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Quest Software to Host The Experts Conference 2011

October 31st, 2010
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Quest Software announced speaker and session lineups for The Experts Conference 2011 to be held at the Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa in Las Vegas, April 17-20.

According to a release, TEC 2011 will include a virtualization and cloud conference featuring knowledge transfer on both desktop and server virtualization, and cloud computing.

Registration is now open for this 400-level training event focused on advancing the skills of Microsoft Directory and Identity, Exchange Server, and SharePoint technologies users.

TEC presenters Guido Grillenmeier of HP and Rob Nottoli of Microsoft will help launch the event, along with virtualization guru Scott Herold of Quest.

Dean Wells, Brian Puhl, and Laura Hunter; Edgile’s Craig Martin; and Pamela Dingle of Ping Identity will return to the event in 2011.

Speakers from Microsoft include Ross Smith IV, David Espinoza, Greg Taylor, Scott Schnoll, and Ilse Van Criekinge.

Other speakers include Dux Raymond Sy of Innovative-e, Ram Gopinathan of Microsoft, Shadeed Eleazar of Planet Technologies, Fabian Williams of CDW Advanced Technology Services and Tobias Zimmergren of Tozit.

“For 10 years, we have delivered world-class training to the world’s top IT pros, creating an atmosphere of peer networking that can’t be beat at any event, anywhere,” said Gil Kirkpatrick, Quest chief architect and conference founder. “As we open registration for our tenth annual event, I am very proud that the conference not only continues to meet its original charter of experts teaching experts, but also has expanded to meet the changing technology training needs of the marketplace with the introduction of our first ever TEC for Virtualization and Cloud.”

TEC is presented by Quest and Microsoft. The conferences are offered on a tiered pricing schedule that includes all food, beverages and conference materials.

Source:http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/qsft_quest-software-to-host-the-experts-conference-2011-1270543.html

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Apple sues Motorola amid litigation scrum

October 31st, 2010
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Apple has counter-sued Motorola, alleging the mobile phone maker violated patents including those that protect the iPhone’s interpretation of multiple finger-touches for making an image larger or smaller.

The suit claims infringement of six patents and was filed in a US federal court in Wisconsin less than a month after Motorola sued Apple, arguing that the iPhone and other products violated Motorola patents in core areas including mobile communications, software management and location-based services

The suit filed on Friday adds to a scrum of litigation that has also drawn in the top names in technology. Parties to one or more smartphone patent cases which have been filed include Google, which makes the Android operating software that is seen as the greatest threat to the iPhone; Oracle, which now controls the Java software used in most phones; Microsoft; top smartphone maker Nokia; and other handset manufacturers such as HTC.

Unlike most areas of intellectual-property skirmishing, the mobile phone industry has a body that administers a pool of patents, to which all parties contribute, and assigns licensing fees.

But as the stakes have risen, and some of the most desirable technology has come to resemble that in traditional computing more than phones, the coalition approach has fractured. The balance has been upset in particular by Apple, which has many fewer patents in phones than its rivals but can lay claim to some of the biggest advances.

Motorola on Saturday said it had not reviewed Apple’s filing in detail. But it pointed out that it had previously sued Apple and also made a complaint to the US International Trade Commission, another popular venue for such disputes.

“Motorola has a leading intellectual property portfolio, one of the strongest in the industry, and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves in this matter”, said company spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson. “We are confident in our position and will pursue our litigation to halt Apple’s continued infringement”.

Without a grand compromise, the thicket of cases could drag on for years and might slow what has been a rapid pace of advancement.

Apple faces a lawsuit from Nokia over its iPhone technology and has taken legal action of its own against the Finnish cellphone maker.

Apple is also part of a wider legal challenge to Google’s Android smartphone operating system, having filed a lawsuit against handset maker HTC over its use of the software. That echoes Microsoft’s action against Motorola over its use of Android software and Oracle’s action against Google over the alleged use of its Java technology in Android.

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Source:-http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/48ccf92a-e492-11df-910c-00144feabdc0.html

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Lawsuit claims NYC stole 9/11 DNA software secrets

October 31st, 2010
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A software company that helped identify the remains of 9/11 victims is accusing the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office of improperly handing its programing secrets over to the FBI.

The New York Times reported Saturday that a federal judge in Manhattan has been asked to decide if the lawsuit can go forward.

The claim was filed in March by Gene Codes, based in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The company’s software helped the city analyze and organize the DNA of attack victims.

But Gene Codes claims New York refused to pay to maintain the software, then gave the FBI proprietary information once the system crashed.

New York City has filed a $10 million countersuit claiming the company didn’t meet its contractual obligations.

Source:-http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J67V6G0.htm

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Using ICT tools for national security

October 30th, 2010
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CEO, Omatek Computers, Florence Seriki (left); President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Titi Omo-Ettu; former Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ernest Ndukwe and his wife, Ndali, at the a reception party welcoming Ndukwe back into the ICT industry, 10 years after he was appointed EVC of NCC. It was organised by ATCON in Lagos weekend

The need to tap from the power of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance national security operations in the country was the focus of the gathering of ICT experts and security operatives in Lagos last week.
Put together by Teledom Group of Companies and its event management partner, Gamnet Solutions, the one-day summit on ICT intervention in national security emergency, pulled the military, police, customs, immigration, prisons and ICT experts to brainstorm on modern ICT tools that will enhance their day-to-day operations in the course of discharging their duties.

Source:-http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=20345

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Microsoft: Needs to Go Beyond PC

October 30th, 2010
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Roy Ozzie, the one who took over Bill Gates’ position as the Chief Software Architect recently announced his plans of leaving his post. In line with his announcement of resignation, Ozzie also left a deep message to Microsoft. He tells Microsoft that they need to “go beyond the PC”.

Mr. Ozzie described his stint with the PC giant has been “breathtaking” and he expects the future to be the same with Microsoft. On the other hand, he also mentioned in his memo entitled “Dawn of a New Day” that the strengths that Microsoft has could also be its weakness for the years to come.

In the first part of his memo, he empahasized on a world of seamless computing and mentioned Microsoft’s attempt to work with different kinds of devices. In the second part of the memo, he praised Microsoft but he also acknowledges the things that their rivals were able to do. He pointed out that the main reason as to why Microsoft has never done what their rivals did is because of the company being intimately tied with the PC. This statement was clearly shown in this paragraph from his memo saying:

For the most part, we’ve grown to perceive of “computing” as being equated with specific familiar “artifacts” such as the “computer”, the “program” that’s installed on a computer, and the “files” that are stored on that computer’s “desktop”….the early adopters among us have decidedly begun to move away from mentally associating our computing activities with the hardware/software artifacts of our past such as PC’s, CD-installed programs, desktops, folders & files.”

Roy Ozzie then emphasized on the importance of connections as opposed to computers as most people would prefer instant usage, interchangeability and replaceable devices.

Source:-http://topnewsbuzz.com/microsoft-needs-to-go-beyond-pc/92190/

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Microsoft’s continued struggles with Apple

October 30th, 2010
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Wall Street has been left with more questions than answers after the world’s biggest software company set out where it is heading this year.

While Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer spoke excitedly in July about Windows 7, the new Bing search engine, Phone software and the Xbox game system at an annual event held at the company’s Seattle headquarters, the audience of investors wanted to know how he was going to compete with the Apple iPad.

Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar asked Ballmer to expand on their plans. “It feels like right now you are not completely sure. I just want to give you another chance to give a succinct … response,” she said after Ballmer’s presentation.

Ballmer responded that slates and tablet computers would soon be launched that would have Intel chips and run Windows. “We’re going to sell like crazy. We’re going to market like crazy,” he predicted. Three months later, Microsoft has launched just one Windows tablet, and even that is not cutting into the iPad’s eight million sales.

Microsoft shares have dropped sixteen per cent this year, despite a rise in technology stocks that has pushed the Nasdaq up ten per cent over the same period, and the company has now been overtaken by Apple in market value.

Source:-http://www.seek4media.com/tech/9220-microsoft_s_continued_struggles_with_apple.html

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id Software not commited to a product but will try to port Rage to Android

October 30th, 2010
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In what seems to be a little bit of back-peddling, John Carmack released a bit of a statement regarding Rage coming to Android and id Software’s stance on the whole thing. It has been rumored that Rage would be coming to Android, especially with id Software’s past job listing that was looking for an Android developer among other things.

Today John Carmack said that while he was going to take a crack at porting Rage to Android, id Software has not committed to an actual product. I’m guessing this is going to come down to how well it can be ported so instead of saying anything outright about doing it or committing to it, id Software is going to test the waters out first.

Hopefully this actually pans out and we see Rage come to the Android platform as the demand for high caliber games is very real. Obviously a game like this will only be able to be played on newer Android devices but that shouldn’t make much difference regarding id Software’s decision to actually commit to this project.

Sounds a lot like the whole Unreal Engine 3 supporting Android already although everyone over at Epic still refuses to come right out and say something officially about UE3 supporting Android.

Source:-http://www.droidgamers.com/index.php/game-news/android-game-news/739-id-software-not-commited-to-a-product-but-will-try-to-port-rage-to-android

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