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Kodak Closer To $1 Billion Bundle, Still Leaning on Patent Infringement Payouts
After having collected royalties in 2009 worth $550 million and $144 million from LG and Samsung in the latest dispute with electronic giants, Kodak is now receiving from Apple and RIM as well. A legal battle that started off at the beginning of last year by Kodak in court and that was declared a draw ...
Oracle Puts Grit In HP’s Itanium Machines
After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion last year, the competition between Oracle and HP has grown higher, culminating with Oracle naming former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president of the company during the infamous legal battle between Oracle and SAP. Recently Oracle announced it would stop software development for Itanium microprocessors, which ...
Spotify Takes Up Live Broadcasting, Prepares US Launch
Having recently signed deal with EMI, after having dealt with the 4 major record labels that were reluctant to signing sign deals for the US market, Spotify managed to overcome all barriers and is now investing a great deal of effort in offering improved services to enhance customer satisfaction; on the 5th of April Spotify ...
Gold Digging is More than a Hobby: Kodak Sues Apple, RIM
The ‘gun’ has not cooled yet for Apple, as the company is being sued in its turn now, after having recently sued Amazon for using Apple’s ‘app store’ mark. The brother in arms is RIM, both being accused by Kodak for $1 billion in royalty payments over patents. Just as we mentioned a few days ...
E-Publishing is the New Marketing Ploy. Just Ask Google.
Google plies at marketing itself at the moment, launching and sending to about 1,500 UK partners and advertisers its nicely laid-out 64-page online magazine that can be read either on e-readers with Flash support or enjoyed as separate web-optimized articles. Matt Brittin, Google’s UK chief executive: “In a world of accelerating change, we all need ...
Cisco Extends Its TelePresence but Keeps Its Money Offshore
The recent call pressed on the US Congress by Cisco Systems Inc., Google, Apple and other multinational corporations for a temporary tax break on offshore profits has not been approved. As mentioned yesterday in our earlier coverage, the issue needs further analysis from officials, as this would imply modifying the US tax code. It is indeed ...
EMC Bashfully Admits Being Hacked
Art Coviellos, Executive Chairman of EMC, admitted that EMC’s security division, RSA, is currently the target of an advanced cyber attack. RSA emphasized the fact that the hackers have not managed to steal important corporate or government data, but valuable info on their security tool, namely SecurID, that could be used for a mightier cyber ...
The EU Calls For Cloud Support Standardization
In such hectic times, when each new consumer product or service is rapidly outrivaled by another, and innovation and instancy are the prerequisites to survive the market wars, it is unthinkable that new services such as cloud computing lack the proper tools for moving data from one cloud to another. “Users must be able to ...
IT Giants Ask the Treasury for Financial Redemption
In a week’s time, SalesCrunch, a web-based sales platform, will introduce a payment system after having allowed customers to use its beta services for free for the past few months. The major advantage of SalesCrunch is that it’s easy to use in the sense that it does not require download and installation, representing real competition ...
The Future is Green for IBM
IBM has had a number of green initiatives launch lately, spanning a range of products and services that fit into various aspects of the global eco-friendly movement. The latest development is the Tririga acquisition, a developer of software for real estate management, under undisclosed terms. With this buy, IBM will add software to its Smarter Buildings-branded ...