ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a Stockholder Protection Rights Plan to replace the Company's existing Rights Plan, scheduled to expire on November 30, 2009. The new Rights Plan was not adopted in response to any specific effort to acquire control of the Company and is not intended to prevent a takeover at a full and fair price. The Company's new Rights Plan is substantially similar to the existing Rights Plan, which was voted on and received the favorable support of CA's stockholders in 2007. In order to address the corporate governance issues that are generally associated with rights plans, CA will ask its stockholders to vote on its new plan at its 2010 Annual Meeting. "CA believes this Rights Plan strikes an appropriate balance between empowering the Bo... (more)

People Power Company Launches to Develop First Open Source Home Area Network Empowering Consumers to Save Money and Reduce Electricity Usage

People Power Company, an energy efficiency company providing residential monitoring and control systems, today announced it has closed Series A funding from New Cycle Capital, Seraph Group and other angel investors to support commercialization of the company’s inaugural product offering. Research projects with U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University will focus on open source implementation of wireless sensor networks in home energy monitoring and control systems. These joint venture projects will lower technology development cost while improving reliability and expanding the market for home area networks. People Power Company is developing devices communicating wirelessly through an Open Source Home Area Network called OSHAN (pronounced “Ocean”) that connects appliances and fixtures to a robust web-based portal so that consumers can track usage of each appliance in r... (more)

The Nokia N900 Shipments Have Started

ESPOO, Finland, November 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The shipments of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N900, Nokia's latest mobile computer based on open source Maemo 5 software, have now started. The Nokia N900 will be available in retail stores in November with an estimated retail price of EUR 500, excluding sales taxes and subsidies. "The Nokia N900 has generated a lot of interest since its public launch in August, which has been reflected in the device preorders," says Jose-Luis Martinez, Vice President, Nseries, Nokia. "What's exciting is the Maemo software, which takes its cues from the desktop computer and offers a full browsing experience like no other handset. We believe the Nokia N900 will be a very compelling device for people who are passionate about technology." At the heart of the Nokia N900 is its powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor and up to 1GB of total applicat... (more)

CRM Mastery Launches a Free Technology Directory to Aid SMBs in Weighing CRM Options

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) continues to be a hot topic in business today as both small and mid-sized companies struggle to compete. But finding and ultimately selecting the right CRM technologies for salesforce automation, customer service, marketing, or social networking, from the literally thousands of technology solutions that are available, can be a daunting task. “Although there are a number CRM solution directories available on the Web, they are not organized in a way that’s useful to potential technology buyers,” says Jim Berkowitz, CRM Technology Coach and Industry Analyst with CRM Mastery. CRM Mastery’s Technology Directory helps potential CRM buyers by segregating On Demand from On Premise and Open Source offerings, distinguishing CRM suites from products designed to focus on just one functional area and also by separating sales force automat... (more)

YouTube Launches Virtual Assignment Desk, Connects News Organizations and Citizen Reporters With "YouTube Direct"

SAN BRUNO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/17/09 -- Today YouTube(TM), the world's largest online video community, announced the launch of YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows news and media organizations to request, review, and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Built from YouTube's APIs, YouTube Direct is an open-source application that lets media organizations enable customized versions of YouTube's upload platform on their own websites. The tool creates a virtual assignment desk in which news and media organizations can ask YouTube users to submit breaking news videos, user-generated reports, or reactions to questions or news events of the day. "People around the world are taking up cameras and covering news in ways big and small -- from documenting global events, to filming local town halls in American neighborhoods," said Steve Grove, head of new... (more)

Digium® Partner EUS Networks Creates Asterisk®-based Trading Communications Platform

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced that telephony integration partner EUS Networks has completed and deployed an Asterisk-powered IP telephony solution for trading room floors for a hedge fund client in the asset management industry. The solution includes Digium’s Asterisk Business Edition™, the enterprise-grade version of the popular open source telephony software, and trading turrets from IP Trade Networks. The new system gives the customer, a hedge fund, advanced call-control functionality, including the call recording capabilities required by Sarbanes-Oxley, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); disaster recovery; the cost advantages of voice over IP (VoIP); and the ability to keep using existing hardware and phone sets to save money. Asterisk is the most widely used open source... (more)

Univa Announces UniCluster 5.0

Univa UD, a leading provider of cloud management software products, today announced UniCluster 5.0, a major new version of Univa’s award winning infrastructure and workload management software stack that provides the underpinnings of Univa’s cloud computing solutions. UniCluster 5.0 features: Truly heterogeneous support: With UniCluster 5.0, a single cluster can support OpenSolaris and Linux compute nodes with a common management framework. Further, software profiles can be created and deployed for multiple operating systems (OS) and computing environments. Thus, users can create one Kit for deployment across resources running a variety of OS’s and also across multiple hardware profiles. Scalability: UniCluster 5.0 easily scales to over 7,000 nodes through subordinate installer nodes. Robust Web-based API: UniCluster offers a unique, well defined web-based API to ... (more)

Zenoss Launches Enterprise 2.5, Includes Support for Amazon EC2 Monitoring

Zenoss Inc., a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise management products, today announced the general availability of version 2.5 of its commercially licensed Zenoss Enterprise product. This latest version includes several new enterprise-grade scalability features targeted at managing today's datacenter as well as expanded management support for next generation datacenter technologies and platforms that include virtualization and public clouds. “In the past IT organizations attracted to opensource to meet their enterprise IT operations management needs were faced with the challenges of using tools with no accountable support mechanism,” said David Williams, Research VP Gartner. “However, commercial open source tools have emerged to provide the best of both worlds, a flexible lower cost product, an interactive internet community providing... (more)

Digium® Adds New Partnership Level to Award-Winning Authorized Reseller Program

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced that it has added an Affiliate partnership level to the company’s Authorized Reseller Partner Program. This new Affiliate level provides an entry-level tier for resellers who are interested in selling Digium Unified Communications and IP Telephony solutions, without a required minimum annual revenue commitment. Affiliate partners will have access to Digium’s ongoing partner communications, as well as the partner portal, which includes marketing toolkits, videos and sales and technical training. As partners migrate to the higher levels in the program, Registered and Select, Digium provides greater benefits, including discounts, demo kits, sales and marketing support and enhanced technical and sales training. This tiered approach is designed to help partners grow their businesses with Digium’s Switchvox VoIP phone ... (more)

Kaltura Expands its Global Activity to Japan via Strategic Partnership with DAC

Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source online video platform, and Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC), one of Japan’s largest digital marketing agencies, announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership to distribute Kaltura’s open source online video platform to the Japanese market. DAC will be marketing a Japanese version of Kaltura’s video platform. “We are honored to partner with such a leading force in Japan – we have found a true partner in DAC with an amazing group of people,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “Over the past 18 months, Kaltura has emerged as the fastest growing online video platform in North America – now, together with DAC, we look forward to replicating that success in Japan.” DAC was founded by several of the largest advertising agencies in Japan, including Hakuh... (more)

VersionOne Introduces Agile Data Mart for Custom Reporting

ATLANTA, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, announced today the release of its agile data mart for custom reporting - providing extensive flexibility and insight into development progress and business value. As the market leader in agile project visibility, VersionOne alleviates the pain and effort typically required to build custom reports and dashboards, enabling teams to quickly and easily provide quantitative agile metrics to various stakeholders. Allowing development teams to easily share project visibility across distributed teams is vital in agile development environments. VersionOne's data mart allows teams to extend this visibility well beyond the standard, pre-defined reports and dashboards typically used. Leveraging existing third-party reporting and analytics tools, teams can... (more)