Google has pulled out of JavaOne because Oracle is suing Google claiming that Android infringes on its Sun-inherited Java IP. Google blogged that the lawsuit made it “impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally” though that open sou...Sep. 4, 2010 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,061
Cisco is trying to buy Skype before it goes public, according to what TechCrunch said Sunday.
The blog hasn’t been able to confirm the tale it was told by “one of its more reliable sources,” however, Barron’s Tech Trader Daily says the rumor is nonsense and that its own personal “sou...
Hurd won’t be replaced immediately.
It was his only other board seat besides HP, one he accepted in February 2008.
Speculation over what exactly happened in HP’s executive suite has turned recently to Hurd’s unpopularity with the HP workforce and his alleged starvation of the com...
Google’s complaining about not being able to submit a final bid to replace Microsoft’s e-mail in the strung-out state of California. According to the LA Times, Google claims it could have saved the state $16 million on a $60 million contract for 200,000 seats but couldn’t because the t...
Oracle is apparently rolling back Solaris to its pre-open source days.
The company hasn't made an official announcement, and may never, but an internal e-mail ostensibly to its own remaining Solaris engineers outlining its position on OpenSolaris just happened to fall into the hands...
Google’s got a special new version of its standard Premier Edition Google Apps that’s supposed to meet basic toe-in-the-door government security requirements.
Well, at least the data generated by the government’s use of Gmail and calendaring will be segregated from everybody else’s c...
Google is looking to build its own Facebook to defend against Facebook and its 500 million members running off with too many ads or even starting an ad network across other sites à la Google’s AdSense according to the Wall Street Journal.
The search giant has reportedly been talking ...
Google has launched a new feature for the Google font directory. The new Google font previewer lets you test drive all the fonts in the directory so you can decide which web font in the Google Font API works best for your requirements.
Whenever you visit the font family page of any of...
The Cloud Development Survey Report examines the concerns, intentions and current adoption of developers regarding deploying to and developing for public or private clouds. The report covers the full range of Cloud Computing issues, including: Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud, Private cl...
NTP Inc, the patent troll that nicked Research in Motion and its Blackberry for a cool $612.5 million in 2006, sued Apple, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, LG Electronics and HTC last Thursday charging their smartphones infringe the same Ur-wireless e-mail patents that RIM ran afoul of.
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The European Commission’s new antitrust czar Joaquin Almunia indicated Wednesday that Google may face a full-blown investigation into charges brought a few months ago by Microsoft, British price comparer Foundem and French legal search engine ejustice.fr alleging that Google had demote...
First it seemed that everybody’s middle name suddenly changed to cloud.
Now every boy simply has to have a tablet.
The tablet du jour is a thing that’s coming out in Q1 from Cisco called Cius (say see-us). Oh, stop rubbing your eyes, yes, Cisco.
It’s a little seven-inch Andr...
The Federal Trade Commission is going to investigate Apple for anti-competitive practices because it’s shut Adobe Flash out its mobile ecosystem and is now trying to keep Google ads off of IPad and iPhone applications.
Bloomberg says the Justice Department and the FTC have been debat...
Apple has picked another fight and the Financial Times says it will draw fire from the antitrust police for barring third-party ad networks that aren’t independent or are affiliated with competitive mobile widgetry – like, oh, say, Microsoft and Google’s recently acquired AdMob – from ...
On Steve Jobs’ contention that this is now a post-PC world: “I think that people are going to be using PCs in greater and greater numbers for years to come.” But PCs will look different. They’ll evolve. They’ll get smaller, get touch, get different interfaces, their insides will change...
To encourage companies to adopt Google Apps, Google has tricked out a Go Google cloud calculator that’s supposed to help them understand the benefits of working in the cloud by taking a “test drive.”
The graphics projects potential time and cost savings based on how many employees th...
Google, in its attempt to challenge Microsoft’s PC dominance, has moved up the market entrance of its cloud-based Chrome operating system from 2011 to late fall, less than six months from now according to reports out of the Computex show in Taiwan quoting Sundar Pichai, the Google VP i...
Despite all the anxiety expressed by rivals, advertisers and watchdog groups and all the rumors of regulators moving to block the deal on antitrust grounds, the Federal Trade Commission last Friday rubberstamped Google’s $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising house AdMob. It se...
Where cloud computing is concerned, the Enterprise IT industry has gone from asking 'What?' and 'Why?' to asking 'How?' and 'When?' - making 2010 the year that company after company, organization after organization, and government agency after government agency is moving, or beginning ...
Google Tuesday released what it called a stable release of the Chrome browser for both Linux and the Mac.
It’s the first peek at the Linux and Mac widgetry out of beta, finally catching it up to the Microsoft-harrying version of Chrome for Windows.
The Tuesday release of all three ...
Google and VMware have never been particularly chummy but now they’re suddenly each other’s new best friend and a little cloud brought them together.
As a result Google is going to support some of the Java tools VMware got with its acquisition of SpringSource, enough so users can mov...
Google fired a shot across Apple’s bow Wednesday and considering the way things have been going Apple will probably seek to return fire in the not-too-distant future with an armor-piercing lawsuit.
The latest fray started when Google got up at the Google I/O developers conference – li...
Google will be open sourcing video codec VP8 , the technology that it procured as a result of its acquisition of On2 Technologies. The initiative is a part of its newly announced WebM project for developing open standard, high quality video on the web. All videos that are 720p or large...
This morning Google announced AppEngine for business and integration with VMWare tools for Cloud portability at its annual developer conference Google I/O. Until now AppEngine is available for developers with many restrictions and no support. With the new offerings Google is trying to ...
"At worst [cloud computing] will fundamentally destroy the current security paradigm - but on the other hand it's going to substantially improve the average level of security of ordinary shleps who didnt pay any attention to the matter," Diffie told about 1000 delegates to this year's ...
Google and Global IP Solutions (GIPS) Holding AB on Tuesday announced that they have entered into a transaction agreement under which Google Acquisition Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, will make a recommended voluntary public cash offer to acquire all the issued and...
Founded by Isilon founder Paul Mikesell and Sergei Tsarev, who led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL, San Francisco-based Clustrix emerged from stealth mode today and announced the Clustrix CLX 4010, a highly scalable database solution that addresses the infras...
Google is supposed to start selling digital books from an e-book store called Google Editions in June or July. The service would go up against Amazon and Apple. The e-books are supposed to be readable on any device. Google has previously said that publishers will get 63% of whatever th...
"This investment round is another strong validation for our unique innovation and the business momentum we have experienced since launching our CDN and site acceleration suite," said Ronni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of Cotendo, as he announced today it has closed a new round of equity ...
The Federal Trade Commission, supported by members of Congress, Microsoft and public interest groups, may object to Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the mobile advertising start-up.
Bloomberg said that the FTC’s staff is recommending that the agency file an antitr...
Asustek CEO Jerry Shen said at a conference in Taiwan that Asus will show off an Android-based Eee Pad tablet at Computex in June and start selling the thing in Q3, according to DigiTimes.
The Eee Pad will include Flash, USB and an integrated webcam, features Apple’s iPad lacks. Digi...
Google Buys Little BumpTop
Google has bought Toronto-based BumpTop, a critically acclaimed 3D touch-based desktop environment invented four years or so ago as CEO Anand Agarawala’s master’s thesis.
Wikipedia says it’s more suitable for tablet PCs and palmtops.
It’s been out ...
Google lost market share in China in the first quarter after it threatened to stop censoring its search results. According to Beijing-based Analysys International it went from 35.6% to 30.9% while rival Baidu went from 58.4% to 64%, picking up most of the difference. Whether this is th...
Google is making a provision for Chrome OS to print web, native desktop or mobile apps on any device to any printer – both cloud-aware and legacy – anywhere in the world.
Of course cloud-aware printers – which are not the same as web-connected printers – don’t exist yet but Google im...
Microsoft said late Tuesday night that it had signed a broad patent agreement with HTC covering HTC’s Android phones and that HTC will be paying Microsoft unspecified royalties.
HTC of course makes Google’s own special Nexus One phone as well as other Android-based phones. It also ma...
Here we are a stone’s throw away from Microsoft rolling out its browser-based Office apps and Microsoft – in another attempt to run Google and its ilk off the reservation – came out Wednesday with a free Facebook-integrated version of the stuff called pointedly Docs.com.
It was annou...
Don't rule out Linux for the Cloud. For example, it's been reported that Canonical COO Matt Asay recently said, "We're now tracking 12,000 active deployments of UEC and we're adding 200 every single day. These are active installations. These aren't people who downloaded it once and kic...
Social networks are poised to be the most-effective marketing tool of the next decade. Facebook is the biggest social network and word on the street is they will announce location-sharing functionality very soon. While this new feature will make Facebook more interesting and compelling...
Gosh, isn’t Google’s timing grand. In a few weeks Microsoft’s web-based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint will start wending their way to market. So Google, which is going to be technically outclassed, decides to drop a re-architected Google Apps public preview Monday that’s faste...
