By a vote of 2 to 1, a U.S. Appeals court decided that a prior judge was correct to penalize Apple and five publishers for their parts to fix e-book …read more Source:: Legal
Month: June 2015
Sorry Google, the Supreme Court won’t appeal that massive Oracle case
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•Google had hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would appeal its $1 billion case with Oracle over copyrighted Java code. No such luck. …read more Source:: Legal
Red Hat builds on its open source storage portfolio
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•By Joab Jackson Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers. The company has updated …read more Source:: OpenSource
Atom at 1.0: GitHub’s Node-based editor is just getting started
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A little over a year after its first public release, GitHub’s cross-platform Atom editor has hit its full 1.0 revision and is already living up to its promise as a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft, IBM, ARM back open patent database
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•Industry consortium hopes to solve one of the most expensive issues for new businesses – who owns the patents? …read more Source:: Legal
Singapore industry group raps Dallas Buyers Club lawyers for bullying
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•Internet Society’s Singapore chapter files complaint against lawyers representing Dallas Buyers Club LLC over its bullying tactics in the illegal download lawsuit. …read more Source:: Legal
Docker donates its container specs for OPC open standard
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Open Container Project (OCP), a coalition of more than 20 companies with a stake in the application-containerization game, is setting up shop under the stewardship of …read more Source:: OpenSource
LibreOffice debuts in the Mac App Store
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•By Simon Phipps After years of manual installs and manual updates, open source flagship office suite LibreOffice is now available for installation by Mac users via Apple’s Mac App Store. This …read more Source:: OpenSource
WeChat faces shut down in Taiwan
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•Chinese technology giant Tencent may face penalties including pulling out business of the island if Taiwanese authorities deem it failed to register properly its popular messaging app WeChat. …read more Source:: Legal
Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon
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•By Mikael Ricknäs Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so …read more Source:: OpenSource