LiveOffice email archiving company acquired by Symantec

Posted by admin on January 17, 2012

January 17th morning news, Symantec announced that it has spent $ 115 million acquisition of a cloud computing e-mail archiving company LiveOffice on ​​Monday.

LiveOffice is a software as a service company, specializing in e-mail archiving, finishing, and hosting services. In addition to cloud computing e-mail archiving, LiveOffice can also provide local e-mail archiving services. With LiveOffice’s service, the user can easily change service providers without having to worry about losing sensitive information.

In addition to e-mail archiving, when the user’s main cloud hosting downtime, LiveOffice can also provide backup.

LiveOffice was founded in 1998, with 20,000 users, it can deal millions of e-mail messages every day. The company’s investors include Summit Partners. LiveOffice CEO Nick Mehta who served as Symantec executives, responsible for archiving and mining business.

Google adjusted search results: further integration of social information

Posted by admin on January 10, 2012

January 10th news, Google announced that it would adjust the search results, mainly to integrate Google + search results and social services. Google claimed that this is the biggest adjustment on the search results.

The new feature called “Search Plus Your World”, when the user search for a friend name, then the user can see pictures and content published by friends; in the search topic, the user can also see the related dialogue. Google search researchers Amit Singhal said: “At present, which you search for something is most wrote by people do not know, and the new feature lets you become the search center.”

Google’s social network is behind of other social network, facing risk. In order to catch up, Google co-founder Larry Page came to power and launched Google + service. From the beginning, Google + isn’t in order to replace Facebook, but provide social information for Google, for the mainly products search.

The purpose for “Search Plus Your World” appeared was that. When users log into Google services, such as Gmail, the search results will show the user Google + post which from circle of friends.
If the users log into Google +, then they can see the personalized posts, both open contents and individual contents, also including a friend to share content.

Samsung losing lawsuit for continuous three times

Posted by admin on January 05, 2012

January 6th news, according to media reports, recently, a Milan court rejected Samsung Electronics application about banning Apple iPhone4S sold in Italy, which is Samsung’s third time hit embargo fiasco in Europe.

According to Italian media reported on January 5, a Milan court ruling patent litigation of first instance recently, rejected the Samsung’s application on ban iPhone4S sell in Italy. Within the battle between Apple and Samsung, Samsung has been three consecutive defeat in Europe. Previously, France and the Netherlands’ court have rejected a similar request from Samsung in October and December, 2011.

In patent litigation and banning war, Apple is leading temporarily. In Germany, Australia and Netherlands, the courts have issued a ban on Samsung Tablet PC orders. As well known that the embargo decree is just a part of Apple and Samsung patent lawsuit, both sides want to upset with each other’s product marketing plan through the ban, so as to win their own initiative. But the industry also pointed out that patent litigation is required the lengthy court procedures to complete ultimately, the two sides will also pay the cost of time and money.

Currently, Samsung and Apple’s patent litigation battle has burned to a dozen countries on four continents and regions.