that allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed s... (more)

Samsung Plans to Open Source Smartphone Platform

Wall Street Journal reports that smartphone maker Samsung could be looking to open source its Bada OS within the next year. Seeking to imitate Google android's thriving developer ecosystem, Samsung might want to shine the light on its homegrown mobile software platform by bringing in external developers and device makers. It apparently also has plans to expand bada's reach into television sets and tablet devices in the future. Global Internet information provider, comScore says (reporting key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending Ju... (more)

Jaspersoft Aims To Woo Large Enterprises With New Release

BI on Ulitzer Jaspersoft has released the first enterprise edtion of its business intelligence software suite. Jaspersoft whose software was initially targeted at small and medium business owners, has now expanded it's horizons to larger enterprises with the latest launch. It claims to offer the same functions found in more expensive proprietary BI platforms like Oracle's or SAP's such as "in-memory analysis capabilities and more to solve enterprise-class BI problems for organizations of all sizes," Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year ... (more)

Oracle and IBM Come Together in the Name of Java

Database rival companies, Oracle and IBM, will be working together to allow developers and clients to enhance existing Java investments and the Open Java Development Kit reference implementation. Java is a general-purpose software development platform that is specifically designed to be open and enable application developers to "write once, run anywhere". The platform is most widely used in business software, web and mobile applications. The collaboration between the two companies will be centered around the Java language, JDK, and Java Runtime Environment. The duo will particul... (more)