Firefox 4 lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9; Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is bogus

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	Firefox 4 performance lags behind Chrome 10 and IE 9 Julie Bort: Chrome 10 kicks the butts of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 in my benchmark tests. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More In this Issue Linus Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus" New Linux kernel goes faster Open Flow Seeks To Change The Networking World Amazon, Android and Open Source Android is hot…and getting hotter. CloudStack, OpenStack, Here A Cloud, There A Stack, It's All Open To Me Lawyer behind Android infringement claim has Microsoft ties Winning the Enterprise Red Hat Obfuscation is a Tempest in a Teapot Is This Town Big Enough For Two Open Source WAFs? Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement CTIA 2011: Up close with Kyocera Echo dual-screen smartphone Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! Linus Torvalds: Android copyright violation claim is "bogus" Jon Brodkin: Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has said new claims that Android violates the Linux license are "totally bogus."  Read More New Linux kernel goes faster Linux kernel 2.6.28 has been released, bringing performance improvements Read More Open Flow Seeks To Change The Networking World Alan Shimel: A new foundation was announced yesterday to foster a new approach to networking.  The founding members of the foundation are: Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo. Read More Amazon, Android and Open Source Alan Shimel: Amazon's app store: a bit of turn around is fair play to Google. Read More WEBCAST: Dell - Intel Get Mobile Right…Or Else! This Webcast will probe the business-critical challenges swirling around the fast-evolving mobile infrastructure challenges most companies face. Register Now Android is hot…and getting hotter. Phil Odence: Along with its meteoric rise in popularity, the platform is generating some legal heat. The latest is about Android copyright and licensing. Welcome to the gotchas of open source. Read More CloudStack, OpenStack, Here A Cloud, There A Stack, It's All Open To Me Alan Shimel: Cloud.com releases a new version of its new open source Cloud OS. Read More Lawyer behind Android infringement claim has Microsoft ties Joe Brockmeier: Edward J. Naughton, is out promoting the idea that Android violates the GPL over on Huffington Post. But Naughton seems to be hiding his ties to Microsoft. Read More Winning the Enterprise Stephen Spector: Latest Gartner data on open source usage in the enterprise shows 46% using open source and other surprising statistics. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nastel Technologies Control & Automate Application Performance Management. This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More Red Hat Obfuscation is a Tempest in a Teapot Stephen Walli: I encountered another reference in the mainstream analysis to Red Hat "obfuscating" their work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This really is a tempest in a teapot. Read More Is This Town Big Enough For Two Open Source WAFs? Alan Shimel: Art of Defence's distributed open source firewall takes a different tack. I previously looked at IronBee the open source WAF project from Qualys and Ivan Ristic. Read More Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement Ms. Smith: Microsoft claims that Android violates Microsoft patents, yet it hasn't sued Google. Instead it sued Motorola and now Barnes & Noble. Read More CTIA 2011: Up close with Kyocera Echo dual-screen smartphone At CTIA 2011, Keith Shaw gets an overview of Kyocera's new Echo smart phone, a dual-display Android smartphone that will be available for Sprint customers on April 17. Read More Google says Microsoft patent lawsuit threatens innovation Google took a slap at Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the software giant's patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble's Android-based e-reader stifles innovation. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES U.S. govt. sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all Should you stop using RSA SecurID tokens? 39 free security software tools Apple sues Amazon for trademark infringement over "App Store" Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android Cisco sets the bar for mobile security Did hackers nab RSA SecurID's secret sauce? Google Voice coming to all Sprint phones The RSA hack FAQ
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