Google, Dropbox band together to fight patent trolls

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A new group seeks to provide its members insulation against attacks by patent trolls Google, Dropbox and a few other high-tech firms have come up with a new way to help defend themselves against patent trolls. Patent trolls, or “non-practicing entities,” are companies that buy up old patents and try to monetize them by accusing others of infringement. They usually request a one-off licensing fee to end a lawsuit, something many companies reluctantly pay because it’s cheaper than defending the claim. The practice has become a significant problem in the…

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How to Tame Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud Multisourcing

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SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud services) technologies are complicating an already complex IT services value chain. Here’s how to tame this multisourcing beast. Multisourcing — parceling out the IT services portfolio among a number of vendors — is the new normal in IT outsourcing. And as social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) services become increasingly important to the IT environment, companies will find themselves managing an ever larger pool of smaller deals that are, in many ways, different from their traditional outsourcing relationships. And, says Lois Coatney, partner with outsourcing consultancy…

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25 fake government websites closed down

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Five people have been arrested for running fake scam websites, imitating government services Five people have been arrested for operating websites offering to help web users pay tax or apply for driving licences and passports. The operatives were actually scamming the visitors, taking their money and identities but not providing the goods and were arrested under the Fraud Act. The Advertising Standards Authority and Citizens Advice received 5,700 complaints about the websites, which all included misleading web addresses, ending in variations of the ‘gov.uk’ domain suffix, such as ‘govuk’ and…

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Oracle Expands Software Support For VM Platform

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Oracle has refreshed its virtual machine with enhancements helpful to organizations that have application environments using products other than the business software maker’s. Oracle VM Release 3.3, launched July 2, supports a wider range of non-Oracle application workloads with updated paravirtualization (PV) drivers for Microsoft Windows. The PV drivers boost network and disk input/output throughput for Microsoft Windows guest OS environments, Oracle said. The drivers and the Oracle VM Server for x86 meet requirements set by theMicrosoft Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program. In addition, Oracle has improved the single console…

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IBM Unveils Cloud and On Premises Social Software to Help Clients Break Down Collaboration Barriers

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IBM Connections 5 Gives Organizations a Secure, Unified Platform to Deepen Engagement with Clients, Employees and Partners IBM today introduced new cloud and on premisessocial software to help clients better connect, collaborate and share information with key stakeholders inside and outside their organizations.  The latest version of the market-leading IBM Connections platform features an open and fully integrated suite of social and real-time collaboration, analytics and content management tools, all securely delivered on any screen or device. Ranked by IDC as the worldwide market share leader in enterprise social software, IBM Connections helps organizations drive deeper collaboration and…

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Does Google employ too many smart people?

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Google engineer suggests workers are over confident & over reliant on logic Google’s determination to only hire the brightest candidates is also a weakness, according to one of its own employees. Avery Pennarun, who has worked at Google as a senior staff software engineer for three years has given  a fascinating insight into life at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. At a firm where internships are as fiercely contested as full-time roles, it’s unsurprising to learn that Google only employs high acheivers. “[I] wouldn’t have thought that…

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Three Reasons Government Tech Projects Fail

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Gartner research director Darryl Carlton gives a preview of his presentation at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, 21-22 July 2014 in Sydney. Over the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of high profile government IT projects end in spectacular failure. Take the British Child Support Agency for example, which ranks as one of the worst public administration scandals of all time. Not only did the system have an 85 percent error rate in calculating payments but, seven years after it was introduced, there were…

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Digital Transformation Era Projects a Promising Future for Enterprise Applications Software, Says IDC

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The Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) Enterprise Applications (EA) software market posted a mediocre growth of 5.1% in 2013. Unlike 2012, when the EA market grew 9%, Asian enterprises were more cautious about their investment in 2013. Although organizations were keen in upgrading existing back-office applications to embrace the 3 rd platform technologies – cloud, analytics, mobility, and social – watchful spending strategy of customers and the ad hoc nature of deployments did not warrant for sustained growth in 2013. “The 3 rd platform technologies, especially cloud, will be a critical driver for enterprise applications…

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Will The Smartphone Become Obsolete?

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A look at how cloud technology may change the future of mobile handsets. In the current mobile manufacturing competition, device makers strive to give users a distinct product with unique features. So is it possible to imagine a common, ubiquitous device? That is, a mobile handset virtually the same as every other? Distinguished not by ‘bells & whistles’ and physical features, but by its cloud-based, personalized profile, services & apps delivered to the user via SaaS? Such a concept is interesting to consider, because some analysts believe that’s the future…

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What’s Hot About Next-Generation Hotspots

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The humble Wi-Fi hotspot is getting a makeover that will bring new benefits to mobile users, businesses and service providers. Coming soon to a street corner near you: the next-generation Wi-Fi hotspot. One where you do not have to bother with passwords or signup pages,or even finding out whether it is there. You will be using it before you even know it. The idea behind next-generation hotspots is simple: to make their use as seamless as the experience you currently have on the cellular network with your mobile phone. So…

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