{"id":9054,"date":"2010-12-29T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/news_to_know_before_new_years_2011.html"},"modified":"2010-12-29T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:07:02","slug":"news-to-know-before-new-years-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/news-to-know-before-new-years-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"News to Know Before New Year’s 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bitter fight<\/a> between Oracle and SAP<\/strong> over copyright infringement got more bitter with courts agreeing SAP owes Oracle $16.5M in interest on the $1.3B award Oracle received. While less than the $211.7M Oracle sought, Oracle will also get reimbursed<\/a> by SAP for $120M in attorney fees.<\/p>\n

Let’s say you got a NookColor for Christmas but your books are all on Amazon’s Kindle service… You can now read<\/a> Kindle books on the Nook – but you need to put on your propeller hat first.<\/p>\n

Most Indian telcos must roll out services on wireless spectrum they purchase from the fovernment in a year or pay fines. At least three Indian telecommunication companies–Etisalat DB Telecom Pvt. Ltd., Loop Telecom Pvt. Ltd. and Unitech Wireless Ltd.–have paid a penalty<\/a> to the federal government for the delayed launch of mobile telephony services<\/strong> within the stipulated time.<\/p>\n

The number<\/strong> of apps<\/strong> in the Android<\/strong> space doubled<\/a> in two months from 100k to 200k and over 2.5B Android apps have been downloaded. Take the unofficial 200K number with a grain of salt – it will likely get officially revised down to 140-160k in my opinion.<\/p>\n

The smart grid market is white hot<\/strong> – with growth that is – the actually grid itself is perfectly safe thank you very much. In fact Mark Armentrout, President of the Texas Institute will discuss<\/a> his smart grid vision at the Smart Grid Summit<\/a> Feb 2-4, 2011 in Miami. Additional sessions include: The Voice of the Customer: Are Utilities Listening? This panel features Ulysses Learning’s Dina Vance, and Nuance’s Christy Murfitt. Also Transmission and Distribution: Building a Strong Foundation. This session features Rudi Schubert, Principal Consultant of EnerNex Corporation. You likely know this already but if not, I am the CEO of TMC and my company along with partners host this event – along with a number of others in the tech space such as ITEXPO the first week of February in south Florida.<\/p>\n

Speaking of hot, Skype’s IPO<\/strong> is scheduled for next year and the recent outage<\/strong> certainly cast a shadow over the company. Now, it turns out we know what went wrong<\/a> – 50% of Windows Skype clients run version 5.0.0.152 and 40% of those failed<\/strong> – apparently a bug overloaded the supernodes which are needed to keep Skype’s service up and running.<\/p>\n

See Also: Last Week’s Skype Outage Explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bitter fight between Oracle and SAP over copyright infringement got more bitter with courts agreeing SAP owes Oracle $16.5M in interest on the $1.3B award Oracle received. While less than the $211.7M Oracle sought, Oracle will also get reimbursed by SAP for $120M in attorney fees. Let’s say you got a NookColor for Christmas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,1680,158,181,201,1,196,199,197,189,203,213,214,211,118,177,174,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}