Thunderstorms and lightning strikes within 20 miles of the Cape Canaveral launch facilities again force NASA to cancel the blastoff of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station. If the weather cooperates, NASA will on July 15 attempt again to get Endeavour off the ground.
– Stormy Florida weather July 13
postponed the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the third consecutive
day and marked the fifth time since June that NASA has been forced to postpone
the mission to deliver and install Japan’s
4.5 million-ton Kibo space-exposed laboratory complex.

NASA w…

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Patent licensing company Mosaid Technologies announces plans to file a patent infringement lawsuit against IBM for allegedly violating six of Mosaid’s microprocessor patents.
– TORONTO (Reuters) Patent licensing firm Mosaid Technologies Inc
said on Monday it was taking IBM to court for allegedly infringing on
six of Mosaid’s U.S. patents.
Mosaid said the long-running dispute was over IBM’s making and
selling of microprocessor and application specific integrated circuit…

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Microsoft plans to start selling Windows 7 to its business customers on Sept. 1, weeks before the full launch of the operating system on Oct. 22. Microsoft is also promoting the Windows 7 OS to businesses through a collection of steep discount prices. Microsoft is betting that Windows 7 will help it boost its bottom line in the midst of the recession while also helping wipe away bad memories of Windows Vista.
– Microsoft
will start selling Windows 7 to business customers in volume on Sept. 1, weeks
before its official retail rollout on Oct. 22.
As it prepares for a massive worldwide push for Windows 7, Microsoft also
announced that businesses purchasing the operating system in volume would be
able to…

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The launch of three new storage machines marks the first products resulting from the company’s acquisition of Fabrik in February 2009. The Japanese company now jumps directly into pricing wars in a cutthroat market that already includes Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.
– Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, known in the past only for its enterprise storage products, on July 13 launched three new consumer products that puts the company directly into a growing market that already includes Iomega, Seagate, Toshiba, Synology and Cisco Systems.

The launch marks the fi…

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The combination of Software AG USA and IDS Scheer will create a global vendor of infrastructure software and business process management with more than 6,000 employees and more than €1 billion ($1.39 billion) in sales, the company said.
– The U.S. subsidiary of Germany’s largest software company, Software AG, announced July 13 said it will acquire German BPM (business process management) consultant IDS Scheer for €15 per share.

Software AG USA, based in Reston, Va., said that it has already agreed to buy out IDS Scheer’s two bigg…

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