Robert J. Mullins

VMware said its new Horizon Mobile technology, which runs a work phone as a virtual instance on an employee’s personal smartphone, will run on Apple iOS devices as well as those running the Google Android OS. When VMware unveiled Horizon Mobile at VMworld 2011, it only supported Android, which struck some industry observers as a […]

Apple has presented a federal judge in San Jose, Calif., with a list of eight Samsung mobile devices it believes should be taken off the market in the United States because they infringe on Apple’s patents. The list was presented Aug. 27 to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over a three-week trial that […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The greatest applause VMware’s incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger received during his VMworld 2012 keynote address was when he said the company’s controversial “vRAM” pricing policy was no more. The vRAM pricing policy was introduced at VMworld 2011 with the launch of vSphere 5.0, which is the VMware suite for managing virtual environments. […]

A federal judge in San Jose, Calif., has directed lawyers for Apple to submit a list on Aug. 27 of the current Samsung products that a jury found infringed on Apple patents. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh will then decide whether to impose a ban of the sale of those products in the United States. […]

SAN FRANCISCO-At the VMworld 2012 Conference here VMware introduced vSphere 5.1, its cloud infrastructure and management suite on Aug. 27 and while doing so couldn’t resist making a dig at rival Microsoft’s virtualization and cloud offerings. The vSphere upgrade, along with various upgrades to products within the suite, comes at the same time when Microsoft […]

A federal jury in San Jose, Calif. awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages for patent infringement by rival smartphone and tablet maker Samsung. In a session that took more than a half an hour the afternoon of Aug. 24, a court clerk read dozens of rulings on multiple counts of infringement regarding a variety of […]

Microsoft is doing a lot of new stuff this year with its new Surface tablet computer, new Windows 8 operating system, Windows Phone 8, a new Office suite and Windows Server 2012. But the company decided it didn’t have enough new stuff so it introduced a set of new logos for the corporation and many […]

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF.-A survey of the IT labor market shows high demand and short supply for IT professionals, but that the shortage is exacerbated by the fact that relatively few women are in the profession. The survey of 2,400 IT managers globally by Harvey Nash, a global staffing services firm, revealed that 35 percent of […]

Microsoft has released the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation version making it available free for 90 days in an effort to prove to major customers that the added features in the new operating system are worth the time and expense of an upgrade. In a blog post accompanying the release, Mitch Irsfeld, editor of the Microsoft […]

The issue of whether Samsung copied the patented design of Apple’s iPhone and iPad to make its own competing products is now in the hands of a jury as attorneys for both sides wrapped up closing arguments in a federal courtroom Aug. 21. Attorneys for Apple and Samsung gave dramatic presentations summing up their arguments […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – If speech-recognition technology were a human, it would be like a 5- or 6-year-old child. At the age of 1, you can speak to a child, but you have to speak slowly and simply using small words. By 5 or 6, it starts to better understand your words and, more importantly, […]

Motorola has filed a second patent infringement complaint against Apple, just one month after an initial complaint filing that theoretically could result in Apple iPads, iPhones and other products being banned from importation into the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released details Aug. 20 of the second complaint by Motorola Mobility, now […]