Google lashes out at patent trolls with Motorola buy
Google is apparently sick of being pushed around by patent attorneys from Microsoft and Apple.
Google is apparently sick of being pushed around by patent attorneys from Microsoft and Apple.
While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080411-blackhat-overview.html?hpg1=bn">researchers at Black Hat</a> say.While not recommended for corporate use unless it’s in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems.
A10 Networks said it is countersuing Brocade for patent infringement and seeking to bar sales of its competitor's products in response to a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072811-brocade-a10.html">motion filed this week by Brocade</a> to bar sales of A10 products.
The U.S. debt reduction deadlock in Congress is already taking a toll on how much companies are spending on property, buildings and equipment, including computer hardware and software, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research.
The stock price for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dropped $1.24 in heavy trading Monday, to $26.67, and even more after hours, to its lowest point in five years. That makes the stock a bargain for a buyer, but there's one problem with the renewed talk of a RIM takeover:
As hard as it may be to believe, it was just over two years ago that Research in Motion was still considered one of the premiere innovators of the smartphone industry.
Despite cutting 6,500 jobs and reducing operating expenses by about $1 billion, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> has affirmed that it has no intention of pulling back from its commitment to its new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> architecture known as SecureX.
Google's free-to-use operating system is increasingly imposing costs on handset developers.
Few IT companies have fundamentally changed the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> like VMware. Yet 13 years into VMware's existence nearly all of its co-founders, including the wife-and-husband team of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/091008-vnware.html">CEO Diane Greene and Chief Scientist Mendel Rosenblum</a>, have moved on.
Nortel’s patents were slightly more valuable than its products, as the transactions for Nortel’s product groups combined did not quite measure up to the single deal for its intellectual property.
Research in Motion hasn't exactly had the best year so far.
Avaya could file for an initial public offering of $1 billion, which could result in the company being valued at $5 billion, according to a published report.
Apple reportedly has begun more strictly enforcing its rules against third-parties giving away iPads and iPhones to drum up business, <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/01/apple-tries-to-put-the-kibosh-on-ipad-and-iphone-giveaways/">according to a Fortune story</a>.
Lockheed Martin’s has “major internal computer network problems,” that one security blogger is linking to compromised RSA tokens, according to published reports.
IT execs in the financial services industry say they plan to increase tech spending and use more <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise1/020711-ecs-main.html">managed services</a> as they struggle to process data faster, less expensively and more reliably.