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- Net2Phone sues Skype
- Net2Phone sues SkypePlenty of prior art to blow this one out of the water..Search keywords Directory and Internet and Address and APD/1/1/1980->1/31/19955,742,905 Filed: September 19, 19945,715,397 Filed: December 2, 19945,642,515 Filed: April 17, 1992Then there is the whole concept of DNS.. which is a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Skype Technologies S.A., Net2Phone Inc., phone, Filed, patent
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
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- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Microsoft shows interest in WaMu bankruptcy over software agreements
- When Microsoft filed a "notice of appearance" in the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings - which is basically a request to be kept updated on developments of the case - and then initially declined to comment about its interest in the case, the speculation began. (Silicon Alley Insider wondered if Microsoft...
- Tags: Software, Washington Mutual Inc., Enterprise Software, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Bankruptcy, Times, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...
- Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- RealDVD goes live, let the lawsuits begin
- ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz offers his views on the recent lawsuits filed by the movie industry against Real Networks for its new RealDVD software. The movie studios are suing Real Networks alleging the software violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Diaz says consumers should be able to enjoy...
- Tags: Software, Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, Movie Studio, Tools & Techniques, Management, RealNetworks, Hollywood
- Videos 2008-10-01
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDA
- Apple posted the following note today on their iPhone developer Web site: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Apple Inc., NDA, Tools & Techniques, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Clipta Video Converter (exe)
- Clipta Converter provides you a simple and quick way to convert your filed into MPEG-4 iPhone and iTunes compatible format. Simply drag any video into the converter box as seen on the picture to the right hand side and press the convert button. Supported formats: .dvr-ms media center, .flv flash,...
- Tags: WMV, Video, Clipta, Clipta Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Marketing, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
- Aerosmith's Tyler sues over blog impersonations
- Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sued unknown bloggers who the singer said impersonated him on the Web, writing about the death of his mother and other "intimate details" from his life. LOS ANGELES--Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on Wednesday sued unknown bloggers who the singer said impersonated him on the Web,...
- Tags: Blog, Aerosmith, Steven Tyler, Blogging, Internet, Reuters, blogs, legal, lawsuit
- News items 2008-09-25
- Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM
- A class-action lawsuit has been filed against EA over the SecuROM DRM mechanism built into the Spore game. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Lawsuit, Digital-rights Management, Electronic Arts Inc., Class Action, Class-action Lawsuit, Spore, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Productivity, Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK!You are certainly paid enough money to provide the services you are SUPPOSED to provide.If you can't, leave the business and let someone else step in. Please...RE: Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?Nope. Its still unreasonable. They are still taking an antiquated...
- Tags: INTERNET, Comcast Corp., Robb, QoS, Internet Engineering Task Force
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services
- Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with servicesDetails and all thatMail is an interesting choice.Does this mean that MAPI is history, for instance? Or that MAPI now only works through Microsoft's mail system and not others?It's funny how functions that were until recently defended as being essential...
- Tags: Windows Live Wave 3, MAPI, subsystem, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live team, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, team
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blanche
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blancheTime to teach the little buggers, and the idiot parents, a lesson.If I were the principal, I'd file a defamation of character & libel suit against the kids involved, AND their parents...two of whom are obviously low-grade morons at best. Then see what they...
- Tags: principal
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency as a follow-up to its stymied suit against AT&T. Five individuals are lead plaintiffs in a suit seeking class action status against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T Corp., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Apple files notification screen patent, is this really that unique?
- One aspect of the Apple iPhone that I can't stand is the lack of quickly viewable notifications and I am actually very surprised that Apple doesn't have a better system in place on the device. Then again, I think the notification system for most mobile operating systems can be improved....
- Tags: Notification, Patent, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Google gains Steam with Valve acquisition
- Google gains Steam with Valve acquisitionI thought......that this was just filed under "rumor" and that Valve specifically denied such talks were taking place. It wouldn't be entirely unheard of, but I don't really find a lot of credibility in the source.I hope it doesn't happenGoogle will change it in...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Valve, Valve acquisition, Google Inc., acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- ITC to probe Nintendo Wii patent infringement
- The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories' allegations that Nintendo infringed Hillcrest's patents in making its popular Wii video game WASHINGTON--The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories' allegations that Nintendo infringed Hillcrest's patents in making its popular Wii video...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Patent, Nintendo Wii, U.S. International Trade Commission, Hillcrest Laboratories, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Nintendo, Wii, video consoles, motion dectection, patents, patent infringement, Hillcrest
- News items 2008-09-18
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Former Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold has been collecting patents, extracting fees from technology companies via his company Intellectual Ventures. Is Myhrvold a patent troll with tech cred? The Wall Street Journal has a long account of Myhrvold's patent collecting efforts and how he is winning multimillion dollar...
- Tags: Technology Company, Lawsuit, Patent, Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Financial, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Financial Service, Goldman Sachs & Co., Wall Street, Morgan Stanley, IPO, Data Centers, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
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