Shipments of two new HTC smartphones have been seized for inspection by US
Customs because of the limited import ban Apple got from the International
Trade Commission in mid-December.
HTC was found to have infringed an Apple patent on "data tapping." That's
when you, say, tap on a phone number and the dingus dials it for you.
The Taiwan company wouldn't be in this predicament if it had followed through
on its initial decision to just rip the functionality out. Instead it
ultimately decided on a workaround and the customs people are checking to see
if it's abiding by the rules.
That means that the HTC One X that AT&T just started selling out of shipments
that beat the ban's April 19 enforcement date is now listed as "out of stock"
and the HTC Evo 4G LTE that Sprint was to start selling this Friday has been
put on hold. Sprint is taking pre-orders.
HTC says it hasn't... (more)
An HP source told Business Insider that HP is going to make "massive" job
cuts of 10%-15% of its workforce of 324,600 people.
Bloomberg then picked up the tambourine and said the number is more like 8%,
or 25,000 people.
Factoring in attrition, early retirement and shifting jobs offshore, Business
Insider reckons "HP's total workforce numbers won't reflect all of the cuts."
It thinks "we might also hear that HP is not going to rip the bandage off in
one fell swoop, but will do one modest layoff in 2012, shift more work to
offshore workers, and trim the workforce more over time."
... (more)
TreeHouse Interactive (www.treehousei.com), the technology leader in
on-demand marketing automation and partner relationship management (PRM)
solutions, today announced significant growth of its business-to-consumer
(B2C) user base for the company's marketing automation solution, Marketing
View. B2C Marketing View users now represent nearly one-third of TreeHouse's
marketing automation customer base.
Marketing View's integration with the Salesforce Sales Cloud opportunity
object—and the added ability to target prospective customers based on
products purchased—has been a major fa... (more)
Knoa Software, a provider of end-user experience and performance management
software, on Thursday announced the availability of Knoa Experience and
Performance Manager (EPM) version 7.0. The new version supports SAP®
enterprise software, including the SAP NetWeaver Portal, the SAP Customer
Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application and SAP BusinessObjects
solutions, and enables customers to drive adoption and effective use while
lowering the cost of IT services. The solution is resold by SAP as the SAP
User Experience Management (SAP UEM) application by Knoa.
This new versio... (more)
Departed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, 54, told the board before he resigned over
the weekend that he was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer and was starting
treatment, the Wall Street Journal said overnight.
It isn't clear exactly where this piece is supposed to fit in the puzzle but
if it's a sympathy bid it may not have worked. All Things Digital says Yahoo
is claiming he's gone for "cause" over ethics violations because of his phony
computer science degree - which appeared in Yahoo's regulatory filings - and
won't be getting much in the way of severance.
Heidrick & Struggles appa... (more)
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