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Huawei files antitrust complaint with EC against InterDigital

Chinese communications equipment company Huawei Technologies has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against patent company InterDigital, claiming it is abusing its patents allegedly essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard, it said Thursday.

By John Ribeiro | 25 May, 2012 04:32

Tags: antitrust, patent, intellectual property, legal, european commission, InterDigital, Huawei Technologies

Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2012 05:35

Tags: antitrust, e-commerce, Internet-based applications and services, internet, legal, Department of Justice, Apple

EU offers Google a chance to avoid fines over four antitrust concerns

Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses these issues the case can be solved by a so-called "commitment decision" instead of formal antitrust proceedings resulting in a fine, said Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy.

By Loek Essers | 21 May, 2012 14:36

Tags: antitrust, legal, Regulation, government, search engines, internet, european commission, Google

Master the Mainframe contest winner announced

A computer science student from the University of New South Wales has won IBM Australia’s Master the Mainframe contest.

By Lisa Banks | 25 November, 2011 11:42

Tags: mainframe, Master the Mainframe Contest 2011

In pictures: BMC's mainframe survey results

Australian and New Zealand mainframe users who participated in BMC's sixth annual worldwide mainframe survey believe that the platform will grow and attract new workloads.

By Lisa Banks | 21 September, 2011 10:40

Tags: mainframe, servers

China taps IBM mainframe for online services

An IT services company in China has picked an IBM mainframe to provide online services for up to 300 million citizens, including many in rural areas who will access the services through kiosks in community centers and other public places, IBM said.

By James Niccolai | 07 September, 2011 04:55

Tags: hardware systems, IBM, Mainframes, servers

Cobol comes to the cloud

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft's Azure cloud service.

By Joab Jackson | 21 January, 2011 07:02

Tags: application development, COBOL, Development tools, Languages and standards, micro focus, software

HP to retain ATO centralised computing contract

HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, has picked up the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) centralised computing contract.

By Tim Lohman | 17 December, 2010 16:00

Tags: Australian Tax Office, data centre, data warehouse, mainframe, secure gateway, storage

Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernisation program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 November, 2010 10:59

Tags: COBOL, mainframe, Mainframes, micro focus, software development

Unisys to offer mainframe cloud services

Unisys plans to offer a hosted test and development environment later this year for users of its ClearPath mainframe systems, a precursor to offering hosted production environments in the future, the company said this week.

By Nancy Gohring | 24 July, 2010 09:31

Tags: Computing services, Hosted, services, unisys

One firm's story: The mainframe goes, but Cobol stays behind

A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 April, 2010 02:40

Tags: COBOL, data centre, mainframe

Open-source advocate enters IBM antitrust fray

Software developer and political lobbyist Florian Mueller weighed in on the European Commission's investigation of monopoly abuse claims against IBM, accusing the computing giant of deserting the interests of the open-source software community.

By Paul Meller | 07 April, 2010 02:39

Tags: antitrust, european commission, European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), Florian Mueller, IBM, Microsoft

Oracle revamps Tuxedo for mainframe rehosting

With the latest version of its Tuxedo online transaction processing (OLTP) middleware, Oracle is hoping to lure IBM mainframe users over to the world of x86-based distributed computing, namely by promising that their applications will run just as quickly and will not need to be rewritten for the new environment.

By Joab Jackson | 01 April, 2010 06:52

Tags: mainframe, middleware, OLTP, Tuxedo

IBM offers de-duplication for mainframes

IBM announced today that it's bringing data de-duplication to its mainframes through an upgraded gateway appliance that has the ability to compress up to 25TB of tape application data into 1TB of disk space.

By Lucas Mearian | 24 February, 2010 16:18

Tags: de-duplication, IBM

Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.

By Thomas Hoffman | 09 January, 2010 05:40

Tags: soa, mainframe

IBM's newest mainframe is all Linux

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 10 December, 2009 02:12

Tags: IBM, Linux, mainframe, servers

Survey revives debate over mainframe's future

A new survey of data center users predicts a sharp drop in mainframe usage, though some industry analysts say the results seem unlikely.

By James Niccolai | 28 October, 2009 00:05

Tags: mainframe, servers

IBM boosts earnings estimate, but revenue drops

Citing improved profit margins and a stabilizing IT spending environment, IBM revised its 2009 earnings estimates upward Thursday, even as the company's revenue dropped.

By Robert McMillan | 16 October, 2009 09:05

Tags: IBM

IBM aims System z at specific workloads

IBM is trying to shore up flagging sales of its System z mainframe with a set of hardware, software and services combinations aimed at specific application workloads.

By Chris Kanaracus | 17 August, 2009 07:08

Tags: IBM, mainframe, System z

Retired mainframe pros lured back into workforce

Retired mainframe administrators are being offered lucrative deals and better work conditions by businesses unable to replace the experienced workers.

By Darren Pauli | 10 July, 2009 09:59

Tags: careers, mainframe, skills shortage

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