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  Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio

  Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft's Visual Studio or Xamarin's own MonoDevelop IDE.

  By Paul Krill | 15 May, 2012 20:08

  Tags: Xamarin, software, smartphones, novell, mobile technology, Mobile Development, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .Net, Microsoft, consumer electronics, application development, Android

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  DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

  The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.

  By Grant Gross | 14 February, 2012 10:24

  Tags: 3g, 4g, Apple, business issues, EMC, Google, mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, mobile, Nortel Networks, novell, oracle, research in motion, Telecommunication, U.S. Department of Justice

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  Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped

  After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 December, 2011 22:07

  Tags: cloud computing, csc, fbi, Google, internet, Microsoft, novell, Security Hardware and Software

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  Microsoft to ask for dismissal of Novell lawsuit

  Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.

  By John Ribeiro | 20 December, 2011 19:29

  Tags: antitrust, applications, legal, Microsoft, middleware, novell, Office suites, operating systems, software, Windows

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  Microsoft-Novell antitrust case ends in hung jury

  After a two-month trial, Novell's US$1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft ended on Friday in a hung jury, according to a spokesman for Microsoft who was at the court.

  By Joab Jackson and James Niccolai | 17 December, 2011 11:37

  Tags: antitrust, legal, Microsoft, novell

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  Novell lawsuit against Microsoft goes to jury

  A Utah jury has begun deliberating over a US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit Novell first brought against Microsoft in 2004. Observers of the case expect the jury to reach a decision as early as Wednesday evening.

  By Joab Jackson | 15 December, 2011 07:35

  Tags: antitrust, legal, Microsoft, novell

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  Opinion: Look who's discovered the virtues of openness

  You know the stereotype: Microsoft is the sworn enemy of openness, unwilling to open its code or hardware to others. It's a monopolist bent on world domination, willing to use its lawyers and market strength to ensure that Windows and Office don't face any serious competition.

  By Preston Gralla | 05 December, 2011 22:06

  Tags: applications, consumer electronics, Microsoft, novell, open source, smartphones, software

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  Gates to testify in Novell suit

  Ex-Microsoft CEO and current Chairman Bill Gates is testifying Monday in U.S. Federal Court in a seven-year-old, US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit by Novell.

  By Joab Jackson | 22 November, 2011 05:37

  Tags: Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, Microsoft, novell

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  SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

  Since April, Nils Brauckmann has had the future of enterprise Linux in his hands. That's when the Attachmate Group completed its acquisition of Novell and split the company into two operating units: Novell and SUSE. As president and GM of SUSE, long-time Attachmate executive Brauckmann is responsible for bringing Suse Linux Enterprise Server and other open source products to market. In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and SUSE's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where SUSE's partnership will Microsoft is headed.

  By John Gallant | 14 October, 2011 01:37

  Tags: Linux, Microsoft, non-Windows, novell, operating systems, Red Hat, software, Technology Business

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  The new Novell

  Novell, which was acquired by The Attachmate Group in April, wants to regain its status as an IT icon and will try to do so by focusing its efforts on its core assets and rebuilding relationships with its huge installed base. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Novell President Bob Flynn and VP of Product Management and Marketing Eric Varness for a briefing on their rebuilding plans.

  By John Dix | 05 October, 2011 04:40

  Tags: business issues, mergers and acquisitions, novell

• Analysts: Google looks to Novell for Motorola value

  Google's interest in Motorola may really be just for the patents after all.

  By Nancy Gohring | 17 August, 2011 06:53

  Tags: Motorola, Google, novell, consumer electronics, smartphones, Android, Business Management, mergers and acquisitions

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  After Google rant on Android patents, Microsoft tweets: 'Really?'

  In an escalation of Android patent battles, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join Microsoft in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused.

  By Matt Hamblen | 05 August, 2011 03:37

  Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, DRM and Legal Issues, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, novell, smartphones

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  Bogus patents target Android: Google

  Google's top lawyer has accused Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies of using "bogus patents" to wage a campaign against the internet giant's Android mobile platform.

  By AAP | 04 August, 2011 14:34

  Tags: business, court case, courts, Google, Microsoft, novell, oracle, patents

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  Novell to close Vibe Cloud collaboration suite

  Novell has decided to shut down its Web-hosted Vibe Cloud enterprise social collaboration suite, which bombed with customers although the market is hot for competing products.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 29 July, 2011 01:01

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, collaboration, internet, novell, software, Software as a service

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  NSW Health calls time on GroupWise, preps Exchange move

  NSW Health has started preparing the consolidation of all its disparate e-mail systems into one Microsoft Exchange environment for some 200,000 end-users across the state government department with the big loser being Novell's GroupWise.

  By Rodney Gedda | 13 July, 2011 11:02

  Tags: e-mail, e-mail archiving, GroupWise, Microsoft, microsoft exchange, novell, NSW department of health, NSW health, e-health