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Coming to offer an episode of mild peace in the saga of IT lawsuits are Sony and LG, whose patent litigations have ended in a cross-license agreement that both parties agreed to.One thing about the IT industry is that there are so many companies whose interest and product portfolios overlap that it is more or less i... |
11 August 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Days after the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) imposed a $4.3 million civil penalty on a Maryland health care provider Cignet, Massachusetts General Hospital agreed to a $1 million settlement for potential HIPAA violations.Mass General, one of the largest hospitals in country, was accused of breachin... |
2 March 2011
04:58 GMT |
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With chips based on the ARM architecture getting more and more widespread, Fujitsu decided to enlarge its portfolio, so it entered a license agreement with the company in order to gain access to its IP.Those end-users keeping tabs on the IT market may or may not know that Fujitsu and ARM have been collaborating for ... |
28 February 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Since IT companies always have to innovate if they are to stay in business, IBM and Samsung decided it was high time they signed a cross-license pact so that they may both use the other's patent portfolio.License agreements are a common thing on the IT market, and there are even companies that deal exclusively ... |
9 February 2011
03:55 GMT |
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It would seem that new antitrust lawsuits are not the only developments sprouting up during the holidays, as certain companies, like NEC and Kodak, also took the opportunity to establish other types of relationships.It would seem that, once again, two companies in the IT industry decided it was time to set up a mutu... |
28 December 2010
07:17 GMT |
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The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs announced that an interim arrangement has been reached with Research In Motion (RIM) regarding the lawful interception of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services and expects a final solution to be in place by January 31.RIM's problems in India began back in July, when the governme... |
1 November 2010
03:22 GMT |
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Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock for $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies.The deal, which is part of Intel's new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy efficiency, has still to get the go ahea... |
19 August 2010
10:14 GMT |
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NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent litigation for a while, but the verdict given by the ITC late last month seems to have finally tipped the scales, giving Rambus an apparent advantage that appears to have persuaded NVIDIA to license some of its patents, though the licensing company still hasn't dro... |
13 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Though it may have had a rough period with the 40 nm manufacturing process, TSMC, if anything, actually appears to be thriving now that the final issues are being resolved. In fact, the foundry has even started to enter new, long term deals in order to further expand its business outlook. The latest in this series of... |
20 July 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Infrastructure services provider Ericsson has been recently selected by China Mobile Hebei, a provincial company of China Mobile, for the delivery of managed services. According to the company, Ericsson would offer these services for all of the 22,000 2G/3G (GSM/TD-SCDMA) base station sites the carrier has in the He... |
19 July 2010
06:47 GMT |
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The European Union has signed an agreement, which allows the US Department of Treasury to transfer European SWIFT banking data in order to assist in terrorism investigations. The agreement still has to pass a vote in the European Parliament before going into effect.The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Teleco... |
29 June 2010
09:47 GMT |
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On Monday, leading mobile phone maker Nokia and Internet giant Yahoo! announced a strategic partnership aimed at expanding the reach of their services and at offering users the possibility to easily stay connected with people that matter most to them. According to the duo, the new agreement builds on their long coll... |
25 May 2010
02:37 GMT |
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Today, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation and Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced the signing of an agreement that enables HTC to license Microsoft’s patented technology. The newly unveiled deal further strengthens the collaboration between the two companies, as the handset vendor is all... |
28 April 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Rambus seems to be one of those firms that go through all life experiences at once. On the one hand, it unveiled a new patent for mobile XDR memory and even got $900 million for signing a license agreement with Samsung back in January. On the other hand, the licensing company is locked in a legal battle with NVIDIA, ... |
1 April 2010
05:12 GMT |
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The more recent episode in the drawn-out legal battle between NVIDIA and Rambus saw the latter win a victory when Judge Theodore Essex with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said NVIDIA infringed three Rambus patents. However, in a separate proceeding, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is takin... |
27 January 2010
03:32 GMT |
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Heartland Payment Systems has reached a settlement with American Express, following the major security breach suffered by the company last year. According to the agreement, the payment processor will pay $3.6 million to the card brand.Heartland Payment Systems is a Princeton-based provider of payment processing servi... |
21 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Security vendor Prevx has signed an agreement with CPP, a large life assistance provider, to incorporate the Prevx 3.0.5 software, complete with the new SafeOnline technology, into its identity protection product. As a result, around one million UK residents who signed up for CPP's Identity Protection Alert... |
18 December 2009
08:24 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T and leading single source provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services Numerex have announced recently the extension of their agreement to deliver services for M2M enterprise markets. According to the duo, their partnership is aimed at expanding the network and application tech... |
9 October 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent announced recently that it had managed to settle two deals with China Mobile and China Telecom, for a total value of US$1.7 billion. According to the agreements, Alcatel-Lucent will provide the two carriers with network upgrades, as well as with integration and maintenance services during the ongoing y... |
28 April 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Apple has updated the agreement it has with iPhone developers to include a few clauses that mention a certain jailbreaking practice as not condoned. According to a reliable news source, jailbreaking, assisting in jailbreaking, and developing and distributing jailbreak apps are just a few of the no-nos included in App... |
3 April 2009
10:30 GMT |
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We wrote yesterday that Opera was expected to announce that it had made agreements with US mobile phone operators for the distribution of some of its products, as reported by the Forbes magazine on Friday, yet it seems that the Oslo-based browser company came to the front and announced that it did not have such plans... |
24 March 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Earlier today, we reported that OpeniMac was the latest company trying its luck in the Mac clone business. While OpeniMac's terms of license don't even come close to the imbroglio that is Psystar's EULA, there are a few interesting paragraphs to be read nonetheless.“OpeniMac. Terms of the license... |
8 December 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Word on the web has it that Psystar's EULA (that's right, they have one) is all you need to convince yourself that the Mac cloner is a phony all the way. The company doesn't actually want to free the world of proprietary software (you didn't honestly think that was true, did you?), but just needs ... |
5 December 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Although still fond of tying everything down to its hardware, Apple has decided to offer free licensing for devices using the Mini DisplayPort standard. Developers and hardware makers eager to build peripherals that work with Apple's new standard must apply first for an evaluation license, and a separate implem... |
2 December 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Ever realized how everyone is much, much better off telling the truth, being open and sincere? Can we say Apple is any of these things? Maybe, up to a point. Particularly, up to the point where Apple has something cooking in its labs that no one must know about. However, this secretive attitude is affecting everyone,... |
6 November 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Even though Apple is making huge efforts to keep talks with third parties under wraps, the company's controversial iPhone Developer Agreement has been leaked on Wikileaks. The downloadable PDF reveals just how much of a burden Apple's NDA was to developers.Accompanying the PDF file is a summary of its conte... |
29 October 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Just last month, Apple posted an open message on its Developer Connection site, announcing that it was dropping the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with developers for released iPhone software. Apple has now publicized new terms for registered devs, defining new limits for "Apple Confidential Information" protected by... |
24 October 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Kodak is a name known by almost, if not, everybody. The American multinational public company produces imaging and photographic materials, plus equipment. Recently, Kodak has been re-focusing on two major markets: digital and photography.It seems that the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia took some interest in what Kod... |
21 October 2008
11:11 GMT |
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The Association of National Advertisers has voiced its concerns related to the implications that a Google-Yahoo! agreement would have on fair competition. The letter sent to the Department of Justice, which is currently reviewing the partnership between the two companies, comprises “a comprehensive, indepe... |
8 September 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Google has amended Chrome's Terms of Service (ToS), after facing numerous objections from users. Seemingly, a clause in the ToS contract that shipped with Chrome specified in legal terms that whoever was using it was also giving Google the right to use all intellectual property that they passed through the brows... |
4 September 2008
09:19 GMT |
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The content of the Yahoo!-Google agreement was finally made public, just as many were dying to know what one of the most intriguing partnerships in the history of Internet might be about. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission published on its official website the text that was made available by the two companies.... |
9 August 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson announced that it has signed an exclusive sponsorship agreement with Maria Sharapova, the famous 20 years old female tennis player, to become the first global brand ambassador for the company. The four years agreement will permit the young Russian star and Sony Ericsson to work together on a series... |
14 January 2008
05:21 GMT |
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I just want to say from the beginning that this is only pure speculation so there's nothing official yet. It appears like Penthouse Media Group is interested in buying Various Inc., the owner of Adult Friend Finder, a web-service which became famous through the adverts distributed on millions of pages. TechCrunc... |
19 November 2007
09:07 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks just landed one more big deal on its already long list of partnerships. Indonesian company Telkomsel, the country's leading cellular and wireless network operator.As part of the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will take care of all the steps needed for this country to reach high telecom ... |
30 October 2007
17:00 GMT |
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Contrary to what was recently stated, France Telecom's Orange has not clung to the iPhone deal just yet. In fact, it is now negotiating the terms of such an agreement, according to business magazine Challenges.Apple has recently officially revealed the operators to carry the iPhone in the UK and in Germany. No w... |
28 September 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Those who read news about development, publishing, distribution and advertising agreements between companies behind the big titles on the video games market today might be interested to know that IGA Worldwide (the largest independent in-game advertising network) has confirmed 3 more years of partnership with Codemas... |
29 August 2007
05:09 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Telefonica O2 Europe have decided to extend their multimedia messaging agreement. Their partnership must have been quite profitable in the past, which has lead to their interest in singing it again for a new period of time.The agreement between Nokia Siemens Networks and Telefonica O2 regar... |
9 August 2007
11:21 GMT |
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GameTap (broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System) has recently revealed an expanded partnership with Codemasters. The agreement is good for several years and it includes North American rights not only for the developer's new titles to be featured in GameTap's subscription service, bu... |
2 August 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Selatra and Sminn will be working together from now on in order to bring their mobile phone game titles on new markets. Both companies have a considerable experience for developing solutions for mobile game applications at best standards.As a result of the deal between the two companies, Sminn hopes to reach considerab... |
17 July 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Ericsson and Samsung seem to have decided to come to an agreement and leave behind all matters which have been worthy of lawsuits until now. Their arguments go back a long time, which makes it even more surprising to see that a common point has been met.The two companies have decided to sign a telecom cross license d... |
9 July 2007
08:02 GMT |
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An interesting article published by Peter Harkins, web developer and entrepreneur from Chicago, reveals some interesting aspects concerning the Google employees. In a friendly conversation with some good friends working at the Mountain View company, Peter Harkins was amazed because the Googlers refused to talk about ... |
9 July 2007
04:43 GMT |
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The popular online video sharing service YouTube signed a deal with Sveriges Television to create a new channel on the official page of the product in which the TV company will publish its own programs and shows. The deal will be rolled out in September but the representatives of the two companies refused to offer mo... |
22 June 2007
09:25 GMT |
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Xandros Corporation, the company creating the same named Linux distribution, announced yesterday a "broad collaboration agreement" with no one other than Microsoft. The agreement is similar to the one Novell closed with Microsoft last year and includes "patent covenants to not sue Xandros customers".The partnership ... |
5 June 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Once with the concluding of the stock option investigation for Novell, the company was able to post its annual report. Novell's annual report on 2006 became interest issue for many people as it includes the agreements of the partnership closed with Microsoft in November 2006.The 144 pages text does not cover al... |
28 May 2007
08:57 GMT |
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YouTube is now preparing to display some hot action from Iraq after the product managed to sign a deal with Al Jazeera, the well-known television channel based in Qatar. At this time, Google's video service displays almost any type of content, except news and headlines coming straight from Iraq. YouTube and Al J... |
16 April 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Since the rumors of a potential Office suite designed by Google spread on the Internet, the companies started to talk about a revolutionary solution able to challenge the well known Microsoft's Office. Although the company refused to comment on the speculations, the application was finally released and Google cr... |
20 March 2007
04:40 GMT |
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Google managed to make one more partnership with an online social network after the company agreed to include its search technologies and advertising solution on Friendster, an online social network. At this time, Friendster has more than 40 million members in the entire world, the main goal of the service being repr... |
8 March 2007
05:58 GMT |
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After the Viacom removal, YouTube started a powerful campaign of partnerships to increase the number of videos they provide, trying to cover all the areas that are required by users. Today, a new special channel was revealed, You Choose 08 representing the YouTube feature that will present all the US Presidential can... |
6 March 2007
05:19 GMT |
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