Online Retailer Newegg Ordered to Pay Patent Trolls $2.3 Million
A jury has ordered online retailer Newegg to cough-up $2.3 million as part of a closely watched patent dispute with a company called TQP Development. Newegg plans to appeal, according to Ars Technica, which first reported the decision. TQP Development is a patent assertion entity, aka a patent troll a company…
New Slides and Data: The State of Social Business Evolution 2013
The evolution of social business as we know it today traces back to The Cluetrain Manifesto in the late 1990s, where its authors predicted that markets would become conversations. Here we are at the cusp of 2014, and businesses, and the strategists who lead social efforts, continue to struggle with Part…
How To Succeed As A Social Business Sponsor
Follow these five steps to become a more effective leader and seamlessly shape your company into a social business.(click image for larger view) 10 Twitter Power Tips Your company understands the benefits of social business and is now determined to become one. You have reached step three of the "Seven…
Jury Orders Newegg To Pay $2.3 Million In ‘Patent Troll’ Case
The online retailer Newegg has lost a patent case centering on web encryption, after a Texas jury rejected its argument that a claim from the company TQP Development was invalid. The jury ordered Newegg to pay $2.3 million less than half the damages TQP had sought. The case is seen as…
Mobility is transforming enterprise content management, says Ovum
Mobility is transforming the enterprise content management (ECM) market, judges Sue Clarke, senior analyst of information management at research firm Ovum. "Users are now demanding access to content anytime, anywhere and organizations need to be prepared for this. Therefore, all ECM-related products should now provide extensive support for mobile devices,…
SharePoint-Videos.com to Host Online Class on Managed Metadata …
SharePoint-Videos.com, provider of online SharePoint training, education and consulting will host a new online class, "Managed Metadata & Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint 2013." The course will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 from 11 am – 3 pm EST, and is taught by Microsoft SharePoint MVP and author, As SharePoint explodes in…
The realities of unified communications apps
During our recent UC on the Go Google+ videocast, some of my fellow UCStrategies experts and I discussed issues associated with using unified communications applications while mobile, or working at multiple locations. Some of the issues were obvious, things like access to good high-speed, access to electrical power to run…
Zend Releases Zend Server 6.2
New Capabilities Support Zend Blueprint for Continuous Delivery, enable Intelligent Provisioning of Application Infrastructure PARIS, Nov. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ ZendCon Europe Conference Building on the announcement of the Zend Blueprint for Continuous Delivery, Zend today announced a new version of Zend Server with strengthened capabilities for infrastructure and release automation. Zend Server…
Atlassian Named Leader for Second Year in Gartner Magic Quadrant for …
SAN FRANCISCO Atlassian, a leading provider of collaboration software for teams, today announced it has once again been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the "Leaders" Quadrant of the 2013 "Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management" (ADLM) report*. The new Magic Quadrant (MQ) report evaluates 16 ADLM vendors, positioning Atlassian believes…
Mobile home threatened by fire
A 57-year-old Penticton man will spend time in jail for being in possession of child pornography on his home computer. David Thorp was sentenced to a 90 day intermittent jail sentence, starting this Friday, followed by two years probation, in a Penticton courtroom on Monday. He earlier pled guilty to a…