Year: 2010

MacTech has posted a preview of its latest benchmarks for virtualization, comparing Parallels Desktop to VMware Fusion. You can see the findings at https://www.mactech.com/2010/12/16/preview-virtualization-benchmarks .

This project isn’t a product review; it’s a benchmarking analysis. You should use it as part of your decision in choosing virtualization software combined with other factors such as product features, interface preferences, and support to make your product choice.

According to the “FOSS Patents” site (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/cptn-holdings-llc-acquirer-of-882.html), Apple has teamed up with Microsoft, Oracle and EMC in a joint venture to purchase 882 patents from a company called Novell.

Former employees at major tech companies like Apple, Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Flextronics International and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, sold inside information about their companies to hedge funds through an expert-networking firm, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. One of the accused tech company employees allegedly sold secrets about Apple’s iPhone and iPad, reports “Forbes” (http://blogs.forbes.com/nathanvardi/2010/12/16/tech-employees-allegedly-sold-secrets-of-dell-apple-and-advanced-micro-devices/?partner=yahootix).