Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 29, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
The company that says cloud providers are in denial about risk has estimated the total costs from the recent Epsilon data breach. Here’s a hint: They’re big.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 16, 2011 at 9:48 am PT
Once a sales manager for Salesforce.com, Drew Bartkiewicz was a cloud computing evangelist. Then he worked in the insurance industry. Now he says cloud computing companies and their customers are ignoring a key question: Who’s liable when something goes really wrong?
John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2011 at 11:20 am PT
Is Google’s VP8 video codec free from patent liability? We’re about to find out. MPEG LA, the consortium that controls the AVC/H.264 video standard, issued a call for patents thought to be essential to VP8 today, a first step in the creation of a patent pool for the specification.
John Paczkowski in News on January 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm PT
Here’s one way to spur adoption of your new video codec. End your browser’s support for a widely used rival codec. That’s what Google did today, announcing that its Chrome browser will ship without native support for H.264.
John Paczkowski in News on December 29, 2010 at 4:35 am PT
SAP would rather not pay Oracle interest on top of the $1.3 billlion in damages awarded the company last month. But if it must, it would prefer that the interest be calculated at a lower rate. The company argued that point in a recent court filing, and Tuesday evening a court agreed.
John Paczkowski in News on November 23, 2010 at 2:54 pm PT
Billions or millions. That was the central question in the Oracle vs. SAP case and in the end, the jury determined its answer to be billions with a “b.” For the theft of Oracle’s intellectual property by its now shuttered TomorrowNow division, SAP must pay Oracle $1.3 billion.
John Paczkowski in News on November 23, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
With closing arguments said and done, the Oracle-SAP case is nearly over, but the companies continue to trade sucker punches outside the courtroom. In dueling statements issued Monday night, Oracle branded SAP an IP plunderer and SAP upbraided Oracle for its impolitic behavior and what it seems to view as poor form.
John Paczkowski in News on November 22, 2010 at 3:54 pm PT
Closing arguments in the Oracle vs. SAP trial went about as expected, with Oracle attorney David Boies urging the jury to drop the hammer on SAP by awarding $1.7 billion in damages, and SAP attorney Robert Mittelstaedt arguing that to do so would be asinine.
John Paczkowski in News on November 20, 2010 at 2:00 am PT
Testimony in the Oracle vs SAP trial wrapped up on Friday with a second appearance by Oracle co-President Safra Catz who said SAP should pay at least $1.6 billion in damages for the copyright infringement’s of its TomorrowNow subsidiary and chided the company for its offer of $40 million.
