items tagged with Patents
Dell's next step - SUSE Linux desktops?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-06-07 13:27:54
Why would the world's second-ranked PC seller make an effort to sell an operating system that it's never sold before on custom hardware - and do it in a half-hearted manner? Why would it do this at a time when it's desperately trying to regain its number 1 ranking?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-06-07 13:27:54
Why would the world's second-ranked PC seller make an effort to sell an operating system that it's never sold before on custom hardware - and do it in a half-hearted manner? Why would it do this at a time when it's desperately trying to regain its number 1 ranking?
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Microsoft, LG, patents and Linux get cross
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-07 10:28:11
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-06-07 10:28:11
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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Canon and Toshiba delay SED TVs - again
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-28 01:48:32
Canon and Toshiba were planning to launch SED TVs in time for the holiday buying season, but the partners have now postponed them indefinitely.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-28 01:48:32
Canon and Toshiba were planning to launch SED TVs in time for the holiday buying season, but the partners have now postponed them indefinitely.
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Red Hat advises caution over patents
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-27 21:49:01
Red Hat's Mark Webbink is not the sort of person to issue threats. He's somewhat unusual in that he's a legal counsel who uses clear, concise prose when he speaks. Like all those in the profession, he does speak carefully but thankfully his speech is free of obfuscation.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-27 21:49:01
Red Hat's Mark Webbink is not the sort of person to issue threats. He's somewhat unusual in that he's a legal counsel who uses clear, concise prose when he speaks. Like all those in the profession, he does speak carefully but thankfully his speech is free of obfuscation.
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Sony faces patent challenge to Blu-ray
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-05-27 17:07:45
Three of Sony's divisions face a patent suit over the metallic layers used to reflect laser light in Blu-ray discs.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2007-05-27 17:07:45
Three of Sony's divisions face a patent suit over the metallic layers used to reflect laser light in Blu-ray discs.
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Novell’s deal with Microsoft made mostly public
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-27 05:43:47
Details of the Novell and Microsoft deal are finally public, and though some details have been ***’d out, Novell sits finely balanced between the community, the GPLv3 and Microsoft and depends on all three for future success.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-27 05:43:47
Details of the Novell and Microsoft deal are finally public, and though some details have been ***’d out, Novell sits finely balanced between the community, the GPLv3 and Microsoft and depends on all three for future success.
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Can Nokia quash Qualcomm's lawsuit?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Smart Phones
2007-05-25 03:55:21
Nokia has responded to Qualcomm’s latest patent infringement lawsuit with patent counter assertions of its own, but can Qualcomm win this time after losing 11 previous patent cases?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Smart Phones
2007-05-25 03:55:21
Nokia has responded to Qualcomm’s latest patent infringement lawsuit with patent counter assertions of its own, but can Qualcomm win this time after losing 11 previous patent cases?
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Future Nokia phones may double as lightning detectors
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-05-24 17:23:51
Your mobile phone is already a music player, a camera, a games console and an Internet access device, so why not make it a lightning detector too? That's the plan set out in a Nokia patent application.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-05-24 17:23:51
Your mobile phone is already a music player, a camera, a games console and an Internet access device, so why not make it a lightning detector too? That's the plan set out in a Nokia patent application.
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Novell, Microsoft, patents and the EFF
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-24 09:12:06
All guns are blazing in the land of Linux: Novell and Microsoft’s patent pact is about to be made public as Novell rejects Microsoft’s Linux patent infringement allegations while Novell supports the EFF’s Patent Busting project – it’s full steam ahead!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-24 09:12:06
All guns are blazing in the land of Linux: Novell and Microsoft’s patent pact is about to be made public as Novell rejects Microsoft’s Linux patent infringement allegations while Novell supports the EFF’s Patent Busting project – it’s full steam ahead!
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Has Microsoft violated the GPL?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-20 22:19:32
It would be rather funny if, after all the brouhaha Microsoft has made recently about patent violations, the company is found to be violating the one thing which it passionately hates - the existing General Public Licence.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-20 22:19:32
It would be rather funny if, after all the brouhaha Microsoft has made recently about patent violations, the company is found to be violating the one thing which it passionately hates - the existing General Public Licence.
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Could it be? Replace gas with hydrogen taken from water by aluminum and gallium
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-05-19 11:55:40
Purdue University professor says ordinary internal combustion engines could be converted from gas fuel to hydrogen fuel, and without the need to store hydrogen.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-05-19 11:55:40
Purdue University professor says ordinary internal combustion engines could be converted from gas fuel to hydrogen fuel, and without the need to store hydrogen.
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Apple patent hints at thinner, lighter notebooks
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-18 03:55:16
Apple has proposed gluing computer frame and shell components together to allow the production of thinner, lighter yet more rigid notebooks.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-05-18 03:55:16
Apple has proposed gluing computer frame and shell components together to allow the production of thinner, lighter yet more rigid notebooks.
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Microsoft: shades of Saddam Hussein
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-16 20:31:47
When they write the history of the computer history 10 years from now, the date May 14, 2007 will be marked in red: it's the day when everyone knew that Microsoft was starting to go down the tube.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-16 20:31:47
When they write the history of the computer history 10 years from now, the date May 14, 2007 will be marked in red: it's the day when everyone knew that Microsoft was starting to go down the tube.
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Microsoft running scared from Linux
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-16 06:38:33
Speak to anyone outside of Microsoft who knows anything about Microsoft's claim that Linux software violates 42 of its patents and most of them agree - Microsoft is running scared. Many believe that Microsoft's public announcement smacks of desperation and is a risky move by a company that has run out of ideas.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-16 06:38:33
Speak to anyone outside of Microsoft who knows anything about Microsoft's claim that Linux software violates 42 of its patents and most of them agree - Microsoft is running scared. Many believe that Microsoft's public announcement smacks of desperation and is a risky move by a company that has run out of ideas.
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Microsoft's Linux stance threatens self-harm
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-05-15 06:46:53
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-05-15 06:46:53
With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, Microsoft is threatening open source with the law. Linux is in violation of 235 of its patents, says the company. It won't say which. It won't say how. It won't say what it plans to do. It just wants us to know how it feels.
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Microsoft to sue Sun over OpenOffice.org?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-14 05:49:37
The thought of Microsoft suing Sun Microsystems for infringing patents it holds for Microsoft Office seems ludicrous. However, according to a leading open source expert that's what Microsoft will have to do if it is serious about trying to uphold its claim that OpenOffice.org infringes 45 of the patents it holds.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-14 05:49:37
The thought of Microsoft suing Sun Microsystems for infringing patents it holds for Microsoft Office seems ludicrous. However, according to a leading open source expert that's what Microsoft will have to do if it is serious about trying to uphold its claim that OpenOffice.org infringes 45 of the patents it holds.
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First steps in the patent protection racket
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-14 02:44:47
Vista isn't selling as well as expected. Hints that Linux infringes Microsoft's patents aren't working well as a protection racket. And the third revision of the General Public Licence is due to come into force soon.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-14 02:44:47
Vista isn't selling as well as expected. Hints that Linux infringes Microsoft's patents aren't working well as a protection racket. And the third revision of the General Public Licence is due to come into force soon.
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Weather forecasting while you fly
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-05-09 15:31:14
The Boeing Company has filed a patent application so that aircraft could contain weather-sensing devices to collect real-time weather forecasting data as they fly around the world.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-05-09 15:31:14
The Boeing Company has filed a patent application so that aircraft could contain weather-sensing devices to collect real-time weather forecasting data as they fly around the world.
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The empire strikes back
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-07 21:50:40
With one stroke, Microsoft has reasserted its number one position as deal maker and decision maker in the computer industry, reminding all wannabes that they are just that - wannabes.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-07 21:50:40
With one stroke, Microsoft has reasserted its number one position as deal maker and decision maker in the computer industry, reminding all wannabes that they are just that - wannabes.
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Nokia sued in U.S. over a technology patent
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-05-02 06:23:51
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-05-02 06:23:51
HELSINKI (Reuters) - New Zealand-based company Michael S Sutton Ltd. has filed a complaint against Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research in the United States for infringing a data packaging technology patent and is seeking damages, court documents showed.
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