Apple, Samsung agree to patent settlement conference
Apple and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a settlement conference in an ongoing patent lawsuit between the two companies, according to court documents. Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday ordered the two companies to attend a settlement conference within 90 days. The two companies' CEOs and general counsels have agreed to attend the conference, Koh wrote in an order. The two companies will meet with Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero, Koh wrote.
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Google says it had Sun's full support in building Android
Google built Android using parts of Java that didn't require a license and it had the full support of Sun Microsystems in doing so, a lawyer for Google said in court Tuesday. "The source code in Android was written by Google engineers or taken from open source platforms that were available and open for use," attorney Robert Van Nest told the jury in Google's opening statement.
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Microsoft names Windows Server 2012, commits to launch this year
Microsoft today gave its newest server software a name -- Windows Server 2012 -- and said it would release the operating system this year. During the opening keynote at the MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) 2012 in Las Vegas, which runs through Friday, company officials slapped the name on the new software -- which previously had been dubbed Windows Server 8 -- and announced it would ship before the end of the year.
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Sencha Architect 2's new GUI makes mobile app development visual
Sencha has introduced Architect 2, a cross-platform development tool for HTML5-based mobile and desktop apps that aims to make it easier to create applications with the help of a new graphical user interface, the company said on Tuesday. Architect 2 is an upgrade of Sencha's Ext Designer. But early on, the company decided it didn't want to develop just another interface designer, but a complete application builder, where the architecture and the interface of an app could be created and properly structured for development.
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Intel grabs record share of growing chip market
As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date. Worldwide semiconductor revenue was up $5.4 billion, or 1.8 percent, in 2011 compared with 2010, according to a report from Gartner Inc. on Tuesday. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Puppet now equipped to be OpenStack interface
Puppet Labs has equipped its namesake open-source configuration management software with the ability to control OpenStack cloud deployments, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. Puppet's new capability, offered as a series of modules, may bring a much-needed user interface to the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud computing software stack.
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Citrix releases NetScaler 10
Citrix today released NetScaler 10, its next-generation application delivery controller (ADC) that is the company's answer for bringing dynamic elasticity to the network. Increasingly enterprises want their data centers to perform like public clouds, with functionality to scale up or down automatically and to provide more efficient management of application delivery.
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Check Point harnesses cloud security to deter botnet infections
Check Point Software Technologies Tuesday announced a cloud-based threat-detection service that can help to identify botnets in real time and block them from wreaking havoc on enterprise networks.
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Amazon advises developers on how to protect code from app thieves
Developers submitting apps to the Amazon Appstore for Android should consider obfuscating their code if they are concerned about their applications being reverse engineered, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Obfuscating the code modifies the source and machine code to be difficult for a human to understand if the app gets decompiled, according to Amazon.
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High performance computing moves to the cloud
As the public cloud IaaS market continues to evolve, providers are expected to add increased functionality, including high performance computing to their offerings, which is exactly what SoftLayer did today.
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Should the CIO know how to code?
On the organizational chart between IT Director "Ray Walton" and his CIO is a vice-president of IT whom he considers dangerous. Why? Because that VP came from finance. He's not technical, and worse, he maintains a financial mindset. "In his mind, everything in technology can be reduced to dollars and time," says Walton, who, to protect his job, asked that his real name not be used.
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Oracle says Google knowingly 'broke the rules' with Java
Oracle and Google kicked off a high-stakes jury trial in San Francisco on Monday, with Oracle arguing that Google ran roughshod over its intellectual property rights because the search giant was scared of getting left behind in the mobile advertising business. "This case is about Google's use, in Google's business, of somebody else's property without permission," said Michael Jacobs, an attorney for Oracle, in his opening remarks to the jury.
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SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box, and other more established services with what it calls the first truly secure data backup and collaboration cloud for businesses. There are three service levels for SpiderOak Blue, the company's new cloud storage service, which span small-to-midsize and enterprise-class businesses.
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