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The Supreme Court's decision on Brand X probably went unnoticed by the majority of broadband consumers, but its effects will not. In a single decision, the high court has helped to put America on the right path towards real broadband reform. It's tough to predict what other innovations the future ho...
AMD is accusing Intel of serious abuses of its dominant position in the computer microprocessor industry, saying the industry giant coerced manufacturers including Dell, HP, Sony, Acer, Fujitsu and others away from AMD products, thereby limiting the challenger's ability to compete. The allegations i...
Microsoft announced today that it would extend the intellectual property protection program it gives channel partners and PC manufacturers. The software giant said it would foot the bill for legal costs associated with any lawsuits related to Microsoft trade secrets, patents, copyrights or trademark...
Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile messaging device, won another round in its intellectual property fight with U.S.-based NTP as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continued its re-examination of patents that are the basis of NTP's case. Shares of RIM ros...
Pay us 4,000 pounds (US$7,290) by July 1. Or go to jail. That's the message from the BPI, the Big Four record labels' UK enforcer, to the mother of 14-year-old Emily Price who downloaded songs from the Net without her 53-year-old mother knowing. The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) has been carry...
The controversy over P2P -- or peer-to-peer network -- file-sharing continues as the technology and entertainment industries are this week eying the U.S. Supreme Court for a pivotal decision that could determine the future of music on the Internet. The ruling on MGM v. Grokster, which could be annou...
Microsoft was awarded a patent this week for a "system and process for allowing a user to treat e-mail addresses as objects" -- a patent called "obvious and trivial" by one critic of the filing. "The technique of applying object properties and methods to various data fields in a software product has...
Microsoft has allegedly stolen technology developed by a Guatemalan inventor. The technology in question is designed to link spreadsheet data between two of Microsoft's programs. Plaintiff lawyers delivered opening statements in a jury trial that started on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Cent...
In a cooperative effort with Microsoft, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly filed a lawsuit today against an Internet spam ring operating near Boston. The group is allegedly responsible for sending hundreds of millions of unwanted, deceptive spam messages each month in violation of both federa...
Companies providing technology that allows consumers to edit content of major movie titles touted new legislation passed this week that uses copyright law to guarantee the legality of such technology, which is currently being challenged by Hollywood movie studios and directors. Companies such as Sal...
After suffering a string of multi-million dollar court settlements with rivals large and small -- including Sun Microsystems last year and more recently Gateway -- Microsoft may now face setbacks for its next-generation Windows operating system known as Longhorn. A court injunction was issued agains...
It is designed to increase network speed, bandwidth, and the ability to share vast amounts of data quickly and easily, but according to copyright owners, the next-generation Internet known as Internet2 has also been facilitating illegal, unlicensed trading of copyrighted music and movie files. The R...
The debate over whether bloggers should have the same rights and protections as professional journalists continues to rage, particularly via Apple's case against three online reporters who revealed what the company has proclaimed were "trade secrets." On Thursday of last week, a group of media compa...
Microsoft today announced it has filed eight lawsuits against computer system builders and resellers for alleged distribution of counterfeit, illicit and unlicensed software and software components. This action follows similar action in November 2004 against eight other dealers. Defendants in each c...
Mobile operators that are part of the GSM Association (GSMA), which serves more than a billion mobile users, are crying foul over the fee structure for standard digital rights management (DRM) protection proposed for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) by MPEG LA, warning the license scheme is unworkable...
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