middleware

Oracle Beats Q2 Earnings Forecasts

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 1:10 pm PT

Oracle’s earnings are in. Both revenue and profits beat the expectations of analysts. Shares are up more than 3 percent after hours.

Apple Gives iOS Developers a Little More Language Leeway

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 14, 2010 at 9:19 am PT

Apple has quietly updated the iOS Developer Program License Agreement, relaxing a restriction on interpreted code that has effectively kept Adobe’s Flash platform off the iPhone–but not enough to allow it on.

EU Approves Oracle-Sun Deal

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2010 at 4:10 am PT

The European Commission this morning unconditionally approved Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, removing one of the last hurdles to the $7.4 billion deal. Digital Daily reported Monday that people close to the companies expected the EC to clear the deal by today.

iPhone Headed to South Korea in November

John Paczkowski in News on September 23, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

The iPhone is finally coming to the world’s most wired country. South Korean regulators on Wednesday cleared the iPhone for sale. Great news for Apple. The South Korean market is a robust one, and analysts say that with the right carrier partner, Cupertino could be looking at first-year sales ranging from 500,000 to two million.

Oracle: Eat My Dust, IBM

John Paczkowski in News on December 19, 2008 at 6:25 am PT

“We’re growing dramatically faster than our competitors, and our target really is to beat IBM. If we maintain our trajectory and IBM maintains their trajectory, we could pass them as early as the end of this year or certainly next year to be the No. 2 player in middleware.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made that prediction last September, and a little over a year later it’s come to pass–according to Ellison, anyway.

iPhone to South Korea: ?????

John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2008 at 7:38 am PT

Since 2005, the South Korean government has required all cellphones sold in the country to support WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), the country’s cellular middleware platform. And for Apple, as well as other handset manufacturers like Nokia and Sony Ericsson, redesigning their devices to do so is a costly proposition. So costly, in fact, that they didn’t bother, leaving the country’s handset market to Samsung and LG, which now dominate it. On April 1, 2009, that will all change.

iPhone to South Korea: ?????

John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2008 at 7:38 am PT

Since 2005, the South Korean government has required all cellphones sold in the country to support WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), the country’s cellular middleware platform. And for Apple, as well as other handset manufacturers like Nokia and Sony Ericsson, redesigning their devices to do so is a costly proposition. So costly, in fact, that they didn’t bother, leaving the country’s handset market to Samsung and LG, which now dominate it. On April 1, 2009, that will all change.

iPhone to South Korea: ?????

John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2008 at 7:38 am PT

Since 2005, the South Korean government has required all cellphones sold in the country to support WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), the country’s cellular middleware platform. And for Apple, as well as other handset manufacturers like Nokia and Sony Ericsson, redesigning their devices to do so is a costly proposition. So costly, in fact, that they didn’t bother, leaving the country’s handset market to Samsung and LG, which now dominate it. On April 1, 2009, that will all change.