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TomTom settlement leaves key questions unanswered
News Legal experts say it won't end the uncertainty over Microsoft's Linux patent claims. Open source luminary Bruce Perens warns of a chilling effect.
Tags: Patents, Open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., GPL, TomTom, Bruce Perens, attorney
Microsoft to offer free consumer security suite
News Software giant cans fee-based security and Windows Live OneCare service in favor of free consumer software focused on protecting PCs against malware.
Tags: Security, Antivirus software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Websense Inc., software, Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., Microsoft Windows
EU regulating Microsoft like it's 1999
News The notion of bundling a browser into an operating system isn't new. But that hasn't stopped European regulators from delivering fresh objections.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Brussels, Opera Software
OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
News Content publishers who need traffic may find OneRiot's new ad platform useful.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, OneRiot, advertisement, CBS Corp.
YouTube battling 'Porn Day' campaign
News Users of YouTube rival eBaum's World and the imageboard 4chan site launch mass porn posting on YouTube.
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Inc., Video, phone, YouTube Inc., video service, Search Result, CNET Networks Inc., spokesman, Ars Technica
Microsoft backtracks on severance issue
News Redmond says laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess.
Tags: Benefits, Layoffs, Microsoft Corp., software company, Worker, software, Human Resources, CNET Networks Inc., accounting, CNET News
Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 will arrive in 2010
News Motorola's chief executive lets it slip during his company's earnings call. Microsoft says it has "nothing to announce".
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Motorola Inc., operating system, Microsoft Windows Mobile
Microsoft moves MSN Video under Bing umbrella
News Software maker said on Tuesday it is combining its video search and MSN content under the Bing brand as part of fall refresh.
Tags: Video, Web sites, MySpace, CBS Corp., Microsoft Corp., CBS Interactive Inc., Web sites, TV, Mouse, YouTube Inc.
Judge seals courtroom in MPAA DVD-copying case
News DVD Copy Control Association says public should be barred from the courtroom because information about the technology used to encrypt DVDs is a trade secret.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Courtroom, Haiku, U.S. Circuit Court, RealNetworks Inc., attorney, DVD-copying, Marilyn Patel, CSS, DVD
Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?
News RIM's BlackBerry may not be certified by the National Security Agency to handle top-secret material, but a PDA-phone called the Sectera Edge has been. Its operating system: Microsoft Windows Mobile.
Tags: BlackBerry, Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices, Politics, RIM BlackBerry, Security, Sectera, Flexispy.com, e-mail, aide
Adobe revs media player, signs up Sony
News New movies from Sony and TV shows from CBS are arriving on Adobe Media Player so you can stream them to your computer.
Tags: Video, Advertising, Marketing communications, Software, Media Player, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Advertisement, hard drive, Adobe Systems Inc.
Study: DDoS attacks threaten ISP infrastructure
News Arbor Networks finds that DDoS attack sizes doubled last year and were more diverse in nature, taxing the IT security resources at most Internet carriers.
Tags: Domain names, Security, Database, Attack, distributed denial of service, Computer, Arbor Networks, network, Internet Service Provider, CNET Networks Inc.
Researcher claims iPhone 3G's sensitivity is poor
News Swedish researcher says that a manufacturing problem could be to blame for the iPhone 3G's problems in connecting, and staying connected, to 3G networks.
Tags: Smart phones, 3G (Third Generation), Mac OS, Mobile/Wireless, Apple iPhone 3G, phone, software, 3G, Sweden, financial analyst
Yahoo pink slips issued, recruiters circling above
News The company has begun cutting approximately 1,500 jobs, as it continues to evaluate which operations can be shut down.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Search, Video, Workforce, Yahoo! Inc., layoff, Stephen Shankland, Sunnyvale, job
Yahoo hires former Adobe exec to lead applications group
News Bryan Lamkin, who led strategy on many of Adobe's flagship products, is being brought in to head up Yahoo's application development division, a key part of the Yahoo Open Strategy.
Tags: Human resources, Adobe Systems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Bryan Lamkin, Adobe Creative Suite, e-mail, Flickr, senior vice president
