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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- January 31, 2012

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Headline Scan
Samsung Patent Blitz Attracts Scrutiny of EU Trust Busters
Apple Fans More Likely to Turn a Blind Eye Than Boycott
Can Anything Stop EMC?
Facebook's IPO May Be the Last Straw for Privacy-Minded Users
Federal CIO Aims to Goose US Agencies Into Mobile-izing

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Podcast
When Data Met Processing (33:48 minutes)
There's a fundamental change going on in how we approach the data that's
coming from IT systems in order to get a better monitoring and analysis
capability. "The data has to be analyzed in real-time," said AccelOps'
Mahesh Kumar. "By 'real-time,' I mean in streaming mode before the data
hits the disk."
http://www.ectnews.com/shared/audio/ect-gardner-2012-01-30.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Samsung Patent Blitz Attracts Scrutiny of EU Trust Busters
The European Union has begun looking into whether Samsung Electronics
has engaged in antitrust behavior. Samsung years ago pledged to license
its patents that are essential for the implementation of European mobile
telephony standards on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74312.html

Apple Fans More Likely to Turn a Blind Eye Than Boycott
A sobering account of conditions at Apple's contract factories in China
recently appeared in The New York Times . Essentially, the manufacture
of those sleek and sexy devices that consumers love so much has been
accompanied by 23 deaths and 273 injuries. In a horrific account of one
of the deaths, the Times told of Lai Xiadong, who was severely burned
and died of his injuries two days later.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74313.html

Can Anything Stop EMC?
A bit over a year ago, the conventional wisdom related to enterprise IT
vendors was fairly straightforward: Sheer size and depth of expertise
gave end-to-end systems vendors unlimited access to the high ground. As
markets recovered from the 2008 recession, enterprise customers would
naturally stick with or gravitate toward large established players that
could fulfill their every need.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74309.html

Facebook's IPO May Be the Last Straw for Privacy-Minded Users
Zero hour is approaching as the certainty grows that Facebook will be
filing for its initial public offering this week. Zero hour for excited
investors and Wall Street banks -- and zero hour for privacy advocates.
Even as a private company, Facebook had no problem pushing the envelope,
said Consumer Watchdog spokesperson Carmen Balber. "Facebook is already
treading dangerous waters ... ."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74304.html

Federal CIO Aims to Goose US Agencies Into Mobile-izing
The sharp growth in the use of smartphones and tablets has spurred the
U.S. government to keep pace with the private sector in the use of
mobile devices. While federal agencies have been incorporating mobile
technology for several years, the rate of adoption could be -- and
should be -- far greater, contends Steven VanRoekel, the federal
government's chief information officer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74306.html

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