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 This article details 12 routines for a Windows Server 2008 user to accelerate the learning and adoption of Windows Server 2012 without the need of a touch device. It is intended for those who are familiar with the administration of Windows Server 2008 (or later) to become comfortable w...May. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 District Court Judge William Alsup, who refused last week to decide whether Google had fairly used the Java IP a jury said Android infringed, had no trouble Friday deciding that the jury made a mistake in finding Google only copied nine lines of Java’s rangeCheck code as well as infrin...May. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,124 |
 In an article I read this morning, "Luis Cesar Verdi, President of SAP Brazil, told Computerworld UK that Brazil currently has 1.5 million end users for its mobile applications, but plans to increase this rapidly to 20 million by 2015. To achieve this, Verdi plans to target the g...May. 15, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 923 |
 A California Superior Court last Friday threw out Proview Electronics’ three-month-old infringement suit against Apple over the iPad trademark. The dismissal only came to light the other day.
Proview claimed Apple duped it when Apple bought the iPad trademarks from it in 2009 for $55,...May. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 627 |
 By generating massive amounts of new data that in turn require more and more bandwidth, Big Data is stretching an already-congested enterprise WAN to the breaking point. Many companies have made sizable investments in Big Data technologies, and are now looking to emerging cloud technol...May. 11, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,867 |
 As you may have noticed, a number of media sources are writing about the overall progression of iOS device sales and of the iPad in particular. The latter’s sales have developed to the point where their presence in businesses is becoming indispensable (see Looking into Enterprise iOS b...May. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 680 |
 Google, as expected, has put in its papers asking the court to declare a mistrial because the jury only decided it infringed 37 Java APIs in building Android and didn’t decide whether that infringement constituted so-called “fair use” of the code.
So it wants a whole new trial “as to...May. 10, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,251 |
 Blackberry 10 OS is unveiled this week at Blackberry World. In many ways Blackberry 10 is probably the last chance for Blackberry to gain back the market share and be a formidable competition to other Smartphones. If the announcements at the conference are any indication, Blackbe...May. 9, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 722 |
 Has Apple, by filing so many patent / IPR violation suits against Samsung in so many countries, marked Samsung as its equal?
For those of you who read Harry Potter, here is the parallel. Remember the prophecy? …
“…The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to th...May. 8, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,484 |
 After days of deliberating, a San Francisco jury Monday found that Google and its Android operating system infringed the Java copyrights now held by Oracle.
However, the jury remained as deadlocked as it was last Friday over the issue of whether Google made so-called “fair use” of th...May. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,321 |
 Apple has made an offer to resolve the imbroglio over the Chinese iPad trademark according to Roger Xie, a lawyer representing the Proview Technology (Shenzhen), the bankrupt company that claims the mark wasn’t included in the rights Apple acquired from a sister company in 2009.
What...May. 8, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 724 |
 As workers continue to demand business apps on their connected devices, the mobile cloud will play a key role in changing the enterprise IT landscape forever. The mobile cloud provides users with the ability to go beyond the capabilities of their smart devices by offering unlimited dat...May. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,256 |
 Smartphones – they are everywhere. You would be hard pressed to find anyplace from a grammar school to a nursing home where there is not one. Given the two most intrinsic aspects of smartphones – they are mobile, they are communication devices – As of Q4 2011 over half of those aged ...May. 4, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 701 |
 Please hold your skepticism, keep an open mind, go through the following points and only then pass a judgment on my prediction that “three years down Windows Phone would have overtaken Android."
The UI is different but very well designed for mobile and tablet. The same view is express...May. 3, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,743 |
 In what FOSS Patents calls the “most anticipated German patent ruling ever,” the Mannheim Regional Court Wednesday gave Motorola Mobility the permanent injunction it was looking for against Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Xbox and they might be using those things...May. 3, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 895 |
You may start hearing voices from Microsoft Azure. Do not send for an exorcist.
The new strategic alliance between Twilio and Microsoft make this possible by aligning Twilio's Cloud-based telephony (voice and messaging services) with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
You may recall...May. 3, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 892 |
 Two weeks after the trial started, the first part of the three-part Oracle case against Google went to the jury mid-day Monday.
Among other things the poor jury – one of whom reportedly didn’t want to continue but the judge persuaded her to – has to struggle with are the judge’s 19 p...May. 2, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,284 |
 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: 1,729 |
 Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck a strategic deal that will end their patent litigation and put the substantial Barnes & Noble e-book library including college textbooks on Windows 8.
Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that is called Newco ...May. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 933 |
 As utilities shift to smart meters and more customer-oriented systems under new government-mandated Smart Grid initiatives, they will quickly face the need to handle billions of real-time energy utilization transactions. In this new energy arena, the high volume, low-cost model of M2M ...Apr. 30, 2012 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 491 |
 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: 1,509 |
 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: 1,598 |
 The Guangdong High Court in southern China that heard Apple’s appeal of a lower court decision awarding ownership of the iPad trademark in China to Proview Technology (Shenzhen), the financially desperate Chinese display maker that ostensibly sold Apple the trademark, is now reportedly...Apr. 29, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,122 |
 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: 1,022 |
 The BYOD trend requires sweeping changes to the way devices are used in the workplace. Find out how to confront and manage those changes, provide a better user experience, and ensure security.
Gartner Hosted BYOD VIDEO: Mobility and the Social Enterprise
Technical Design Workshop VID...Apr. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 989 |
 “JReport 11 continues our mission to deliver data visualization, discovery, and self-service tools to our users on all modern platforms,” noted Dr. Bing Yao, President of Jinfonet Software, on the release of JReport 11.
The new release, which provides advanced data visualization with...Apr. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,618 |
 This week in an interview with me, SAP's Head of Mobility, Sanjay Poonen predicted that by 2015, 50% of enterprise mobility applications would be HTML5 based. In another interview I conducted this week with Sencha's CEO, Michael Mullany, he predicted that by 2014, 50% of enterprise mo...Apr. 28, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,381 |
 Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of spending time on the phone with Sanjay Poonen discussing SAP's intent to acquire Syclo, and other SAP related mobile strategies. Sanjay's current titles are President and Corporate Office, Technology and Innovation Products, Head of Mobile Di...Apr. 27, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 854 |
 Rethink Your Content Marketing by Aiming at Billions of Buyers on the Move For those of us who been around computing since the early days of PCs, the consumer move to mobile devices and away from desktop and even laptop computers is astonishing–and maybe a little terrifying. Smar...Apr. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,159 |
 The first sets of results are in for the Mobile Development Survey. After only a few weeks of release, there have been hundreds of responses from PowerBuilder users. Here’s a little sneak peek at some of the results we’ve compiled so far:
The eternal battle between Android and Apple-...Apr. 26, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 659 |
 After the bears lopped $70 billion off of Apple’s value in the last few days, the company went bear hunting Tuesday crushing estimates.
Net profits in the March quarter were up 94% year-over-year to $11.6 billion returning $12.30 a share compared to estimates of $10.04 on revenues of...Apr. 26, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 847 |
 Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy, an off-again-on-again buddy of
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is going to testify for Oracle Thursday in its
infringement suit against Google and Android.
His appearance could wrap up Oracle’s side of the copyright infringement
part of the trial and he co...Apr. 26, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,109 |
 Taking a stance of 'Build it and they will come' has never worked in IT and especially now with the Consumerisation of Mobility and the Prosumers (Professional + Consumer) in your Enterprise, whom are expecting or even demanding the same experience as Mobile Apps on the App Stores/Mark...Apr. 26, 2012 07:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,325 |
 This year, virtual desktop and cloud storage initiatives are at the top of many IT organization’s wish lists. But what is not obvious is how tightly intertwined these two initiatives have become as users embrace the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. This new BYOD model forces IT g...Apr. 25, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,098 |
 Yesterday we attended mobile hackathon sponsored by Microsoft and PhoneGap. The goal was to build a PhoneGap app and install in on Windows Phone. We used Tiggzi App Builder, PhoneGap Build and very quickly installed an app on Windows Phone. Apr. 25, 2012 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 819 |
 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: 1,222 |
 I’m sitting here at yet another user group meeting… perhaps you’ve seen me at one or at TechWave, or perhaps you have seen pictures of me at them on Facebook. I’ve got a laptop propped open where I’m usually working on some pet sample code project. Next to it is my iPad in its case/sta...Apr. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 800 |
 Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has come a long way over the years. What started out as simple systems for banks and airlines to provide after-hours touchtone access to routine requests is expected to grow into a nearly $3 billion market by 2017, handling billions of calls across vari...Apr. 24, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 946 |
 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: 1,748 |
 Right after agreeing at the court’s, um, insistence to sit down and parlay with Apple about settling, Samsung up and filed a countersuit claiming Apple’s iPhone infringes eight Samsung patents including a couple that are supposed to be standards-essential and FRAND-protected.
(The Eu...Apr. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,083 |
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