Big tech companies band together to fight patent trolls
Monday, June 30th, 2008A consortium of technology heavyweights may be banding together to buy up patents before the trolls get their claws on them.Read More...
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A consortium of technology heavyweights may be banding together to buy up patents before the trolls get their claws on them.Read More...
Bits: Rhapsody Runs Hard Just to Stay in Place
Monday, June 30th, 2008Rhapsody has been struggling to keep its subscriber base from shrinking. A new joint service with Verizon, an MP3 store and outreach to social networks may help. But not by much.
We love interoperability: 50K-page Microsoft document dump
Monday, June 30th, 2008Microsoft announced today that it has released 1.0 versions of its technical documentation on its Office, SharePoint Server, and Exchange Server protocols, in addition to 5,000 pages of new documentation on binary file formats. The software giant may still be under scrutiny for its checkered past, but it's clearly making ...
Game makers set September release for “Rock Band 2″ (Reuters)
Monday, June 30th, 2008Reuters - The makers of video game "Rock Band 2" said on Monday the sequel to last year's best-selling predecessor "Rock Band" will be released for the Xbox in September, months ahead of key rival "Guitar Hero."
Game makers set September release for “Rock Band 2″
Monday, June 30th, 2008LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The makers of video game "Rock Band 2" said on Monday the sequel to last year's best-selling predecessor "Rock Band" will be released for the Xbox in September, months ahead of key rival "Guitar Hero."
Donors sign up to have bodies displayed
Monday, June 30th, 2008Hundreds of people believe that having their bodies dissected, preserved and displayed will serve a greater purpose than burial or cremation.
Lenovo Launches Its First U.S. Consumer Desktop
Monday, June 30th, 2008The IdeaCentre K210 release followed Lenovo's launch this year of IdeaPad consumer notebooks outside of China.
HP Purchase Of EDS Gets U.S. Government Clearance
Monday, June 30th, 2008EDS is scheduled to hold a shareholder meeting July 31 to get clearance from its investors to seal the deal.
eBay to end all Louis Vuitton auctions in fake purse dustup
Monday, June 30th, 2008Louis Vuitton has won a lawsuit against eBay in France over claims that the auction site hasn't done enough to stop sales of counterfeit products. The luxury goods manufacturer also won the right to remove even genuine products from eBay's auctions.Read More...
Yahoo Questions How Serious Microsoft Was On Deals
Monday, June 30th, 2008Microsoft retorts that Yahoo's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is, "simply revisionist history."
Cypress CEO Sees Big Gains In Programmable Chips
Monday, June 30th, 2008T.J. Rodgers predicts Cypress will have 8,000 customers for its PSoC products by end of the current quarter.
Service lets drivers lock in gasoline prices
Monday, June 30th, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters) - The high price of gasoline has some U.S. drivers looking to the future.