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In a move designed to safeguard the Linux community, a group of companies intimately connected with the open source world revealed having acquired no less than 22 Linux-focused patents which belonged to Microsoft at one point. The Redmond-based company had initially unloaded the 22 items on its intellectual property ... |
9 September 2009
06:21 GMT |
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TomTom, a Netherlands-based vendor of Linux-based car navigation devices, agreed to play to Microsoft's tune in the Redmond company's intellectual property licensing ballet after it was sued for patent infringement. TomTom looked for a brief period of time like it was more than ready to stand its ground an... |
31 March 2009
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Microsoft is finding itself on the spot yet again because of intellectual property infringement claims made by BackWeb Technologies. BackWeb has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in San Francisco, California, accusing the software giant that it is violating no less than four of its patents with the ... |
26 March 2009
07:21 GMT |
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TomTom, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of car navigation products, has slapped Microsoft with a countersuit after the Redmond company initially debuted legal action against it for intellectual property infringement. At the end of February 2009, the software giant introduced legal action against TomTom, emphasizing ... |
20 March 2009
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Lexmark is the latest company to jump aboard Microsoft’s IP licensing wagon. The two companies have inked a broad patent cross-licensing agreement, designed to streamline access to each other’s intellectual property portfolios. According to the Redmond company, the deal has been inked to ensure additional... |
17 March 2009
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A new Microsoft patent-infringement lawsuit, filed on February 25, 2009, by the Redmond company against TomTom NV and Tom Tom, Inc., also involves the Linux open source operating system. The software giant alleges that TomTom, a maker of in-car navigation devices, is violating no less than eight items on its intellec... |
26 February 2009
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Microsoft’s intellectual patent dowry now accounts for in excess of 10,000 items the company revealed this week. With the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently awarding Microsoft the 10,000th U.S. patent, the company managed to join an elite group of innovators worldwide that have also passed the milestone.... |
11 February 2009
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Via the Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum, Microsoft is essentially providing anti-piracy educational materials. The curriculum is offered for free to all teachers worldwide, and is designed to prepare children for the rules of the game in the new digital age. In this context, the focus is on protec... |
15 January 2009
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Microsoft is the top dog when it comes down to the patent portfolios companies around the world managed to build in 2007 in the U.S. The Redmond company was placed at the top of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) annual Patent Scorecard, not only because of the sheer volume of patents... |
5 January 2009
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LittleBigPlanet is one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It won over quite a few people with its interesting puzzles but didn't really get off to a great start in terms of sales, as Media Molecule, its developer, and Sony, its publisher, hoped it would. However, as the holiday... |
30 December 2008
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Microsoft and Primax have settled a patent infringement dispute over the usage of the Redmond company's mouse technology. On July 2008, Microsoft filed intellectual property infringements complaints with the U.S. District Court in Northern California and the International Trade Commission (ITC). At that time, th... |
18 December 2008
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Pioneer is the latest addition on Microsoft's collection of Intellectual Property partners. The two companies announced on September 16, 2008 a cross-licensing patent agreement focused on consumer technology. In the past year, the Redmond giant signed similar partnerships with Kenwood and Alpine Electronics, and... |
17 September 2008
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Microsoft has expanded the "family" built around its Intellectual Property Licensing program with the addition of the latest member, Tokyo-based Nikon. Both companies applauded the newly inked patent cross-licensing agreement, as the first step of a partnership designed to catalyze development of new digital imaging... |
28 August 2008
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In certain scenarios select editions of Windows Vista RTM can lose the IP address received through a DHCP server, Microsoft informed. According to the Redmond company the gold version of its latest Windows client can revert back to an Automatic Private IP Addressing address instead of retaining the DHCP IP. Such prob... |
19 August 2008
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The Microsoft hardware technologies bazaar is now open for business. The Redmond company announced the Licensed Contract Manufacturers Marketplace at Computex Taipei 2008 in Taiwan, an online hotspot aimed to feature its intellectual property licensing program for hardware. The new marketplace along with the extended... |
3 June 2008
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As of April this year, estimations are that the current number of available IPs are not going to be sufficient for all of the Earth's inhabitants. The current IPv4 Internet standard can provide networks with "only" 4 billion IP configurations, which isn't enough to cover all the 6 billion possible Internet ... |
14 May 2008
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Networking is now an integral part of the computing experience that most users enjoy, or not, on a daily basis. Ranging in size and complexity from a few PCs in most homes and offices and going up to hundreds and even thousands of workstations when it comes to corporate and enterprise environments, networks are now ... |
30 April 2008
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The EU came forth last week with some disturbing news for the search engines, that IP addresses should be considered personal information and thus should not be stored. Instantly, that covers the whole cookies problem that many people have, storing preferences and settings against their will.Google's Privacy Pol... |
25 February 2008
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The acquisition of DoubleClick by Google was certain to be a lengthy process the moment that the Microsoft giant took Yahoo!'s hand and filed a complaint that if it went through, it would spell Monopolistic move with capita Ms. So far, the Commissions both in Australia and the U.S. have approved of it and all th... |
28 January 2008
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Microsoft is literally on top of the patent world. Its portfolio has grown substantially from 2006 to 2007, and is now at 8,500 issued patents in the U.S., with 15,000 more still pending. The Redmond company has managed to top the IT industry scorecards according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer... |
28 January 2008
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Microsoft has taken yet another step on the path to a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem by getting cozy with the father of the VHS format of VCR. In this context, the Redmond company announced that it has expanded its collaboration with the Victor Company of Japan (JVC) by inking a patent cross-licensing agreement. Ne... |
16 January 2008
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January 1st was the day of resolutions for many, many people. Google decided to look back to the past of the Internet and acknowledge its importance. And I wonder how could it not, it's about the TCP/IP turning 25, it's a quarter century from the protocol's switching on and never going off again.Wikipe... |
3 January 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the net, who played a key role in the development of the protocols (like the IPv4 that is currently the most used IP version in the world) which underpin the global internet has recently said: "There is a risk of not being able to get online." He added: "The rate of consumpt... |
31 October 2007
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Patents, copyright laws and rights and trademark issues are all a big blur nowadays, many say, because of the explosion of user-generated content that burst the bubble and spread all over, making it unclear who owns what and why. The technology sector is the most affected, although many others also suffer the consequ... |
31 October 2007
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TerreStar Networks selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy its Internet-High Speed Packet Access solution for the future TerreStar all-IP integrated satellite and terrestrial wireless communications system. The deployment is the first I-HSPA network deployment for Nokia Siemens Networks and represents an important ... |
7 September 2007
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Nokia announced the extension of its high-performance IP Security appliances portfolio by adding a new security platform: the Nokia IP2450 for firewall/VPN. The new IP2450 takes advantage of combined innovations from Nokia, Check Point and Intel and features the latest technology in chipsets and applications. It is a... |
6 September 2007
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Internet browsing is so common that it has become a usual task in our every day's life. The great part is that for connecting to the Internet, you don't necessarily need to be in a fixed location. While some do it at work, others at home, well, thanks to wireless networks, some can do it anywhere. But have ... |
2 April 2007
04:28 GMT |
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fring officially launched its free, mobile VoIP service for S60 devices. Developed by Nokia, S60 is one of the world's leading smartphone software. fring is a light downloadable mobile phone application enabling anyone with a compatible handset to make free calls and text messages or "chat" to other fring users ... |
12 March 2007
11:33 GMT |
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