Google and 46 of its Android followers plus their consortium have been sued for stealing the Android name. The suit, which claims "it is clear that Google stole first and asked questions later" - was brought last Tuesday by a little-known software developer who has nothing to do with o...

Google has gotten a patent on a seaborne floating data center to be housed on a cargo ship three to seven miles offshore that would be cooled by ocean waters and powered by a Pelamis wave-based electrical generator (little fishies and SpongeBob SquarePants beware).

I attended a pandemic exercise at Northeastern University last year that was really enlightening and timely considering the latest information about the “swine flu”. Although far from a pandemic at this time, the CDC is taking preventative measures by communicating to the general publi...

Virident Systems, a newcomer run by a co-founder of SGI, has started down that sometimes thankless, unforgiving path of a disruptive new server company. For its value proposition it’s using Flash instead of traditional memory, targeting the Internet data centers like Google that now ac...

OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.

Yahoo, as expected, is going to fire another roughly 700 people, 5% of its workforce, in the next couple of weeks. CEO Carol Bartz, there now about a hundred days, said the cuts wouldn't be like the across-the-board ~10% cuts Yahoo did in Q4 in response to the macro environment. These ...

Yahoo is going to be laying off a few hundred people perhaps on April 21 when the company posts its Q1 results, according to several press reports. The All Things Digital blog suggests whole units could go. They will be the first major labor cuts since CEO Carol Bartz got there in Janu...

Cisco says it’s going to put an R&D center in South Korea and invest upwards of $2 billion in the country over the next five years including $500 million in loans and investments in local IT and communications concerns. It’s planning to raise a $40 million investment fund. Separately, ...

Intel says that its many-core supercomputer-like x86 Larrabee GPU chip, a challenge to Nvidia and ATI, has seen first silicon and is currently in debug. The widget is expected to hit volume production early next year. Now all Intel needs is multi-threaded streaming vector software that...

Cast Iron Systems has widgetry to encrypt the exchange of data between a company’s firewalled enterprise apps and Google’s cloud. Cast Iron for Google Apps, which includes Google’s Secure Data Connector, is supposed to make it easier for companies to integrate their Google Apps and Goo...

Modern Web applications are well known for delivering rich UI experience. A lesser known aspect is the use of certain techniques that enable the intelligent processing of information and add value that cannot be delivered by other means. Examples of success stories that are based on th...

Google's stock briefly bounded past $400 in after-hours trading Thursday for the first time since last October on the strength of its Q1 earnings performance. When last seen, however, it had given back some gains after punters realized that the head of its global sales Omid Kordestani ...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

Yahoo’s got three more universities using its cloud supercomputer cluster, also known as M45 and operational since November 2007. Berkeley, Cornell and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon in conducting large-scale systems software research and exploring...

Google has opened up a site called Google Code Labs, not to be mistaken for Google Code or Google Labs, where developers can now go to get involved with potential products in their early days, familiarize themselves with APIs still being formulated and presumably build off them while G...

Cloud computing offers a fantastic opportunity to businesses of all sizes. However, there are pitfalls that no-one wants to talk about. This session will talk to some of the darker sides to cloud computing - those around security and availability. Understanding where the issues lie wil...

Google Docs has a new feature called Insert Drawing that can be used to create and insert four-color drawings into documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Google’s talking about line drawings, freehand scribbles and text labels and is offering a bunch of shapes that that can be resi...

ZK Spreadsheet enables Ajax applications to deliver the rich functionality of ExcelR to browsers in pure Java. With embeddable Excel functionality in pure Java, developers can create collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications like never before.

A Rhode Island federal court Wednesday told Microsoft to pay $388 million in damages to Uniloc, a Singapore-based company, for infringing on its 1993 piracy-preventing software registration patent. And since the Rhode Island jury found Microsoft's infringement willful, the award could ...

Google is going into the venture capital business with a $100 million fund to start, a year-one down payment apparently on millions more to come. Google Ventures will be run by William Maris, founder of web hosting pioneer Burlee.com and an ex-portfolio manager for AB.

Google's now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out t...

Kevin L Jackson launched the "Government Cloud Computing Journal" on Ulitzer. The onlihe magazine offers stories and articles on the effective use of cloud computing technologies within the government domain. Kevin L. Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in informa...

Comodo has launched a simple-to-use backup solution for businesses and home users. Comodo Online BackUp helps users copy every bit of information on their computers and save it online at the touch of a button. With Comodo Online BackUp, once the backup process is set in Comodo's built-...

eBay is now officially beta testing its subscription-based Selling Manager service as a platform for third-party developers to sell their embedded tools. The space is used by close to 300,000 online merchants to manage their businesses at my.ebay.com. They have now become the target of...

Recent attacks on outsourced DNS have caused extended outages for major organizations, making them unreachable on the Internet and costing millions in lost revenue and customer goodwill. All of these organizations, including such notable companies Amazon.com, have one thing in common:...

The European Commission is waving a big stick at Internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft and threatening to crack down on consumer profiling by online advertisers on the supposition that “basic rights in terms of transparency, control and risk are being violated.” In ...

IntelePeer Inc., has announced an agreement to integrate powerful Voice 2.0 and rich media features into business applications with Tekmark Global Solutions LLC. Using the IntelePeer AppworX open communications platform, IntelePeer and Tekmark are co-developing applications based on Mi...

AppZero's software (http://www.appzero.com) virtualizes server-side applications in a way that makes the provisioning of applications as services almost instantaneous: across a network on any server (physical or virtual), in the datacenter, hosted, or in the cloud. In addition to great...

Google is going to start turning all that information that it’s gotten from people’s search preferences into behavior-based ads under a program announced last week that’s based on widgetry Google acquired when it bought DoubleClick last year for $3.2 billion. The program, which has pri...

Google’s Chrome browser has been through 29 updates since it launched six months ago. It’s also one of the only Google products to escape beta. Now Google has “forked” Chrome into a stable release and a flakier developer-oriented next-generation release that will wear the beta label. G...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz and former SGI senior VP Beau Vrolyk are angel investors in the San Mateo, California start-up Apture, where Vrolyk is executive chairman. They were part of Apture’s first venture round worth $4.1 million led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Apture, which is a way...

Abdulhayoglu, CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo, along with Blodget, the CEP of Silicon Alley Insider, will talk about the future development of the Internet, "Web 3.0" and the road to getting there in a live, Internet event on Thursday, March 19. Internet users can log...

When Sun announced its Open Cloud Platform today, developers around the world with an interest in cloud computing gained from the arrival on the scene of a powerful new force in favor of cloud architecture that is interoperable and open. According to Sun's Sr. VP of Cloud Computing, Da...

The current economic situation has created a difficult time for business, but some industries continue to do well and pose significant opportunities. In IT also some technologies which help industries to drive efficiencies and profitability like Unified Communications, Virtualization a...

Time Warner dumped the misbegotten team of AOL CEO and chairman Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant late Thursday and wheeled in Tim Armstrong, until that minute Google’s Americas sales chief, as CEO and chairman.

The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation of Google's cloud computing services including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Desktop, Google Calendar and Picasa to determine "the adequacy of the privacy and ...

Cloud computing, Sun reminds the industry on its corporate web site devoted to the subject, "is about managing petascale data" - and its server and storage systems are all designed "to radically improve the data-intensive computing emerging in the cloud." All without having to invest i...

No sooner was Google over a reportedly limited Google Docs security breach this weekend when Gmail started acting up, giving the Google cloud, in particular, and all clouds, in general, another black eye. Some Gmail users were without service all day Tuesday and that's on the heels of ...

It's official. Microsoft is going to let PC users turn its browser off in Windows 7 to keep the European Commission at bay. The EC's latest indictment of Microsoft accuses it of the antitrust sin of tying Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, a charge brought by Opera and ...