Gartner says global PC shipments rose 3.2% in the third quarter to 91.8 million units, which is a lot given the deplorable world economy but the number doesn’t meet the researcher’s projection of 5.1%, suggesting that Gartner was overly exuberant. It probably won’t come as news to an...

Last Month the Sybase SAP Nordic Roadshow again hit 4 countries in 4 days... Stockholm Sweden, Helsinki Finland, Oslo Norway and Copenhagen Denmark. A serious amount of traveling, delivering a serious amount of content, within the 3 tracks Manage, Analyze and Mobilize. A number of the ...

Steve Jobs died at home in Palo Alto, California at about three o’clock last Wednesday afternoon according to the death certificate issued Monday by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in San Jose. About 90 minutes later Apple released the news. The immediate cause of deat...

Pre-orders for Apple’s new iPhone 4S spiraled past the million mark within 24 hours Apple says. That’s better than any iPhone before it. The old Apple record was held by the iPhone 4, which was pre-ordered 600,000 times its first day. Apple SVP of worldwide product marketing said, “T...

Google and Samsung have pulled the unveiling this week of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android and Samsung’s new Ice Cream Sandwich-based Nexus Prime phone lest they seem insensitive to Steve Jobs’ widely mourned death last Wednesday from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. On i...

Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold and his giant Intellectual Ventures patent troll sued Motorola Mobility Thursday morning in federal court in Delaware for infringement. It says MMI refused to take out a license after negotiations that started in January. It charges violation of ...

An unapologetically random reprise of yesterday's Twitterstream in and among the executives, commentators, and other stakeholders in the Cloud Computing ecosystem...

Steve Jobs has died. Apple has put out an announcement saying, “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably ...

Practically anybody outside of a newly arrived Martian could have guessed that Apple would reject Samsung Australia’s out-of-court attempt to resolve its litigation problems with Apple to get its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 on the local market. Whatever the secret peace pact Samsun...

Samsung has offered Apple some kind of deal so it can put its Galaxy Tab 10.1 on the Australian market next week, or so a federal court in Sydney was told Friday, according to reports by both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. Apple has been seeking a temporary injunction from th...

Apple and Samsung could have a decision on whether Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be temporarily banned in Australia next week pending trial for patent infringement. As part of the drama the Wall Street Journal said the court heard evidence from Apple’s then-chief paten...

Apple watchers are now pretty convinced that Apple will unveil the iPhone 5 next Tuesday since it sent the press a very pointed invitation to “talk iPhone” on its Cupertino campus. Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook is expected to usher the widget out. Reports continue to claim the thing won’t b...

FedEx has cut its earnings guidance for the year ending in May on the expectation that shipment volumes will be weak. Demand for the consumer electronic gadgets made in Asia, particularly in China, has dropped. CFO Alan Graf said that though the slowdown extends to perishable foods...

What steps can businesses take to better manage mobile applications and develop their own versions of enterprise app stores? The skyrocketing popularity of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets has, on one hand, energized users, but on the other hand, it has caused IT and busine...

Samsung has countersued Apple in Australia charging the iPad 2 and iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 with trespassing on seven of its Australian wireless patents. The move comes ahead of an Australian court deciding whether Samsung will be formally barred from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the co...

Sybase TechWave is back in Vegas Baby!.. The glowing light in the hot Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, is this week the location for the hottest & brightest technologies in the IT industry… presented by Sybase & SAP. For me I have been involved in the preparation and planning of the Mobility ...

The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA claiming tens of millions of consumers would face higher prices because of reduced competition and the possibility of lower-quality products for mobile wireless services. T-Mo...

Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook, who’s been filling in for Steve Jobs off and on for years now, sent an internal e-mail out Thursday that was, of course, leaked to the press. It reads: “Team: “I am looking forward to the amazing opportunity of serving as CEO of the most innovative company i...

DigiTimes says it’s heard from its redoubtable downstream sources that Apple has scratched the notion of iPad 3 being available this year maybe because Samsung and LG can’t get decent yields on a 2,048x1,536 9.7-inch “retina display” panel and Sharp’s are too expensive. On top of whi...

One of the screenshots Apple used to persuade the Regional Court in Düsseldorf last week that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a dead ringer for its iPad 2 and should therefore be barred in all of Europe except Holland because it infringes Apple design rights is inaccurate according to Web...

In what appears to be a fit of self-doubt over its jurisdiction the Düsseldorf Regional Court (Landesgericht) that last week barred the distribution, sale and advertising of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 anywhere in the European Union except Holland has now temporarily suspended the enforc...

Turns out Samsung wasn’t exactly straight when it claimed it was completely blindsided by the preliminary injunction Apple got last Tuesday barring the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being distributed anywhere in the European Union except Holland. Seems Samsung filed a “protect pleading” (Schu...

HTC told Bloomberg Tuesday it was kinda sorta willing to settle with its bête noire Apple depending on whether the terms were “fair and reasonable.” HTC CFO Winston Yung said, “We have to sit down and figure it out. We’re open to having discussions. We are open to all sorts of soluti...

The advent of BYOD (bring your own device) culture to the Enterprise has ushered about the “app culture” faster for IT departments than expected. Analysts agree that key to IT’s future in mobilizing today’s workforce lies with mobile device management and the move toward an Enterprise...

Apple’s contribution to the winning $4.5 billion Rockstar bid that plucked the fabled Nortel patents out of Google’s hands is $2.6 billion, better than half the record-setting price. Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes found the number buried deep in the 10-Q Apple filed last week. ...

Apple is having Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) produce next-generation chips for its mobile devices under a trial manufacturing run, according to a source Reuters says has knowledge of the matter. It appears then that Apple means to wrench at least part of its busi...

An administrative International Trade Commission (ITC) law judge Friday decided that HTC infringes two Apple patents, a judgment that puts Android in Dutch. It was a preliminary decision that will be kicked upstairs to ITC’s six commissioners to vet. They should decide by December 6,...

IDC says PC shipments worldwide – not counting tablets which are eating into PCs – were up 2.6% in Q2, short of the 2.9% the researcher’s May forecast. Gartner’s findings look worse. It said PC sales were up 2.3%, a far cry from the 6.7% it predicted. HP is still the biggest vendor wi...

Apple can't stop Amazon from using “Appstore for Android” to hawk smartphone products. At least not yet. A federal judge in the Northern District of the infamous 9th Circuit Court denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against Amazon over use of the term “App Store,” w...

Apple took its patent complaints against Samsung to the Korean’s home turf last Wednesday, escalating the dispute in which it has accused Samsung of “slavishly” copying the iPad and iPhone’s design and technology. Samsung retaliated Tuesday by going to the International Trade Commiss...

Apple got a broad – some say “incredibly broad” – multitouch patent Wednesday on swiping and how many fingers do the swiping and we shall doubtlessly find out in the fullness of time after the liberal and tedious application of jurisprudence whether or not, as some suggest, it covers a...

A federal court shot down Samsung’s dreams of getting early access to Apple’s unannounced next-generation iPad 3 and iPhone 5 Tuesday. It’ll have to stand in line like everybody else. No elbowing to the front. Apple accuses Samsung of “slavishly copying” its widgetry in a now-expan...

Joining the spate of companies that have rushed to offer cloud-based music storage and streaming services, Electronics retailer, Best Buy Co., has also announced that it is bringing its online music platform, which is already operational in the UK, to the U.S. The My Music Anywhere pla...

Nortel Networks last Thursday delayed the auction of its precious portfolio of 6,000-odd patents and patent applications a week from Monday June 20 to Monday June 27. It said it was because of “the significant level of interest” in the thing. And now it appears that, according to t...

A Chinese court has convicted three local guys who stole iPad 2’s blueprints to make counterfeits. The two guys who stole the plans worked for Foxconn, Apple’s contract manufacturer. They sold them to a third guy for about $31,000 who built and sold knockoffs way before the genuine a...

It always slightly baffles me why Apple have not reaped the rewards of their success through a Technical Education Department, like so many other technical companies. When you have a great product and a ripe demand ready for the picking, it is a win:win situation, where the vendor has ...

Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that its Palm-derived webOS TouchPad will go on sale in the US July 1 and a few days later in the UK, Ireland, France and Germany. Canada will have to wait until mid-July and Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore won’t see it unti...

Although on medical leave since January, Steve Jobs is scheduled to turn up for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6. Apple said Tuesday morning that Jobs “and a team of Apple executives will kick off” the conference with a “keynote address” covering Lion, the nex...

Netbiscuits, a provider of software service for mobile sites and apps, announced on Wednesday that its board has nominated Craig Besnoy to become the company's new managing director in North America. Stepping into his new role today, Besnoy will be responsible for Netbiscuits' growth ...

The successful Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011, that was published by Sybase two months ago, is finally available on your iOS device in iBooks format. If you're like me and have embraced a mobile lifestyle, so much so that you want your publications on your device, this is it! This inau...