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- Reports: Apple close to a deal for Beatles catalog
- Reports in several British newspapers say that former Beatle Paul McCartney has given his approval to make the Fab Four's song catalog available on Apple's iTunes in the coming months according to CNet's News.com blog. Britain's Telegraph reports that the deal could be worth $600 million. A spokesman for...
- Tags: Settlement, Apple Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK
- According to a recent report from Parliament, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs HMRC in the UK continues to pursue EDS for compensation over a major failed IT implementation. The settlement totals £71.25 million and includes a direct cash payment along with £26.5 million in credits from EDS against future...
- Tags: Information Technology, Settlement, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Government, Litigation, Purchasing & Procurement, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Palm settles lawsuit for excessive Treo 600/650 repairs
- I just received the following notice in my email inbox from an email address (Palm__Inc@news.palmnewsletters.com) with Palm Inc. in the header. Apparently there was a class action lawsuit that was settled out of court and all the details can be found on the Palza Settlement website. The detailed email is...
- Tags: Repair, Lawsuit, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Settlement, Palm Treo, E-mail, Treo 650, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Vonage infringement settlements could unleash patent trolls
- Over the now-and admit it, so totally over Holiday weekend, Vonage settled patent disputes with AT&T and then Nortel. The agreement with AT&T was announced on December 21. Not much details, except to report that the arrangements were "definitive." Then on December 31, Vonage and Nortel...
- Tags: Patent, Nortel Networks Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?
- Vonage has settled another patent dispute this time with Nortel, Reuters is reporting. The case involved a counter-claim filed by Nortel against Digital Packet Licensing, a company Vonage acquired two years later in 2006. The dispute centered on patents behind emergency and information call numbers in addition...
- Tags: Phone, Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Apple, ThinkSecret settlement: Bad precedent
- ThinkSecret and Apple have settled a long running lawsuit with a terse statement. The upshot: ThinkSecret protects its sources good. The bad news is that ThinkSecret shuts down. Here's the statement: December 20, 2007 - PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Settlement, Apple Inc., News, ThinkSecret, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Busybox takes another step up GPL protection ladder
- The Software Freedom Law Center, acting on behalf of Busybox, has won a second settlement of GPL infringement charges and now faces Verizon's lawyers. Pictured is the Busybox logo with a hint for last-minute Santas who have very small children. They will prefer the box to whatever...
- Tags: GPL, Router, Settlement, Verizon Communications Inc., Busybox, Litigation, Routers & Switches, Open Source, Network Technology, Networking, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Angst over Mozilla's money is misplaced
- Angst over Mozilla's money is misplacedMozilla ResourcesI'm told that the whole idea behind Open Source is that it be Free. But wait a minute. Developing software is difficult, incredibly difficult. Are all these open source developers rich people who don't need a pay check? I'm a programmer and I always...
- Tags: Developing Software, settlement, Ubuntu, Mozilla Corp., open source, anti-Trust, software, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Will Merck settlement kill drug innovation?
- Merck's $4.85 billion settlement of claims against its Vioxx pain reliever is getting a big work-out in the blogging community. The Scientific Misconduct blog notes the agreement comes three years after The Lancet published an angry editorial against Vioxx, saying problems were evident in 2000 and the...
- Tags: Innovation, Settlement, Merck Co., Research & Development, Blogging, Litigation, Federal Government, Business Operations, Internet, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Medsphere settlement reached
- Medsphere, the open source hospital software company which sued its founders for releasing the code, has settled the suit. No details were announced. Medsphere was founded by Steve and Scott Shreeve to produce an open source version of the Veterans Administration's VistA system, which...
- Tags: Settlement, Insurance, Open Source, Litigation, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Google's YouTube copyright tool: Potential annoyance, Viacom settlement fodder
- Google's YouTube copyright tool: Potential annoyance, Viacom settlement fodderAre you kidding?They first have to define "do no evil".}:)http://www.google-watch.org/So much for YouTube thenWithout clips of TV program content, why else would anyone go to YouTube ? How many home videos of people lighting their own farts do you think people will...
- Tags: Litigation, PRODUCTIVITY, YouTube Inc., annoyance, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., tool
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Google's YouTube copyright tool: Potential annoyance, Viacom settlement fodder
- Google launched the beta of its "highly complicated" YouTube copyright tool dubbed YouTube Video Identification. In its corporate blog Google notes that "Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, YouTube Inc., Tool, Viacom Inc., Productivity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Coal pollution lawsuit settled as the whole game has changed
- Back in 1999 the federal government and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power. AEP was accused of violating the Federal Clean Air Act and causing acid rain with pollutants from its coal-burning generating plants. The plants are located in Ohio and the Appalachia region. AEP...
- Tags: Game, Lawsuit, Settlement, Pollution, AEP, Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Sprint and Vonage in licensing agreement: I predicted this six months ago
- Back on April 18, nearly six months ago, I ran a post quoting the independent Vonage Forum owner Dan Connor's thread in which he forecast that Vonage would settle its patent disputes with Sprint by means of a licensing agreement. I agreed with...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Sprint Communications, Service Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- RIAA's so-called victory a double edged sword
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA won a legal battle as a Minnesota jury found a woman liable for downloading music. The penalty: $220,000 in damages for downloading 24 songs illegally. The New York Times calls the RIAA decision "a crucial legal victory for record labels and...
- Tags: Settlement, RIAA, New York Times Co., Music Piracy, TV Industry, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Expect a settlement in Monsoon GPL suit
- Expect a settlement in Monsoon GPL suitTrack recordKeep in mind that to date, [b]all[/b] of the GPL-enforcement actions (save one [1]) have ended in settlements where the alleged violator simply arranges to be compliant and that's that. No damages asked or awarded; just "go and sin no more."Everybody walks...
- Tags: Litigation, OPEN SOURCE, SFLC, GPL, Monsoon, settlement
- Discussion threads 2007-09-22
- Expect a settlement in Monsoon GPL suit
- UPDATE: That didn't take long. Those who expected a quick settlement win just what folks won on Iron Chef, namely the people's ovation and fame forever. Monsoon Multimedia, by the way, is based in Noida, India, near Delhi. Despite an immense excitement over the filing...
- Tags: GPL, Settlement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-22
- Last-minute request for extension of Microsoft settlement
- Late Tuesday, a group of six states and the District of Columbia -- known as the California group in the Microsoft antitrust litigtion -- asked a federal judge to extend the terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement through 2012, The Washington Post reports. "Microsoft continues to have a...
- Tags: Settlement, Goal, California, Microsoft Corp., Decree, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Don't be so quick to click that Web page
- Don't be so quick to click that Web pageGuess it's time to unplugfrom the internet. I mean come on, this is getting stupid. Once again something that was really cool and had a great potential benefit for the masses has been corrupted and turned into a slum. What is wrong...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Litigation, GUESS IT, way this article, Web site, Web, settlement, Internet, Web page
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- New Support Contract Helps to Improve Performance at Global settlement Bank
- CLS Services has a team of IT experts dedicated to the maintenance and management of CLS Bank International global multi-currency settlement system. But employees needed additional support for Microsoft systems that feed the core settlement application. In 2006, the organisation signed a Microsoft Services Premier Support contract. Using Premier Support,...
- Tags: Bank, Performance, Knowledge, Settlement, Microsoft Corp., CLS Services, Strategy, Litigation, Management, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-07-01
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