Latest Tech Industry News
- 24 May 2012
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News: Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial
During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.
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News: Broadband Stimulus Grants Seen as Political Flashpoint
Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season.
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News: Motorola Mobility has infringed Microsoft patent, says Munich court
Google-owned Motorola Mobility has infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging, according to a ruling in the Munich regional court, which also dismissed a second case related to a localization patent.
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Video: Video: The Byte - Google closes deal, Army spy blimp, cancer detection, Lenovo profits
Google closed its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility. Nothrop Grumman is working on a spy blimp that will take flight later this year. A student who created a cancer detection tool won the Intel Science Fair. Lenovo's net profit outpaces the rest of the PC industry.
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News: Proposed New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Comments
Online anonymity is once again under attack. This time, it comes from the New York state Senate floor, where is bill is aiming to cut down on cyberbullying, protect small businesses, and -naturally - protect politicians from anonymous attacks during campaign season.
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News: How to Protect Your Artistic Works With a Creative Commons License
Your business revolves around producing creative works, and you use the Internet to market those works. Considering how quickly and easily such material can be disseminated around the world without your knowledge or permission, how do you go about protecting your rights to those works? A Creative Commons license might be the most realistic solution.
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News: NASA and cybersecurity: Ground control to Major Tom?
Latest claimed attack by Iranian students piles on to 47 attacks in fiscal year 2011, with 13 compromising the agency's computers
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News: Mobile workers work longer hours
Almost two-thirds of mobile employees say they are working 50 to 60 hour-plus weeks, with most working weekends too, according to research.
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News: Samsung Galaxy S3 is a 'phablet, not smartphone'
Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? No, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is, apparently, a "phablet"...
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News: Apple's designer Sir Jonathan Ive knighted at Buckingham Palace
Ive received his knighthood from the Princes Royal in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. His knighthood was announced in the Queen’s New Years Honours list on 31 December 2011.
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News: Apple TV, iTV release date, specs and rumours
What the world is saying (ie. making up) about the much-rumoured Apple iTV, HDTV, telly.
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News: Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets US$126 million investment back
Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, part of Sony's ongoing attempts to reform its foundering TV business.
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News: Google to offer mapping and other software in Syria
Google is now allowed under U.S. export control rules to offer downloads in Syria of its mapping software Google Earth, photo sharing software Picasa, and its Chrome browser, it said Wednesday.
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News: Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case
The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.
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News: Remains of the Day: Losers, weepers
Samsung and Apple can't find a compromise, IBM employees lose out on Siri, and Jony Ive tears up about Apple's next great product. The remainders for Wednesday, May 23, 2012 can't win for losing.
- 23 May 2012
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News: Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'
Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended.
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News: HP to trim 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program
Hewlett-Packard will trim 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said Wednesday when it announced quarterly financial results.
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News: Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds
Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.
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News: Apple's shareholder dividend payout will be one of the biggest ever
When Apple pays its dividend to shareholders between July and September 2012 it will be one of the biggest dividend payouts ever.
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News: Apple wins 23 new patents, covers Aperture, GarageBand
Apple has been granted 23 new patents, covering Aperture, GarageBand and more. Apple has been granted 23 new patents, covering Aperture, GarageBand and more.
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Video: The Byte - Google closes deal, Army spy blimp, cancer detection, Lenovo profits
Google closed its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility. Nothrop Grumman is working on a spy blimp that will take flight later this year. A student who created a cancer detection tool won the Intel Science Fair. Lenovo's net profit outpaces the rest of the PC industry.
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