<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827843_temp.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" align="left" /></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px"> West Bengal government on Wednesday finalised its IT policy at the meeting of the cabinet standing committee on industries. Informing this, IT minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters at Writers' Buildings that the new incentive schemes for IT industry will be announced within a fortnight.</p><br /><br /><span style="text-align: left">He also said that they have urged </span><span style="text-align: left">Infosys</span><span style="text-align: left"> co-founder</span><span style="text-align: left">NR Narayana Murthy</span><span style="text-align: left"> to come to </span><span style="text-align: left">Kolkata</span><span style="text-align: left"> and hold talks with the government to set up their unit in the state. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: left">"The chief minister is very keen to see Infosys set up their unit in West Bengal. We have categorically told Infosys that it would not be possible for our government to give them SEZ status as we are principally opposing setting up of any SEZ in West Bengal. But we have clearly told the Infosys officials that we will try our best to offer them adequate facilities. Since many senior Infosys officials who were holding talks with our government have left the organisation, it seems that we will have to initiate fresh dialogues with the company," Chatterjee said. The minister also said that if necessary, they will amend the SEZ Act passed by the previous Left Front government in 2003. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: left">"We have also decided that we will provide land to ITC and Infotech at Rajarhat," Chatterjee informed. The minister said that two private companies had submitted expressions of interest for setting up Indian Institute of Information Technology at Kalyani in Nadia district.</span>
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::::Yahoo! moves to reclaim Internet search crown::::
<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827743_temp.jpg" border="0" align="left" /></div><span style="text-align: justify">Yahoo</span><span style="text-align: justify">! on Wednesday set out to reclaim the Internet search crown from </span><span style="text-align: justify">Google</span><span style="text-align: justify"> with the release of software that transforms the way users explore the Web using Apple's coveted gadgets. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">A Yahoo! Axis application was introduced for iPhones, </span><span style="text-align: justify">iPads</span><span style="text-align: justify">, and iPod Touch devices and also as "plug-in" software for Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and other Web browsers featuring HTML-5 graphics capabilities. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"Yahoo! is still very much in search," special projects product management director </span><span style="text-align: justify">Ethan Batraski</span><span style="text-align: justify"> said while giving AFP an advance look at Axis. "We continue to flourish." </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Axis does away with the blue links that have defined Internet query results for a decade and replaced them with previews of pages that might provide the information being sought. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">The application lets users easily "swipe" from one Web page to another or review a pull-down strip of preview pages instead of making them click on links to see what websites look like. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"We removed the entire search results page from the equation for a game-changing search experience," Batraski said. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"The entire search experience is in the app," he continued. "You will never have to use Safari ever again." </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Safari is the Web browsing program </span><span style="text-align: justify">Apple</span><span style="text-align: justify"> builds into its devices. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">The Axis search results pane instantly displays information of potential interest, such as the score from a most recent game if the query is a sports team. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Yahoo! also made it simple to email, tweet, "pin," or bookmark pages with touches of screens. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Axis also gives users the option of synching pages across devices, so that driving directions, movie times or other pages left open on one gadget will automatically display on another, the demonstration showed. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"I could easily start something on my iPad and continue on my iPhone," Batraski said. "The goal here is to connect all my devices together." </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Clicks of side tabs replace swipes in the plug-in version of Axis for desktop computer browsing software. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">For now, Yahoo! is not displaying ads in Axis because the focus is on winning users before weaving in ways to make money without marring the smooth experience. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Yahoo! has been steadily losing ground to Google in the Internet search market. Google's share inched up to 66.5 percent in April while Yahoo!'s portion slipped a fraction to 13.5 percent, according to </span><span style="text-align: justify">comScore</span><span style="text-align: justify">. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Microsoft's Bing was the second most popular search service, handling 15.4 percent of queries, the industry tracker reported. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Yahoo! in 2009 made a deal with </span><span style="text-align: justify">Microsoft</span><span style="text-align: justify"> to have Bing handle the labor-intensive job of finding and indexing content on the Internet, freeing itself to concentrate on interesting or personalized ways to present results. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"We outsourced a backend process that every search engine was trying to do," Batraski said. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">"It is grunt work and we are really focused on innovating." </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Axis became available at Apple's online App Store late Wednesday. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-align: justify">Axis will be begin rolling out to France, Britain and a few other countries by the end of the year, according to Batraski.</span>
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::::52 Changes to Google in April: Smarter, Local & More Relevant::::
<img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827578_temp.jpg" border="0" alt="Image" width="300" height="200" align="left" /><p><span style="text-align: left">Every month, Google makes tons of tiny changes to the way search works. It shares them in company blog posts that present a list of carefully scripted bullet points with mysterious code names in an inscrutable order. Google never comments on the changes beyond these announcements, but it's always informative to spread the puzzle pieces out on the table and see what Google is up to. Here's what changed in April.</span></p><div id="more" class="asset-more" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; text-align: left"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">We thought there were a lot of changes in March, but April was even bigger. Google changed 52 things about its search algorithm last month. As usual, you don't need to worry about a bunch of them. But the most interesting of the latest search changes fall into three important categories.</p><h2 id="smarter" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px">Smarter</h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">The more Google can guess (correctly) what we're looking for, the faster we can find it. Google is getting better at untangling our spelling mistakes, interpreting our meaning and answering our questions.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">One update helps Google interpret your intention by looking at your last few searches. If your first query doesn't find what you're looking for, your next try will be improved by the signals Google got from that last one.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">The feature that automatically searches for the corrected spelling of your query is now available internationally. A separate change will decrease the number of bad spelling suggestions for international users. Another suppresses the number of unhelpful "did you mean?" suggestions. Google also now makes more spelling corrections for queries longer than 10 terms.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Many of April's updates extended smarts that were already available in English to other languages. Currency conversion has been improved in Turkish, news results in Serbian got a better presentation and SafeSearch signals were improved in Russian.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">SafeSearch is the setting that lets the user decide how much explicit content shows up in search, so Russian users will be glad that's improved. The overall SafeSearch models were improved, too, with special attention paid to videos and images.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px"><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/files/shutterstock_oldgoogletop610.jpeg" border="0" /></p><h2 id="local" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px">Local</h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Google is always trying to improve the local flavor of its search results. That helps Google connect users with their real-world intentions to go out and do (and buy) things, and that's what makes Google's ads worth buying.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">In April, Google improved localization of search results by language and country. A change with codename "ImpOrgMap2" made it more likely that a query would find a site for an organization from one's own country, such as mexico.cnn.com for Mexico, rather than cnn.com.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">You can now find the time of sunrise and sunset internationally with a quick Google search.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Local searches in the U.S. now have better autocomplete predictions. Google expanded autocomplete to cover the whole long tail of U.S. local search queries, including addresses and small businesses.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">If you search for places and include location terms (like "Pok Pok restaurant Portland"), a change called "onebar-I" increases the likelihood of getting a navigation result at the top. This will be handy for mobile searches. Google also improved HTML5 resource caching, which means that mobile pages will load faster.</p><h2 id="morerelevant" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px"><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/files/google_caffeine_graphic_LIGHT.jpeg" border="0" /></h2><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px">More Relevant</h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">If search results aren't relevant, nothing else matters. Google is constantly tweaking its definition of relevance, and April's updates include some major improvements and some much-needed fine-tuning.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Google has been trying to figure out the right way to adjust search results for "freshness," especially for topics where new content is important, such as breaking news stories. The initial freshness efforts were too aggressive, and now it has more granular rankings, so the freshness of a page affects its search ranking more gradually.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">The freshness signals were also improved, and pages that Google deems to be of low quality for other reasons no longer get a boost for freshness.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Google also increased the size of its whole base search index by 15%, which means that your search queries now look through 15% more objects on the Web. Google is constantly tweaking the size of its index, but this is a big adjustment, so it earned a mention in Google's summary.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Universal Search results got lots of improvements in April. Google News results that appear in search got a new appearance. Chinese, Korean and Japanese users now get movie times right in their Google searches. There are new Major League Baseball, La Liga (Spain's main soccer league) and Formula 1 racing search features that show swanky box scores in search. The NHL feature, which was already available, has been improved to show up more often when relevant.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Japanese and Korean users got better support for "soft 404" error pages. A page that returns valid text but only says something like "page not found" is not the same as a page that's really missing, so Google needs to know not to index those and show them.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">But best of all, Google took a variety actions last month against sites that game the system. Under codename "Spam," Google improved its ability to detect sites that indulge in keyword stuffing. This was part of a broader effort to stop search spam by various high-level algorithm changes.</p></div><p> </p>
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::::Google‘s Triumph Over Oracle Is a Big Win for Android::::
<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827488_temp.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" align="left" /></div><p> <span style="text-align: left">The jury in Oracle's patent case against Google delivered a unanimous verdict in favor of the search giant today, exonerating Google's use of Java in Android and dashing Oracle’s dreams of millions of dollars in damages.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: left">The trial was supposed to have three phases: copyright, patents and then damages. The jury delivered a partial verdict in the copyright phase, which means the decision to award damages in the copyright phase comes down to the judge, William Alsup. There will be no phase three and the trial, for all intents and purposes, is over. </span></p><div id="more" class="asset-more" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; text-align: left"><div id="twitter-widget-4" class="tw-align-center twitter-tweet-rendered" style="margin: 7px auto !important; padding: 0px; clear: both !important; position: relative !important; max-width: 550px !important; float: none !important; width: 443px"><div class="twt-border" style="margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; border-width: 1px !important; border-style: solid !important; border-color: rgb(238, 238, 238) rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; cursor: auto !important; direction: ltr !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto !important; list-style: none !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 250px !important; overflow: visible !important; page: auto !important; position: relative !important; 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Judge Alsup dismissing jury. 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For now, Oracle is walking away with infringement on 9 lines of Java code out of 15 mil. Total.</p></div><div class="footer" style="margin: 0px !important; padding: 2px 0px 0px !important; background-color: transparent !important; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; cursor: auto !important; direction: ltr !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto !important; list-style: none !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; page: auto !important; position: relative !important; quotes: none !important; right: auto !important; size: auto !important; text-overflow: clip !important; text-shadow: none !important; top: auto !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important; word-wrap: normal !important; z-index: auto !important; -webkit-box-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-top-left-radius: 0px !important; border-top-right-radius: 0px !important; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px !important; 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It has millions of dollars tied up in legal fees and billions of dollars tied up in Java. To walk away empty handed will sting, and Oracle has proven that it is very committed to using the judicial system to make money from its acquisition of Java creator Sun Microsystems. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">While the jury has been dismissed, the issue of final damages that Google may have to pay Oracle is not yet finished. Judge Alsup has to decide on the copyright phase of the trial that the jury left unanswered when it delivered its verdict. The jury found that Google indeed copied the “structure, sequence and organization” (SSO) of 37 Oracle APIs related to Java. The jury came to an impasse on whether or not Google’s copying of the SSO of the APIs constituted fair use. Alsup will determine on that issue of fair use in the next week and then determine any damages Oracle can claim. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Both parties had statements prepared at the conclusion of the proceedings. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">“Oracle presented overwhelming evidence at trial that Google knew it would fragment and damage Java. We plan to continue to defend and uphold Java's core write once run anywhere principle and ensure it is protected for the nine million Java developers and the community that depend on Java compatibility,” Oracle said in a statement.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Google’s response touted the verdict not just as a win for Google, but a win for Android and its vast ecosystem.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">“Today's jury verdict that Android does not infringe Oracle's patents was a victory not just for Google but the entire Android ecosystem,” Google stated.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Oracle had pinned its hopes on convincing the jury that Google was a no-good, dirty thief that damaged Java and its community by outright copying the language, its patents and its APIs into Android. Oracle hoped that a jury would be more likely to award bigger damages than a single judge. Ultimately, that strategy failed. Yet, the fact that the jury did not come to a concrete decision in the copyright phase does leave a distinct opening for Oracle when it eventually appeals the verdicts in the case. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">The trial has been a soap opera of epic scale with two tech giants battling about the future of tech technologies (Java and Android) that are essential aspects of the technology landscape. Oracle came away the loser while Google can sit back and know that its investment in Android is safe… for now. While Oracle is the first company to sue Google directly over copyrights and patents, it is likely not the last. Patent battles between Microsoft, Apple and Android manufacturers are being fought across the globe. Many of those battles are attacks against manufacturers like Motorola, HTC and Samsung. In certain ways, the lawsuits against Android OEMs are proxy fights against Google itself.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">Google now owns its own smartphone manufacturer with this week’s final approval of its acquisition of Motorola. Expect companies like Research In Motion, Microsoft and Apple to now come directly after Google in future lawsuits. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px">For now, though, Google can celebrate knowing that it has defended Android, and millions, if not billions, of dollars in damages have been averted. </p></div><p> </p>
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::::HP to lay off about 27,000, profit slides 31 pct::::
<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827298_temp.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" align="left" /></div><p> Hewlett Packard Co plans to lay off roughly 27,000 employees or about 8 percent of its workforce over the next couple of years to jumpstart growth and save up to $3.5 billion annually, sending its shares 11 percent higher.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The company said the layoffs would be made mainly through early retirement and would generate annual savings of $3 billion to $3.5 billion as it exits fiscal year 2014, when the layoffs are expected to the completed.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The world's No. 1 personal computer maker, which employs more than 300,000 people globally, also said on Wednesday that it had a 31 percent decline in second-quarter profit and a 3 percent decline in revenue, compared with a year ago.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The results, however, were better than Wall Street expectations.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Layoffs "adversely impact people's lives, but in this case, they are absolutely critical to the long-term health of the company," Chief Executive Meg Whitman said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"This is broad based," she said in an interview. "By design, it will touch all of HP."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman said a third of the layoffs would be in the United States. The company will take a pretax charge of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2012 related to the layoffs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman plans to boost spending on research and development, especially in printing and PCs, with the savings from the cost cuts.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said the quarter was surprisingly strong for HP, which had missed its own forecast most quarters in the last 18 months and prior to Whitman taking over as CEO.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"Everyone expected a miss, given what Dell said," Wu said. "It looks like HP is regaining its footing."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Dell shares on Wednesday plunged 17 percent following weaker than expected results and a disappointing revenue forecast spurred fears that global tech spending is weakening faster than anticipated.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">HP itself has been trying to move past the internal upheaval that marked 2011, including the departure of two chief executives.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman, a veteran Silicon Valley executive who took the top job last September, has been trying to turn the company around.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman said both business leaders and consumers in Europe were worried about the region's economy, which is hurting HP's business. She warned that the European debt crisis was a big "headwind" the company was facing.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">HP reported second-quarter net income of $1.59 billion, or 80 cents a share, compared with $2.3 billion, or $1.05 a share, a year ago. Revenue of $30.69 billion was down 3 percent compared with the same period last year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Excluding after-tax costs for amortization, restructuring charges and acquisition-related charges, HP said it earned 98 cents a share, compared with analysts' average estimate of 91 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">TABLET LAUNCH FOR HOLIDAY</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman, who has been at the helm for six months, said the company also plans to launch tablets -- for both consumers and corporations -- later this year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"We will have a Windows 8 tablet for the holiday," she said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">This would be HP's second attempt in the tablet market. HP killed its previous WebOS-based TouchPad tablet last year after just seven weeks on store shelves, citing poor demand.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Whitman also said HP's acquisition of British software company Autonomy for over $11 billion is facing challenges, and results in the division fell short of HP's expectations.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">HP has moved the division under its chief strategy officer Bill Veghte. Autonomy founder Mike Lynch will be leaving the company.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Results from HP's other divisions were also weak.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Sales from the personal systems group, encompassing PCs, were flat with a decline in sales to consumers offsetting revenue from commercial clients.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Revenue from its bread-and-better printing group, which is being merged with the PC group, fell 10 percent after weak consumer and corporate demand.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"We improved the channel inventory to within an acceptable range," Whitman said on a conference call, referring to the printing group. "However, we continue to face a weak demand environment."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Sales of enterprise servers, storage and networking equipment fell 6 percent.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">HP shares rose to $22.35 after hours after ending down 3.2 percent at $21.08.</p>
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::::Obama orders agencies to shift services to mobile apps::::
<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827233_temp.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" align="left" /></div><p>President Barack Obama, hoping to spur U.S. innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile phones within the next year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device," Obama said in a statement.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">His administration is eager to hasten government adoption of new technology since showing itself to be highly tech-savvy after running a 2008 election campaign that was widely praised for the innovative way it used the Internet and social media.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Analysts welcomed the move, but voiced scepticism it could be effective unless Obama also freed up more government broadband spectrum to the private sector.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"American citizens won't be better served by government technology and digital services unless more government spectrum is made available to enable these technologies and services," said Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">His coalition includes AT&T Inc, Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile, Cisco Systems Inc and Qualcomm Inc.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The presidential order tells each agency to make at least two services relied upon by the public available on mobile phones within 12 months.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">What this means in practical terms is a massive expansion in public access to government data, from healthcare and education to energy and public safety, which the administration hopes will boost jobs by encouraging innovation.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">But public interest group Free Press said what was really needed from Obama were communication laws and competition policies that make broadband more accessible to everyone.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"Government's most important role in this space is not as a content creator," said Free Press policy director Matt Wood.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">DIGITAL STRATEGY</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The Obama administration also released a new digital strategy on Wednesday that it said would drive a more efficient and coordinated delivery of federal services on mobile devices.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">This will require agencies to set up websites to provide online resources for outside developers, and make government information open and machine-readable by default.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"The initiatives we're launching today will make government data resources even more accessible to the public and to entrepreneurs who can turn these data into services," said U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Analysts said Obama's directive was a logical step to move government further into the digital world.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"But it also could end up putting more pressure on him to move more government spectrum into the market to support wireless broadband," said Guggenheim Securities analyst Paul Gallant.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">In 2010, the administration said it would make 500 megahertz of spectrum available in the next 10 years for broadband.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The growing use of wireless devices like Apple Inc's iPad tablet and Google Inc's suite of Android-powered smartphones has added to the urgency to find more space on the airwaves.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Mobile Future's Spalter said he was troubled that the 27-page strategy memorandum did not once mention spectrum.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The Federal Communications Commission said earlier in the month it was ready to work with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which manages government spectrum, to gauge if it was feasible for government users to share the same spectrum with commercial wireless operators.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said on a call with reporters that freeing government airwaves for use by commercial wireless providers is a conversation the White House wants to have with the FCC, NTIA and the Commerce Department.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"America as a country is going to be faced with a spectrum crunch, and we need to really look at opportunities there," VanRoekel said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Medley Global Advisors analyst Jeffrey Silva said the sweeping government shift to mobile apps may serve as a tacit heads-up to federal agencies that the administration eyes mobile broadband as the future of the Internet.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">"Still, the power of the presidency and Obama's use of the bully pulpit do not guarantee that a significant amount of additional spectrum will be returned by the Pentagon and other federal departments anytime in the near future," Silva said. "It will be trench warfare."</p>
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::::Google did not infringe Oracle patents - jury::::
<div class="custm_img_blk"><img src="http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1337827169_temp.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" align="left" /></div><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/INtechnologyNews/~4/HexRFE0QzoE" border="0" width="1" height="1" /><p>Google Inc's Android mobile platform has not infringed Oracle Corp's patents, a California jury decided in a high-stakes trial fought by the two Silicon Valley giants over smartphone technology.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Because the same jury could not unanimously agree on the copyright allegations earlier in the case, the latest verdict on patents effectively puts an indefinite hold on Oracle's quest for damages.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The verdict was delivered on Wednesday in a San Francisco federal court, and confirmed by a Google spokesman. An Oracle attorney declined to comment on the decision.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The jury found earlier that Oracle had proven copyright infringement for parts of Java. But the jury could not unanimously agree on whether Google could fairly use that material.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Oracle sued Google in August 2010, saying Android - the world's most used mobile software - infringed on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language. Google says it does not violate Oracle's patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an "open-source" or publicly available software language.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">While Oracle is seeking about $1 billion in copyright damages, the patent damages in play are much lower. Before trial, Google offered to pay Oracle roughly $2.8 million in damages on the two patents remaining in the case, covering the period through 2011, according to a filing made jointly by the companies.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">For future damages, Google proposed paying Oracle 0.5 percent of Android revenue on one patent until it expires this December and 0.015 percent on a second patent until it expires in April 2018. Oracle rejected the settlement offer.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">During trial, U.S. District Judge William Alsup revealed that Android generated roughly $97.7 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2010.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Without a finding against Google on that fair use question, Oracle cannot recover damages on the bulk of its copyright claims. And Alsup has not yet decided on several legal issues that could determine how a potential retrial on copyright would unfold.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">Shares in Oracle stood largely unchanged at mid-afternoon at $26.41. Google stock was up 0.7 percent at $604.81.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px">The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.</p>
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