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According to ITProPortal , the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has approved a Comcast settlement that ends the class-action suit filed against it for delaying... More >
With the hopes of expanding the capabilities of its advanced speech recognition platform, voice recognition software vendor Nuance has acquired voice-to-text firm SpinVox in a $102.5 million deal, ... More >
Judge David Thompson has upheld a ruling that Apple's iPod earbuds do not cause hearing loss , according to TG Daily . Judge Thompsom said that the plaintiffs could not prove that the earbuds were ... More >
Reuters reports that the International Trade Commission is going to look into allegations by Prism Technologies that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion violated one of its patents. Prism Technolo... More >
South Korea's government has paved the way for LG and Samsung, the country's two top LCD makers, to set up LCD plants in China . In allowing LG and Samsung to export LCD technology to China and set ... More >
O2, which publicly apologized for its network's performance in 2009 , plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds next year to prevent service outages in 2010, reports I4U News . Accordi... More >
Google is facing another lawsuit over its Google Book service. According to Canoe , Chinese novelist Mian Mian is suing Google for scanning her work into its online library. Mian Mian is seeking d... More >
Despite the recession, Red Hat reports that its third-quarter revenue was $194.3 million , up 18 percent from the same quarter a year ago, reports InformationWeek . The company beat a consensus opi... More >
Broadcom will pay $160.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over stock option backdating, reports Computerworld . In exchange for the cash settlement, claims against Broadcom and its officer... More >
According to Computerworld , Nokia has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission claiming that Apple infringes on seven of its patents "in virtually all of its mobile phones, ... More >
According to The New York Times , a former Seagate employee named Paul A. Galloway is blowing the whistle on Seagate by providing “an eyewitness account” accusing the company of taking hard-drive ... More >
Qualcomm chief operating officer, Len J. Lauer, will be leaving the company Dec. 31 to take a post as chief executive officer at an unnamed firm, InformationWeek reports. Lauer's responsib... More >
Telefónica, which operates O2 in the UK, said it has wrapped up its acquisition of VoIP provider Jajah. The Spanish telecom's $207 million cash transaction still hinges on a clearance by CNC, the S... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Twitter has acquired location services provider Mixer Labs . Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the acquisition will help the company continue to combine the “textual relevan... More >
A federal judge has dismissed Aram Hovsepian's suit that alleged that Apple knowingly sold defective displays with iMacs in 2006, reports InformationWeek . Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that Hovsepian ... More >
MB Technologies has filed suit against Oracle for fraud and copyright infringement, reports Computerworld . MB says that after Oracle bought Hyperion on 2007, the companies agreed to amend M... More >
Apple shareholders got a nice present this holiday season when the stock surged 3.4 percent on Thursday to close at a record high of $209.04. The Los Angeles Times reports that the company's shar... More >
The One Laptop Per Child program has unveiled its third design for a cheap laptop for the world's poor children, reports BBC News . The a slim-line touchscreen tablet PC called OX-3 is sche... More >
Though its revenue growth continues to slow, Red Hat beat expectations and its own guidance in its most recent quarter, reports LinuxPlanet. It reported net income for the quarter at $16.4 ... More >
After losing an appeal on patent claims by i4i, Microsoft already has issued a patch to strip custom XML from Word 2007 and Office 2007, reports ZDNet . The patch is meant for factory-ins... More >
Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a class-action lawsuit and avoid further litigation on allegations that it blocked peer-to-peer traffic in 2007 and 2008, reports PC Magazine . ... More >
The Nortel sell-off continues. The company has accepted a stalking-horse bid for its carrier VoIP business from Texas-based Genband Inc. for $282 million, reports Bloomberg . The bid is des... More >
Despite CEO Steve Jobs' extended absence this year, Apple had a banner year. As CNET News points out, it had three of its most profitable quarters in company history and will have $36 bill... More >
According to SiliconValley.com , the District 1 Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that requires Microsoft to pay $5.6 million to Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel & Mason for a Wisconsin anti... More >
IBM has been johnny-on-the-spot with financing to help companies benefit from federal stimulus funds . Now it's doing so with four health care organizations working on electronic records in... More >
Except for "essential functions," Yahoo's offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year's as the company tries to save money, reports The Wall Street Journal. Employees in the Unite... More >
Red Hat has confirmed that it will drop support for Intel's Itanium (IA-64) processor in the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 6, reports InfoWorld . The story quotes... More >
Shortly after Apple won a permanent injunction against Psystar, rumors began to surface that the Mac clone maker was closing up shop. A Dow Jones Newswire article reported that company attorney E... More >
Twitter can silence all those critics wondering how the microblogging site will make money. Twitter will be profitable in 2009 , thanks to about $25 million it will make from its Internet-search dea... More >
Google's buyout offer of review site Yelp was considered all but a done deal last week, but no. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman has walked away from a deal reported to be worth around a half-billion dol... More >
O2, Telefonica's mobile arm, is set to acquire VoIP startup Jajah , according to The Marker . O2 is expected to close the deal this week for $200 million, but neither company has confirmed anything... More >
Microsoft has pushed back the planned March 22 release of Visual Studio 2010 by a few weeks after beta testers told the company it's not up to snuff, reports InfoWorld . It released that be... More >
Bing Information Design has filed suit against Microsoft in a St. Louis circuit court, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition, reports Computerworld . The small Missouri desi... More >
Investors were giddy after BlackBerry maker Research in Motion posted a 59 percent increase in third-quarter profit , reports Market Watch . RIM reported net income of $628.4 million, or $1.... More >
Before releasing the Pre, Palm blamed its losses on the cost of developing the smartphone. Now it's blaming its losses on the cost of marketing it, according to Bloomberg . Actually, John P... More >
Things are looking up at Oracle. Not only does it expect the European Union to give its OK to the Sun acquisition in January, but profit rose 12 percent in the third quarter. It reported net... More >
Lots of goings-on with Dell these days. The company has created a services organization , called simply enough, Dell Services, reports InfoWorld . It's a combination of its own enterprise se... More >
The PC market is poised for double-digit growth annually through 2013, with portable computers leading the way, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. U.S. growth in sales, however, is... More >
Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies has increased its stake in Facebook to more than 5 percent and wants even more, reports TechCrunch . It has put $400 million into the socia... More >
Adobe posted a loss in the fourth quarter , but the maker of Acrobat, Flash and Photoshop software said sales began picking up in November, reports Reuters . In the quarter, it reported a ne... More >
Apple can claim another victory against Mac computer clone maker Psystar. According to TG Daily , U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted Apple’s request for a permanent injunction against Psys... More >
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney has dismissed criminal charges in the stock-options backdating case against two former Broadcom executives, citing misconduct by prosecutors, reports The Wall Str... More >
Sun Microsystems is claiming victory in two intellectual property cases. Reuters reports that in the United States, Sun received a federal court judgment against Sun Valley Technical Repair.... More >
Neon Enterprise Software has filed suit against IBM alleging that the company has been disparaging products made by Neon in order to protect its lucrative mainframe business. According to In... More >
ON Semiconductor plans to buy out California Micro Devices for $108 million in cash, or $4.70 a share, a 54 percent premium on its Friday closing price, reports Reuters . ON Semiconductor ma... More >
The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit against Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, JVC and 10 other consumer electronics companies accusing them of license infringement in the use of open ... More >
Though spending on chip-making gear will be down 42.6 percent this year, Gartner is predicting a rise of 45.3 percent is expected in 2010 as electronics manufacturers increase orders, reports Info... More >
Microsoft is buying IT process automation vendor Opalis Software , calling the acquisition "a pivotal piece to deliver on our dynamic data center initiative," reports CNET News . Financial details w... More >
Computerworld reports that TechCrunch has filed suit against former partner Fusion Garage , alleging the Singapore-based startup used fraud and deceit in an attempt to take control of the CrunchPa... More >
If you're an American Gen Xer like myself, you may have a nostaglic place in your heart for a certain blue and furry Sesame Street character who had a borderline psychotic fondness for cookies . &nb... More >
This past April, rumors surfaced of a Google buyout of Twitter . However, there was no consensus on whether it was all but a done deal or whether negotiations were just beginning between the two com... More >
Facebook revamped its privacy policy earlier this week, making it easier for the whole online world to laugh and cry with users of the social networking site while also culling their information. Cr... More >
Microsoft has announced plans to buy Andover, Mass.-based Sentillion , which makes software for health care professionals, reports CNET News . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This Mass High Te... More >
Malaysian company MOL Global, an affiliate of MOL AccessPortal Berhad of Kuala Lumpur, has agreed to buy out social-networking pioneer Friendster , reports seattlepi.com. The price was not disclos... More >
Nokia plans to close its two retail stores in the United States , along with one of two stores in the UK. In addition, it will relocate its store in Sao Paolo, Brazil, reports a Dow Jones story in ... More >
Companies including Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, among others, are teaming up to create the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council to deal with barriers to enterprise use of cloud computing. Accordin... More >
Iowa schools will get more than $60 million from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, reports the Quad-City Times . The money will be used for technology upgrades , notes th... More >
ComScore says its survey found 28 percent of holiday shoppers have been influenced social media in their buying decisions, reports Bloomberg . In the survey, 7 percent of respondents said t... More >
Facebook's privacy policy continues to evolve. With legions of companies chomping at the bit to get to that trove of data on consumers, it's no wonder. The new policy allows people to set their priva... More >
In Google's announcement that is its buying out real-time collaboration vendor AppJet, Google said no new EtherPad content could be created . It urged users to export their data from the service. &n... More >
Dell, often touted as one of the companies that really "gets" Twitter , says it has used the microblogging service to drum up more than $6.5 million in sales over the past two years, reports Bloo... More >
A Palm Pre user is hoping to file a class-action lawsuit against Palm and Sprint Nextel for allegedly causing him to lose most of the data from his phone. According to Computerworld , Jason... More >
Google has filed suit against Pacific WebWorks alleging that the company is running a work-at-home scam that unnecessarily charges people's credit cards and spoofs Google's brand name, reports Comp... More >
Time Warner on Wednesday will cut struggling AOL loose. An Associated Press story on seattlepi.com explains that on Wednesday, Time Warner shareholders will get one share of AOL stock for ... More >
Microsoft is reminding customers that come next July 13, it will end support for Windows XP SP2 . It also will discontinue support at that time for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Client, repor... More >
Google has acquired AppJet, which specializes in real-time online document collaboration with its EtherPad workgroup collaboration application, reports ITProPortal . InfoWorld reports the ... More >
Microsoft and Yahoo have ironed out the final details of their search/advertising partnership, reports Telegraph.co.uk . It quotes the two companies' statement about their 10-year pact in w... More >
Intel has scrapped plans for an advanced graphics chip based on its Larrabee design, a setback in its plans to compete with Nvidia, reports Reuters . According to that story, development of... More >
Facebook has set up an advisory board to help the social-networking site improve safety for its users, reports Reuters . The board will be made up of representatives from these organizations... More >
What will Amazon do next? The online retailer last week was reported to be in "deep and secret" talks to buy French sales club Vente-Privee for big bucks. And in what would seem to be a rever... More >
Dell has announced it is creating a new unit devoted to mobile phones and other portable devices, reports v3.co.uk . The company recently announced it will release its first Android phone next ye... More >
TechCrunch Europe reports that Amazon is involved in "deep and secret" talks to acquire Vente-Privee , a French private sales club. It reports a sale price of close to 2 billion Euros, or US$3.01 b... More >
According to market research firm iSuppli, Taiwanese PC company Acer has overtaken Dell in PC shipments by capturing 13.4 percent of the worldwide market during the third quarter. The company's asc... More >
Sales in the storage market declined 10 percent in the third quarter, but industry tracker IDC sees signs that the decline is slowing, reports The Register . The market fell 18.3 percent in... More >
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Artifex Software accuses Palm of copying its PDF viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, according to Computerworld ... More >
Cisco says it now controls enough shares of Norwegian videoconferencing company Tandberg to complete the acquisition, reports Bloomberg . Under Norwegian law, it must acquire 90 percent of s... More >
eBay's lawsuit against Craigslist is heading to a Delaware courtroom next Monday, reports Reuters . eBay is claiming that Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Chief Executive James Buckmaster conco... More >
Computerworld reports that AT&T is asking a court to dismiss its lawsuit against Verizon that alleges its advertisements are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices. In response, Ve... More >
A report by AMI-Partners predicts spending on remotely managed IT services by North American SMBs will more than triple in the next five years, reports eWEEK . The SMB consultancy previousl... More >
Nokia Siemens is challenging in court Ciena's winning bid for Nortel Networks' optical networking and carrier Ethernet businesses, according to an Associated Press story in seattlepi.com. C... More >
Rather that truly tick off customers further, German software maker SAP has announced it will hold off on a decision about increasing prices for support until after the first of the year, reports ... More >
In November, use of Mac OS X fell, possibly because of Windows 7 , Safari lost ground to Chrome and use of even the iPhone OS declined slightly, reports a GigaOM story in The New York Times. ... More >
According to The Mac Observer , Psystar has agreed to pay Apple more than $2.67 million as part of its partial settlement agreement: $1,337,550 in damages and $1,337,500 in legal fees. As we repor... More >
CTO Edge blogger Dan Berthiaume reports that Broadcom plans to expand its product portfolio for data centers and large-scale cloud computing with the acquisition of switch fabric solutions supplier... More >
Server shipments were up 13.8 percent in the third quarter as compared to the second quarter this year, and revenue increased 10.2 percent, according to searchITchannel.com . Gartner researc... More >
IBM has bought out database security vendor Guardium , which provides provides real-time monitoring of database activity, according to PCWorld.com . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With... More >
Chipmaker Broadcom has agreed to pay around $178 million in cash for Dune Networks , which makes networking chips used in Ethernet switches, reports Reuters . PCWorld.com quotes Broadcom sa... More >
The Apple-Psystar saga may be nearing an end. Computerworld reports that the two companies have reached an agreement that will effectively stop Psystar from pre-installing Apple's Mac OS X on the ... More >
India's Serious Fraud Investigation Office has charged former Satyam Chairman Ramalinga Raju and six others with violating the Companies Act for their part in the accounting fraud that engulfed the... More >
Nokia is accusing several LCD makers of price-fixing in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for Northern California, reports InformationWeek . Among the eleven LCD manufacturers named are Toshib... More >
Gartner has announced a deal to acquire AMR Research for $64 million in cash, according to an Associated Press story on CNBC. AMR is focused on the supply chain, which will broaden Gartne... More >
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