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Yahoo struck at its ally Facebook last month, now the social-media giant is striking back. Yahoo filed a lawsuit against Facebook in March in U.S. District Court for the North District of California, alleging the company is infringing on 10 of its patents. Specifically, Yahoo claimed Facebook was infringing on patents that cover its technologies for privacy, advertising, site customization, social networking and integrated communications in social networking. Facebook just filed a countersuit against Yahoo. Facebook alleges the search engine company has infringed on its patents for advertising, photo tagging and online recommendations. Yahoo says the lawsuit is “without merit.” The case could drag on for years. Facebook Strengthens Its Hand We asked Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, about his take on the Facebook countersuit. As a former practicing attorney, he said he could not speak to the legitimacy of the underlying claims. However, he told us this kind of tactic is to be expected. “Facebook wants to push back and put pressure on Yahoo and create a more favorable negotiating position. Without any counterclaims of its own Yahoo would be in a much stronger position in the litigation and any settlement negotiations. Now Facebook has some leverage,” Sterling said. “The outcome of the case may ultimately be determined by adjudication of the merits of the patent claims. But Facebook has strengthened its hand regardless of how tenuous its own counterclaims may be.” Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Meanwhile, Yahoo on Wednesday shared the steps it is taking to reshape the company for the future. Yahoo has a solid foundation with nearly 700 million users and thousands of advertisers on its properties. Yahoo plans to restructure in order to respond more quickly to customer needs and compete more effectively in areas where it bets it can win. Part of that means laying off 2,000 people. Yahoo… Continue reading Facebook Countersues Yahoo; Yahoo Laying Off 2,000 →

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Research In Motion is offering enterprises a 60-day free trial of the company’s next-generation mobile device management platform, which builds upon the capabilities of the company’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). Called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, the new platform enables IT administrators to manage mobile devices running BlackBerry OS, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android — all from a single unified, Web-based console. With BES as its foundation, Mobile Fusion provides mobile management capabilities for iOS and Android devices such as software app administration, support for multiple devices per user, wireless connectivity supervision, and security protection for lost or stolen devices via remote lock and wipe commands. Android and iOS device administration can also be set on a per-user or group basis. For many businesses and government, managing a mix of mobile devices on any scale is already chaotic, said Research In Motion Vice President Alan Panezic. Organizations are under pressure to adopt the new bring your own device (BYOD) policies that many enterprise workers have been demanding. “BlackBerry Mobile Fusion allows organizations to manage a mixed environment of devices in the most secure, simple and cost-efficient manner possible,” Panezic said. “It also means that businesses and government do not have to move to the lowest common denominator on security for all the devices they need to manage.” In Tune with the BYOD Trend Mobile Fusion’s cross-management capabilities are the first fruits from RIM’s Ubitexx acquisition in May of last year. According to industry observers, the Ubitexx deal was a clear signal that RIM had already been anticipating that enterprises would eventually have to embrace the BYOD trend. We asked Al Hilwa, director of applications software development at IDC, what RIM hopes to achieve through the release of a new offering that supplies support for rival mobile platforms as its primary aim. “I think you are seeing RIM… Continue reading RIM Rolls Out BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Platform →