South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics, the second largest handset vendor in the world, announced today that it reached an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which it woluld pay US$ 1.3 billion for the use of its patents. According to the phone manufacturer, the agreement includes the use of Qualcomm... |
6 November 2009
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An electrical engineer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NIJT) has managed to crack a code that will allow investigators around the world to know for sure if and where a picture has been modified. Finding out if a photo has been changed will be very simple, NIJT professor of electrical and computer engineeri... |
2 April 2009
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Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two leading economists from the Washington University in St. Louis, believe that the time has come for patents and copyright to disappear as pieces of legislation from the laws of all countries. They say that the most important asset that any nation now has in front of the economi... |
6 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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University of Utah civil engineer Lawrence Reaveley came up with a potentially brilliant new idea for disposing off the enormous amount of garbage generated on the planet each day, in the form of a new patent idea that claims plastics – which make up the majority of wastes worldwide – could be used for co... |
8 January 2009
12:27 GMT |
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Yesterday, Red Hat took a stand on challenging the standards for patenting software. In the Bilski case that's at this moment before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the issue is ripe for consideration. Red Hat shows the problems that software patents bring to open source and seeks modifications to the stan... |
8 April 2008
10:55 GMT |
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Over the past few years patents (or their infringement) have become the favorite lawsuit subject between various technology manufacturers, especially since these legal actions are generally associated with huge amounts of money in damages and possibly even the injunction of certain products on certain markets. And th... |
28 December 2007
13:26 GMT |
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Patent agreements are probably the most controversed partnerships if we'd be talking in terms of open source. Existing or possible partnerships between companies such as Novell or Red Hat and Microsoft have always kept the headline on many news channels and they've also been the hot topic for numerous, mor... |
24 May 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Guess what story just won't end up once for good? Exactly; the one started by Microsoft when it accused Linux of infringing some MS patents. Just to remind it, Microsoft claimed in an interview with Fortune magazine that Linux and other free software infringed on 235 patents the company holds. After listening t... |
17 May 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Once again I will speak about the Microsoft patents matter, which has lately made Internet detour. This time I am backed up by the lead developer of the Linux kernel, Mr. Linus Tovarlds. Mr. Tovarlds has finally decided that this paranoia, which flamed Microsoft so harsh lately, reached its climax and tries to cool ... |
16 May 2007
08:35 GMT |
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The old OSRM study claiming Linux might break more than 200 software patents were brought back in the spotlight by Microsoft and things kind of started to cause a stir on the Internet in the past few days. Now that the patents-storm has settled down for a while let's see what it was all about. Everything starte... |
15 May 2007
08:09 GMT |
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I'm sure you heard about all kinds of anti-rape devices. You know, belts that once installed, couldn't allow rapists to hold victims down and open the protection belt at the same time. Well, now there are other anti-rape solutions. Rapex is a condom-like anti-rape device which has fish-like teeth. Once intr... |
20 March 2007
11:52 GMT |
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