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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion

Database software giant Oracle Corp has agreed to take over servers and storage solitions provider Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion deal today. Oracle, which is providing the most used database management systems in the corporate world is now adding ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  IBM

iTunes Movies available in Germany, next could be France

Apple has quietly launched the german iTunes Movie Store late last week while we've been hinted at its possibly imminent launch in France. The German store now features movies from several studios such as Disney, MGM and Sony Pictures with prices ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Sony Pictures

Nikon D5000 revealed

Nikon's high-end and yet to be announced D5000 has been revealed on the Internet a bit earlier than expected. What appears to be official press photos of the new DSLR have been published on DTown, an Isreael-based web site. The pictures not only tell ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  14 Apr 2009

Android developers get major SDK update

The Android Software Development Kit (SDK) is seeing a major update coming. An "Early Look version 1.5" has just been released and the final version is coming before the end of the month. As mentioned on the Android Developers Blog, the new 1.5 SDK ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  14 Apr 2009

Microsoft working on a touch-screen equipped Zune HD ?

Rumours that Microsoft is readying a new generation of its digital media player Zune featuring a touch screen. Zune HD is the name expected for the new device, as Engadget reports to have found advertising material mentioning the new name. Such a move ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  13 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Apple releases Nehalem based Xserve

Apple released today an updated server lineup which features the latest generation high-end chips from Intel. The new available Xserve configurations are the following : Xserve Quad-Core : - 1x2.26 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor - 3GB of memory ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  7 Apr 2009

Orange brings TV to the iPhone

The French mobile carrier and Internet provider just released an application allowing iPhone users to watch TV. The application called "TV d'Orange" is available on the App store since today provides access to up to 60 channels through the iPhone. The ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  7 Apr 2009

Snow Leopard to introduce multi-language speech synthesis ?

It appears to have come unnoticed by most so far, but one of the features that came with Apple's new generation of iPod shuffle in March clearly hints at big improvements on VoiceOver on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. One of the most highlighted features on ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  5 Apr 2009

Apple orders 3.2 and 5 Megapixel camera sensors for next iPhone

Apple has placed orders for both 3.2 and 5 Megapixel camera sensors for its next iPhone or a yet to be announced handheld device an Internet report indicates. Digitimes claims the CMOS image sensor (CIS) order was made to OmniVision which was in ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  3 Apr 2009
Related Topics: STMicroelectronics N.V.

Apple's Hong Kong online store unveils new XServe by mistake

The specifications of the next generation of Apple XServe servers lineup has been unveiled by mistake on the Hong Kong Apple online Store. PC World found the glitch on the Hong Kong online store pages and here is what we learned on the upcoming XServe : ...

From ALEXANDROS ROUSSOS, MacScoop,  3 Apr 2009
Related Topics: PC World

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