Robert J. Mullins

SAN FRANCISCO-At the VMworld 2012 Conference here VMware introduced vSphere 5.1, its cloud infrastructure and management suite on Aug. 27 and while doing so couldn’t resist making a dig at rival Microsoft’s virtualization and cloud offerings. The vSphere upgrade, along with various upgrades to products within the suite, comes at the same time when Microsoft […]

A federal jury in San Jose, Calif. awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages for patent infringement by rival smartphone and tablet maker Samsung. In a session that took more than a half an hour the afternoon of Aug. 24, a court clerk read dozens of rulings on multiple counts of infringement regarding a variety of […]

Microsoft is doing a lot of new stuff this year with its new Surface tablet computer, new Windows 8 operating system, Windows Phone 8, a new Office suite and Windows Server 2012. But the company decided it didn’t have enough new stuff so it introduced a set of new logos for the corporation and many […]

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF.-A survey of the IT labor market shows high demand and short supply for IT professionals, but that the shortage is exacerbated by the fact that relatively few women are in the profession. The survey of 2,400 IT managers globally by Harvey Nash, a global staffing services firm, revealed that 35 percent of […]

Microsoft has released the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation version making it available free for 90 days in an effort to prove to major customers that the added features in the new operating system are worth the time and expense of an upgrade. In a blog post accompanying the release, Mitch Irsfeld, editor of the Microsoft […]

The issue of whether Samsung copied the patented design of Apple’s iPhone and iPad to make its own competing products is now in the hands of a jury as attorneys for both sides wrapped up closing arguments in a federal courtroom Aug. 21. Attorneys for Apple and Samsung gave dramatic presentations summing up their arguments […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – If speech-recognition technology were a human, it would be like a 5- or 6-year-old child. At the age of 1, you can speak to a child, but you have to speak slowly and simply using small words. By 5 or 6, it starts to better understand your words and, more importantly, […]

Motorola has filed a second patent infringement complaint against Apple, just one month after an initial complaint filing that theoretically could result in Apple iPads, iPhones and other products being banned from importation into the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released details Aug. 20 of the second complaint by Motorola Mobility, now […]

Both sides have finished presenting evidence in the patent infringement trial of Apple versus Samsung over the technology in each company’s smartphones and tablet computers. The feuding tech companies are expected to make closing arguments Aug. 21 before the jury in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., begins its deliberations the next day. In […]

Witnesses in the patent infringement trial of Apple versus Samsung challenged Apple’s estimates of damages caused by Samsung’s allegedly copying Apple’s designs for the iPhone and iPad, while providing their estimates of damages suffered by Samsung because of Apple’s alleged infringement. The conflicting dollar amounts dominated testimony Aug. 16 in the case winding up in […]