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You can do nearly anything you want on Android, except try to create a new Android. Wait, what now Positioning yourself as the open alternative to Applersquo tightly controlled iOS environment for iPhones, iPads, and iPods can win you a lot of friends in the development community. Unfortunately for Google, some of those friends will suggest, on the first sign of change, that yoursquo;ve Gone Corporate and should just go ahead and move to a McMansion in the suburbs. Explaining why yoursquo;re making the change doesnrsquo;t do much good, either.In this specific example, Google made some changes t
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Microsoft s terms draw DOJ s concern WASHINGTON mdash; A key provision of the U.S. settlement with Microsoft Corp., the licensing of server interoperability protocols, has attracted scant interest from vendors. And that has brought renewed criticism of the settlement, which was announced nearly two years ago.Only four companies have received licenses under the settlement, including two major storage vendors, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ assessing the settlement. The administration and states that backed the settlement criticized Microsoftrsquo licensing terms in the report.But two of the companies that acquired licenses, EMC Corp. in Hopkinton, M
stanley quencher ass., and Network Appliance Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., said the licenses will be used to assure corporate customers that their storage products wonrsquo;t be hindered by interoperability problems with
stanley cup Microsoft products. We see it as highly beneficial, said Mike Orsquo;Neill, senior director for strategic alliances at Network Appliance. It becomes very valuable to a customer to know that the solution that they are investing in hellip; has a pretty lengthy half-life to it, he said.The protocols will be used in network-attached s
polene bag torage NAS products mdash; special-purpose file servers that sit in front of storage arrays, interact with Microsoft servers and allow file access over a network.Tom Joyce, senior director of NAS product marketin