Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case
Microsoft has been ordered to pay $70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion. A jury in San Diego issued its verdict Friday in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of violating patents in several products including Outlook. The suit was brought by Lucent in 2003, before it merged with Alcatel.
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Google+ passes first tests; now what?
Showered with intense praise and criticism during its first month out in a limited beta trial, Google+ has eluded the failures of other Google social networking efforts, but it's too early to tell if it will fulfill its ultimate mission as a Facebook slayer. Compared with Google Buzz, the Twitter-like service that ignited a disastrous privacy firestorm, and Orkut, the seven-year-old social networking site popular mainly in Brazil and India, Google+ represents an initial victory for the company.
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AT&T to soon throttle heaviest users of smartphone data
Confirming widespread rumors, AT&T announced late on Friday that it will begin throttling data throughput for heavy users of its unlimited smartphone data plans beginning on October 1.
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Facebook to pay hackers for bugs
Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website -- just so long as they report them to Facebook's security team first. The company is following Google and Mozilla in launching a Web "Bug Bounty" program. For security related bugs -- cross site scripting flaws, for example -- the company will pay a base rate of $500. If they're truly significant flaws Facebook will pay more, though company executives won't say how much.
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Apache and Oracle warn of serious Java 7 compiler bugs
It looks like a few bugs have crashed Oracle's Java 7 release party that can wreak havoc on Apache Project applications.
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Google buys more than 1,000 IBM patents
Google has acquired more than 1,000 patents from IBM in a defensive move aimed at protecting itself from lawsuits. "Like many tech companies, at times we'll acquire patents that are relevant to our business needs. Bad software patent litigation is a wasteful war that no one will win," a Google representative said in a statement supplied to Network World.
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IDC: Economic slowdown won't derail rebound in IT spending
Economic turmoil and uncertainty in the United States, Europe, and Japan has left plenty of IT vendors and stockholders fearful of whether more lean days lie ahead.
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CouchBase, SQLite launch unified NoSQL query language
Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language). "The impetus for UnQL is to create some form of commonality among non-SQL databases," said James Phillips, a co-founder and vice president of products for Couchbase, which oversees the document-oriented CouchDB database.
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