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German Telekom launches promotion program in Berlin for start-ups

German Telekom launches promotion program in Berlin for start-ups

The German Telekom began under the name of an incubator space for start-ups in Berlin launched. As the Bonn-based company at the conference NEXT announced he wants to revive the ideas gained from his business. Simultaneously he is planning, together with General Assembly, a U.S. educational institution for technology, design and aspects of business management [...]

Attribution murderer must tolerate foreign online reporting

Attribution murderer must tolerate foreign online reporting

The Federal Court action brought by a judgment which dismissed the murder convict who wolllte can prohibit the reporting of a strained constitutional complaint from him by mentioning his full name on an austrian site. This is another, but maybe not the last process in a number of actions completed. One of the two convicted [...]

RIM has expanded its management team

RIM has expanded its management team

Research In Motion increased its top management: It has a new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. They should help the troubled smartphone manufacturer attempting a turnaround with the operating system Blackberry 10th Both come from outside the company. As Chief Operating Officer is Kristian Tear, previously executive vice president for Sony Mobile Communications. [...]

Micron wants to take over insolvent chip maker Elpida

Micron wants to take over insolvent chip maker Elpida

Micron’s exclusive may negotiate a takeover of the insolvent Japanese chipmaker Elpida. Previously the company had offered $ 2.5 billion by Elpida and set it against its competitors Hynix. As Reuters reports, the provision of trustee and management Elpida was adopted. It provides, inter alia, that Micron will receive two production facilities in Japan, Elpida [...]

Judgment in the Java process: Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights

Judgment in the Java process: Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights

Oracle has reached in the dispute with Google over the use of Java in Android some success. At the end of the first part of the hearing, which dealt with copyright issues, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of Oracle on most points. This includes the question of whether Oracle has demonstrated that Google [...]

Lawyers for the Java ruling: “Copyright for APIs is dangerous”

Lawyers for the Java ruling: “Copyright for APIs is dangerous”

The partial judgment of the jury in the Java process between Oracle and Google leaves many questions unanswered and raises new ones. From News.com interviewed legal experts came to different views as to how the decision is to evaluate and determine the further course of the process is. The jury did have a copyright infringement [...]

Fortune 500 list: Apple overtakes IBM

Fortune 500 list: Apple overtakes IBM

Apple has passed in the current from the U.S. business magazine Fortune published list of the 500 largest companies in the world to IBM. With annual revenues of $ 108,249,000,000 occupied the iPhone maker finished 17th Last year he found himself still in 35th place (65.225 billion) and again five years ago, ranked 121 (19.315 [...]

Yahoo: Wrong CEO CV worried investors and employees

Yahoo: Wrong CEO CV worried investors and employees

Specifying an alleged computer science’s degree in curriculum vitae of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson triggers growing unrest within the company and investors. In an internal memo, Thompson turned to the staff: “I want you to know how much I regret that this issue, the company and have you all been affected.” He further urged to [...]

Twitter gets new CEO

Twitter gets new CEO

The Board of business network Xing Vollmoeller Thomas has with effect from 15 August 2012 appointed to the Board. He is later than the 15th January 2013, the succession of the CEO Stefan Gross-Selbeck compete. This will not extend his current contract since January 2009, “at his own request,” “in order to pursue new professional [...]

Imation buys McAfee’s business with encrypted USB flash drives

Imation buys McAfee’s business with encrypted USB flash drives

Imation takes over the sale and support of encrypted USB storage that can be managed with McAfee e-Policy Orchestrator. The company is already McAfee partners in this area and distributes McAfee Encrypted USB devices as enhance our service offerings. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The USB devices and USB management software extension [...]

IDC: Hadoop ecosystem generates over 800 million dollars in sales in 2016

IDC: Hadoop ecosystem generates over 800 million dollars in sales in 2016

IDC estimates the market around the Google MapReduce algorithm based on it and the open source Hadoop framework. Market researchers predict him an annual growth rate of over 60 percent, so that the Hadoop ecosystem in 2016 for $ 812.6 million to make sales. For 2011, IDC of only $ 77 million in sales – [...]

Apple will seek agreement with Proview supposed to mark “iPad” to

Apple will seek agreement with Proview supposed to mark “iPad” to

dispute with the Proview name rights to “iPad” the intention of the Chinese state news agency Xinhua and Apple, according to a comparison now. Xinhua quoted Xie Xianghui Proviews lawyer: We believe that Apple’s attitude has changed. Although they were previously willing to negotiate even showed it was ever put into action. But now there [...]

Oracle v. Google: Only a copyright issue is still open

Oracle v. Google: Only a copyright issue is still open

In the first part of the Java process from Oracle Google is only a matter open. In the other three points we have reached an agreement, the jury split on Friday (local time) with. The announcement moves in but at least Monday evening German time. The open question is standing in front of a tie, [...]

Revenue from mobile data services in 2012 is expected to rise 13 percent

Revenue from mobile data services in 2012 is expected to rise 13 percent

Revenues from mobile data services will increase during the current year worldwide by 13 percent to around 217 billion euros. The high-tech association Bitkom reported on the basis of forecasts of the international research project EITO. In 2011 the revenue had grown accordingly by 15 percent to 192 billion euros. “The growing wings spread of [...]

Facebook Ceglia plaintiff must pay within two weeks for $ 97,000

Facebook Ceglia plaintiff must pay within two weeks for $ 97,000

The New York lumber merchant Paul D. Ceglia, the demands at least a 50 percent share of Facebook, has been the competent district court in Buffalo (New York) sentenced to pay another $ 16,851 to Facebook’s lawyers. Mid-February, Judge Leslie G. Foschio already imposed on him to reimburse costs for Facebook to legal counsel in [...]