There is no stopping Paul Allen in reinforcing and re-filing his patent suits against the biggest in the industry; after all, he is the co-founder of Microsoft’s formidable organization that introduced Bill Gates to the world. He claims exclusive rights on various technologies being utilized by many software and electronics companies including his version of ...

It must be Mark Zuckerberg’s year as his masterpiece, Facebook claims the number 3 largest website title, overthrowing Yahoo! with a large margin. ComScore, the company which perpetrated the research came up with new metrics and presented the data that depicts Facebook’s 648 million unique visitors for November 2010 versus Yahoo’s 630 million. The same ...

In what could be one of the biggest legal battles in the software industry, SAP has seen a minute victory as the company was able to convince the court to lower the APR damages awarded to Oracle. Initially, Oracle was asking for $200 million pre-judgment interests, on top of the $1.3 billion that SAP owes ...

The National Association of Realtors (or NAR) has shown huge confidence in Ifbyphone by means of additional funding and augmented investment. The venture was made possible by NAR’s Second Century Ventures. Following the close of the deal is a collaboration that will proceed early part of 2011. This partnership hopes to develop solutions for voice ...

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Clearspring, Hooman Radfar has just made some fearless predictions that will govern the ads industry in 2011. In the iMedia Connection blog, Radmar noted some of the movers of 2010 that will continue to flourish and new trends that will dictate the pace of the current revolution of the ...

It seems that Apple will end the year facing the federal courts, after an iPhone user filed a lawsuit against them in San Jose, California. The complainant, Jonathan Lalo, is accusing Apple of selling users personal information and leaking data to advertisers via the Unique Device Identifier (UDID). The lawsuit enumerated the violations and specifics ...

A few more days and the world bids farewell to 2010. And this is the perfect time to drop some mobile predictions, expectations and forecasts. The most anticipated of all is the Android explosion. While Chinese calendar indicates that 2011 is the “year of the rabbit”, for the tech sphere, it is going to be ...

Facebook has now snatched the second position as the site that drives video traffic for the third quarter of 2010. This Online Video and the Media Industry Quarterly Research Report was released after the conclusion of a joint study conducted by the online video technology firm Brightcove and the analytics company TubeMogul. Both organizations harnessed ...

Social bookmarking is taking a new form with the emergence of Evernote. However, other members of the industry are tasting defeat—take Delicious as an example. Delicious is one of the casualties of the subsequent Yahoo! holiday season layoffs. The search giant who has been a struggling runner-up to Google for the past few years is ...

An  innovator in database security,  Sentrigo has announced augmentation of finances to the tune of $6 million. This is via financial assistance from a Series C funding round, led by Benchmark Capital and Stata Venture Partners. Aside from these two existing companies, this news became more exciting with Juniper Networks entering the picture. The funds ...