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 Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, and new user and application demands are just a few of the many challenges that are putting IT organizations under more pressure today than ever before. As a result, a new approach is required.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud...Apr. 2, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,541 |
 No sooner had Google CEO Larry Page said that Android chief Andy Rubin would stop running the unit he created and that Android would be joined to the Chrome operation under Chrome boss Sundar Pichai than the company quietly said it’s breaking up its maps and commerce unit and that its ...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,426 |
 McAfee has announced the industry’s first white-listing security solution for Android embedded systems.
McAfee Application Control for Android is the only security solution that resides in the Android operating system kernel.
McAfee provides protection from the installation or exec...Mar. 16, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,239 |
 iSCSI? No problem! Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 include native support for a software iSCSI initiator as well as MPIO ( Multipath IO ) for resiliency and load balancing of storage IO over multiple network paths.
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connec...Mar. 14, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,414 |
 IDC has been watching the growing popularity of the smaller, lower-priced tablets.
It found that one in two tablets that shipped this quarter had a screen measuring less than eight inches. It figures this strong trend is going to continue – strongly enough, in fact, for it to tickle ...Mar. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,194 |
 Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it's free and easy to get started.
In his upcoming sessi...Mar. 12, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,079 |
 Activist investor Carl Icahn, who was found last week to have accumulated 6% of Dell and is threatening to upset Michael Dell’s plans to take the company private, has signed a confidentiality pact with the company that will let him look at its books.
The Blackstone Group has a simila...Mar. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,554 |
 Reports have resurfaced of Google starting a same-day delivery service in San Francisco called Google Shopping Express for local shops to rival Amazon’s ambitions for its Prime business.
Couriers will evidently pick up the parcels.
TechCrunch claims the service will cost somewhere ...Mar. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
 Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility may have to break down and start paying Microsoft royalties on the IP Redmond claims is in Android like the rest of the Android ecosystem.
That is if they want to keep Google Maps alive in Germany.
FOSS Patents reported Thursday that the ...Mar. 10, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,950 |
 Sharp, the big Apple supplier fighting for its life, is going to sell a roughly 3% position in itself to Samsung, which is an even bigger Apple supplier and one of Sharp’s biggest rivals.
The price is reportedly about a cheap $112 million, below market value.
Sharp is trying to cla...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,178 |
 The Red Chinese government doesn’t much care for the pervasiveness of Android-based smartphones in the country or the dependence of local R&D; on Android and, according to a white paper put out by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, “While the Android system is open...Mar. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,213 |
 A Texas district court Wednesday upheld a jury verdict arrived at in November awarding Internet security firm VirnetX more than $368.2 million after it found Apple and its FaceTime video chat service infringed four virtual private networking patents designed to establish a secure conne...Mar. 3, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,581 |
 Like Samsung, LG, HTC, Acer and Barnes & Noble before it, Nikon has signed up to pay Microsoft royalties for certain of its cameras running Android.
The deal gives Nikon broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio.
Microsoft said the agreement “demonstrates the value that bot...Feb. 27, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,264 |
 Centrify has signed its biggest contract ever.
Samsung has OEM’d Centrify’s Active Directory-based security and cloud identity technology intending to put the widgetry on millions of its notoriously insecure Android-based smartphones and tablets to out BlackBerry.
BlackBerry is gene...Feb. 26, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,056 |
 Flash storage array start-up Violin Memory is storing up greenbacks.
According to an amended SEC filing made late last week it’s gotten $96.3 million out of what may become $130 million in new funding.
All Things Digital reports hearing the financing was done at an implied valuatio...Feb. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,967 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has evidently called in a few markers and persuaded some of his friends to stand up with him in his legal battle over Java against Google and its Android operating system.
On Tuesday, the last day to file amicus briefs supporting Oracle’s appeal of the distri...Feb. 25, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,051 |
 Google, it seems, has built the first touchscreen laptops for its poorly received Chrome operating system.
The Wall Street Journal says the cloud-based widgets that run web apps should be out and about sometime later this year so Google can go “toe-to-toe” with Microsoft’s touch-sens...Feb. 22, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,906 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced that Things Remembered, the nation’s largest and most prominent retailer of personalized gifts, had a successful online holiday season in part as the result of the optimal performance of its website.
Things Remembered has more than 600 retail store...Feb. 20, 2013 09:37 AM EST Reads: 925 |
 Tuesday when a report by American security firm Mandiant that’s been six years in the making was circulating tracing an “overwhelming percentage” of Communist China’s far-flung corporate and governmental cyber espionage to a 12-story building in Shanghai connected with the People’s Lib...Feb. 20, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,505 |
 Google Tuesday became the first high-tech stock ever to hit $800 a share, joining an exclusive club inhabited by only three other companies including Berkshire Hathaway, whose Class A stock sells for $151,000 and change.
Why exactly Google’s enjoying this all-time high right now is u...Feb. 19, 2013 03:09 PM EST Reads: 1,327 |
 Univa, which can claim sprawling infrastructures, has ported its Grid Engine software to the Calxeda widgetry in support of its fancy high-brow dynamic workloads.
The stuff is in beta but Univa CEO Gary Tyreman says his customers are already testing it and that although the ARM chip ...Feb. 18, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,319 |
 Well it seems that because PCs are dying and servers aren’t growing much, Intel or, in this case, Intel Media is going into the television business, acing out Apple, which may have walked away because of licensing issues or even bandwidth despite what Steve Jobs told his biographer bef...Feb. 18, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,132 |
 Oracle Monday appealed the multibillion-dollar Google-Java decision that went horribly against it last year when Android was found not to infringe on its patent or copyrights. It says if works of fiction are protected by copyright, so should the Java language claiming that Google copie...Feb. 17, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,874 |
 In an atypical move, Google has filed a patent infringement suit against BT’s American operation and its VoIP services, charging them with treading on Google IP related to network communications.
FOSS Patents says the filing means that Google CEO Larry Page will never again be able t...Feb. 15, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,035 |
 Come August 1, the bankrupt and deeply in debt US Postal Service means to stop delivering first-class mail on Saturdays and save a projected $2 billion a year.
It will still deliver packages six days a week.
While e-mail and texting killed its letter business, e-commerce has thrown...Feb. 6, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,544 |
 The European Commission is threatening to charge companies other than Samsung with anti-competitive practices for the way they treat their standards-essential patents and use injunctions to bar rivals from using the patents rather than negotiating fair, reasonable and non-discriminator...Feb. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,517 |
 Apple Tuesday announced a fourth-generation iPad with 128GB of memory to grace the top of the existing line currently available with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.
Obviously it’s for people who need to carry around a lot of data.
It will sell starting Tuesday February 5 in black or white for...Jan. 30, 2013 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,340 |
 District Court Judge Lucy Koh has ordered the CEOs of Apple, Intel and Google to show up in her courtroom, each of them to answer four hours of questions about their deal not to poach each other’s people.
A civil suit brought by workers who figure they got shortchanged in the process...Jan. 28, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,723 |
 Tapping no successor yet, Jack Ma, 48, said Tuesday he would be resigning as CEO of Alibaba on May 10 because he is no longer young enough for the Internet business.
“The Internet belongs to young people,” he said. “This year, most of the Alibaba leaders who were born in the 1960s wi...Jan. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,905 |
 A US magistrate judge Monday ordered Apple and Amazon to try settling their two-year-old App Store trademark dispute before going to trial August 19.
They’ll be closeted together for negotiation on March 21 and the judge said, “No participant in the settlement conference will be perm...Jan. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,726 |
 Facebook’s mystery announcement Tuesday turned out to be what it calls “Graph Search,” a beta social search engine to find things on Facebook like “Friends of friends who are single men in San Francisco?” or “Friends of current employees,” a good place to start for recruiting.
It’s s...Jan. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,563 |
 When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt returned to Beijing Thursday from his controversial three-day “private visit” to North Korea he said that he told officials in Pyongyang that they must open the country up to Internet access or it would be “harder for them to catch up economi...Jan. 14, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,451 |
 Google wiggled out of antitrust charges over its core search business in the US last week but its luck may not hold in Europe where Joaquín Almunia, the head of the European Commission’s antitrust unit, told the Financial Times Thursday that “We are still investigating, but my convicti...Jan. 14, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,410 |
 Following the consent decree Google signed last week with the Federal Trade Commission limiting its use of standards-essential patents (SEPs), Google satellite Motorola Mobility told the International Trade Commission Tuesday it wants to drop the two remaining video compression SEP cla...Jan. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,901 |
 After 20 years with the company Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie is going to retire in 2014 after he turns 65.
As a run-up he’s turning his current roll over to chief technical strategy officer Eric Rudder to play senior advisor to CEO Steve Ballmer and wo...Jan. 10, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,785 |
 In what would be a major strategy shift Apple is reportedly considering selling a “lower-end” iPhone later this year to meet competition from Android, which has been eating Apple’s lunch with its multiple models.
The Wall Street Journal said late Tuesday that the cheaper iPhone, whic...Jan. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,982 |
 Despite State Department sensitivities, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas director Jared Cohen, a former State Department policy wonk who now heads Google’s New York-based think tank, landed in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday as part of the entourage accompanying ...Jan. 8, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,192 |
 Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt is proposing to “privately” visit North Korea, a rogue nation as well as an open market.
He will go as part of a delegation led by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a former American ambassador to the United Nations who has been to No...Jan. 7, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,235 |
 The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it had come to a couple of so-called “landmark agreements” with Google that end the agency’s big, almost two-year investigation into the antitrust complaints made against the search giant.
The deal absolves Google of stacking its search...Jan. 7, 2013 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,274 |
 Apple reportedly wants to buy Waze to help fix its giant maps gaffe but according to what TechCrunch heard it doesn’t want to spend the $750 million asking price. It’s reportedly offering $400 million plus $100 million in incentives.
The three-year-old Israeli-born Waze uses crowdsou...Jan. 4, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,748 |
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