by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the poor-innocent-business-model dept. In 2012, Oracle took Google to court over the use of Java in Android. Judge William Alsup brought the ruling that the structure of APIs could not be copyrighted at all. Emerging from the proceedings, it was learned that...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
from the no-recess-and-nobody-judging-you-when-you-slack dept. The NY Times reports that while online college classes are already common, on the whole, the record is not encouraging because there are two big problems with online teaching. First, student attrition...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft’s first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s enterprise UC offerings. Cisco has launched what it calls a frank and direct conversation and a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the say-what-you-mean dept. “Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release, Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support via the newly added Web Speech API...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, SECURITY, Technicals
Dell can trump Cisco in the information-technology security market, say Dell’s executives in describing how the company with its multifaceted approach will hold an edge against some powerful rivals that also include HP and IBM. Cisco is a great competitor, but...
