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- 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
- At MPAA request, judge kicks public out of RealDVD court
- In an unusual development, Judge Marilyn Patel kicked out the public from the RealDVD injunction hearing, saying that details of DVD encryption were trade secrets that need to be protected. Real and Cnet objected strenuously, as News.com reports. "I find that this does meet the requirements for...
- Tags: MPAA, CNET Networks Inc., Courtroom, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Nesson calls for net, video coverage of RIAA trial
- The RIAA's case against Joel Tenenbaum symbolizes the "extortion of a generation." Shouldnt' the generation be able to see the judicial process in action? Defense team Charles Nesson and students think it should be streamed. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Courtroom, RIAA, Video, Tenenbaum, Internet, Corporate Communications, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- JudgeTube: Sentencing hearings on the Web
- In what you might call Justice 2.0, an Ohio judge is posting videos on sentencing hearings from his courtroom on YouTube.com, AP reports. Broadcasting the hearings will allow schools and Web users to see the inner workings of his northeastern Ohio courtroom, Kimbler said. "It’s important to know...
- Tags: courtroom, hearing
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Peace breaks out in Oracle courtroom
- Peace breaks out in Oracle courtroomOracle and PeoplesoftI wonder just how much money was spent on litigation. Is that a waste, or what?
- Tags: Litigation, Oracle Corp., courtroom
- Discussion threads 2004-12-13
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- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Microsoft cancels oral hearing in EC browser-bundling case
- Microsoft cancels oral hearing in EC browser-bundling caseOpera = Euro companyDo you really expect the EC to rule AGAINST one of their own, regardless if it's Redmond or any other U.S. company?M$ tries to delaybut the comission won't buy it.M$ should better pony up the money and GPL windoze.If no...
- Tags: Web browsers, browser competitor, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, browser-bundling case, oral, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshow
- Today’s Wall Street Journal has a big article about a new renegade competitor that is challenging Apple’s App Store and in the process whetting the appetites of IP lawyers. With all due respect to the legal eagles involved, technology and the global supply chain should make this debate moot. ...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Lawsuit, Apple Inc., Cydia, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?
- Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?Apple is becoming more and more irrelevantIf Apple thinks it will be immune to the pressures that open source are applying to Microsoft, they are drinking far too much of their own kool-aid. Apple has no answer to Android, nor does it have...
- Tags: Desktops, open source, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Facebook: We were worth $3.7 billion
- Facebook reckoned that it had a market value of about $3.7 billion in an appraisal conducted after it sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft that implied a value of $15 billion for the social networking outfit, according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press discovered Facebook's...
- Tags: Facebook, Associated Press, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- RIAA dumps its primary evidence collector
- The Recording Industry Association has dropped MediaSentry, an outfit that scans the Internet for folks allegedly uploading copyrighted music. According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA quietly dropped MediaSentry, a company that provided the RIAA most of its lawsuit firepower. The Journal makes the leap that...
- Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Recording Industry Association, MediaSentry, Journal, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-04
- Intel: We're on track for 32 nanometer manufacturing
- Intel: We're on track for 32 nanometer manufacturingWhen does AMD file a monopoly suitagaisnt Intel for out performing them in R&D?RIP AMD... :( ntntRE: Intel: We're on track for 32 nanometer manufacturingFirst problem I see, the price! How much to upgrade a system that is already functioning at an acceptable...
- Tags: intel, Intel Corp., manufacturing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
- The courtroom tug-of-war between IBM and Mark Papermaster is getting nasty. Papermaster responded Friday to IBM's attempts to prevent him from taking over the iPod unit at Apple. Papermaster argued that IBM doesn't compete with Apple in consumer electronics. IBM reiterated that Papermaster violated a non-compete agreement. Now a judge...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Agreement, IBM Corp., Papermaster, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- SmartDraw Legal Edition 2009.5 (Windows)
- Create presentation-quality legal and business graphics of all kinds in just minutes. Make case chronologies, courtroom presentations, crime scene diagrams, forensics diagrams, bar graphs and Pie Charts, accident reconstructions, calendars, forms, maps and more using our easy to use SmartTemplates. SmartDraw works hand in hand with Microsoft Office, and generates...
- Tags: Graphics, SmartDraw, Policies And Procedures, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-19
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Why client-server fails
- The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into the IBM Future Systems project in 1968 was simple: build future...
- Tags: Client-server, Client-server Idea, Serialization Problem, E-voting, Servers, Government, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?
- Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?Assumptions"Assuming they pay Apple for every copy they sell..."D'ya think this may be the little hitch in your argument? By what mechanism exactly do you see Apple accepting money from a company that is aggressively violating their license? This improbability can only occur...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Pystar, Apple Inc., Mac-clone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- A surprise conversation with Larry Ellison
- A surprise conversation with Larry EllisonYou could have done one about MS and open standardsbut that's already been done - just somebody forgot to tell them it's only applicable on April 1st.RE: A surprise conversation with Larry EllisonI love it; my fav past was "share a stage with Henning Kagerman."...
- Tags: surprise conversation, Larry Ellison
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Wikileaks is free
- Coming to his constitutional senses, Judge Jeffrey White reversed his previous injunctions against the Wikileaks whistleblowing site. Wikileaks had been offline at wikileaks.org, although it had been available at other servers around the world, including wikileaks.be. From Reuters: "There are serious questions of prior...
- Tags: Court, Obligation, Wikileaks, Banking, Social Security, Financial Services, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Declan on Wikileaks
- The news today is that several free speech advocates are stepping into the fray over Wikileaks. See Declan McCullagh's coverage. I love his syllogism: [Shutting down Wikileaks is] like Apple not liking CNET News.com's scoop a few years ago which it was about the switch to Intel...
- Tags: Internet, Domain Names, Litigation, Blogging, Semiconductors, Processors, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
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