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 Hmm, apparently Samsung has pushed one too many of Apple’s buttons.
According to DigiTimes Apple has bought up half of Elpida Memory’s total chip production of mobile DRAM rather than give the iPad and iPhone order to Samsung, its largest supplier, accused of ripping off its technolo...May. 16, 2012 03:48 PM EDT Reads: 441 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
ScaleMP is the leade...May. 16, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 629 |
 There was a time, not so very long ago, when IT directors and chief information officers dismissed the Internet as something of a passing fad. Somehow though, things took off pretty well with the whole web thing didn't they? Mobile telephony has also grown to a level of dominance that ...May. 16, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 444 |
 You knew this was gonna happen, right?
Facebook has repriced its IPO upwards from $28-$35 a share to $34-$38 a share giving it a valuation of $92 billion-$104 billion, a neighborhood more to its liking than the original $77 billion-$96 billion. The actual price won’t be set until Thur...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 607 |
 Here we are less than three days before Facebook’s historic $100 billion IPO and General Motors or “people familiar with the matter” let slip to the Wall Street Journal that GM’s going to stop advertising on the social networking site because the paid ads are ineffective.
The big Ame...May. 16, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 776 |
 Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, on Tuesday announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog's PHP Fog PHP platform.
Xeround's add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platform...May. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 494 |
 A California Superior Court last Friday threw out Proview Electronics’ three-month-old infringement suit against Apple over the iPad trademark. The dismissal only came to light the other day.
Proview claimed Apple duped it when Apple bought the iPad trademarks from it in 2009 for $55,...May. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 631 |
 As you may have noticed, a number of media sources are writing about the overall progression of iOS device sales and of the iPad in particular. The latter’s sales have developed to the point where their presence in businesses is becoming indispensable (see Looking into Enterprise iOS b...May. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 691 |
 Has Apple, by filing so many patent / IPR violation suits against Samsung in so many countries, marked Samsung as its equal?
For those of you who read Harry Potter, here is the parallel. Remember the prophecy? …
“…The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to th...May. 8, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,487 |
 Apple has made an offer to resolve the imbroglio over the Chinese iPad trademark according to Roger Xie, a lawyer representing the Proview Technology (Shenzhen), the bankrupt company that claims the mark wasn’t included in the rights Apple acquired from a sister company in 2009.
What...May. 8, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 732 |
 The Guangdong High Court in southern China that heard Apple’s appeal of a lower court decision awarding ownership of the iPad trademark in China to Proview Technology (Shenzhen), the financially desperate Chinese display maker that ostensibly sold Apple the trademark, is now reportedly...Apr. 29, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,124 |
 “JReport 11 continues our mission to deliver data visualization, discovery, and self-service tools to our users on all modern platforms,” noted Dr. Bing Yao, President of Jinfonet Software, on the release of JReport 11.
The new release, which provides advanced data visualization with...Apr. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,625 |
 After the bears lopped $70 billion off of Apple’s value in the last few days, the company went bear hunting Tuesday crushing estimates.
Net profits in the March quarter were up 94% year-over-year to $11.6 billion returning $12.30 a share compared to estimates of $10.04 on revenues of...Apr. 26, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 849 |
 Taking a stance of 'Build it and they will come' has never worked in IT and especially now with the Consumerisation of Mobility and the Prosumers (Professional + Consumer) in your Enterprise, whom are expecting or even demanding the same experience as Mobile Apps on the App Stores/Mark...Apr. 26, 2012 07:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
 Right after agreeing at the court’s, um, insistence to sit down and parlay with Apple about settling, Samsung up and filed a countersuit claiming Apple’s iPhone infringes eight Samsung patents including a couple that are supposed to be standards-essential and FRAND-protected.
(The Eu...Apr. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,085 |
 Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud serv...Apr. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
 Apple and Samsung, the two leaders in mobile devices now suing each other in nine countries over Android, have agreed to sit down and try to settle a couple of US patent suits ahead of a trial due to start in late July.
It’s not their idea. It’s the idea of federal court judge Lucy K...Apr. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 925 |
 A little background so you know what type of experience I have. I have been a Microsoft .NET architect and developer since the first beta release. Before that C, C++, ColdFusion, ASP, JavaScript and of course HTML. Being a .NET developer has many advantages, but the one major disadvant...Apr. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 817 |
 The Justice Department sued Apple and five prominent book publishers Wednesday morning for colluding to fix the price of iPad-borne e-books. The suit was filed in federal court in Manhattan. Sixteen states have filed separate civil suits so far looking for money.
Those charged include...Apr. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
 The Justice Department is fixing to sue Apple, Macmillan and maybe
Penguin for antitrust maybe as soon as Wednesday by all reports.
The iPad-centered charges are supposed to be collusion and fixing the price
of that newfangled invention, e-books.
The DOJ essentially destroyed M...Apr. 12, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 681 |
 Here is #5. Five points the Mobile Information Worker expects from their Mobile Enterprise Data. 1. Always available and on-demand access to information (off-line and on-line). 2. New ways to interact and display data. 3. Reduce data re-entry error, by synchronising data. 4. Capture ne...Apr. 10, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Here is #4. Five points for Mobile Apps in Shaping the new Business Enterprise. 1. Cost reduction compared to existing systems. 2. Streamlining business processes. 3. Competitive advantage with up to date data at hand. 4. Increase Employee satisfaction and effectiveness. 5. Rapid respo...Apr. 8, 2012 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 911 |
 Here is #3. Five points that makes an Engaging Enterprise Mobile App. 1. Extend existing systems by innovating in new ways. Just transferring a PC based or paper based solution is NOT enough. 2. Display/Consume data in new ways. 3. Keep UX design familiar to the deployment platform rat...Apr. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 833 |
 Here is #2. Five points on how Enterprise Mobile Developers can improve the Relationships with their End Users. 1. Live several days in the life of your user observing work locations and patterns. 2. Have end users in on the design panel as well as the usability and testing. 3. Get buy...Apr. 7, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 861 |
 Today I thought I would put together five steps and five points within to producing 5-Star Mobile Apps. Here is #1 Five points when Building the Business Case for Mobile Enterprise Apps. 1. Create a Visionary Plan for more mobile Apps and know how they will aid and shape your enterpris...Apr. 6, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 980 |
 Apple is having a heady time on Wall Street.
Its stock pushed past $630 for a while Tuesday morning after its ax Gene Muster, the respected Piper Jaffray analyst recognized as having the most clout in the stock, pushed his 12-month price target from $718 to $910 a share.
His call, ...Apr. 5, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 952 |
 The European Commission Tuesday formally launched two parallel investigations into the prices Motorola Mobility is demanding for licenses to its standards-essential 2G and 3G wireless patents and Wi-Fi and online compression video patents.
The formal investigations [formal as in “we’...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
 Hybrid tools try to resolve the debate of …
“Should you write a mobile web application which will render on multiple platforms without significant change but won’t be able to take advantage on native features?”
Or
“Should you create platform specific native application to fully util...Apr. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,851 |
 Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a legal complaint against Apple Wednesday charging it with misleading consumers in promoting its new iPad.
It said Apple suggests the iPad with Wifi+4G can connect to an Australian 4G mobile network with a SIM card when it ...Apr. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,324 |
 Smartphones are trending up, they now account for almost 50 percent of mobile phones in the United States. And, not surprisingly, feature phones are trending down – four out of five new mobile phone purchases are for smartphones. The clear winner is Google, about 48 percent of smartp...Apr. 2, 2012 03:01 AM EDT Reads: 742 |
 The Fair Labor Association (FLA), which Apple hired to look into working conditions at Foxconn plants in China a few months ago, said late Thursday that it had interviewed 35,000 workers and found no instances of child labor or forced labor.
What it did find was people working an uns...Apr. 1, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,297 |
 Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn and its Taiwanese avatar the Hon Hai Group are buying 9.9% of struggling Osaka-based electronics conglomerate Sharp.
They’ll get $1.6 billion worth of new Sharp shares. It’s the biggest investment a Taiwan company has ever made in a Japanese comp...Mar. 30, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,497 |
 Apple CEO Tim Cook is in China, the company’s second-largest market, meeting with unnamed government officials as well as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who may be running the country next year.
The Chinese said they chatted about IP issues and greater cooperation. Seems China wants to enh...Mar. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 981 |
 It's always been an important part of planning an Enterprise Mobile Development… How to get started?... How to take that first step? As a Mobile Evangelist, my experience covers many areas such as presentations, communications and especially technical developer skills, with knowledge o...Mar. 28, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,269 |
 Now that Mobility is part of our lives, we are all hooked on our Smartphone or Tablet device and take them everywhere we go, but we need to be aware of something that we almost take for granted… Data Connection & Usage! Especially if we are going abroad and hit the tricky subject of Da...Mar. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 912 |
 Apple has failed to shake coveted information about Google’s development of Android and its $12.5 billion planned acquisition of soon-to-be Google satellite Motorola Mobility out of MMI.
Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, who will hear Apple’s patent complaints against Motorola this...Mar. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,374 |
 This week I attended a Mobile Monday event sponsored by Barnes & Nobile (B & N) which discussed Tablet Computing and promoted their Nook Developer program. The Chair for the meeting was Marek Pawlowski, Founder and Organiser MEX @marekpawlowski and the Panel consisted of Claudio Romani...Mar. 21, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,033 |
 After Apple said early Monday that it would start paying a $10.60-a-year dividend and buy back stock to spend down its massive cash horde – something some people say Steve Jobs would never have done – and after its stock closed at over $600 for the first time ever – you watching this u...Mar. 21, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 |
 Breaking with tradition – and changing the definition of a growth company in the process – Apple Monday morning said it would start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share in the September quarter.
At $10.60 a year that would currently be about a 1.8% yield, putting it among the...Mar. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,160 |
 For some reason that isn’t clear, Apple and Motorola Mobility took a shot at negotiating a cross-license that might have covered all the Android OEMs late last year.
So says the European Commission’s decision to clear the Google-MMI merger that Bloomberg pointed to Monday.
The 38-p...Mar. 19, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
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