RIM May Challenge Google for 4G Patents

New Delhi: Research In Motion(RIM) may be getting ready to make a play for the Nortel Networks wireless networking patents Google has agreed to buy for $900 million.Bloomberg said RIM, which has been hemorrhaging smartphone market share to Google's Android platform and Apple's iPhone, is weighing whether or not to outbid Google for the 6,000 patents and patent applications.The publication also... By

Power considerations influencing IT purchases

Organisations are making a concerted effort to buy IT products that are power consumption-friendly and easy to dispose of, according to research released this week by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry. More than three-quarters of organisations surveyed for the organizations Second Annual Green IT Insights and Opportunities study said they factor green into their IT purchase... By

Green products sell despite doubts: Survey

A new survey of more than 6,800 online U.S. adults aged 18 or older revealed that although a vast majority of respondents (89.4%) incorporate some level of greenness into their daily lives, there is an undercurrent of doubt when it comes to green advertising claims and product efficacy. Burst Media, a provider of targeted Internet audiences to brand and performance advertisers, conducted the... By

Samsung countersues Apple over patents

It took less than a week for Samung to fire back at Apple with a patent-infringement lawsuit of its own. On April 22, Samsung Electronics filed lawsuits against Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany, related to data transmission and the technology necessary to wirelessly connect a mobile phone and a user's computer, according to a number of reports. The Samsung lawsuit alleges that Apple... By

Advanced cyber-attack claims are usually overhyped

When RSA Security disclosed in February that a third party had breached its networks, the company claimed that it had been hit by an advanced persistent threat. Federal research facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory also blamed its recent breach on an APT. For both RSA and Oak Ridge, the attacks turned out to be a spear-phishing attack. In both cases, employees were tricked into opening the... By

5 changes to make BlackBerry Playbook a winner

Research In Motions PlayBook tablet hit store shelves on April 19, failing to attract around-the-block lines but, at least according to one analyst, managing to sell a respectable 45,000 units on its first day of release. Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek suggested in an April 20 research note that, based on sell-through surveys taken at Best Buy and Staples, RIM had managed to sell 20,... By

Amazon Samsung Android tablet may launch soon

Engadget and gdgt Co-founder Peter Rojas added another layer to the slowly peeling meme about an Amazon tablet when he said hes almost positive the e-commerce giant is having Samsung build a device to compete with Apple's iPad. However, Rojas said Amazon might run a custom version of Android rather than employ Android 3.0 or "Honeycomb," Google's tablet OS du jour. Amazon just launched its... By

Your Net is dirtier than you thought!

Without an iota of doubt, the internet has been the biggest invention of mankind, not only of the past century, but of all human history combined. With close to 2 billion people connected to the web (a penetration of around 30% of the global population), and over 300 billion emails sent every day, humans are now connected to each other as they have never been before. This huge medium has... By

Cloud not all that Green, says Greenpeace

In a recent report brought out by Greenpeace, the environment activist organisation has severely indicted the fallacies of green technology, especially those around cloud computing. Examining several cloud service providers, the report states that energy efficiency is merely a part of the whole debate. Tracking major companies, like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, the report is an eye... By

Oracle fixed 73 bugs in Critical Patch Update

Oracle, on April 19, released 25 security patches that addressed 73 vulnerabilities, of which 36 have been classified as critical, as part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update. The critical issues may be exploited remotely without requiring a user name or password. Aprils CPU contained updates to Oracle Database Server11g and 10g, Oracle Fusion middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid... By

Businesses adopting Cloud for storage, web hosting

Small businesses are using the Cloud predominantly for storage (67%) and website hosting (56%), according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by business continuity and CRM (both 39%). The majority of SMBs who have... By

IPv6 interest grows, but traffic remains minuscule

Even though the number of available IPv4 addresses are dwindling faster than expected, the move to IPv6 remains sluggish, according to a recent study from Arbor Networks. In a study of native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers, IPv6 adoption remains minuscule as a result of technical and design challenges, no economic incentives, and a dearth of IPv6 content, according to the... By