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- Apple to pay Fadell $300,000 as advisor; Can't solicit workers for a year if leaves
- Apple in an SEC filing on Wednesday detailed Tony Fadell's compensation package, which includes an annual salary of $300,000, stock and an agreement to avoid poaching employees for a year at the end of his employment. Apple officially announced Fadell's departure on Tuesday. In the SEC filing...
- Tags: Advisor, Agreement, Apple Inc., Benefits, Company, Human Resources, Larry Dignan, Restricted Stock Unit, Settlement Agreement, Worker
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
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- Google Book Settlement revised; Open Book Alliance pans it as mere 'nip and tuck'
- Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have modified their digital book agreement in an effort to placate the Justice Department and other critics. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Settlement, Litigation, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?
- Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
- Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Internet, Finance, Skype, eBay, David Meyer ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-11-06
- Justice Dept. devastates Google Books settlement, as the parties rush to the back rooms
- As long as it doesn't "belong" to GoogleHow about, let Google spend the time and money and then turn everything over to the Library of Congress or possibly the Smithsonian, etc. so that anyone can access it freely.Bet Google would not care for that idea much. After all, they...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Google Inc., government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
- Another thing, Google has NO exclusive rights with the book publishers hereAnybody else can scan books and strike a deal with the copyright holders. Actually, it is in the interest of the copyright holders to make sure that Google is not the only one offering the books, and there is...
- Tags: Cable, Google Inc., Google Book, Google Book Search Settlement, spirited defense, Google Book Search
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal
- Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?
- I was listening to NPR yesterday, and one story lingered with me throughout the day. So, I figured I'd take it to the blogs and see what you all have to say about the matter. Here's the deal: Some authors have mixed feelings...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Security, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes
- Screw it!Let's just pull the friggin' plug.I'm so tired of this crap. Really, I am.I kinda feel the same way.By the time the lawyers, big corporations, and the politicians get down with the Internet, it won't be worth the powder to blow it to Hell. It was originally designed...
- Tags: Channel management, INTERNET, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, labels sue to force others to match policy
- The RIAA recording industry is determined to rip Internet access away from illegal downloaders and it continued its campaign with legal action in Ireland. Check this one out, it's really jaw-dropping. The Irish Times reports reports that the Big Four are suing telco BT Ireland and cable company UPC Ireland...
- Tags: RIAA, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Google, Michigan boost argument for book deal
- Relying on Google's proposed settlement with book authors over Google Book Search, the University of Michigan has amended its contract with Google to digitize the university library's vast holdings, UMich announced. The agreement opens up the U-M library's extensive collections of 8 million works to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Agreement, Michigan, InfoWeek, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Antitrust investigation into Google book deal?
- The Justice Department is "in contact" with Google and its critics over a proposed settlement that essentially gives Google monopoly control over thousands of books that may belong in the public domain. The Wall Street Journal reported today that antitrust investigators at Justice have been talking with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Qualcomm, Broadcom settle patent suit for $891 million
- Qualcomm and Broadcom said Monday that they have settled a four-year lawsuit with a multi-year patent agreement valued at $891 million over four years. Qualcomm and Broadcom have been fighting in court over wireless chip patents in three different venues--the International Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court...
- Tags: Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Processors, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?
- Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...
- Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challengeI don't get itFor all the hootin' and hollerin' about this being an attack on Linux, I just don't see what the big deal is. Microsoft signed a license agreement with Tom Tom on a couple patents that cover parts of...
- Tags: Litigation, Linux, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, settlement, OIN, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fight
- TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fightIs that true?"TomTom claims its actions are in compliance with GPLv2."Its not what they said a month ago. were they liars then and honest now?MS living off the FATIt won't last forever.It sounds quite obviousTomTom was indeed infringing on Microsoft's patents, and the fact...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, TomTom, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement case
- Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement caseYeah, sure... they were the losers here? NoTomTom is forced to pay Microsoft for the 8 patents.Microsoft pays nothingTomTom will remove from its products the functionality related to two file management system patents (the ?FAT LFN patents?), which enables efficient naming, organizing, storing and accessing of...
- Tags: TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
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