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Despite favorable rulings from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in its long patent battle with NTP, BlackBerry handheld maker Research In Motion will not be able to wait on further decisions from the Office, as a federal court moves forward on its settlement dispute with NTP Embroiled in a legal fight over NTP's patented technology and RIM's al...
Yahoo said it will pass on a chance to make a formal bid to acquire part of all of America Online from Time Warner, leaving Microsoft and Google as the main remaining suitors for what has become a hotly sought-after piece of Internet real estate Yahoo said it never made a specific offer, but did discuss the potential parameters of a deal with Time ...
Commercial and open-source titans are banding together to promote Linux and spur global innovation through access to key patents The Open Invention Network (OIN) launched yesterday with financial support from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony. The company, believed to be the first of its kind, is creating a new model where patents are openly s...
In a boost for its efforts to have a hand in the online video revolution, Microsoft announced that its MSN portal would partner with The Associated Press (AP) to develop an advertising-supported online video news network The AP Online Video Network will be used to provide members who receive news updates from the wire service with direct news video...
Amazon is making moves to beef up its "Travel" section. The behemoth bookseller has signed an agreement with a travel search engine to help its customers find and discover the best travel values SideStep announced today that it will provide its travel search engine to Amazon's travel store beginning in early next year. SideStep searches more than 1...
A national survey released today indicates that instant messaging (IM) has grown 19 percent since last year and is penetrating the United States market as deeply as e-mail -- with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IMs than they do e-mails What's more, at-work and mobile messaging usage have gone mainstream, according to the third annual ...
Novell is undergoing a massive personnel shakeup that continues to unfold. The latest change in corporate management is SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel's resignation Mantel reportedly announced his resignation on Tuesday via an e-mail to a SuSE mailing list. The chief maintainer of the SuSE Linux kernel reportedly wrote that he could no longer wor...
A new report says losses tied to fraudulent e-commerce activity will reach US$2.8 billion this year as professional scammers target fast-growing e-tail sites that are too large to manually verify each purchase but haven't yet implemented sophisticated anti-fraud measures CyberSource, which offers payment solutions and fraud detection solutions, sai...
Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday a bundle of application modernization services designed to help large enterprises do some IT housekeeping and set a roadmap that will lead them to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Paul Evans, worldwide director of Application Modernization Services at HP, said that companies look to become more agile, reduce...
The United States Supreme Court dealt online file sharing a body blow in June when it ruled that makers of peer-to-peer (P2P) software could be held liable for illegitimate uses of their applications. Since that decision was handed down in MGM v. Grokster, the P2P world has been floundering, bobbing in a sea of uncertainty over its future prospects...
AMD reportedly scored a market top of Intel last month, earning the title of leading supplier of processors for the U.S. retail PC market in October, according to Current Analysis The research firm declared that AMD processors powered 49.8 percent of desktop and notebook computers sold in the U.S. retail market last month. AMD's near-half share of ...
Hoping to convince more enterprises to ditch existing search tools for its offerings, Google is giving away its Google Mini search appliance to companies willing to make the switch to its high-end search tools for business Customers who sign up to switch to Google Enterprise will be able to receive free Google Mini, a scaled-down version of the sam...
Mozilla's popular open-source browser hit the open market a year ago today. Firefox is celebrating with a slew of data proclaiming its maturation in the world of Web browsing When Firefox was introduced to the masses, Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker called it a major milestone. He declared that millions of people would "be able to enjoy...
Who are the real winners and losers of the corporate image in 2005, which corporation had the best identity, which was most famous, hated or most profitable? All these responses depend on where you stand, as a loyal customer, the general public, employee or competitor In a study conducted by ABC Namebank International, 5,000 major corporations arou...
With preparations for the 2005 holiday season well underway, many analysts are predicting another banner year for e-commerce. Strong growth has become routine for the online sales industry But some 10 years after e-commerce began to get noticed and several holiday seasons after nudging its way into the mainstream, even major e-commerce sites still ...
Nokia yesterday announced that it has started selling the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The pocket-sized device is Nokia's first Linux-based terminal product and is dedicated to Internet browsing and e-mail communications over WiFi "We are very excited to start shipments of our first Nokia Internet Tablet device," said Janne Jormalainen, vice preside...
There aren't many tech outfits that can rival Apple Computer when it comes to industrial design, but in the keyboard department, there's one company that can give the Cupertino crew a run for their money What's most surprising about the company is that it's not really known for its hardware. Software is its main game....
Juniper Networks today made three announcements about new product enhancements and the companies that have deployed them. But behind the product hype, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hardware maker has quietly stepped into the midst of one of last summer's hottest technology controversies Technology news readers will remember Michael Lynn as the securi...
Microsoft this week renamed its antispyware software from Windows AntiSpyware to Windows Defender, which may be more appropriate for a combined spyware/virus defense solution, industry observers said Microsoft did not make clear whether its antivirus solution would be folded into Defender, which the software giant described as "what Windows will do...
With yet another report of declining newspaper circulation, those within the business are wondering anew how long the print world can hold on or if the fleeing of news readers to other media sources can be stopped The Audit Bureau of Circulation measured a 2.6 percent drop in weekday circulation for U.S. papers year-over-year in the six months endi...
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