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 After Sun’s ex-CEOs Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz testified for and against Oracle, respectively, last week at the Oracle v Google infringement trial, Java creator James Gosling, who hasn’t been able to hold a job at either Oracle or Google for more than a few months, waded into ...May. 1, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,240 |
 Judge Alsup – who really wishes Oracle and Google had settled so he wouldn’t have to hear the Java trial – is proposing to decide whether APIs are copyrightable himself and not have the jury wade into that legal brier patch.
However, he is also proposing to instruct the jury that the...Apr. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,455 |
 Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy, an off-again-on-again buddy of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, testified for Oracle Thursday in its infringement suit against Google and Android.
His surprise appearance – in the middle of Google’s laying out its copyright defense – was used to scotch testimon...Apr. 30, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,230 |
 Google finally introduced its long-trumpeted cloud-based Google Drive Tuesday hours before Apple released its Q2 results.
Drive happens to compete with iCloud and Apple’s results, which could have been, shall we say, edgy, turned out to be over-the-top.
Drive also competes with Mic...Apr. 30, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,394 |
 If anybody’s making money off of Android, it’s Microsoft, which has just signed another licensing deal with another Android merchant.
This time it’s Pegatron, which is gonna pay Microsoft to run Android and Chrome on its e-readers, tablets and phones. How much is secret like Microsof...Apr. 29, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,455 |
 “Our new instant access app for Google Chrome makes it unbelievably easy to get secure access to any server, on-the-fly,” said Zohar Alon, Co-Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security, which announced on Wednesday the availability of Dome9 Instant Access for Google Chrome, a new browser-based ...Apr. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,567 |
 Monday morning in San Francisco Intel wheeled out Ivy Bridge, its first cutting-edge 22nm 3-D tri-gate transistor widgets, which are also its third-generation Core processors.
They were originally supposed to ship in volume the end of last year and again a few weeks ago.
These firs...Apr. 25, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,284 |
 Facebook and Microsoft said Monday on Facebook’s web site that Facebook is buying the lion’s share of the 925 US patents and patent applications that Microsoft just bought from AOL for $1.06 billion.
Facebook – and Microsoft has an investment in Facebook – is buying 650 of patents of...Apr. 24, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,758 |
 The US Patent and Trademark Office has reconsidered its so-called “final” rejection of one of the Java patents that Oracle claimed Google infringed and decided that nine of the patents claims are perfectly valid.
Apparently Oracle got wind of the PTO’s change of mind late last week a...Apr. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,914 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, decked out in dark Armani duds for the trial of his landmark case against Google and Android, testified Tuesday that he had considered buying RIM or Palm to compete against Apple and its iPhone.
Ultimately he decided that RIM was too expensive and Palm wasn’...Apr. 23, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,796 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private and hybrid cloud merchant that just tied up with Amazon, has gotten a $30 million C round on top of the $25.5 million it’s already gotten. It says the C round was oversubscribed.
The funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). ...Apr. 23, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,788 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us as we bring Google’s highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear:
Industry e...Apr. 23, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,644 |
 Cloud computing is all the rage.
"It's become the phrase du jour," said Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring. The problem, according to InfoWorld, is that everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing as an updated vers...Apr. 20, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,296 |
 With the dint of the patent wars in its ears Twitter has turned pacifist.
It figures engineers and designers should control the decision to use their work in infringement suits.
It’s put together a draft Innovators Patent Agreement (IPA) that commits it to using patents only for de...Apr. 20, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,281 |
 Millions or even billions have been spent caring for tens of thousands of pregnant men in the U.K.
For UK’s chronically underfunded National Health System, a few hundred million or a few billion is a very big deal.
Especially given how easily this problem could have been prevented wi...Apr. 20, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,618 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in Chicago on June 5 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together...Apr. 16, 2012 11:26 AM EDT Reads: 3,070 |
 Monday April 16 is the start of what the judge has called the “World Series of IP cases,” an eight-week trial in which Oracle will seek to prove that APIs are copyrightable and that Google infringed 37 Java APIs when it spun up Android.
The trick for Oracle, the judge said, will be...Apr. 16, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,263 |
 NTT Data, the service provider, has formed a business unit devoted to cloud services. It will be led by Marv Mouchawar as president and he will report directly to CEO John McCain.
Mouchawar and his team will be responsible for the overall strategy, portfolio, sales and delivery of se...Apr. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,443 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in Dallas on June 7 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together ...Apr. 15, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,937 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in Seattle on May 15 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together...Apr. 15, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,372 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in San Francisco on May 17 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders to...Apr. 15, 2012 10:52 AM EDT Reads: 2,155 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in Boston on May 3 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together t...Apr. 15, 2012 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us in Toronto on May 1 as we bring Google's highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together ...Apr. 15, 2012 09:34 AM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 Many organizations are starting to look at cloud computing as a universal solution, but there are many applications that cannot be considered unless the framework of cloud computing includes Timing as a Service (TaaS) as part of its fabric. Mission-critical applications require securit...Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,475 |
 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: 2,873 |
 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 |
 Sharing files with friends has never been easier. Whether it is via old-school hard copy methods like CDs, DVDs and USB drives, nefarious peer-to-peer torrents like BitTorrent or new shared, private cloud storage services like Dropbox, getting a photo or music file from one person to a...Apr. 7, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,800 |
 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 |
 Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with spikes in demand much more cost-effectively, the public Cloud service providers gush, s...Apr. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,044 |
 Digital/web agencies have had a lot of evolution to contend with over the past decade. From the rise and fall of MySpace to the increasing popularity of Facebook, to tiny flash drives and 1TB portable hard drives... technology is evolving faster than firms could ever imagine.
That's w...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,941 |
 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: 2,247 |
 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: 2,076 |
 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: 2,621 |
 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 |
 Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of c...Apr. 2, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,301 |
 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: 2,928 |
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