Red Hat, Google challenge software patents
Red Hat, Google, Dell, and several other companies have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging "poor quality" software patents, Red Hat said on Thursday.
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ECM vendor OpenText moves into BPM with Metastorm buy
Enterprise content management vendor OpenText said Wednesday that it is purchasing business process management software provider Metastorm for $182 million. With OpenText's technologies and larger infrastructure, Metastorm will be able to offer its customers a deeper range of functionality as well as a greater global sales reach, said Metastorm CEO Robert Farrell in a statement.
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Startup launches social media monitoring tool for enterprises
Hearsay, a startup founded in 2009, is launching a cloud-hosted social media management application tailored specifically for companies that have a national brand as well as a broad base of local affiliates. The product, called Hearsay Social, lets these companies plan, implement, roll out and monitor their social media presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn both at the national and local levels.
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ICANN assigns its last IPv4 addresses
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries that in some cases may exhaust them within a few months. The end of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses was announced in a ceremony in Miami on Thursday morning. Each of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) was allocated one of the final five large blocks of about 16 million addresses.
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Big opportunities brewing in marketplace for Big Data
The data marketplace, where users can hunt for specialized data, is becoming a lucrative market with growing opportunities, technologists stressed at a Silicon Valley technical conference Wednesday. "Data is a $100 billion market worldwide," said Pete Forde, founder and chief technical officer at BuzzData, during a session at the O'Reilly Strata conference, which featured discussions on dealing with large data volumes and the concept of "Big Data." There are entrenched players, such as news tickers, as well as open source upstarts such as BuzzData, he said.
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Next-generation banking malware emerges
The rumored combination of two pieces of advanced online banking malware appears to be fully underway after several months of speculation. What appears to be a beta version of a piece of malware that has bits of both Zeus and SpyEye is now in circulation, albeit among just a few people, said Aviv Raff, CTO and cofounder of Seculert.
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Google bets $20K that Chrome can't be hacked
Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest. The award is the largest ever for the annual challenge, which will kick off for the fifth time at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 9.
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AT&T to offer Wi-Fi tethering for iPhone
AT&T said on Wednesday that it will allow tethering of multiple devices to Apple's iPhone and add a 2GB data allowance to the $20-per-month service. The carrier declined to spell out a timetable for the move, however.
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PC makers scramble in wake of Intel chip flaw revelation
Some PC makers are halting sales of PCs with Sandy Bridge processors as they try to work out issues related to Intel's faulty chipset, companies said on Wednesday.
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Egypt ranked among top global offshoring destinations
Were you to propose to your boss that Egypt would be a mighty fine destination for outsourcing IT work, you'd likely get a forced chuckle or a reprimand.
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Web store and in-app purchases coming to Android
Google on Wednesday introduced a new Android Market Web store and said in-app purchasing is coming soon. The company also showed off some features of Honeycomb, its latest version of Android designed for tablets, emphasizing back-end tools that it says enable better and easier development of applications.
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County alleges SAP, Deloitte engaged in racketeering
The government of Marin County, California, is suing two SAP subsidiaries and Deloitte Consulting, alleging they "engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity designed to defraud the County of more than $20 million." SAP must deliver a response to the suit by Feb. 23, according to a filing made Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The county originally filed suit in December in a lower California court, and the case was removed to federal court last week, according to the filing.
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