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Microsoft hit with US$200M patent verdict
News A jury rules that an XML tagging feature in recent versions of Word infringed on a patent from a Toronto-based company.
Tags: Patents, Business applications, Verdict, Microsoft Corp., Toronto, Microsoft Word 2003, tagging, Microsoft Word 2007, Texas, spokesman
How online search traces helped lead to arrest
News Electronic traces ranging from online library searches to credit card records led to charges that a New Mexico man sent 64 threatening letters with a white powder.
Tags: Legal, Web sites, Affidavit, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Yahoo! Inc., FDIC, attorney, Washington Mutual Inc., Internet Search, Computer
Dish ordered to pay TiVo US$200 million
News Federal judge orders Dish Network to pay TiVo nearly US$200 million for continuing to sell DVRs it has determined infringe on a TiVo patent.
Tags: TVs, DVR, TiVo Inc., Dish Network, EchoStar Communications Corp., U.S. District Judge, video recorder, Texas, TVs, DVR
McAfee seeks gag on exec ousted over options
News Former McAfee President Kevin Weiss wants to clear his name after being awarded damages over his firing, but McAfee wants the information to remain confidential.
Tags: Antivirus software, Stock, Dallas, McAfee Inc., arbitration, SEC, Texas, tax, president, stock option
Microsoft reiterates case against Word injunction
News Monday filing is just the latest in the company's appeal of a patent infringement ruling that among other things, bars the sale of Word in its current form.
Tags: Business applications, software company, Toronto, Microsoft Word 2003, tagging, Microsoft Word 2007, Texas, Microsoft Word, XML
China solar panel maker sets first US plant
News Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Suntech Power Holdings, U.S., Green IT, mW, Manufacturing, Sales, solar panel, China
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".
Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML
Microsoft unlikely to let Word injunction stand
News Redmond has options, whether it is creating a technical workaround, appealing, or pursuing settlement talks. Likely, the company is exploring all three options right now.
Tags: tagging, Redmond, Texas, spokesman, federal judge, Microsoft Word, XML
US judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word
News Patent-infringement ruling in the United States bars the software giant from selling one of its premier products as long as it contains a custom XML feature.
Tags: Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Toronto, Microsoft Word 2003, tagging, Microsoft Word 2007, Judge, Texas, Microsoft Word, XML
Microsoft files appeal in Word injunction case
News Company finds faults with rulings that led to jury's patent infringement ruling. Microsoft also faces injunction that threatens to halt sales of current form of Word.
Tags: Business applications, Patent, Sales, chairman, Canada, financial, Texas, Microsoft Word, XML
US court sides with Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent case
News A federal appeals court says Microsoft does not have to pay damages in a long-running patent case over the MP3 music format.
Tags: Legal, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Alcatel, general counsel, MP3 music, litigation, Lucent Technologies Inc., blog
Texas University launches security tech incubator
News Institute for Cyber Security's incubator at University of Texas at San Antonio to initially help start-ups focused on protecting companies from Web application attacks and threats with using online mashups.
Tags: Security, Start-up, intrusion detection, venture capital, social networking, University of Texas, mashup, security technology, Washington D.C., Texas
Apple's Papermaster countersues IBM
News According to court documents, lawyers for Papermaster plan to claim that Big Blue's noncompete agreement is too broad and should not apply to a consumer electronics company.
Tags: Executive recruiting, Legal, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Apple iPod, technology company, InformationWeek, Apple iPhone, Texas, Austin
Energy storage coming to a power grid near you
News Storage on the grid would allow use of more solar and wind power and avoid the need for new power plants. So what's holding up grid storage?
Tags: grid computing, Storage, Energy Storage, Storage, Grid, hard drive, lithium-ion, theory, financial, NSTAR
A sign of things to come?
Blogs Dell Computer, the Texas-based computer maker, announced last Friday it is selling one of the only two company-owned cal...
