Tech Newsic :: hear the techiness: September 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Alcatel claims new optical network speed

Alcatel-Lucent researchers said they have figured out how to multiply the speed of the fastest undersea cables by a factor of 10, an achievement that someday could send the contents of 400 DVDs hurtling from Paris to Chicago in one second.

Microsoft under pressure to squash the latest worm

Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak.

Dell business laptop gets wireless battery charging

Dell introduced the Latitude Z business laptop, which includes a new wireless charging technology that could eventually find its way into other Dell systems, the company said on Tuesday.

The Latitude Z can be placed on a special stand that generates an electromagnetic field to recharge laptop batteries wirelessly. The technology, which Dell calls inductive charging, takes the same amount of time to recharge laptop batteries as an AC adapter, said Steve Belt, vice president of business client engineering at Dell.

Microsoft free security software ships Tuesday

Microsoft confirmed that it will launch its free security software suite, which has been in development for almost a year, Tuesday morning.

"Microsoft Security Essentials, their highly anticipated no-cost consumer security offering, will be released to the public tomorrow, September 29," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail reply to questions.

Windows 7 may mean fewer bargain netbooks

Microsoft must perform a tricky balancing act as it tries to keep Windows on netbooks but not get stuck in a market that generates little revenue, say industry analysts.

The software giant has still not disclosed how much it plans to charge PC makers for Windows 7 on netbooks. But an increase over the current $15 price for Windows XP is inevitable, says Richard Shim, PC analyst at research firm IDC.

Microsoft outlines top server challenges for 2010

Microsoft's server and tools business in the coming year will focus on gaining ground in the high-end database and server market, helping users transition to the cloud, and extending its dominance over Linux, according to the division president.

Yahoo opens new home page to external developers

Yahoo is opening its newly redesigned home page to external developers so that they can build applications for it, the company said Tuesday.

The integration of the Yahoo Application Platform (YAP) with the new home page is part of the company's ambitious Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS).

DynaTrace adds virtualization and SOA capabilities to its app performance managerD

DynaTrace Software is offering an upgrade to its "continuous" application performance management system, featuring accommodations for virtualization and SOA, the company said.

AT&T accuses Google of violating telecom law

AT&T has accused Google of violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules by blocking Google Voice calls to some rural areas.

Citrix planning major desktop virtualization push

Citrix is preparing a major desktop virtualization push that it believes will help speed adoption of virtual desktops in the enterprise, and perhaps help the vendor take market share away from rival VMware.

Adobe, McAfee to combine DRM and data-loss prevention

Adobe Systems and McAfee will jointly develop a product that combines digital rights management capabilities with technology designed to prevent data from leaking outside corporate networks, the companies said Monday.

Lenovo lays claim to 'unbelievably' fast Windows 7 boots

Lenovo Group is staking an early claim to potentially key turf in the Windows 7 gold-rush : the PC vendor boasting the fastest boot-up and shutdown times.

ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktop PCs for businesses will boot Windows 7 up to 56 percent faster than when loading XP or Vista, says Lenovo.

Update: Xerox buys business process outsourcer ACS for $6.4B

Xerox has agreed to buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand beyond the field of document management.

The deal will triple Xerox's revenue from services, from $3.5 billion a year to $10 billion a year, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns said in a conference call with analysts on Monday.

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Microsoft's browser proposal to EU faces new resistance

Microsoft faces more criticism over the browser "ballet screen" proposal it made to European antitrust regulators, possibly delaying a deal, the Wall Street Journal said Sunday.

According to a story published on the newspaper's Web site , the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a trade group whose members include Norwegian browser maker Opera Software, argued that the ballot screen concept would confuse users.

Java developers get .Net data link

Java developers can more easily link Microsoft .Net-based data through an interoperability bridge offered by France-based Noelios, Microsoft and Noelios said on Monday.

The bridge is known as the Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services and is featured as part of Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework. The bridge leverages Microsoft's ADO.Net Data Services, for building and consuming data services from the Web.

Ballmer says Microsoft 'screwed up' with Windows Mobile

It's becoming obvious that Microsoft Corp. officials, including CEO Steve Ballmer, wish Windows Mobile were a better mobile operating system.

SAP offers 'free' CRM for ERP buyers

SAP said this week that midsize companies that purchase the Business All-in-One suite or SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) will also receive its CRM (customer relationship management) application.

The offer comes with a catch, however. Customers will get the CRM licenses at no charge, but must pay annual maintenance costs on them, a spokesman said.

Intel releases Moblin 2.1 OS

Intel has made available for download its latest Linux-based operating system, Moblin 2.1, just a few days after announcing the new software.

Moblin 2.1 is meant to be a preview version for developers and carries numerous user-interface and software improvements, according to the Linux Foundation, which manages development of the OS. The OS is available for download on Moblin's Web site.

HP upgrades Unix platform with data protection

HP this week unveiled updates to its HP-UX Unix OS and Serviceguard high-availability software, offering capabilities in data protection, data privacy, and business continuity.

Update 5 of HP-UX 11i v3 and Serviceguard restore application services in the event of hardware or software failure, HP said. The software packages run on HP Integrity and HP 900 servers.

Palm snags prominent Web technologists

Two dignitaries in the JavaScript development space who have led the Mozilla Developer Tools Lab have joined Palm as directors of the Palm Developer Relations team, according to blog posts.

Flash reality sinks in at Diskcon

Solid-state storage earned a hot technology's badge of honor -- a backlash -- on Wednesday at the Diskcon conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation leader soaks in stinging critique

After a stinging critique from a noted expert in establishing consortia, the leader of Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation says such frank evaluation is welcome because the open source group's structure is a work in progress.

Microsoft gives green light to early Windows 7 PC sales

Microsoft has given small system builders the green light to start selling new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the general launch date of Oct. 22, a Seattle-area computer maker said today.

According to Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, several Microsoft representatives have told him that his company, which sells custom PCs nationally out of its Auburn, Wash., facility, can install Windows 7 on new machines, then sell and ship them to customers on Oct. 13.

Microsoft gives green light to early Windows 7 PC sales

Microsoft has given small system builders the green light to start selling new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the general launch date of Oct. 22, a Seattle-area computer maker said today.

Gartner: Turn server heat up to 75

Datacenter managers should turn server temperatures up to 75 degrees Fahrenheit and adopt more aggressive policies for IT energy measurement, Gartner says in a new report.

Five tools to prevent energy waste in the data center

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

This week's quiz is brought to you by yet another Tablet PC rumor, this time courtesy of Microsoft and a gazillion blogs. But that wasn't the only game in town. Dell bet big on global IT services, iPhone upgraders got dealt a bad hand, Netflix tossed a few chips to math geeks for improving its recommendations engine, and the FCC went all in on Net neutrality. Can you bluff your way to a perfect score? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now shut up and deal.

Autodesk opens design software to Mac via Parallels

For Autodesk, the lines between the Mac and Windows operating systems are beginning to blur.

Report: Apple to unveil new iMacs by mid-October

Apple will refresh its iMac desktop computer within a matter of weeks and will unveil the first revamp of the all-in-one's exterior since mid-2007, a prominent Apple enthusiast site reported Thursday.

According to AppleInsider , Apple will introduce new iMacs sporting a new enclosure "anytime between next week and mid-October."

Report: Apple to unveil new iMacs by mid-October

According to AppleInsider , Apple will introduce new iMacs sporting a new enclosure "anytime between next week and mid-October."

Report: Twitter valued at $1 billion in new deal

Twitter is nearing a deal for as much as $100 million from a group of investors who say they believe the Internet short messaging giant is worth about $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.

A group of investors including mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and several private equity firms and venture capital companies are expected to sign the deal with Twitter soon. The money will give Twitter more time to figure out a business model. Twitter currently brings in no steady revenue and has only recently talked about working out advertising deals next year.

Intel to ship Pineview netbook chips in Q4

Intel will ship a new line of Atom processors for netbooks and nettops during the fourth quarter of this year, a company official said late on Wednesday.

Processors codenamed Pineview will succeed the Atom chips that currently go into most netbooks, said Jeff DeMuth, who works with Intel's platform marketing, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The processor will ship to PC makers in the fourth quarter, DeMuth said.

Verizon scraps Palm Pre plans

Verizon has reportedly ditched plans to offer the Palm Pre early next year. Poor sales at Sprint -- the Pre's exclusive U.S. carrier -- as well as interest in handsets from Research in Motion and Motorola contributed to the decision, according to The Street, which cites "people close to the discussions."

Microsoft shuts down Dynamics mobile

Microsoft on Thursday said it has discontinued the mobile versions of its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) products.

The first mobile Dynamics product, Dynamics AX Mobile Sales, was introduced in 2007 and let sales people remotely place and track orders, query sales histories and manage advertising campaigns from Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft also offered development tools for businesses to build their own mobile offerings based on Dynamics.

Intel shows laptop with four screens

Intel is showing off a prototype laptop this week that has four screens, increasing the display area so that multiple applications can be viewed simultaneously.

The laptop has a primary LCD screen in the usual position and three small OLED (organic light-emitting diode) touchscreens just above the keyboard. Code-named Tangent Bay, the system is being shown at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Startups bloom despite the economy

At Demo Fall 09 in San Diego, more than 60 startups and a few veteran outfits strutted their stuff before a skeptical audience of venture capitalists, tech aficionados, and journalists. A lot of sexy and innovative technology was on display this week, most of it targeting consumers. Even if your mission in life is solving down-and-dirty IT problems, several ideas deserve attention.

IE8 runs 10 times faster with Google plug-in

Microsoft's Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly 10 times faster than usual when Google's new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show.

Microsoft aims to spark new business for Web developers

Microsoft has launched a program that gives Web development professionals the chance to get free software and technical support to help them get new businesses off the ground.

Web development companies with less than 10 employees can apply for the new WebsiteSpark program, which was unveiled at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam Thursday.

One year on, Android's not quite there yet

After it has spent nearly a year on the market, analysts are reluctant to declare Android a success, but they say the platform could turn a corner in the next few months when many more phones are expected to go on sale.

Google and T-Mobile unveiled the first Android phone, the G1, at an event in New York City on Sept. 23 last year. The device hit stores a month later.

Led by JackBe, software makers form mashup alliance

Here comes another industry alliance -- this time for enterprise mashup technologies.

A group of software companies and others Thursday plan to announce the Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) to focus on use of enterprise mashup technologies and promote Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML) for development, interoperability, and compatibility in enterprise mashup technologies.

Intel ports Linux netbook OS to desktops

Intel has expanded the scope of Linux-based Moblin by porting the OS from netbooks to mobile devices and desktops, where it could compete with Microsoft's Windows OS.

Pictures of Microsoft's secret 'Pink' phones leaked

A day after Microsoft's Courier concept (a double-screen tablet) leaked and surprised many with its coolness, Redmond rumors hit the snooze bar again with leaked images of two new Microsoft-branded phones.

NetSuite adds ERP support for iPhone

NetSuite on Wednesday plans to unveil a new native application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users of its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite tap a number of key capabilities while on the go.

Microsoft fires up Dublin datacenter for cloud services

Microsoft has opened up for business its new Dublin datacenter, a massive 550,000-square-foot facility dedicated to serving primarily European customers.

Construction isn't quite done yet, with about 303,000 square feet finished, but Microsoft is accepting clients. The company will run "cloud" services from the center for consumers, businesses and developers, said Steve Clayton, who works in cloud-computing strategy for Microsoft International.

Google's Gmail suffers another disruption

Just two days after Google News crashed, Google's e-mail service, Gmail, suffered a disruption.

Starting sometime before 11 a.m. EDT today, Gmail stumbled and became unavailable to some users. As of 11:45 a.m., the problem persisted.

Cloud computing: Is it time to invest in cloud storage?

What it is: Storing data in the cloud, also known as data as a service or DaaS, is gaining attention within IT departments. A recent CIO.com survey found 46 percent of IT decision makers are giving cloud storage a look. It's particularly appealing for data backups, according to Charles King, an analyst with Pund-IT. DaaS is cheaper than building a second datacenter.

AT&T slates iPhone MMS launch for Friday

AT&T will officially launch the long-awaited MMS service for the iPhone on Friday, but some users have reported it's already working, according to messages on the company's Facebook site.

Sprint willing to fill Clearwire's coffers

Sprint Nextel is willing to invest more money in Clearwire, the WiMax operator it helped create last year, and plans to maintain its 51 percent ownership in the company, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Thursday.

Cerf: Turning off pieces of the Internet 'not sensible' as security strategy

Vinton Cerf probably needs no real introduction, having been a codesigner of the basic architecture of the Internet and of the TCP/IP protocol that makes the Internet possible. He is even known as a "father of the Internet." Cerf appeared at an IEEE event in Silicon Valley last night to celebrate the 40th anniversary of DARPAnet, a forerunner to the Internet, and the 125th anniversary of IEEE itself. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Cerf about a variety of Internet topics, including government legislation that could give the president greater authority over the Internet.

HP offers SSDs in ProLiant server line

Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it will offer 60GB and 120GB SSD (solid-state disk) drives as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as in select ProLiant G5 servers.

The SATA (serial-ATA) SSDs, from Samsung Electronics Co., are aimed at supporting virtualized environments and I/O intensive applications where the latest HP ProLiant G6 servers are often deployed, the company said. Virtualized environments require significant memory, data storage, and network connections to optimize server performance.

Palm dumps Windows Mobile

Palm said it will stop developing new phones running Windows Mobile software, instead focusing future development on its new WebOS operating system.

The news came as the struggling handset maker reported widening losses for the quarter during which it started selling the new Palm Pre, the first device to run WebOS.

Palm dumps Windows Mobile

Palm said it will stop developing new phones running Windows Mobile software, instead focusing future development on its new WebOS operating system.

The news came as the struggling handset maker reported widening losses for the quarter during which it started selling the new Palm Pre, the first device to run WebOS.

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Lots of small stories dominated the headlines this week. Google debuted a new way to peruse the news, but the New York Times got pwned by scammers. Microsoft unveiled its latest media player, while a Microsoft blogger offered clues as to what users upgrading to Windows 7 may be up against. HP announced a dreamy new tablet, and Apple, well, it didn't do anything truly newsworthy -- which is almost news in itself. Can you find the nuggets in this week's headlines? Award yourself 10 points every time you get it right. Now strap on your miner's helmet and start digging.

PC demand takes off ahead of Windows 7

People are snapping up new desktop and laptop PCs long before the launch of Windows 7, a sign of strong demand in the market, analysts say.

Demand for PCs improved in July and August, which is "something special, because the expectation was that many people would delay purchases until after Windows 7 came out in October," said Manish Nigam, head of technology research in Asia for Credit Suisse, at a technology conference in Taipei.

AT&T to offer remote PC repairs without system booting

AT&T is upgrading its remote PC repair service that will allow technicians to resolve issues without a customer fully booting a computer, the company said on Thursday.

Technicians from AT&T's Tech Support 360 service were previously able to remotely fix customers' PC problems only when the operating system was loaded and a browser session was running, said Ebrahim Keshavarz, vice president of business development at AT&T, during a conference call.

Microsoft Internet Explorer SSL security hole lingers

Microsoft still does not acknowledge a weakness in its Internet Explorer browser that was pointed out seven weeks ago and enables attackers to hijack what are supposed to be secure Web sessions.

Analyst sticks to BlackBerry Tour return rate report

The analyst who reported that a high percentage of BlackBerry Tour buyers are returning them because of trackball issues is standing by his research despite strong denials by operators.

Microsoft launches CDN for AJAX

Microsoft's ASP.Net team is offering a free AJAX CDN (content delivery network) service to cache AJAX libraries and boost Web site performance, a company official said this week.

With the Microsoft AJAX CDN, performance can be significantly improved for ASP.Net Web Forms and ASP.Net MVC applications using ASP.Net AJAX or jQuery libraries, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog entry.

Intel to show off laptops, netbooks

Intel will show off key products next week that the chipmaker hopes will expand its presence in the mobile space while driving it into new markets.

The company will shed more light on its next generation of smaller and faster mobile chips at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Tuesday through Thursday. The new chips will be in laptops, netbooks and even smartphones and ultramobile devices starting next year.

Oracle profits rise but sales fall in Q1

Oracle's first-quarter net income rose by 4 percent year-over-year to $1.1 billion, but revenue fell by 5 percent to $5.1 billion, the company said Wednesday. Earnings per share were $0.22.

Excluding one-time charges, Oracle reported earnings per share of $0.30, partly meeting the expectations of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who had on average predicted earnings of $0.30 per share and $5.25 billion in revenue.

Skype founders sue Skype

With a similar legal battle playing out in the U.K., a company owned by Skype's founders has filed suit against Skype in the U.S.

Joltid, the company owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed a copyright infringement suit in California against Skype, eBay, Silver Lake Partners, and others.

Firefox use reaches critical mass; Skype reigns in IM

It finally happened. After years of building momentum -- and more than a few false starts -- Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has finally reached critical mass. There are now more users running some variant of Firefox (50.6 percent) than not running it, according to the latest statistics from the exo.performance.network, which tracks the actual usage and configurations of thousands of PCs globally, providing a real-world snapshot.

Firefox use reaches critical mass; Skype reigns in IM

Windows Vista 'less good,' Microsoft exec admits

With Windows 7's launch looming , a company executive yesterday denigrated its predecessor, calling Vista a "less good product."

The comment won't surprise many analysts and users, who have condemned the 2007 operating system as bloated, slow, and balky, but it's the furthest any high-level Microsoft executive has gone in criticizing Vista.

Analyst: BlackBerry Tour has 50 percent return rate

Problems with the trackball on BlackBerry Tour phones have led to return rates near 50 percent, an analyst at TownHall Investment Research said.

Users are complaining about the issue in a number of online support forums. They say that they must roll the trackball repeatedly for it to move the cursor on the screen only minimally.

Internet pioneer Cerf urges IPv6 migrations

Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf repeated a call Wednesday evening for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.

Google Docs 'widely used' at 1 in 5 workplaces

The near total dominance of Microsoft Office in the workplace may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according to a new survey by market research firm IDC.

The study's main finding is that about 1 in 5 companies reported that Google Docs is "widely used" in their workplace, however possibly as a compliment to Microsoft Office.

Mozilla picks up Firefox development pace with 'sprint' updates

Mozilla has switched to a quick-paced "sprint" cycle for Firefox that it hopes will bring new features to users faster, the company's browser architect said Wednesday.

"We decided we not only needed a way to be more nimble, but that we have a lot of great improvements we want to do every week and every month," said Vlad Vukicevic, Firefox architect.

U.S. retains IT edge, but broadband needs work

The U.S. still ranks first in the IT industry competitiveness index, but the lack of a broadband infrastructure and tightened immigration policies could threaten its lead, according to an annual studysponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

Finland, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K., Australia, Denmark, Singapore, and Norway follow the U.S. as the 10 most competitive nations in the IT field.

Cisco forms smart grid ecosystem

Cisco is lining up partners in its smart grid initiative, an effort to upgrade utility information infrastructures with Cisco routers and switches.

Cisco is creating the Cisco Smart Grid Ecosystem to help accelerate the adoption of IP for utility communications networks. The members of the ecosystem include system integrators, technology vendors, power and utility integrators, service providers, and other vendors who represent various elements of the smart grid infrastructure, Cisco says.

Microsoft, Yahoo in talks with EU over search deal

Microsoft and Yahoo are discussing their planned search collaboration with European regulators to establish whether the deal needs to be subjected to a formal merger probe, Microsoft said Thursday.

"We are having informal discussions with the European Commission," said Jesse Verstraete, Microsoft's senior corporate communications manager.

Google Noop project features JVM-based language

Google is hosting a language project called Noop, which initially targets the Java Virtual Machine and is intended to encourage industry best practices and discourage "worst offenses."

Noop is pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction, the Noop Web page says. It is in early stages of development and is being worked on by people within Google and outside of Google, a Google representative said.

Want to make BI pervasive? It's the culture, stupid

Business intelligence software may have been around for several decades, but it remains an esoteric niche in most companies, according to an analyst.

Unfriendly corporate cultures, not the BI tools or apps themselves, are preventing BI from becoming pervasive.

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Microsoft offers tools for secure app development

Microsoft is introducing on Wednesday two testing tools to help Windows programmers build better security into their C and C++ applications, but an industry analyst was dismissive of how useful the tools would be for enterprise developers.

Offered at no cost, the tools enable implementation of Microsoft's SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) process, for injecting security and privacy provisions into the development lifecycle as opposed to testing during pre- and post-deployment of an application.

MIT creates nanotube process that could shrink, speed chips

Researchers at MIT have found a way to grow the carbon nanotubes that manufacturers need to build smaller, faster computer chips.

As chipmakers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices work endlessly to find ways to build smaller and smaller chips, they often run into a multitude of problems.

Google offers Android 1.6 SDK

The Android 1.6 SDK, which adds backing for CDMA and additional screen sizes to the Android mobile device software platform, is available for developers to download, the Google Android blog said this week.

Microsoft warns of support changes to Windows Server

Microsoft warned customers yesterday that it will retire Windows Server 2000 from support next summer, and at the same time shift the newer Windows Server 2003 to limited support.

Bing grabs 11 percent of search market

Microsoft's Bing had a really strong August as the company takes another step in its effort to boost its place in the search engine business.

The new search engine, which was first brought out in May to do battle with rival Google, saw its share of the search market grow by 22.1 percent from 9 percent in July to 10.7 percent in August. The results made Bing the fastest growing search engine in the top 10 list, according to the Nielsen Co.

Oracle profits rise but sales fall in Q1

Oracle's first-quarter net income rose by 4 percent year-over-year to $1.1 billion, but revenue fell by 5 percent to $5.1 billion, the company said Wednesday. Earnings per share were $0.22.

Skype founders sue Skype

With a similar legal battle playing out in the U.K., a company owned by Skype's founders has filed suit against Skype in the U.S.

Joltid, the company owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed a copyright infringement suit in California against Skype, eBay, Silver Lake Partners, and others.

Jive tool helps companies track social media chatter

With consumers venting opinions about vendors left and right on blogs, social networks, discussion forums, and news sites, Jive Software has developed a tool to help companies monitor and analyze relevant online chatter.

Intel asks court to dismiss EU antitrust case

Intel has asked Europe's second highest court to annul last May's antitrust ruling against the company, accusing the regulators of erring in law and of producing sloppy analysis, according to details of the appeal made public Tuesday.

'Government cloud' coming from Google next year

Google will offer cloud-computing services designed specifically for U.S. government agencies starting next year, the company announced Tuesday at NASA Ames Research Center.

The services will give government agencies a way to purchase services, such as Google Apps, by ensuring that they meet regulatory requirements, said Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management with Google enterprise.

Can mainframe use really grow?

Some industry observers still like to kick dents in the mainframe, saying it’s not the corporate platform of the future. But the Big Iron seemingly takes the licks and keeps on ticking.

The other iPhone lie: VPN policy support

It turns out that Apple's iPhone 3.1 OS fix of a serious security issue -- falsely reporting to Exchange servers that pre-3G S iPhones and iPod Touches had on-device encryption -- wasn't the first such policy falsehood that Apple has quietly fixed in an OS upgrade. It fixed a similar lie in its June iPhone OS 3.0 update.

The other iPhone lie: VPN policy support

Update: Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion

Adobe has agreed to buy Web analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion in cash, the companies said Tuesday.

The price San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe is paying for the company, which is $21.50 per share, is at a 45 percent premium over Omniture's average closing price for the last 30 trading days, Adobe said. On a conference call Thursday, executives wouldn't say if there was a bidding war with other companies to buy Omniture.

Open source management community launches

Open source monitoring tools and management applications will soon enjoy a new home online as commercial vendors and open source supporters unveil a community devoted to the flexible, free IT software.

Google Chrome 3.0 gains zip, style

Google Tuesday launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25 percent versus the latest stable release.

Improvements to tabs and video/audio handling round out the major new features in the release of Google Chrome, which can be downloaded here.

Apple to launch tablet in February 2010, asserts new report

Apple will launch a tablet-style device sporting a 9.6-inch display in February 2010, according to sources cited by a Taiwanese Web publication today. The Taiwan Economic News said industry sources have claimed several component suppliers are building parts for an upcoming Apple tablet computer, which will launch in about five months.

Flash app development extended to HTML users

Software builders will be able to use HTML development skills to make applications based on Adobe's Flash technology for rich Internet applications, through technology developed by startup FHTML.

Introduced this week, the company's FluidHTML product serves as an HTML-like, text-based markup language for authoring Web sites and applications in Flash, said Michael Collette, CEO of FHTML, on Tuesday. Applications are rendered onscreen by the Flash plug-in technology, he said.

Flash app development extended to HTML users

Software builders will be able to use HTML development skills to make applications based on Adobe's Flash technology for rich Internet applications, through technology developed by startup FHTML.

Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server that includes FlashFire technology

Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.

Called the Exadata Database Machine Version 2, it combines Intel-based servers and other Sun hardware with Oracle's database and storage management software in a rack-based system optimized for enterprise data warehousing and high-speed online transaction processing (OLTP).

Intel exec Gelsinger leaving for EMC

Pat Gelsinger, a top executive who has been with Intel for 30 years, is leaving the company for EMC, an EMC spokeswoman said Monday.

Storage vendor EMC will hire Gelsinger as president and chief operating officer for the company's information infrastructure product portfolio, the spokeswoman said, asking not to be named. Gelsinger, currently co-manager of Intel's core digital enterprise group, has long been a key executive for Intel. He has also held the positions of chief technology officer and research head at Intel.

Microsoft betrayed i4i, say court documents

Microsoft marketed i4i's XML software to potential customers at the same time it planned to drive the small company out of business by infringing on its patent for the technology, according to court documents filed last week.

In a brief submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal District in Washington, Toronto-based i4i argued that an injunction blocking Microsoft from selling current versions of Word should stand.

Intel announces storage- and communications-specific processor

Intel announced Friday it will be shipping an enhanced version of its dual-processing Nehalem Xeon chip that is aimed specifically at the data storage and communications market with the ability to natively create RAID and is integrated with PCI Express (PCIe).

The processors, due out in December, are aimed at applications such as ultra-dense blades, IPTV, VoIP, network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN).

Microsoft: In-place Windows 7 upgrades can take up to 20 hours

Microsoft said Friday that some "in-place" upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users over 20 hours to complete.

The best that users can hope for is a 1 hour and 24 minute process, said Chris Hernandez, who works in the Windows deployment team, in a company blog published Friday.

Startup releases uber-fast, efficient enterprise-class SSDs

Pliant Technology today released its first series of enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives based on a proprietary ASIC design that the company claims can handle -- without using any cache -- more than twice the input/output operations per second (IOPS) as the top competitive drives.

Report: T-Mobile plans to buy Sprint

T-Mobile plans to acquire wireless carrier Sprint to better compete with giants AT&T and Verizon in the United States, according to a report on Monday from the U.K.'s Telegraph.

T-Mobile's U.S. business is ranked only as the fourth largest carrier after AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, but the reported Sprint acquisition would pit T-Mobile head-to-head with the U.S. market leaders.

MMS for iPhone works ahead of schedule for some users

AT&T is reportedly making its multimedia messaging service available to some iPhone users ahead of its planned Sept. 25 launch, according to some iPhone users.

According to Apple Insider and some other reports, a "variety" of iPhone users have said the new MMS feature has been turned on.

Oracle, Sun to launch OLTP product despite merger hurdles

Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is being closely scrutinized by European Union regulatory authorities, but that isn't stopping the companies from making their first joint announcement since the deal was announced in April.

CA buys NetQoS for $200M

CA said Monday it has reached a $200 million deal to buy NetQoS, a maker of software for tracking network and application performance. The transaction is scheduled to close before the end of the year.

Microsoft to biz: Start Windows 7 migrations now

In a last promotional run-up to the Windows 7 release next month, Microsoft is urging business customers to start their upgrades now with examples of customers already using the software, and another acknowledgement that the company learned lessons from how it handled Vista's release three years ago.

IBM takes aim at midmarket with new BI tools

IBM on Monday will announce a BI (business intelligence) and planning suite aimed at midsized companies that need more insight into their business than a spreadsheet can provide, but not the complexity of an enterprise-level product.

Dubbed Cognos Express, the applications are meant for businesses with between 100 and 999 workers, said Ben Plummer, general manager of the IBM Cognos midmarket business unit.

Update: HP unveils new print services division

Hewlett-Packard formed on Monday a new print services division with a focus on managing print and imaging hardware and software in enterprises.

The division, called Managed Enterprise Solutions, aims to unify disparate hardware, such as copiers, printers, and scanners in order to cut hardware and printing costs, said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HP's imaging and printing group. The unit will also provide services and software that put scanned or printed documents in workflow systems to make document management easier.

Ruby apps development readied for Android

Builders of the JRuby version of the Ruby programming language are working to enable development of Ruby-based business applications for the Android handheld platform, a leader of the JRuby project said on Monday afternoon.

A tool set featuring libraries and application-packaging capabilities along with speed enhancements to JRuby itself are in development, said Charles Nutter, JRuby architect at Engine Yard. JRuby is an implementation of Ruby for the Java Virtual Machine.

Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard

Less than two weeks after Apple launched Snow Leopard, the company today issued the new operating system's first security update. In a separate upgrade, Apple patched 33 vulnerabilities in 2007's Leopard, and about half as many in the even older Tiger.

Today's updates were the third and fourth from Apple in the last two days. Wednesday, Apple delivered security fixes for the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as another upgrade for its QuickTime media player.

IBM develops multimedia search tool

IBM, working with researchers in Europe, claims to have developed a better way to search online for photos and videos than current methods used by Google and Yahoo.

The developers call their technology SAPIR, for Search in Audio-Visual Content Using Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval. It indexes and analyzes "low-level descriptors," or attributes such as color, layout, shape and sounds, in photos and videos. The technology then compares those descriptors to other existing photos to help identify what's in the picture.

Novel way to cool datacenters passes first test

A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of datacenter cooling.

It's an important area for datacenter operators, who are struggling with the escalating costs of cooling increasingly powerful server equipment. Some facilities have been unable to add new equipment because they have reached the limit of their power and cooling capacity.

Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated

A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.

The application, called FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives), will download all documents that have been posted on a Web site and extract the metadata, or the information generated about the document itself. It often reveals who created the document, e-mail address, internal IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and much more.

Analyst: AT&T likely to keep iPhone exclusive deal

Despite widespread speculation that Apple will open the iPhone exclusive arrangement with AT&T to include Verizon Wireless after 2010, one analyst firm is predicting AT&T's exclusive deal as the wireless carrier will be extended beyond then.

Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ scrutiny

A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confirmed.

The DOJ requested additional information about the deal earlier this week, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said. Microsoft expected the DOJ to look into the agreement and conduct a "thorough review," he added.

Court overturns Microsoft's $358 million payment to Alcatel

Microsoft has won an appeal to overturn a $358 million award it had been ordered to pay to Alcatel-Lucent in the latest ruling on an ongoing patent-infringement dispute that began in 2003.

Google helps users jump ship to rival Web services

In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy as possible for people to migrate away from its services -- including Google Docs, Gmail, and Blogger -- and by doing so is positioning itself to be users' first port of call within the so-called cloud that many software companies see as the future for computing.

AMD to start sampling Fusion chips next year

Next year, AMD will begin providing PC makers with samples of the much-hyped Fusion chips that incorporate graphics processing into the CPU.

Sampling is the precursor to the final release of the Fusion family of chips, which is on track for 2011, said Nigel Dessau, chief marketing officer at AMD, in an interview this week.

InfoWorld releases new cloud computing 'deep dive' report

InfoWorld released today the fourth entry in its "Deep Dive" series of special PDF reports, covering the emerging area of cloud computing.

Finally, the IEEE stamps "approved" on 802.11n Wi-Fi standard

The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.

There’s been no public announcement yet by IEEE. But Bruce Kraemer, the long-time chairman of the 802.11n Task Group (part of the 802.11 Working Group, which oversees the WLAN standards), has sent out a notification to a listserv for task group members, which includes a wide range of Wi-Fi chip makers, software developers, and equipment vendors.

Skype closes its Extras program for developers

Skype is shutting down Extras, the most important part of its program for outside developers, saying that demand for these third-party plug-ins has been weak.

"Despite the incredible breadth of Extras developed for Skype, simply not enough people were using them to justify our continued support of the Extras programme," Skype official Antoine Bertout wrote Friday in an official blog.

Business iPhone apps finder adds new category, products

InfoWorld.com has expanded its iPhone business apps catalog -- an interactive listing of Phone apps of use to professionals, businesses, and IT staff -- to include communications-oriented apps. This brings the number of categories to 24 categories. InfoWorld's editors also added nearly 20 new apps to the finder across several categories, bringing the total number of selected apps to more than 230.

Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard

IBM develops multimedia search tool

IBM, working with researchers in Europe, claims to have developed a better way to search online for photos and videos than current methods used by Google and Yahoo.

Novel way to cool datacenters passes first test

A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of datacenter cooling.

Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated

A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.

Analyst: AT&T likely to keep iPhone exclusive deal

Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ scrutiny

A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confirmed.

Court overturns Microsoft's $358 million payment to Alcatel

Microsoft has won an appeal to overturn a $358 million award it had been ordered to pay to Alcatel-Lucent in the latest ruling on an ongoing patent-infringement dispute that began in 2003.

Google helps users jump ship to rival Web services

AMD to start sampling Fusion chips next year

Next year, AMD will begin providing PC makers with samples of the much-hyped Fusion chips that incorporate graphics processing into the CPU.

Sampling is the precursor to the final release of the Fusion family of chips, which is on track for 2011, said Nigel Dessau, chief marketing officer at AMD, in an interview this week.

InfoWorld releases new cloud computing 'deep dive' report

InfoWorld released today the fourth entry in its "Deep Dive" series of special PDF reports, covering the emerging area of cloud computing.

Finally, the IEEE stamps "approved" on 802.11n Wi-Fi standard

The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.

Skype closes its Extras program for developers

Skype is shutting down Extras, the most important part of its program for outside developers, saying that demand for these third-party plug-ins has been weak.

Business iPhone apps finder adds new category, products

SAP: Still no ship date for long-promised small business ERP suite

A top SAP executive said Wednesday that the vendor's Business ByDesign on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite for small businesses will take "the world by storm" one day, but declined to reveal when a long-anticipated broader release will occur.

SAP initially announced the suite in late 2007, and predicted it would generate $1 billion in revenue by 2010. But it subsequently limited the rollout to a handful of markets while working to make sure the SaaS (software as a service) application will be profitable enough at scale.

Adobe upgrades, changes name of rich media content controller

Adobe Systems is renaming Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, which controls access to streams of rich media content, to Adobe Flash Access and adding capabilities to control downloaded Flash content.

AMD's laptop platform improves on graphics, ups ante in battle with Intel

AMD on Thursday introduced new processors and improved graphics capabilities as part of its latest laptop platform that could up the ante in its battle with rival chip maker Intel.

The platform, codenamed Tigris, includes processors belonging to the Turion II X2 and Athlon lines that deliver greater system performance while drawing less power compared to their predecessors. The platform also include a number of power enhancement and graphics features that could improve multimedia performance on laptops while improving battery life.

Update: Microsoft enterprise licensing deals still tough to come by

Despite efforts from Microsoft over the years to simplify its software licensing for businesses, a new analyst report said it's more complex than ever for companies to figure out the most cost-effective way to acquire products from the vendor.

Mozilla patches 10 Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities

Mozilla on Wednesday patched 10 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.5, all but one ranked critical, as it delivered the first update that automatically checks for outdated versions of the popular Flash Player plug-in.

In four separate sets of patches, Firefox 3.5.3 fixed a total of 10 flaws, the majority of them stability issues in the application's browser and JavaScript rendering engines, some of which Mozilla said might be exploitable by hackers.

Dell previews ultra-thin Adamo laptop design

Hoping to generate some buzz around its Adamo laptops, Dell showed off an ultra-thin design on Wednesday that could heat up the race between PC makers trying to build the world's thinnest laptop.

Dell put up a Web page Wednesday showing an Adamo that measures just 9.9 mm (0.4 inch) at its thinnest point. That's almost half as thick as the current Adamo 13, which measured 16.39 mm (0.65 inch) at its thinnest point.

Microsoft funds effort for open source dialogue

Microsoft is donating $1 million in initial funding for a non-profit foundation launched Thursday with the goal of enabling exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities.

Called the CodePlex Foundation, the organization is intended to provide a forum where open source communities and the software development community can unite for the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects, according to a statement on the foundation's formation.

Dell reveals new servers and storage for SMBs

Dell rounded out a busy year so far with the launch of new servers and storage equipment tailored toward the needs of small to medium-size businesses.

Android-based Motorola Cliq coming in Q4

Motorola on Thursday announced its first Android smartphone, which will ship in the fourth quarter with T-Mobile USA under the name Cliq.

iPhone users complain of new software problems

A day after the latest iPhone software became available, some users are complaining about new problems with their phones like a shorter battery life and random shutdowns.

Apple on Wednesday introduced version 3.1 of the iPhone software in iTunes, where it became available for phone users to download.

Report: More options may be coming for the iPhone

AT&T and Apple are considering adding new features in an iPhone update before year's end to give users alerts when they are about to go over their voice minutes and an option to disable voicemail greetings, according to reports.

The changes under consideration are based on customer feedback, according to Apple Insider and other reports.

Silicon Valley is shrinking

The number of high-tech jobs in all industries Silicon Valley declined by 86,000, or 16.5 percent, between 2001 and 2008, according a federal study of employment trends in the valley.

Unpatched Microsoft bugs raise red flags

Microsoft has released its security updates for the month of September, but a couple of unpatched flaws have some security experts wondering if the software company will be forced to release an emergency patch sometime in the month ahead.

Security researchers believe that an unpatched flaw in the SMB (Server Message Block) 2 software that ships with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 could turn into a major headache.

Microsoft gives sneak peek at Silverlight 4 RIA technology

Microsoft this week will shed some light on a planned upgrade to Silverlight, its browser-based rich Internet application technology, which will gain native multicast support capabilities as well as support for offline digital rights management.

Salesforce.com to revamp its customer service app

Salesforce.com on Wednesday will make a series of announcements regarding its Service Cloud customer-service applications, which are a major part of the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's long-term growth plans.

First unveiled in January, the Service Cloud strategy presumes that in order to find answers to product and service questions, customers are increasingly using means besides traditional call centers, such as search engines or social-networking and messaging services like Facebook and Twitter.

Microsoft confirms critical unpatched Vista, Windows 7 RC bug

Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed that a bug in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the release candidates of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, could be used to hijack PCs.

Verizon secures large firms' mobile devices

Verizon Business on Wednesday announced Managed Mobility Solutions, a new service for large multinational businesses that provides security for mobile devices and mobile expense management.

Verizon officials said the offering is different than those from other carriers such as AT&T since it brings its professional services consulting practice together with mobility management tools from Sybase for security and Quickcomm Software Solutions for expense management.

Introducing the Pre’s smaller sibling: Palm’s new Pixi

Palm on Wednesday introduced the Pixi, its second phone designed to use webOS, the same operating system that powers its much-ballyhooed Pre model. It's coming to U.S. carrier Sprint in time for the holidays at a price to be announced later.

Apple announces iPhone 3.1

Apple released on Wednesday the iPhone 3.1 software update, as predicted. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the update on stage at the Yerba Buena Center during the "Rock and Roll" event. The software includes a handful of new features and bug fixes.

With over 75,000 apps in the App Store, it can be difficult to find new applications. Apple's extended its Genius media-recommendation algorithm to iPhone applications. It looks at the apps you already own and makes recommendations based on that information.

Microsoft tool boosts AJAX Web page response

Microsoft is offering a tool to boost the responsiveness of pages in AJAX Web applications, a Microsoft official said Friday.

The company's Doloto tool analyzes AJAX application workloads and performs code-splitting of existing large Web applications, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft developer division, in his blog.

Mac clone maker's lawyer denies spilling Apple secrets

Mac clone maker Psystar's lead lawyer said he did not reveal details of the company's case to a prominent Harvard Law School professor, according to court documents.

However, K.A.D. Camera, of the Houston, Texas law firm Camera & Shipley and Psystar's chief counsel, did acknowledge that he approved a "circus day" at Psystar's headquarters last month as part of a public relations strategy to spin the case its way in the media.

Intel shows off PCs, servers built on Lynnfield processors

Intel showed off a number of new computer systems and at least 40 new motherboards built by partners for new Intel microprocessors that officially launched on Tuesday, nearly a month after the chips were first spotted at computer markets in Taipei.

Foxconn to launch inexpensive, Arm-based smartbooks

Foxconn Technology plans to launch next year its first smartbooks, which are mini-laptops that use microprocessors from Arm Holdings normally found in smartphones.

Smartbooks are similar to netbooks except that they don't use Intel's popular Atom microprocessor nor other x86 processors.

Firefox 4.0 to arrive late 2010

Mozilla recently released a product roadmap with a number of new details on what the foundation is hoping to release between now and the end of 2010, including information on when to expect the next major iteration of Firefox.

Microsoft to add 'Ping' to Bing to share search results

Microsoft is testing a new feature called "Bing & Ping" for its Bing search engine that allows people to share search results on social networks Facebook and Twitter.

According to a post on the Bing community site by Nicholas Kerr, a Bing marketing manager, Bing & Ping is a "potential new feature" for Bing that allows people to click on links below a search result to post the information on social-networking sites or e-mail it to friends.

HTC Tattoo to be first customizable Android handset

High Tech Computer (HTC) gave its latest smartphone a name it can live up to, Tattoo, because people who buy it will be invited to design their own personal skin for the phone.

Gestures set to shake up mobile user interfaces

Touch screens have changed the way people use mobile phones dramatically. But gesture controls, augmented reality, and larger screen sizes are about to change habits even more, according to mobile interface expert Christian Lindholm.

Microsoft: Cybercrooks exploiting unpatched IIS bug

Microsoft says that cybercriminals are starting to exploit an unpatched bug in its IIS server software that was made public last week.

Close to Patch Tuesday, new flaw surfaces

As Microsoft prepares to release its latest patches, researchers said they've seen exploit code for a new flaw that puts organizations using Vista and Windows 7 at great risk.

The flaw lies in a driver used for the Samba file-sharing feature in Windows, said Bojan Zdrnja, a handler for the SANS Internet Storm Center. Exploit code was released around 11 p.m. U.S. Eastern time, he said.

Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux

Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return on investment, Red Hat officials said Friday.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard update in the works

Apple is working already on a fix for various problems Snow Leopard users ran into after updating to the new operating system. Only a week after introducing Snow Leopard, Apple began seeding to developers an update addressing stability and compatibility issues.

With developers angry, Google plans update to Android Market

Google is promising changes to the Android Market, the same week that a prominent application developer complained about issues with the store.

The changes, to be introduced "soon," address some of the common developer complaints, but not all of them.

[ Is it too late for Android to get its developers back on board? InfoWorld's Neil McAllister explores why Android developers are unhappy. ]

Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud

Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Intel to put Westmere desktop chips in servers

Intel has tweaked its chip road map, with plans to extend its upcoming Westmere mainstream desktop dual-core chips with integrated graphics processors to entry-level servers.

The chips, code-named Clarkdale and built on the Westmere architecture, will come under the Core i3 and Core i5 brands, and integrate a graphics processor and a CPU in one chip package. The updated road map was offered earlier this week during a discussion of Intel's collaboration with Microsoft on the Windows 7 OS.

Oracle delays security updates for user conference

Oracle database administrators who are worried they might have to skip Oracle's user conference next month to fiddle with security updates can relax. Oracle is cutting them a break and releasing its next set of patches a week later than planned.

Red Hat eyes REST standardization

Red Hat is seeking REST standardization through an effort it is calling REST-*, which could serve as a counterpoint to the alternative WS-* specifications for Web services.

Red Hat eyes REST standardization

Red Hat is seeking REST standardization through an effort it is calling REST-*, which could serve as a counterpoint to the alternative WS-* specifications for Web services.

Microsoft gets reprieve in Word case

An appeals court has granted Microsoft's request to put off an injunction that could have forced it to stop selling its Microsoft Word software next month.

Microsoft had appealed a court decision from mid-August that gave it 60 days to stop selling Word products that allow users to create custom XML documents. The ruling, which also includes additional damages Microsoft must pay, stemmed from a patent infringement suit filed in 2007 by i4i. The court has ordered Microsoft to pay more than US$290 million in damages in total.

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