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Microsoft has won an important victory in its patent dispute with Eolas and the University of California, which claim the software giant is profiting from a patented browser technology While a lower court had found that Microsoft infringed on the patent and upheld a jury penalty of US$521 million, the U.S. Court of Appeals remanded the case and cle...
In an attempt to gain additional share in the flash memory market, Intel yesterday introduced several new NOR products aimed at the cellular and embedded market segments. The company also announced it will make flash for memory cards to tap into a revenue stream that Samsung and Toshiba are already exploiting The flash memory market posted 33 perce...
Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume A report from Gartner says that a surge of sales in the fourth quarter, when sales jumped 24 percent, helped the mobile phone market achieve 30 percent gr...
Comments by a powerful U.S. senator sent a shudder through the cable andsatellite television communities this week Ted Stevens, the Alaskan Republican who heads the SenateCommerce Committee, reportedly told a group of broadcasters what must have sounded likesweet music to some of their ears: He wants to extend the rules forindecency that apply to t...
State regulation of e-commerce is currently seeking new territory in the online dating industry. Online dating services are a lucrative and rapidly growing industry that continues to draw concerns about the manner in which its members conduct themselves An increasing number of U.S. states have responded to these concerns by proposing laws to regula...
Vendors of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services have made big promises to corporate America and consumers about the cost savings to come from VoIP. The possibilities of VoIP savings have stirred excitement even among jaded CFOs But the adoption of a technology that accommodates data and telecommunications streams, converting both to bits...
Each morning, users open their e-mail boxes and discover solicitations for low-rate mortgages, prescription drugs, weight-loss programs, pornography and shady business transactions. Sorting through legitimate and illegitimate messages is a frustrating and time-consuming process After years of unsuccessfully trying to reduce the volume of spam gener...
TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design TiVo also received three grants from the Chinese and Japanese patent offices and an exclusive license to one of the ...
In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penaltiesfor perpetrators The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 calls for fines of up to US$250,000 and prison terms of up to five years for people convicted of the scam, in which phony e-mails and Web sites mimi...
JBoss' inaugural user conference and exhibition kicked off yesterday in Atlanta with two key announcements that analysts said signify a maturation of both JBoss and of open source The company launched the JBoss Open Source Federation to offer value-added services, technology infrastructure and marketing support for open-source projects that integra...
Although it is far from ready for the mainstream -- and not even ready for application developers, according to some -- 64-bit computing was a major topic of discussion at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) taking place in San Francisco this week Microsoft announced its 64-bit versions of Windows -- both for server and desktop computing -- and endorse...
Capitulating to pressure from some shareholders, MCI today said it would hold face-to-face talks with would-be buyer Qwest Communications International, which has offered to pay US$8 billion in cash and stock for the long-distance firm MCI, whose board has already given the nod to a bid from Verizon Communications worth $6.7 billion, said it will t...
Supporters of file-sharing programs Grokster and StreamCast scourgedthe entertainment industry yesterday following the filing of briefs with theU.S. Supreme Court in a case that could be Armageddon for the peer-to-peersoftware industry The High Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the dispute on March29. Entertainment industry groups are at...
Contrary to branding beliefs, customers are completely oblivious to a corporation's image being tied to a specific color. In fact, trying to use a color for corporate identity can actually lead to trouble For example, Orange Mobility, a British mobile phone company of France Telecom, is one of the largest telephone players in Europe. As a gimmick, ...
Mobile security. It's an idea whose time has finally come, judging by the amount of interest at the recent RSA security conference in San Francisco. The show floor was abuzz with talk about securing both mobile devices, and securing the increasingly mobile enterprise But if you asked ten people to define mobile security, you received ten different ...
Craigslist announced today that it would expand theodds of finding true love, a vintage couch or a long lost pal by beaming itsads into outer space "Humans in general seem to like the chance of a long shot, hence thepopularity of the missed connections board," craigslist CEO Jim Buckmastersaid. "We're at least raising the odds."
Revisiting a time-tested strategy of growing through acquisition and working to diversify its holdings, IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it would buy catalog and e-commerce concern Cornerstone Brands in a deal worth around US$720 million Cornerstone publishes a host of consumer products specialty catalogs under titles such as Ballard Designs, Garnet Hill ...
With a little help from a lesser-known piece of malicious software code, the Glieder Trojan, a wave of Bagle computer worm variants spread successfully today, disabling and blocking antivirus and other security software and spreading in spam-like fashion Security experts said as many as 15 Bagle variants were spreading in a coordinated attack that ...
Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latestmultipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2megapixel camera and a music player "I'm fairly bullish -- I think people are going to want music on their cellphones," Neil Strother, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR, told TechNewsWorld."They're reinventing an old bran...
In the latest development in the ongoing battle over patent law in Europe, the European Commission has rejected a request by the European Parliament to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The directive was unanimously rejected by the EP in January and scheduled for additional review that still could lead to redrafts Michael Q. Le...
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