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IDG News Service — Microsoft sees better opportunities in Indonesia and India than it does in China due to “very, very low” protection for intellectual property in China, Microsoft’s chief executive said Wednesday. [what do you think of this issue? Vote in the poll at the end of this post] China is set to surpass the U.S. [...] Silicon Alley Insider have published an interesting chart showing relative R&D expenditure for a number of the major tech companies. As you can see, Microsoft continues what’s been a long standing trend for them of spending big on R&D – both as an absolute number and also as a percentage of revenue. That said, both [...] Google’s PowerMeter will now be available to consumers on real-time energy monitoring devices from ‘Current Cost’, the largest global supplier of such displays. Google’s PowerMeter helps you monitor how much electricity you use to help you save money and conserve energy at the same time. The company has been actively searching for device manufacturers for some time; Current [...] Eric Shupps over at Network World has published a nice article on optimizing Sharepoint performance. Here’s the link for the full text of the article, but to summarise, his ten points cover the following: - Step 1: Separate user and database traffic - Step 2: Isolate search indexing - Step 3: Adjust SQL parameters - Step 4: Defragment database indexes - Step [...] Google has launched a new cloud storage service competing directly with Amazon’s S3. Google Storage for Developers offers scalable, high-bandwidth storage, with an easy-to-use RESTful API. Google Storage will cost 17¢ per gigabyte per month, with uploads costing 10¢ per gigabyte and 15-30¢ per gigabyte for downloads. Initially, Google Storage will only be available to a limited [...] With Google’s I/O 2010 event currently underway, there have been a slew of new announcements from the big G (with more to come, no doubt). So far these have included: a further opening up of Google Wave, a new app store for Chrome, developer APIs for location and storage and a version of Google App Engine, targeted [...] Google’s philosophy on email retention is basically ‘keep everything, storage is cheap and we provide filters and search tools to help you out’. That’s great, but for those of you using Gmail with an IMAP client, such as Mac Mail or Outlook, you probably have the same issues with that approach as I’ve had until [...] [source: VentureBeat] Microsoft filed a lawsuit in federal court today alleging that Salesforce.com has violated several of its software patents. The lawsuit says that the sales application company has violated nine of Microsoft’s patents, including: a “method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data”, a “system and method for providing and displaying a web page [...] IDG News Service — A Sybase shareholder has filed suit to block the sale of the company to applications vendor SAP, saying the US$5.8 billion sale price isn’t fair, according to documents filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit was brought by shareholder Stephen Alberti of New York [...] |
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