Intel last year bid billions trying to get the Nortel patents. Thursday RealNetworks said Intel was paying it $120 million cash for 190 “foundational media” patents, 170 patent applications and next-generation video codec software good for stuff like streaming.
The IP is apparently supposed to brace Intel’s Ultrabook, smartphone, tablet and digital media interests.
Intel’s also picking up Real...Jan. 28, 2012 06:00 PM EST
The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, etc. The existing specifications in the platform such as JPA, Servlets, EJB, and others will be updated to ...
A federal court in California has upheld the validity of a key RPost patent reinforcing the company’s claims to own the technology for registered, legally recognized, court-admissible evidence of e-mail content and delivery going back to 1995.
RPost’s 35 patents, granted in 21 countries, broadly cover verifiable proof of e-mail delivery and value-added outbound e-mail processing.
On December 2...
AppDynamics, the newfangled application performance management house started in 2008 to cater to mission-critical web apps, has picked up a handsome $20 million C round led by Kleiner Perkins.
Its existing VCs Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also kicked in. With the new infusion it’s raised a total of $36.5 million.
The start-up will use the new money to enhance its product a...
Disappointed with your SOC in a box solution? Here are a few steps to improve your static rule based correlation solution...
During these past few weeks, we have looked at several reasons why a static rule based correlation is not the "SOC in a Box", end-all be all that many thought it was.
Indeed what to think about a "solution" that:
Can only address a very limited set of attack scenarios
Re...
Oracle can’t appeal the judge’s decision to cut the $1.3 billion jury award in its suit against SAP to a mere $272 million unless it rejects the $272 million, the judge told Oracle last Friday. Oracle is trying to avoid the other option the judge gave it, which is a new trial. If Oracle rejects the $272 million, there would be a new trial and then it could appeal the judge’s decision. The judge co...
Defining "Who sees what" and "who does what" are the two important aspects of access control in any software application.
"Security" is a much larger subject, but this article focuses on just the access control aspects of Security in a software application.
When you build a custom application for a specific customer, the access control policies of the organization are often defined upfront as pa...
This is a very well put together book. It includes a single example company that the book grows and changes throughout the book. Sometimes examples get on my nerves. They are either too lightweight to mean anything, or sometimes too complex, and end up distracting you to the point of not wanting to continue read the book. The authors do an awesome job with the case study in this book. It really ma...
You remember that "False Sense of Security," the feeling that you are secure, but in fact you're not...?
Attackers know that an attack is a process, it is not an event. And they use this - and they use time - to their advantage. They use time scales that static rule-based correlation simply cannot cope with.
If you want to correlate disparate events, you need to keep state information on these e...
If you consider the CNN Money survey it is IBM which has beaten Microsoft by a whisker. They did not consider Facebook as it is not publically traded.
If you listen to Eric Schmidt, it is off course Facebook. Off course anybody from Google will consider Facebook in the list because Larry Page is turning Google upside down to compete with Facebook.
However, if you go by what Jeff Bezos say then i...