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 Rather than pay a cash dividend, which is culturally repugnant to so-called growth stocks, Google said late Thursday, after posting better-than-expected results, that it would repay its stockholders, who must be dizzy from all its up and down movement, by giving them more non-voting st...Apr. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Nigel Mackenzie, CTO of Pacific Controls, will discuss how managed services and cloud computing are driving a whole new cycle of systems and technology innovation based on the diverse interactions cloud systems will enable between pe...Apr. 13, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,311 |
 A US judge Wednesday told Motorola Mobility it can forget about enforcing the German injunction it expects to get next week that would prevent Microsoft from selling Windows and Xbox in Germany.
In a bench ruling the US District Court for the Western District of Washington gave Micro...Apr. 13, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,454 |
 Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced an agreement with NetArt -- a provider of domain name registration and web hosting in Poland -- to bring cloud-based communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users.
...Apr. 6, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,443 |
 The European Commission Tuesday formally launched two parallel investigations into the prices Motorola Mobility is demanding for licenses to its standards-essential 2G and 3G wireless patents and Wi-Fi and online compression video patents.
The formal investigations [formal as in “we’...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,246 |
 Facebook has countered Yahoo’s patent infringement claims with some patent infringement claims of its own.
It’s countersuing the stricken old Internet queen in federal court in Silicon Valley, charging it with infringing 10 of its patents.
According to the New York Times it’s enoug...Apr. 4, 2012 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 2,075 |
 This being the 21st century, dissident stockholder Third Point LLC has taken its nascent proxy fight over the soul of Yahoo to the web.
Under a “vacancy” sign, it’s set up a precedent-setting blog at www.valueyahoo.com where it intends to pick apart the litany of Yahoo’s missteps to ...Apr. 3, 2012 09:08 AM EDT Reads: 2,950 |
 As almost any causal bystander could have predicted, Oracle and Google couldn’t come to terms after a Pollyanna magistrate judge ordered them to try to settle their differences over Java and Android one more time last week ahead of a jury trial starting April 16.
It’s just a good thin...Apr. 3, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,491 |
 Hmm, that’s curious. Fortune noticed that Vertica, the analytic database management software that HP bought early last year for ~$350 million, has been quietly shifted out from under Autonomy and its boss Mike Lynch, who was given information management to run when HP closed on the $10...Apr. 3, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,614 |
 Yahoo said late Sunday that it has named three independent board members in an attempt to foil Third Point, its largest stockholder, from staging a proxy fight at the next stockholders meeting whenever that is.
Third Point said it offered “several significant compromises to strike a ...Apr. 2, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,620 |
 Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a legal complaint against Apple Wednesday charging it with misleading consumers in promoting its new iPad.
It said Apple suggests the iPad with Wifi+4G can connect to an Australian 4G mobile network with a SIM card when it ...Apr. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,937 |
 The Fair Labor Association (FLA), which Apple hired to look into working conditions at Foxconn plants in China a few months ago, said late Thursday that it had interviewed 35,000 workers and found no instances of child labor or forced labor.
What it did find was people working an uns...Apr. 1, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,927 |
 AOL has hired Evercore Partners to drum up a buyer for its 800-odd patents as well as drum up some strategic options for the place, according to Bloomberg. AOL shareholder Starboard Value LP claims the patent portfolio might yield upwards of $1 billion in licensing income. They are sai...Apr. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,845 |
 Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn and its Taiwanese avatar the Hon Hai Group are buying 9.9% of struggling Osaka-based electronics conglomerate Sharp.
They’ll get $1.6 billion worth of new Sharp shares. It’s the biggest investment a Taiwan company has ever made in a Japanese comp...Mar. 30, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,968 |
 Oracle and Google have been ordered back into settlement talks.
Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal, who tried to mediate a settlement last year over Oracle’s Java infringement beef with Google and Android, told the companies they have to sit down again before April 9, a week before the tri...Mar. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,242 |
 Apple CEO Tim Cook is in China, the company’s second-largest market, meeting with unnamed government officials as well as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who may be running the country next year.
The Chinese said they chatted about IP issues and greater cooperation. Seems China wants to enh...Mar. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 SmartBear Software on Wednesday introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI, providing software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for today's desktop, cloud, mobile and Web applications. loadUI Pro is the first commerc...Mar. 29, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,541 |
 Apple has failed to shake coveted information about Google’s development of Android and its $12.5 billion planned acquisition of soon-to-be Google satellite Motorola Mobility out of MMI.
Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, who will hear Apple’s patent complaints against Motorola this...Mar. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,558 |
 Racemi, provider of technology that accelerates migrations to cloud computing, on Wednesday announced it has joined the Cloud Tools Network with Rackspace Hosting, a specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry.
Through this joint collaboration, Rackspace Cloud customers can...Mar. 22, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,824 |
 Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, on Tuesday announced general availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and ActiveWatch for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS customers using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) interested in an added layer of network protecti...Mar. 21, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,873 |
 A German appeals court has blown up Google’s attempt to unseat Apple by using Motorola Mobility’s standards-essential patents.
The decision calls into question the wisdom of Google’s intended $12.5 billion merger with MMI.
Patent follower Florian Mueller assumes the deal will still...Feb. 28, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,040 |
 The European Commission late Monday cleared Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility but it also issued a simultaneous warning that the companies could be charged with antitrust violations for abusing the fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms of ...Feb. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,191 |
 After hearing testimony from World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Netscape co-founder Eroc Bina, HTML embedded tag inventor David Raggetr and prior art inventor Pei-Yuan Wei, who wrote the Viola browser back in 1991, two years before Eolas, and demo’d it to Sun in ’93, a Texas feder...Feb. 13, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,733 |
 The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington Monday punctured Google’s hopes of hiding the telltale Lindholm e-mail from the jury when Oracle finally drags Google and Android before the bar to answer charges of infringing its Java copyrights and patents.
The appeals c...Feb. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,359 |
 So you’ve wrestled that Hadoop elephant into a cluster. Now what? How do you get the beast’s huge flat files to make sense? The precious hard-won data in Hadoop isn’t exactly suited to business intelligence and making it actionable is a lot of work.
Enter Birst, the analytics house...Feb. 7, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,050 |
 Red Hat Storage (née Gluster) has recruited open source experts at Facebook, OpenStack and Eucalyptus for an independent GlusterFS advisory board meant to push the open source GlusterFS project and foster contributions and participation from third-party sys admins, developers and ISVs....Jan. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 5,484 |
 Last week Oracle’s long-simmering Java infringement suit against Google, already postponed from Halloween, was scheduled to go to trial “on or after March 19.”
On Thursday the court entered another order saying it won’t set a trial date any time soon and suggesting that given the dem...Jan. 13, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,943 |
 After lauding Steve Jobs as the “Michelangelo of our time,” combining visionary genius with extraordinary engineering smarts, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Google means to bring its own tablet to market in the next six...Dec. 26, 2011 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,742 |
 Maybe Android won’t be vaporized in the thermonuclear war that Steve Jobs promised to fund before he died; maybe it’s doomed to suffer a thousand cuts.
After the International Trade Commission decided Monday that HTC’s Android phones definitely infringe an Apple patent, it said Tuesd...Dec. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,303 |
 The jury that sat through eight weeks of complicated testimony and 600 exhibits over whether or not Microsoft broke the antitrust laws and tied a can to WordPerfect’s tail to maintain its monopoly after Novell bought the software 17 years ago couldn’t come to a unanimous decision Frida...Dec. 17, 2011 07:32 AM EST Reads: 2,198 |
 David Boies, the lawyer who got Microsoft convicted of antitrust for the US government, persuaded a jury to award Oracle $1.3 billion in damages against SAP last year and is currently prosecuting Oracle’s suit against Google and Android, has joined the Barnes & Noble defense team again...Dec. 5, 2011 03:00 AM EST Reads: 3,782 |
 Apache Hadoop start-up Cloudera, which just signed an alliance with NetApp like rival MapR’s got with storage big shot EMC, turned up Tuesday at Hadoop World in New York with $40 million stuffed in its pockets.
The D round led by Ignition Partners ups its total funding to a serious...Nov. 8, 2011 10:46 AM EST Reads: 2,198 |
 NetApp will be coming out with a preconfigured, ready-to-deploy cluster solution called NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop based on Cloudera’s open source distribution of Hadoop.
It’s supposed to offer much needed flexibility, rapid deployment, simple scalability, better performance, ...Nov. 7, 2011 01:23 PM EST Reads: 2,147 |
 CFEngine AS, the Norwegian outfit with the popular eponymous open source configuration and compliance management widgetry for automating distributed infrastructure, has moved its sales operation to the Palo Alto in hopes of turning its freeloading Fortune 1000 accounts into paying cust...Oct. 29, 2011 11:43 PM EDT Reads: 2,279 |
 After waiting a brief interval for tears shed over Steve Jobs to dry, Google and Samsung, the biggest seller of Android phones, met in Hong Kong and unveiled Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones powered by the brand new Ice Cream Sandwich version of the Apple-loathed Android operating syst...Oct. 24, 2011 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,974 |
 District Court Judge William Alsup Wednesday postponed Google’s billion-dollar-plus trial for allegedly infringing Oracle’s Java patents and copyrights in Android that was tentatively set to start October 31. No new date has been scheduled.
Judge Alsup previously warned that he might...Oct. 21, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,512 |
 With its eye on Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s attractions for business, Google has set up App Engine Premier Accounts, an enterprise service for its restrictions-beset PaaS that abandons per-user, per-app pricing.
For $500 a month, it’s promising premier support, a 99.95% uptime S...Oct. 17, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,738 |
 Quanta has agreed to pay Microsoft royalties on its Android- and Chrome-based tablets, smartphones and other consumer devices.
What it’s for exactly remains unclear but raises suspicions Google’s biggest OEMs don’t believe Google’s buying Motorola Mobility and its patents is going to...Oct. 14, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,507 |
 Seems we will probably be deprived of the spectacle of Oracle going after Google and Google doing a lot of whimpering because it looks like the Oracle v Google trial over Google’s use of Java, which is set to start on Halloween, will probably be postponed to give precedence to a big un...Oct. 6, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,379 |
 10gen, the company behind the open source MongoDB, has put out the first free NoSQL monitoring and alerting solution, which facilitates proactive alerts and support, often before a trouble ticket is filed.
The cloud-based SaaS widgetry has been in beta since March with the company’...Oct. 1, 2011 11:44 PM EDT Reads: 2,625 |
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