Thursday, March 26, 2015

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EU to shake up e-commerce market

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 04:33 AM PDT

euroflagzEuropean Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is set to start a year long quest to break down barriers to e-commerce trading across borders.

According to a report on Reuters, she believes barriers are preventing the growth of sales online.  She also appy ears to believe that some companies are using the existing situation to block trade between the 28 European Union countries. more»

Biometrics come into their own

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 04:25 AM PDT

fingerprintBiometric systems, particularly in relation to smartphones, look like they're going to boom during this year.

ABI Research, a market analysis company, said that worldwide revenues for such systems will deliver $3.1 billion this year.

The systems will be targeted not only at home users but at authentication systems for the enterprise market, according to ABI. more»

Apple iPhone deluge continues

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 04:15 AM PDT

novità-apple-2013It appears that Apple is set to release three more iPhones in the second half of this year.

Informed sources have leaked details of the models to Taiwanese wire Digitimes.

It reports that the phones will be the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S Plus and a four inch device currently codenamed the iPhone 6C. more»

Motorola could not kill patent troll with fire

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 02:58 AM PDT

trollMotorola has been told by a US jury that it used an idea in a patent troll's portfolio without permission.

Intellectual Ventures’ claimed that it invented multimedia text messaging, something that Motorola said it came up with.

The jury, which deliberated for about a day and a half, cleared Motorola on a second patent related to wireless bandwidth, which it said was invalid. more»

Red Hat does better than expected

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 02:57 AM PDT

red-hatRed Hat has surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by being able to stick to its profit forcast, despite the US dollar shooting through the roof.

Red Hat predicted it would make a profit for the first quarter that matched analysts’ estimates despite warning on a strong dollar hurting its revenue. more»

Radio Shack customer data sold off

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 02:56 AM PDT

1980-radio-shack-catalogWho needs hackers? It turns out that all that personal data stored in US corporate servers can be sold off to the highest bidder anyway.

Radio Shack, which has been collecting customer data since the 1980s, is about to sell the lot to raise money to pay off some of its debts. more»

Big Data man wins Turing award

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 02:55 AM PDT

Michael_Stonebraker_2MIT boffin Michael Stonebraker has won the Turing Award for his work on the field of database management systems (DBMSs).

The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Turing Award, is the Nobel Prize of computing and comes with a Google-funded $1 million prize. more»

Apple creates old lamps for new scheme in China

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 02:53 AM PDT

lampFruity cargo cult Apple thinks that the best way for punters behind the bamboo curtain to keep buying its expensive products is if they can trade them in like a car.

Jobs' Mob plans to introduce a trade-in program for iPhones in China in association with Foxconn. more»

Diablo Technologies Protects Patent ’917

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 11:17 PM PDT

Screen Shot 2015-03-26 at 10.01.42Diablo Technologies released an announcement yesterday evening claiming a "decisive victory" in a lawsuit brought against the company by Netlist, Inc. (NLST). According to the release a "federal jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Diablo, with the jury Unanimously concluding that there was no breach of contract and that there was no misuse of trade secrets. more»

ZTE profits soar by 94 percent

Posted: 25 Mar 2015 07:29 AM PDT

zte-open-firefox-osChinese telecomms provider ZTE said higher sales of 4G network kit and smartphones meant that for its financial year it turned in a 94 percent net profit increased.

The Shenzhen based corporation said the net profit rose to $423.5 million in its 2014 financial year. more»

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