Sun announced that the Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.

Intel introduced 17 enterprise-class processors, led by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. They are Intel’s most revolutionary server processors since addressing the market with the Intel Pentium Pro processor almost 15 years ago.

Skype announced that its application, Skype for iPhone, is available on the Apple App Store. The app also adds Skype calling and instant messaging to any second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone.

EnergyAustralia, Australia’s largest electricity distribution network, announced an agreement with IBM for the implementation of an energy network monitoring and control solution.

Alcatel-Lucent has expanded its wireless networking portfolio to enable mobile service providers to offer both 3G CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) services using a common network infrastructure.

NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS, a technology that allows users and visualization applications to take full advantage of multiple NVIDIA Quadro GPUs from a single graphics workstation in a virtualized environment.

NVIDIA introduced its most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro professional GPU solutions.

Ericsson continues to increase HSPA speeds for an even better user experience and sustainable development of mobile broadband. The company will break its own HSPA world record with the world’s first demonstration of HSPA multi-carrier MIMO technology, providing peak downlink data rates of 56Mbps, at the CTIA Wireless exhibition, April 1-3 in Las Vegas, USA. This is another step for HSPA Evolution, further enhancing the mobile broadband experience.

Nokia Siemens Networks, the first telecommunications network provider to join the WWF Climate Savers program, announced that it is on track to achieving its targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

AMD and Havok, the provider of interactive software for physics simulation and content development, are presenting new, optimized executions of Havok’s physics middleware on AMD platforms at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. The demonstrations include the first OpenCL supported execution of Havok Cloth.

NVIDIA announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA, NVIDIA APEX, a new capability to its PhysX technology development software development kit (SDK), that provides artists, level designers, and game developers with a set of tools that streamline the process of implementing scalable physics across multiple platforms for next-generation titles.

The Internet Archive, one of the fastest growing digital libraries in the world, has migrated its digital archive efforts onto Sun’s open hardware and software platforms and established a new primary datacenter that will be housed at Sun’s Santa Clara, California, campus.

Sagem Sécurité is partnering with Hitachi to develop a multimode biometric recognition module. Developed and produced by Sagem Sécurité, this module will combine the best of Hitachi’s vein imaging technology (VeinID) and Sagem Sécurité’s fingerprint identification technology (Morpho).

Novell announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, the operating system designed for the next-generation data center.

Sun announced the availability of Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3, which provides new enhancements and features to help companies maximize their IT infrastructure utilization and improve manageability of desktop deployments.

IBM announced it is working with Volkswagen Group, Europe’s vehicle manufacturer, to improve the automaker’s material logistics operations through the use of sensor technology.

Adobe announced a new version of Adobe Director software offering game developers, multimedia authors, and e-learning professionals a host of new features for creating immersive gaming and multimedia applications.

Kaspersky Lab announces the launch of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for Ultra-Portables, a special edition offering comprehensive protection for ultra-portable computers.

Fujitsu announced that it has won an order to provide a new supercomputer system to the Information Technology Center at Nagoya University.

As the first Cortex-M0 processor licensee, NXP will present fully functional ARM Cortex-M0 silicon demonstrations at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, March 30 - April 2. The NXP demonstration will showcase the Cortex-M0 processor’s energy efficiency and code density improvement.

Intel announced the release of Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers (GPA), a suite of software tools created in support of the Visual Adrenaline developer program.

NEC Electronics China, a subsidiary of NEC Electronics, and Shanghai RaisingSun Digital Video Technology, a software design house in China, have jointly developed NEC Electronics’ first reference design in China’s television market for digital televisions (DTVs) compliant with all of China’s DTV standards.

mobilkom austria commercially activated enhanced mobile-broadband services powered by HSPA Evolution, Ericsson’s latest high-speed broadband-access technology.

Autodesk announced it has designated Vancouver, British Columbia as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative.

Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15 percent on a unit basis in 2009 compared to the previous year, according to a new analysis by ABI Research.