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Microsoft has lost its bid to have a US$512 million patent-infringement award thrown out of court. Instead, a federal judge ruled that a jury acted properly in awarding the payout to Eolas Technologies and the University of California ...
The technology sector roared out of the gate with strong earnings reportsfrom IBM, Yahoo and Apple. Optimism about strong sales and profits wasmuted only by somewhat cautious outlooks for the coming year ...
Several bellwether U.S. technology firms got a major boost Tuesday as Chinese telecommunications firms dished out more than US$2 billion worth of contracts to such firms as Intel, Motorola, Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks ...
Microsoft has announced it will extend some forms of support for two older versions of its Windows operating system well beyond planned phase-out dates. The company justified the move by saying customers in far-flung countries are not aware enough of its phase-out schedule and thus have not upgraded to current Windows versions in sufficient numbers...
Technology heavyweights IBM and Intel have agreed to provide seed funding for a new legal defense fund aimed at thwarting attempts by The SCO Group to sue Linux end users and creators ...
Hewlett-Packard has shaken up the high-tech industry, saying it will work with Apple Computer to build its own version of the Apple iPod and will include Apple's digital jukebox software on its new personal computers ...
Reviving one of the pioneering brands of the Internet boom in an effort to stop cost-conscious customers from jumping to discount ISPs, America Online has unveiled a cut-rate Internet access option bearing the Netscape brand. ...
Underscoring the potential it sees in positioning computers as entertainment devices, Intel has announced it will establish a venture capital fund to back startups that develop home entertainment hardware and software. ...
Yahoo is poised to end its long-time relationship with search-results provider Google, setting the stage for the two leaders in paid and traditional search to begin competing more fiercely for market dominance ...
As Microsoft's long-planned strategy to transform the PC from a work device into an entertainment hub takes shape, the company intends to use this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to ratchet up its efforts to capture more of the billions of dollars spent on home entertainment ...
As Apple Computer's annual gathering of loyal fans at Macworld approaches, a growing number of users of one of the company's most popular products, the iBook notebook computer, are threatening protests and mulling class-action lawsuits ...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by America Online against a group of Florida computer technicians, whom AOL had accused of maintaining computer networks that were used to batter its e-mail servers with spam targeting its millions of users. ...
Early reports suggest holiday e-commerce sales grew well over 30 percent from 2002 levels, helping the e-tail industry record its best-ever season, even without the type of must-have gift items that have driven sales in past years. ...
Microsoft has agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by software firm SPX, which already has convinced a jury that Microsoft infringed its patents related to online meeting software, which SPX sells under the NetMeeting name. ...
Signaling its intention to turn up the pressure on Linux users, the SCO Group has announced a stepped-up initiative to collect licensing fees from hundreds of enterprises that use both Linux and Unix. Toward that goal, SCO said it has sent out letters warning that it "will take appropriate action to protect our rights." ...
Saying its business would be much larger today if Microsoft had not pushed to create a "new monopoly" in the media player market, RealNetworks said it has filed a civil suit against the software giant seeking US$1 billion in lost revenue and damages ...
It shouldn't come as a surprise, because it happens every year, but somehow it is still slightly startling. With the calendar officially out of pages and the rest of 2003 now measurable in days, another year has sped past. ...
Just two days after President Bush signed national antispam legislation, Microsoft has announced that a six-month investigation it conducted with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer led to a slew of lawsuits against an e-mail marketing ring believed to be responsible for sending billions of spam messages. ...
Continuing its transformation into a network security and services provider, VeriSign agreed Tuesday to buy privately held network security firm Guardent in a deal valued at US$140 million. ...
Check Point Software Technologies has announced it will bolster its security product portfolio by buying privately held Zone Labs, the market leader in personal firewalls, in a deal worth about US$205 million in stock and cash ...
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