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The Motorola Shuffle: Lenovo Gets Business, Google Keeps Patents

"This is truly a synergic deal," Purdy told the E-Commerce Times. "Google gets rid of Motorola Mobility, who deserves more respect and attention than Google gave it. Lenovo gets a world class mobile brand and a respectable starting place in the smartphone market." New Start Wi...

Dutch Court Lets ISPs Flee Pirate Bay Battle

"Lifting the ban on The Pirate Bay is huge for both computer users and all pirated sites. Now, users will be able to freely go on such sites without limitations," Joe Silverman, owner of New York Computer Help, told the E-Commerce Times. Temporary Victory ...

Google, EC Antitrust Settlement in the Wind

"We are ... at a critical point in the Google investigation," Antoine Colombani, EC spokesperson for competition, told the E-Commerce Times. "Last December [European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin] Almunia said that the second round of proposals was not acceptable for t...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Healthcare Fiasco Energizes Federal IT Reform Efforts

"The House bill was advancing pretty well even before the Healthcare.gov problems emerged, but those problems have created more interest in reform," Roger Jordan, vice president for government affairs at the Professional Services Council, told the E-Commerce Times. "The Udall-Moran proposal helps to move the ball down the field as well, and we are generally supportive of that proposal."

Google, Samsung Cut 10-Year Global Patent Deal

"It's very good for Samsung and Google and Android," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It allows them to continue to focus on out-innovating the industry." The deal with Google came on the heels of Samsung's announcement that it was settling a patent wrangle with Ericsson for US$...

DoJ Throws a Couple of Bones, Tech Firms Back Off

"We filed our lawsuits because we believe that the public has a right to know about the volume and type of national security requests we receive," they said in a joint statement sent to the E-Commerce Times by Katherine Kerrigan of Microsoft's PR agency Waggener Edstrom. "We're pleased the Department of Justice has agreed that we and other providers can disclose this information." ...

Worried Retail Shoppers Bury Heads in Sand

"We found that aside from looking for Trusted Site Seals when determining where to shop online, our customers often cited a site's use of Paypal as a form of payment as a credit card fraud prevention tool," he told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, about 40 percent of customers ...

Google Buys DeepMind to Dig Deeper Into Data

Google spokesperson Tim Drinan confirmed the deal to the E-Commerce Times but declined to provide further details The first commercial applications of DeepMind, which was founded in 2011, are in simulations, e-commerce and games....

Microsoft Now Turning Gears of War

Black Tusk Studios will take over its development, and Rod Fergusson, former director of production at Epic Games, will join Microsoft and play a key studio leadership role going forward, Microsoft spokesperson Martin McBride told the E-Commerce Times. "The Gears of War franc...

Twitter Cards Users Get to Play With a Full Analytics Deck

Users can then "mine that data and, say, contact an influencer who is retweeting your Cards to thank them, which will encourage future retweets," he told the E-Commerce Times. "While many of these data could be compiled through other platforms, having a single dashboard to mo...

Neiman Marcus Alerts Customers to Hack Attack

"There's little chance that this threat will diminish, and more targeted attacks will make it difficult to track, analyze and protect against them," he told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, the odds are very good that other retailers also have been compromised -- they just don'...

IBM Deal Propels Lenovo Into Enterprise Hardware Game

"For Lenovo, the deal effectively allows the company's server business -- which mainly focuses on low-end systems -- to accelerate from 5 mph to 60 mph almost immediately," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "As a result, Lenovo's position...

With AirWatch in Tow, VMware Arrives Late to Mobile Party

"VMware has been under pressure by its customers to do something with mobile devices," Attila Kiss, an IT security executive with BalaBit, told the E-Commerce Times That's because virtualization is key to cloud computing, which is growing at a phenomenal pace.

LogMeIn’s Free Service Permanently Logs Out

After 10 years, though, market conditions no longer were favorable for a free version of LogMeIn, Vercolen told the E-Commerce Times "It's not that it's not bringing us users," he explained. "It still is. We're still getting good conversions. It's just that the market has matu...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Internet of Everything Means Trillions for Public Sector

"Government overall is one of the fastest-growing sectors with respect to IoT," Ruthbea Clarke, IDC's smart cities research director, told the E-Commerce Times. IoT growth in the government sector will increase at a compound annual rate of 10.7 percent over the next five year...

HP Urges Consumers to Give In to Their Win 7 Cravings

"A big problem with Windows 8 is the learning curve is too significant for the benefits," Dave Michels, technology analyst at GigaOM and creator of TalkingPointz, told the E-Commerce Times. "Windows 7 just makes more sense. Also, since most apps are either Office or browser-b...

Intel Deal Could Help Verizon Expand Its TV Horizons

"The deal sheds an inert piece of Intel's portfolio of things, allowing it to focus on the core pieces of its business," he told the E-Commerce Times. The transaction has the potential to help Verizon make significant inroads in new markets.

Nest CEO Promises to Preserve Privacy

Fadell is putting his reputation on the line as he makes this promise, David Johnson, president of Strategic Vision, told the E-Commerce Times. "CEOs are the public face of a company, even when acquired by another company. If they make a promise they can't or don't keep, it d...

Beware of the Spam-Sending Fridge

"I don't think any security software company is able to detect such a small amount of emails that have little or no characteristics in common," Sorin Mustaca, an IT security expert at Avira, told the E-Commerce Times Considerable work, including deep analysis, is required to i...

Google Axes Adware-Pushing Chrome Extensions

"Write one line of code, and we'll send you checks," he told the E-Commerce Times Malware Gateway...

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