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Oracle on Thursday filed suit against Google for patent and copyright infringement in the latter's development of the Android operating system Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property," according to the suite, which "seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," Oracle spokesperson Karen...

After a few days of absorbing the criticism of its joint proposal with Verizon, Google -- a company that was once counted as a stalwart in the push for Net neutrality -- is defending itself In a nutshell, the plan calls for excluding the mobile Internet from most of the consumer protections that would apply to the wired Internet. It would allow the...

Google released an updated version of its Chrome Web browser into beta this week. Chrome 6 sports increased speeds and a user interface with multiple changes, said James Hawkins, Google software engineer, in a post to the Google Chrome Blog "Compared to our previous beta release, our newest beta hits a 15 percent speed improvement on the V8 benchma...

As expected, sales of mobile devices are up considerably from last year, showing an increase of nearly 14 percent worldwide over the second quarter of 2009. That's according to a report released by Gartner, and the results fall closely in line with other reports out from firms such as Forrester Research and iSuppli. However, the margins that manuf...

Since its inception, the cloud computing industry has been the beneficiary of various outputs of the open source movement. The symbiotic relationship between these two forces has helped to transform the technology industry and continues to reshape the marketplace In my view, the open source movement has influenced the cloud computing industry in th...

On July 5, Pitney Bowes announced it had received acceptances for over 90 percent of the existing issued ordinary shares of Portrait Software, a leading provider of solutions that focus on enhancing customer relationship management systems and enabling clients to achieve improved customer retention and profitability. The acquisition, valued at 44 ...

Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware and Citrix (Xen) initially leading the way. They are now being joined by significant strategic investments by Red Hat. Unfortunately, the storage side of the equation has lagged behind. Several trends, such as the explosion of unstructured data and...

Earlier this month, Intel entered a settlement with the United States Federal Trade Commission to resolve charges that the company unfairly used its market clout to hurt competitors You could sum up the agreement by saying Intel agreed not to use its weight to squash the competition. The chip giant has a long history of bullying its rivals and forc...

Sellout. Unprincipled. Evil These aren't the sort of adjectives Google executives are used to hearing applied to their little startup, now a US$150 billion company that has grown from a simple search engine into a dominating corporate powerhouse that even has its own foreign policy challenges....

India has joined the list of countries putting the squeeze on Research In Motion, citing security concerns as reason to give them access to the encryption technologies protecting corporate email and messaging services on the BlackBerry platform The Indian government has reportedly given RIM until Aug. 31 to provide its security agencies access to B...

Google's expansion into advertising outside the virtual world received a boost Wednesday when it landed a new client: DirecTV. The deal with the satellite TV provider will add another 18.7 million households to Google TV Ads' reach, bringing the total number of households reached by the service to 30 million Under the deal, Google will manage Direc...

After giving a speech, I was asked a question that got me thinking. Many of you may be wondering about this too. AT&T and Comcast have two of the strongest brand names in the business -- so why in the world are they both suddenly changing them? What are we, as customers and investors, not aware of? AT&T's new brand is "Rethink Possible" and Comcast...

After giving a speech, I was asked a question that got me thinking. Many of you may be wondering about this too. AT&T and Comcast have two of the strongest brand names in the business -- so why in the world are they both suddenly changing them? What are we, as customers and investors, not aware of? AT&T's new brand is "Rethink Possible" and Comcast...

After giving a speech, I was asked a question that got me thinking. Many of you may be wondering about this too. AT&T and Comcast have two of the strongest brand names in the business -- so why in the world are they both suddenly changing them? What are we, as customers and investors, not aware of? AT&T's new brand is "Rethink Possible" and Comcast...

Customer service is being touted as a lot of things these days -- "the new marketing," "the new CRM," even "the new sales." That's all well and good, but many customers just wish customer service could be "the new, actually functional customer service." The situation isn't abysmal everywhere; there are notable examples where customer service is exe...

Samsung on Wednesday announced a portable Blu-ray disc player with 3D capabilities for the United States market ...

The Internet traffic management plan from Google and Verizon may be just a new proposal at this point, but in the short time since its introduction, it's proven to be nothing if not controversial Though the plan does include consumer protections against discrimination by Internet service providers, those protections are afforded only on Internet se...

Android smartphone users in Russia have been hit by a Trojan that, once installed, starts spouting off SMS text messages to premium numbers, Kaspersky Labs revealed on Tuesday The attack is sent through a fake codec -- a media player application -- that users are asked to download and install....

Dell's latest product, the Streak, will make its U.S. debut on Friday, with consumers able to place pre-orders for the device starting Thursday. When Dell unveiled the Streak in May, it immediately grabbed the attention of tech-watchers. It sports a 5-inch color, multitouch screen, runs on the popular Android platform and is powered by a 1 GHz Qua...

The online sales channel continues to grow each day, touching every corner of the globe and nearly every type of merchant or marketplace. An obvious, fundamental component to the success of this channel is the payment system. With all the options available, choosing the right one may seem like a daunting task As with many other endeavors, one of t...