Nvidia eyes mobile market

Nvidia revealed that some of the world's biggest gadget manufacturer's are designing mobile devices using its Tegra 3D graphic processors, states Venture Beat.

The first major adopters of these chips for mobile Internet devices are expected to be cellphone carriers, not the computer makers who are Nvidia's traditional customers.

At the Computex show in Taiwan, makers of computers known as original device manufacturers, will showcase eight different netbooks and other mobile devices that use the Nvidia chips, explained Michael Rayfield, GM of the mobile business unit at Nvidia in California.

CA is expanding its cloud computing capabilities by acquiring assets from struggling Cassatt to add to CA's Lean IT initiative, reports eWeek.

Ajei Gopal, executive vice-president of CA's products and technology group, says this will add to the company's portfolio of data centre management software and its Lean IT initiative designed to help businesses lower their IT costs and improve efficiencies by increasing data centre automation.

Current trends in cloud computing and data centre convergence are becoming key areas of competition for such top-tier companies as IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Novell and VMware.

Alteva, a provider of enterprise-hosted VOIP, has released its Alteva Anywhere fixed mobile convergence solution, where employees can contact each other using a single number regardless of the geographic location and phone used, says TMCnet.

The Alteva Anywhere platform unifies all personal services across all devices. A single device can connect through and be switched between wired and wireless networks.

Users need only one business number for all incoming and outgoing calls. Calls can be moved seamlessly from a desk phone to a mobile handset or vice-versa or between mobile devices - without any interruption of the call.