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Day 3 Of the Oracle-Google Trial: A Blank Page Testimony
Quick Recap: The Oracle-Google intellectual property infringement trial started on Monday, jury members were selected, and CEOs from both sides, Larry Page of Google and Larry Ellison of Oracle, already took the stand but Google’s CEO’s time on the stand was cut short on the second day, so he took the stand again on Wednesday. ...
Nokia Reports Massive Loss, Intel to Release First Smartphone
Today’s mobile news roundup features Nokia’s interim report and executive shakeup, Samsung’s counterclaim against Apple, Intel’s first smartphone and more. Nokia’s massive loss Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia released their Q1 2012 Interim report which reported massive losses. The company reported an operating loss of €1.34 billion ($1.76 billion) for the three months that ended March from ...
Pebble’s Crowdfunding Just Won’t Stop. Take That VCs!
Who would’ve thought that a watch could get over $4 million in funding just to reach commercial availability? All without the aid of venture capital funding. Well, it’s not just any watch, it’s the Pebble – a digital watch that connects to your iOS or Android smartphone via Bluetooth to display text messages, caller ID, ...
Flashback Malware Mac Attacks Linked to Luckycat Hacker Campaign
Earlier this month, it was reported that a certain malware is infecting Mac OS X machines. The malware was identified as BackDoor.Flashback.39–a Trojan that targets an unpatched JavaScript codes (CVE-2011-3544, CVE-2008-5353 and CVE-2012-0507) vulnerabilities within Mac OS. More than 600,000 Macs were said to be infected by the persistent malware. Apple released two security updates ...
Spotify Goes Great with Coke, Launches Branded Apps
Spotify really wants to achieve everywhere access. Aside from recently launching the Play Button, a widget that people can embed on their sites to share their favorite tunes, the cloud music service unveiled branded apps today. Spotify teamed with AT&T, McDonalds, Intel, and Reebok for the latest series of branded apps, and the global partnership ...
Some Still Affected by Gmail Outage that Hit 30M Users
Google suffered an outage in some of their services yesterday that affected almost 10% of their user base, or about 30 million subscribers. Google acknowledge that their service was down and they’re investigating as to what caused the problem. “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly,” Google’s ...
Will Apple and Samsung Finally Settle?
Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple and Samsung’s orders to settle their legal dispute, RIM hoping to gain users in Asia, HTC clearing rumors and more. Apple-Samsung Truce? It looks like Apple and Samsung are both open into settling their patent dispute as they both agreed to appear in a settlement conference ordered by U.S. ...
The Larrys Appear in Court: Day 2 of Oracle-Google Trial
Quick recap: Oracle is suing Google for illegally using their Javascript patents, which the company acquired when they bought Sun Microsystems in 2009, in developing the Android platform. Now the two giants face each other in court. The eight-week trial began on Monday, where Oracle gave its opening statement and members of the jury were ...
Oracle Execs Thought Sun Acquisition Was A Mistake
Aside from battling it out in court with Google, Oracle is also dealing with another legal matter, this time against Hewlett-Packard. In a recent filing submitted in court before the official trial begins, HP stated that Oracle decided to stop supporting their Itanium servers when sales of the Sun’s Sparc servers’, which came with the ...
Trapit Gets Yahoo Veteran as Chief Content Officer
Trapit, the news aggregator from the creators of Siri that launched just last year, gains a Yahoo veteran as their chief content officer. Liz Lufkin served as Yahoo’s VP of frontpage programming for many years before she was ousted last September due to the company’s reorganization. Her role at Yahoo was critical, as her work ...