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Push email companies Visto & Seven settle patent battle
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2007-07-11 00:17:44
Rival push email technology companies, Visto and Seven, have settled a three-year long patent battle with Seven "Acknowledg[ing] the validity and enforceability of Visto's patent portfolio and [agreeing] to licensing terms including monetary and non-monetary considerations."


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Ericsson and Samsung end cellular patent spat
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2007-07-09 15:32:08
Ericsson and Samsung have renewed their 2002 agreement to cross-licence each other's intellectual property covering 2G and 3G cellphones and network equipment, after initiating legal actions against each other.


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GPLv3 causing cracks in the Microsoft/Novell partnership?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2007-07-09 03:18:02
Despite Microsoft's attempt to dissociate itself from GPLv3 software, Novell is embracing the new licence.
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Australia strikes EPG deal, but most TV watchers still screwed
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana

Category: The Digital Lounge Room

2007-07-05 22:28:57
Australia's recalcitrant free to air television networks have finally conceded to sharing their programming schedules electronically, but in the short term very few TV watchers will actually benefit.

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Block P2P, Belgian court tells ISP
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-05 16:58:41
Scarlet, one of Belgium's largest ISPs, has been given six months to block the use of peer-to-peer networks to exchange music without the copyright holder's consent.
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BigPond Music responds to canning from CHOICE magazine
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-04 22:36:02
Telstra's BigPond has struck back at a CHOICE magazine report which praises Apple's iTunes store and cans BigPond Music - claiming the report "compares oranges and bananas".


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Apple's iTunes tops CHOICE online music store list, Bigpond canned
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-04 18:40:04
Apple’s iTunes Store has topped a CHOICE Computer shadow shop into nine Australian online music stores, with Telstra's BigPond Music failing to impress.


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LG sues Quanta over DVD patents
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2007-07-04 16:48:24
South Korean electronics company LG has filed suit against Taiwanese computer maker Quanta, alleging infringement of four patents relating to DVD technology.


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Cheap and controversial allofmp3 download site closes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-04 16:24:09
The notorious download site allofmp3.com has closed.


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Universal goes cool on iTunes Store
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-02 01:05:14
Universal has reportedly declined to renew its contract with Apple's iTunes Store.


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SoundExchange eases webcast royalty load
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-01 17:30:38
Webcasters operating multiple channels may benefit from a concession made by the body that collects music performance royalties.


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Yahoo Search sucks up Flickr streams
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2007-06-28 03:36:06
Yahoo Image Search now returns images stored in Flickr as well as those its spider discovers on the web.


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The sounds of silence as net radio to go dead
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-06-25 20:37:03
The campaign against a hike in music royalties levied on US Internet radio stations steps up a gear with a "Day of Silence" on June 26.


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Nine days left for patent deals
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2007-06-19 20:58:15
There are exactly nine days left for Microsoft to get other Linux companies to sign up for patent cross-licensing deals.


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Microsoft sues Immersion over Sony payments
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2007-06-19 18:21:19
Microsoft is running a breach of contract case against touch feedback developer Immersion, claiming it is entitled to a percentage of money received from Sony Computer Entertainment.


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YouTube goes local
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-06-19 16:08:51
Localised versions of the YouTube video sharing service have been launched in nine countries.


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Ubuntu, Red Hat ‘Just say NO’ to Microsoft
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-06-18 21:30:21
Rumors that Ubuntu and Red Hat were about to do a dance with the ‘devil’ have proven untrue, to the relief of Linux lovers.


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LG countersues Hitachi in plasma patent dispute
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2007-06-18 15:27:49
LG Electronics has filed a countersuit against Hitachi, seeking an injunction on patent infringement of LG's PDP technology plus monetary compensation.


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Microsoft and Linspire reach interop, IP deal
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2007-06-14 18:11:23
Microsoft and Linspire have tied the knot with a deal aimed at improving interoperability between Windows and the Linux distribution while also offering Linspire users the chance to buy into "patent covenants" - essentially insurance against being sued by Microsoft for patent infringement.


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YouTube to trial homebrewed video fingerprint tech
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-06-12 21:03:52
YouTube is set to begin a trial of software designed to spot clips uploaded to the video-sharing site without the consent of the copyright holder.


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