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A federal court ruling that dismissed a seven-year-old patent infringement lawsuit against PalmOne's Graffiti handwriting recognition system will be appealed by Stamford, Connecticut-based Xerox Corporation. "We intend to appeal," Xerox spokesperson Christa Carone told TechNewsWorld. "We've won on a...
Microsoft's trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world's largest software maker's appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word "windows" can be c...
At its latest conference for developers, Microsoft announced a technical preview of Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, and the release of Web Services Enhancements 2.0. The company also previewed Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a collection of tools designed to help software development....
I was chatting with a journalist a couple of days ago to help with background on a story on Microsoft designed to debunk one of the most common misconceptions surrounding the company. I started to realize there were a lot of them -- some I actually held myself -- that either were no longer true or n...
Online music service Napster has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription. Users with Windows 2000 or XP systems can download the Napster jukebox application and begin downloading songs to their PC. Users that sign up to the...
The European Commission (EC) has passed a controversial directive that opponents claim will bolster the lot of big companies at the expense of small ones and will stifle innovation. The so-called Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, which would harmonize how software patents are issued through...
Because the volume of spam has increased from about 10 percent of all e-mail in 2001 to more than 50 percent today, corporations and ISPs have been trying to find ways to keep the junk mail from overwhelming users' inboxes. Filtering products, which rely on several techniques to separate needed mess...
Officials at several U.S. state and federal law enforcement organizations have announced an initiative aimed squarely at use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks for child pornography. More than 1,000 investigations have been opened in the United States involving the distribution and possessi...
Looking to blur business lines the same way that technology has blurred traditional voice and data networks and solutions, MCI and Microsoft have announced a deepening of their relationship to deliver converged communication and collaboration technologies. The companies will codevelop new real-time ...
As video-game makers from around the world gather at the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo -- known in the industry as E3 -- in Los Angeles this week, handheld hardware is expected to garner much of the buzz emanating from the show. "There'll be a lot of looking at the handheld market this y...
IBM has outlined a new Lotus Workplace software environment aimed at joining Web and traditional PC computing to enable more efficient building, deployment and management of applications and data. Big Blue said its new environment and software products will give users a new way to develop, deliver a...
Microsoft has announced plans to tie its next-generation Longhorn client-side operating system to its Longhorn server operating system that is aimed squarely at corporate computing. The Redmond, Washington-based company said it will still be at least another year and a half before any Longhorn relea...
Promising seamless connection of people, information and business processes in real-time, Microsoft has announced that its newest enterprise instant-messaging (IM) solution -- the Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 -- is available through a beta program and will be released later this year...
Microsoft yesterday pulled the wraps off the latest version of its digital rights management (DRM) software, a move awaited with great anticipation in some corners of the online music universe. "We're very excited about it," Richard Bullwinkle, senior product marketing manager at Rio Audio in Santa ...
PayPal yesterday introduced PayPal Web Services, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that the company hopes developers will use to build code that will integrate the PayPal platform into other e-commerce systems. PayPal Web Services, based on open standards and currently in beta, cons...
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