Datamation Staff

Reuters: District Judge Lucy Koh has denied a petition to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which alleges that seven California companies violated antitrust regulations by negotiating agreements that prevented them from “cold-calling” each others’ staffers with job offers. “The fact that all six identical bilateral agreements were reached in secrecy […]

PCWorld: Apple is asking a German to court to ban sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1N because it is too similar to the iPad. Apple won an earlier German injunction on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the same reason. Samsung redesigned the tablet and won court approval to sell the device as the […]

eWeek: A new survey by GFI Software finds that nearly 70 percent of IT administrators consider their jobs stressful. In fact, 67 percent of those polled said they had considered switching careers because of the stress. More than a third of those surveyed reported working at least eight hours of overtime a week, and 85 […]

The Seattle Times: Microsoft turned in its financials for its third fiscal quarter, and the company beat analyst expectations. It reported revenue of $17.41 billion, a 6 percent year-over-year increase. Earnings totaled $5.11 billion, or 60 cents per share, beating estimates of 57 cents per share. Business sales accounted for much of the company’s success […]

The Wall Street Journal: Software vendor Splunk saw its shares climb 109 percent on the first day of trading. That’s the best debut for a technology IPO so far this year, besting Millennial Media’s 92 percent surge on its first day of trading. Part of the “big data” trend, Splunk’s software harvests machine data–the log […]

Computerworld: A new report from cloud intelligence company DeepField Networks indicates just how pervasive Amazon’s cloud computing services have become. According to the report, one third of all Internet users access Amazon Web Services (AWS) services at least once daily, and one percent of North America’s consumer Internet traffic passes through AWS. Cloud services “are […]

eWeek: Amazon Web Services has launched a new online store featuring software that users can deploy on Amazon’s cloud computing service. Called “AWS Marketplace,” the store features software from 10gen, CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point Software, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Zend and other vendors. It also includes popular open source applications like Drupal, MediaWiki and WordPress. […]

FOSS Patents: Immediately after a judge ordered the two companies to conduct settlement talks, Samsung has filed a complaint saying that Apple violates eight of its patents. The move is widely seen as a defensive strategy to counter Apple’s claims that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets copy the iPhone and iPad. Florian Mueller writes, “The […]

NetworkWorld: In closed-door meetings with analysts, Oracle is laying out its cloud computing strategy. Although non-disclosure agreements prevent the analysts from discussing the company’s plans in detail, Forrester’s Paul Hamerman noted, “They’re investing substantially in the cloud.” Those investments include software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, along with social […]

ZDNet: Time magazine has published two lists of the most influential people of 2012: one is a readers poll and the other is a edited list chosen by the magazine’s staff. In the reader poll, the hacker group Anonymous came in first place, while the editors put the group way down at number 36 on […]

Bloomberg: U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has ordered the CEOs of Apple and Samsung to meet within 90 days and attempt to work out a settlement. The two companies have at least 30 patent infringement lawsuits pending against each other in various courts around the world, including Judge Koh’s San Jose courtroom. At the heart […]

Computerworld: On Tuesday morning, Gmail users began posting Twitter messages complaining about a Gmail outage. The service disruption lasted about an hour before Google said that it had fixed the problem. Initially, Google said the problem affected “less than 2 percent” of its 350 million Gmail users, but it has since amended that number to […]