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Are IBM's patent woes justified?
Insight perspective Big Blue is in legal hot water in the United Kingdom relating to its bevy of patents. One U.K.-based lawyer gets to the bottom of the controversy.
Tags: Patents, Competitive advantage, Mainframe, IBM Corp., Monopoly, Patent, operating system, Richard Taylor, intellectual property, software
McNealy--an engineer's witty patron
Insight Known as much for his wit as his business acumen, Sun's outgoing CEO backed his engineers until it hurt.
Virtual worlds an inroad to new generation
News Virtual worlds enjoy a re-awakening as marketers learn to connect them with the real world, so as to attract younger consumers, say observers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, E-business, IBM Corp., social networking, retail company, virtual world, financial, network, Second Life
Linux firm hopes cash infusion will steer it to IPO
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Disrupting the status quo
Blogs It's amazing how Taiwan has reinvented itself in the high-technology sector. I still remember the days when most of the ...
HP unveils mobile menagerie
Techguide Hewlett-Packard wants more businesspeople to travel with its computers.
Linux watch: Ahead of its time?
News Besides telling time, the IBM/Citizen Watch prototype comes with calendar-scheduling software, a pager-like application and a Bluetooth chip.
Linux claws ahead of lowest-ranked Unix
News An operating system study finds that four Linux products perform better than a version of Unix, bringing the open-source OS clone into the same league as its model.
Oil is hot, tech is not
Insight comment Does high tech still matter to the money people?
Tags: IT Management
IBM's research juggling act
Insight Paul Horn, IBM's director of research, talks about research in services and IBM's investment in emerging technologies.
Microsoft, ScanSoft pair up for speech software
Insight Text-to-speech technology will be featured in a range of Microsoft server products, beginning with Speech Server 2004.
Tags: Personal applications
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
News A program making the rounds of the Linden Lab's digital world allows users to copy whatever they like, even if they're supposed to pay for it.
Flat holiday sales for e-tailers?
News This holiday shopping season could mark the first time that online retailers fail to outperform the previous year's sales, say market watchers.
Tags: E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Computer, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, retail company, ComScore Networks Inc., Web
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
IBM to plunk US$1.5B on security next year
News Big Blue unveils new products aimed at securing corporate networks and says US$1.5 billion will be spent on security product development and marketing.
Tags: Security
