You said you’re sorry. You said you will not do it again. You promised to do everything to prevent its recurrence.

That’s good enough for me. Now, stop apologizing.

It’s time to move on.

But I, and the millions of Filipinos here and abroad, will be watching you. We will support you all the way, praying and hoping you will be true to your word.

Now, start training and imbibing basic police work and skills.

Shotgun Lawsuit

Seattle, Washington-based Interval Licensing, a company owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against some of the IT world’s leading companies. Claiming 11 ecommerce and online search companies have been infringing patents on basic Web technologies that Interval Licensing developed in the 1990s, the lawsuit names Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Yahoo! among others.

The patents cited by the lawsuit were reportedly developed by Interval Research, a company founded by Allen and David Liddle in 1992.

Facebook and Google executives downplayed and ridiculed the lawsuit as without merit, claiming that Interval is competing “in the courtroom instead of the marketplace.”

Microsoft, which Allen founded with Bill Gates in 1975, is not included in the lawsuit.

Server Shipments Grew

Growing fears of a double-dip recession aside, it seems that companies could no longer put on hold their plans to upgrade their IT infrastructure. Market research firm Gartner said that global shipments of computer servers grew 27% to more than 2.1 million units in the second quarter.

Gartner cited improving economic conditions as the main reason for the server market’s recovery. Quarterly revenue from server sales slightly overshot the $11 billion mark, exhibiting a 14.3% jump compared with the same period in 2009.

About 400,000 of the servers were shipped to the Asia/Pacific region. The U.S. market remained the world’s biggest market, accounting for over 900,000 units. Indeed, we still might have a second round of an economic slowdown, but if the most recent server sales trends are of any indication, we do not need fear it so much.

Apple’s Korean Bug

After conquering markets worldwide, Apple’s iPad might find the South Korean market a bit less welcoming than those the tablet PC previously sallied into. Korean companies, after all, are readying similar products that would defend their local turfs against the Cupertino bestseller.

While for some observers it may sound like using muskets for defense against cluster bombs, leading mobile phone operator SK Telecom plans to launch Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet. An action that is not too different from those taken by computer and mobile phone vendors worldwide who have scampered for solutions to the iPad problem.

KT Corp., Apple’s distributor in South Korea, plans to launch the iPad in early September.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.