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- Psystar wants your questions for Apple depositions. Seriously.
- I've heard people talk about trying a legal case in the press, but this takes it to a whole new level. It's deposition time in the on-going legal battle between Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar. And to make things fun, Psystar is soliciting questions that it...
- Tags: Deposition, Apple Inc., Psystar, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Another company signs Linux patent-protection deal with Microsoft
- Another company signs Linux patent-protection deal with MicrosoftIt's only news if ....... Google signs one.^o^RE: Another company signs Linux patent-protection deal with MicrosoftWe can conclude from this that linux does in fact violate Microsoft's patents. Its no suprise since linux is known for stealing and copying others work. In...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux, patent, Linux patent-protection
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume
- Apple may not get any money out of Mac clone maker Psystar, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, but it can still get a ruling and, hopefully, a precedent that it can use against any other copycat Mac makers. An automatic stay of proceedings...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Desktops, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- News to know: Facebook; Psystar Chapter 11; Intel; Twitter API; Nokia's Ovi Store
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., API, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operational Planning, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Psystar files for Chapter 11 (download petition); Blames economy, suppliers not Apple legal spat
-  Updated: Psystar, the unauthorized Mac clone maker, battling Apple in a California courtroom has filed for Chapter 11. The news, reported first by the Mac Observer from what I can tell, isn't that surprising. Psystar was under financial strain from trying to battle...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Financial, Petition, Courtroom, Creditor, Supplier, Apple Inc., Bankruptcy, Psystar, Debtor, Calls, Litigation, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- The Disintegrating BearingPoint
- More than bankruptcy to worry about BearingPoint, the consultancy that once was part of KPMG, has entered a very different era in its history. The firm’s U.S. operations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Moreover, the company’s Asian operations may be sold off to another...
- Tags: Bankruptcy, BearingPoint Inc., Asia, BGPT, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Business Operations, It Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Bearing Point files for Ch.11 protection
- It's been a long time coming but Bearing Point finally succumbed to the mountain of acquisition fuelled debt it acquired between 1999-2002 and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Per Reuters: As part of the prearranged plan, a $500 million senior secured credit facility will be replaced with...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Bearing Point, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Sirius could file bankruptcy as early as Tuesday
- Financially strapped Sirius XM Radio could file for bankruptcy as early as Tuesday if it cannot successfully negotiate with the holders of its debt, reports the AP. The satellite radio company said Friday that it has exchanged more than $172 million of debt maturing in December for...
- Tags: XM Satellite Radio Inc., Satellite, Sirius, Common Stock, Bankruptcy, Liberty Media Corp., Company, Satellite Radio, Litigation, Network Technology, Personal Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Tribune's troubles reflect old media in new age
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz offers his take on the recent filing by Tribune for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Diaz says newspaper executives only have themselves to blame, by holding tight to the traditional way of delivering news and generating revenue, shunning online-only platforms such as blogs and microblogging as...
- Tags: Tribune Co., Media, Blogging, Internet, Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Cubs
- Videos 2008-12-10
- Bankruptcy for Tribune won't stop the inevitable
- (update: Tribune Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Read Tribune's official release.) As much as we hate to face it, there comes a time when the older family members of start to pass on - maybe your parents, your grandparents, the older aunts and...
- Tags: Tribune Co., McClatchy Co., Bankruptcy, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
- This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- It's over as SCO files for bankruptcy protection
- It's over as SCO files for bankruptcy protectionTrusteeNo trustee in sight (yet.) SCOXQ has petitioned the Court to allow the present management to continue to operate the company without any outside trustee being appointed. This is apparently quite common in Chapter 11 cases; it's only in Chapter 7...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Litigation, His-Name, bankruptcy protection, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., bankruptcy
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- It's over as SCO files for bankruptcy protection
- With full credit to T.S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends ...not with a bang but with a whimper That's right, kids. SCO has filed...
- Tags: Bankruptcy Protection, SCO Group Inc., Bankruptcy, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Ten Future of Tech bets- and you can vote here on all of them!
- All the way back in 2001, the Long Bets Foundation was established. The goal was to put forth several technology-related propositions about whether specific events were going to happen within a specific time period.Even more intriguingly, these bets were articulated by two-person teams of generally well-known technologists. People such...
- Tags: Google Inc., VoD, Voice Recognition, Bet, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?
- Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...
- Tags: General, Legal
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- One of these seven fates awaits Vonage
- Vonage, which started out in the public markets as a company with a $17 a share IPO valuation, has been in the "sevens" for several weeks now.Right now, it doesn't appear that the company's stock will go much lower or higher in the short term. For at least the near-term...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
- Sign of a sea change
- This is the way a titan ends, not with a bang, but with a squadron of emaciated temps brought in to march picket-like promotional signs up and down Newport Boulevard and no doubt Sunset Boulevard; sullen attendants in a funeral procession.As Charles Andrews writes,If you read the business pages, it...
- Tags: Tower Records
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- AT&T buys poster child of ASP boom years
- USinternetworking, which lit the fuse on the ASP boom when it stormed to a 173% gain and a $2.9 billion valuation on the first day of its NASDAQ IPO in April 1999, was acquired yesterday by AT&T for $300 million. Back in 1999, Annapolis, MD-based USi was the...
- Tags: USi, Microsoft ASP
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
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