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 In the teeth of a nasty litigation onslaught against Android – currently the target on some 37 suits – Google is trying to fatten up its pitifully thin patent portfolio by bidding $900 million cash for Nortel Networks’ roughly 6,000-strong patent and patent application trove.
Nortel s...Apr. 5, 2011 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,748 |
 Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday charging Google with unfair practices in search, online advertising and smartphone software, a broader raft of charges against the search giant than the EC is believed to be currently investigating.
It is the fi...Apr. 1, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,411 |
 The Federal Trade Commission has charged Google and its infamous Buzz social network with deceptive privacy practices and violating its own privacy promises.
To settle up Google has agreed to implement a “comprehensive privacy program” and submit to third-party privacy audits every t...Mar. 30, 2011 03:56 PM EDT Reads: 4,108 |
 James Gosling, the so-called father of Java, started working at Google Monday after stalking out of Oracle last year and slamming the door after it acquired Sun.
One might imagine he’s been under a non-compete ever since, considering it’s just about a year since he found the Oracle...Mar. 30, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,532 |
 The latest scuttlebutt, repeated by Mobile Review and CrunchGear, has LG building Google a so-called “pure” Android 3.0 Nexus tablet uncluttered with any OEM software that will come out this summer or early fall.
Based on what Google did with the Nexus phone, PC World suggests that t...Mar. 29, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,777 |
 Google accused the Chinese government Monday of screwing with Gmail and making it look like it was Google’s problem.
It said China has been making it hard for Chinese users to access the e-mail system and send e-mails or IMs since the end of January.
“There is no technical issue on ...Mar. 28, 2011 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,865 |
 Contrary to its supposed open source belief system, Google is rationing Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of Android, ostensibly to keep it out of the hands of people who might customize it.
Supposedly the widgetry isn’t ready to be messed with.
The proprietary decision repor...Mar. 28, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,947 |
 "As end-user demands and requirements have evolved, extending the performance and scalability benefits of our Ultra Messaging software to audiences accessing applications on any Web-enabled device has been a priority for many customers in the financial services arena" said Mike Pickett...Mar. 22, 2011 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,985 |
 Google is dumping Gears, the widgetry used to let Google Apps work offline.
The functionality has been moved to HTML 5.
The company said in a blog that there will be no new Gears releases, newer browsers such as Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 won’t be supported with plug-ins, an...Mar. 21, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,486 |
 Another shoe has dropped in Android’s apparently still unfolding IP crisis, an issue over and above Oracle’s controversial Java patent infringement suit, which is now just one of many.
Google supposedly put Linux code into Android in a legally questionable way that likely infringes t...Mar. 21, 2011 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,073 |
 Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt, who’s supposed to step down next month in favor of Google founder Larry Page, may get to scratch his well-known political itch. Bloomberg says the Obama White House may consider him to replace Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who will be nominated to g...Mar. 13, 2011 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,530 |
 How do you build enterprise applications on Google's cloud platform?
In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate at Google, will review the entire Google Cloud Platform of technologies and explain how to build enterprise applications on...Mar. 10, 2011 11:15 AM EST Reads: 4,948 |
 The SEC Tuesday filed civil charges against the secrets-laden former head of McKinsey & Co Rajat Gupta accusing him of leaking inside information to the notorious hedge fund trader Raja Rajaratnam, whose criminal trial for insider trading and securities fraud starts next week.
Gupta ...Mar. 3, 2011 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,883 |
 Late Monday Google said that the bug that ate multiple copies of people’s Gmail Sunday in multiple Google data centers – erasing years of e-mails, attachments, folders, chat logs, all-important contact lists and personalized settings – was created by an otherwise unidentified defect in...Mar. 2, 2011 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,403 |
 We saw a recent announcement about ‘Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office' with the following underlying features.
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft Office experience. You can share, backup, and simultaneo...Mar. 1, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 7,709 |
 Google lost its fleeting bid last week to get Oracle’s copyright infringement claims thrown out of court so it won’t be standing there accused of both copyright and patent infringement in the Java-Android suit against it.
The judge wouldn’t even let Google file a motion. He isn’t con...Feb. 28, 2011 05:45 AM EST Reads: 5,973 |
 Google has unleashed its Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, the widgetry it got with its acquisition of DocVerse last year and put out with early testers in November.
The now-GA plug-in’s supposed to push more of the Office crowd to Google Docs and the cloud by making it possible to...Feb. 27, 2011 07:15 AM EST Reads: 4,164 |
 Google asked the US Patent and Trademark Office Tuesday to re-examine four of the seven broad Java patents that Oracle has accused Google of infringing in Android, its Dalvik virtual machine and Android SDK (Patents No. 5,966,702; 6,061,520; 6,125,447 and RE 38,104). Oracle also charge...Feb. 21, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,039 |
 No doubt by now you would have heard of the black hat search engine optimization (SEO) tactics JCPenney’s pursued in order to be ranked well for various search terms particularly in planning for the 2010 holiday season. The news was uncovered by the New York Times in quite a bit of det...Feb. 15, 2011 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,856 |
 The Zürich-based Myriad Group, which is already being sued by Oracle for ceasing to pay what Myriad claims are excessive Java licensing fees, appears to be daring Oracle to find new grounds to take it to court.
On Tuesday Myriad announced that it was going to try to get between Oracl...Feb. 14, 2011 07:15 AM EST Reads: 6,622 |
 Google is trying to sweet talk the European Commission out of declaring Google an abusive monopolist but has yet to put a concrete proposal on the table according to Reuters.
The EC has been investigating the company since three European concerns, including a Microsoft subsidiary, fi...Feb. 13, 2011 04:45 PM EST Reads: 4,302 |
 Google’s missing Middle East/North Africa marketing chief Wael Ghonim, who disappeared in Cairo just as the protests were heating up, was secretly arrested by Egyptian security forces on January 28 evidently for marketing revolution this past year on Facebook.
A web site he’s believed...Feb. 9, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,944 |
 So Google means to drop support for the widely supported MPEG-LA H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser because it’s based on patented proprietary technology and is potentially royalty-bearing. Instead it will substitute its own thinly supported not-yet-a-standard open source WebM c...Feb. 7, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,707 |
 Oracle, it seems, has been closeted with representatives of IBM and the IBM-inspired Eclipse Foundation since November tinkering with the OpenJDK bylaws.
That was after Apple turned over all future Java updates for its Mac OS to Oracle and OpenJDK, and IBM abandoned the Apache Foun...Feb. 2, 2011 08:00 PM EST Reads: 6,905 |
 First came Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" and now we have the "#Jan25 Uprising" - the world's first revolution named for a Twitter hash tag. Calling it the "Twitter Revolution" misses the beauty of the hash tag itself, and besides what would one then call the upcoming social unrest in ...Jan. 31, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 11,389 |
 "Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta.
"This shift ...Jan. 31, 2011 06:15 AM EST Reads: 16,159 |
 In Cairo, fear and trepidation of Facebook and Twitter ran high enough to prompt the government to flip a Liebermanesque Internet kill switch.
But perhaps it's not these two sites in particular as much as IT in general that's causing the problem for the world's dictators. And perhap...Jan. 30, 2011 07:45 AM EST Reads: 6,185 |
 On the day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 12,000 for the first time since June 2008, it was impossible not to correlate the eloquence and optimism of President Obama's "State of the Union" speech on Tuesday night with the restoration of a sense of perspective and hope in ...Jan. 28, 2011 08:45 AM EST Reads: 13,724 |
 There's a marvelous scene in the 1969 movie, Midnight Cowboy, in which the Dustin Hoffman character, “Ratso” Rizzo, starving, starts filling his pockets with food from a lavish buffet at a party that he's crashed.
A young woman tells him, “You don't have to steal the food. It's free...Jan. 28, 2011 07:15 AM EST Reads: 6,288 |
 In a coordinated 7am raid Thursday morning British bobbies swooped down
on houses in London and towns around the country and arrested five men
and boys suspected of being part of Anonymous, the loose international
coalition that last year unleashed distributed denial of service (DDo...Jan. 27, 2011 10:55 AM EST Reads: 6,613 |
 To chase and catch the elusive goddess, Innovation, and fend off clever rivals, Google means to hire 6,200 people this year, which would represent roughly another 25% increase in its workforce after last year’s, more than it ever has before.
Where it’s going to hire these people is u...Jan. 27, 2011 10:15 AM EST Reads: 4,863 |
 Inspired by the recent list of who got the most US patents last year, patent watcher Florian Mueller did a flyover of Google’s patents.
It was a short trip.
Google only holds 576 US patents altogether, 282 gotten just last year – in a world where IBM is now doing better than 5,000 ...Jan. 21, 2011 08:45 AM EST Reads: 4,922 |
 Some of the best web performance tools are still largely being run as browser plug-ins. If those tools can make the leap to becoming real-time and can be made to consider user context, the industry will have something truly powerful on its hands.
Initiatives like Yahoo’s YSlow and Goo...Jan. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,509 |
 Bloomberg followed by the Wall Street Journal said Thursday that the Justice Department is working on an antitrust suit to stop Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, which provides online flight and ticket information to popular Internet booking sites.
It would be the se...Jan. 17, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,761 |
 Google’s Chrome browser is gaining on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, ending 2010 with an estimated market share of 9.98%, up a little better than double its position in 2009, while IE was good for only 57%, down 5.6 points, according to NetApplications, the most respected of the tracke...Jan. 14, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 5,124 |
 Google is dropping support for H.264 from its Chrome browser in favor of WebM, its own open source, royalty-free codec, as well as the Xiph.org Foundation’s Theora widgetry because they’re open source and the currently free but patent-bearing H.264, arguably the web’s video standard, a...Jan. 13, 2011 11:00 AM EST Reads: 7,301 |
 Julian Assange, fresh from his Christmas house arrest in an English country
mansion owned by his new BFF Vaughan Smith, is supposed to show up in
a London magistrate’s court Tuesday morning British time to sort out the
evidence ahead of his two-day extradition hearing next month.
...Jan. 11, 2011 01:30 AM EST Reads: 3,604 |
 HTC, the big Android phone maker being sued by Apple, is apparently going to tempt Apple to expand its suit when it fields the Android-based tablet it’s reportedly got.
Bloomberg says that right after Christmas the Taiwan firm filed for a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Of...Jan. 9, 2011 12:15 PM EST Reads: 4,224 |
 A Google-riled Court of Federal Claims has stopped the US Department of Interior from moving 88,000 staffers to Microsoft’s cloud-based e-mail and collaboration services.
Google sued the agency late last year claiming the five-year $59.3 million contract it was about to give Microsof...Jan. 9, 2011 10:30 AM EST Reads: 5,727 |
 Skype is reportedly buying Qik, which lets users stream video from their smartphone, for $150 million including earnout.
Business Insider, which broke the story, points out that both companies count Marc Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz as backers. Salesforce.com CEO Mark Beni...Jan. 7, 2011 04:45 AM EST Reads: 3,559 |
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