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Google CEO Addresses Newspapers, Fair Use Issue
Google’s chief executive officer spoke on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Newspaper...
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IBM received The Most Patents In 2008
Recent data shows that IBM is the leader when it comes down to the most patents received last year....
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Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose Sues Dr Pepper Over Drinks Giveaway
Gun N’ Roses vocal Axl Rose threatened to take Dr Pepper to court for failing to keep their word...
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President Bush Signs Copyright Infringement Bill
Yesterday, United States President George W. Bush signed a
bill related to the highly debated...
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Tennessee Student Indicted In Palin’s E-mail Hacking Case
Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for...
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Senate Passes New Copyright Bill
A new bill dealing with intelectual property theft, which includes patent and trademark...
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Google Backs Down After Being Caught with Prohibitive EULA
Apparently Google’s Chrome browser which was released on
Tuesday is a good reminder for us to...
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Scrabulous Resurrected As Wordscrapper On Facebook
A new version of Scrabulous is back on Facebook and it is
called Wordscraper. The old one...
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'At the Movies' Loses Its Two Hosts, Roeper and Ebert
Both Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert have announced that they will no longer host the movie review...
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When Going Out Of The U.S. It's Best To Leave Your Laptop At Home
A highly debated issue on this week’s agenda is the set of
rules for the airport routine searches...
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J. K. Rowling Goes To Court over Alleged Plagiarism
Famed Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling is to testify in a New York court Monday, against the...
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J. K. Rowling Denounces Literary Exploitation
Famed British author J. K. Rowling says she feels betrayed that one of her fans, coincidentally...
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XNA Game Studio And Xbox Live: Games By People For People
Do you want to be a famous games creator? Or just share your vision about games with a community?...
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JK Rowling Gives Harry Potter A Fairy-tale Sendoff
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling finished writing another book, a set of children’s...
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Business
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Microsoft Sues TomTom
Recently, Microsoft Corporation filed a lawsuit in United States district court and with...
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Google's Sync Service Is Now Available
Google Inc. released yesterday the beta version of a program called Google...
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RIM's Storm Is Not Yet A Match For The iPhone
The sales of the BlackBerry Storm reported this week, point out that the device failed to step in...
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Qualcomm Announces $65 Million Acquisition of AMD Assets
Qualcomm announced the completion of a $65 million transaction to acquire graphics and...
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Sony Pays Agere $18.5 Million for Patent Infringement on PSP
Today marked the end of the legal fight between Sony
Corporation and Agere Systems (now part of...
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IBM Sues to Prevent Exec from Moving to Apple
Thursday,
IBM filed a lawsuit against one of the company’s executives Mark
Papermaster, the legal...
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Scrabulous Is Unavailable Worldwide
Facebook’s decision to pull the plug on the popular Scrabble
clone known as Scrabulous is now...
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Scrabble Maker Hasbro Sues Scrabulous Developers
Hasbro, the company that owns the intellectual property over Scrabble for North America, has...
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Facebook Files Suit Against Similarly-Designed German Networking Site
On Friday, Facebook pressed charges against studiVZ, a Germany-based social networking website; the...
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Apple Takes Psystar To Court
Apple Inc. decided on taking legal action against Psystar
Corp., a company that made a name for...
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AMD Will Writedown $880 Million from Two ATI Divisions
AMD seems to be in an increasingly difficult position, with share price reaching the lowest value...
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IBM Supports... Chocolate and Africa
IBM has launched an interesting strategy in Africa, which aims to help the nations on the continent...
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Microsoft Is Not Targeted By China's Investigations
Today, the rumors about the investigations on the monopoly-oriented activities conducted by...
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Alcatel-Lucent Wins 2nd Round in Patent Infringement Match
The U.S. Trade International Trade Commission ruled Tuesday that Alcatel-Lucent hasn’t...
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ZapMedia Alleges iTunes Infringes Its Patents
ZapMedia, a U.S.-based company, filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. for allegedly using patented...
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eBay Settles The Lawsuit With MercExchange
eBay, the biggest auction site, and MercExchange have settled
their patent dispute that ignited...
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HD DVD Is Dead. What Now?
Toshiba and NEC's HD DVD format is now officially dead. Toshiba has announced that it gave up on...
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Motorola Considers To Sell Or Spin Off Phone Unit
After announcing disappointing revenues for the last
quarter, Motorola said that it considers...
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Qualcomm Says Federal Ruling Will Have Short-Term Impact
Qualcomm Inc., the San Diego based wireless telecommunications research and development company,...
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Report: Microsoft Interested in Facebook Stake
Microsoft is allegedly in talks to buy a minority stake in the popular social-networking Web site...
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House Approves Controversial Patent Overhaul
The most extensive patent reform was approved yesterday by
the House with 225 to 175, offering an...
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Technology
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Party that condones file-sharing could enter European Parliament
Stockholm - A Swedish party that condones file sharing and wants to change intellectual property...
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White House Should Take Over Cyber Security, Review Concludes
The White House should be much more involved in the cyber security of the United States. This was...
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Swedish internet traffic drops with new file sharing law
Stockholm - Swedish internet traffic dropped by a third on Wednesday, the first day a new file...
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Controversial file-sharing firm launches web anonymity software
Stockholm - A website, recently at the centre of a trial in Sweden over alleged illegal file...
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Intel Expanding Reach On Mobile Chip Market With TSMC Collaboration
Earlier in the week, Intel Corporation announced a new collaboration with TSMC on technology...
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Microsoft: Suit against TomTom Not a Start of Linux War
Microsoft filed suit before the U.S. District Court in Washington and the International Trade...
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Microsoft Issued Copyright Infringement Suit Against TomTom
This week, Microsoft issued a copyright infringement suit in US district court and with the US...
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Microsoft Starts Patent Infringement Action TomTom
Software giant Microsoft filed a patent infringement lawsuit against navigation-system maker TomTom...
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Pirate Bay’s Pirates Are Being Taken into Court
The four men behind the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay go on trial Monday in Stockholm,...
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Google Announced Exchange Support for iPhone and Windows Mobile
Google has finally launched a way for iPhone and Windows Mobile smart device users to sync their...
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Computer Manufacturer Makes Mac OS Powered PCs, Apple Gets Angry
The German computer maker PearC has become quite popular lately, as it sells custom-made...
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Study: Data Breach Costs Companies $6.6 million per Breach on Average
A recent study revealed the fact that the total cost of a data breach has climbed 2.5% to $202 per...
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Should Apple’s Multi-Touch Patent Scare Palm?
Just as Apple started to threaten Palm’s ability to sell Pre for intellectual property...
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Apple Gets Patent for iPhone’s Multitouch Technology
On January 20, Apple was awarded with a patent regarding the multitouch functionality on the...
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Microsoft Faces Antitrust Complaints, But IBM Is Next
On January 17, the European Commission’s antitrust agency confirmed that it has once again...
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Apple, Suspicious about Palm Pre’s Multitouch Technology
It seems that Apple is taking a look over its competition and is quite mistrustful about it, as a...
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Apple Ready to Take a Bite off Palm’s Multi-Touch Pre
How does Apple handle the competition these days? One of the most talked about gadgets this year...
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IT Panel Demands Openness, Efficiency In Obama Cybersecurity Era
The appointed commission for cyberspace security released
its recommendation plan for an improved...
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IEEE And Via Licensing Announce Collaboration
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association) announced on Monday...
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The Guild Will Be Distributed Via Microsoft
Microsoft has recently announced that is has gained exclusivity with the second season of the Web...
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Judge Dismisses Psystar’s Countersuit Claims As Ungrounded
A federal judge dismissed Psystar’s countersuit accusing Apple
of anticompetitive business...
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Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Tool Angers Chinese Users
Microsoft has taken an important step toward fighting software
piracy with the help of Windows...
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Psystar Not Confident Mediation Will Solve the Legal Dispute with Apple
The controversial legal dispute between Apple and Psystar
Corp. is far from settling, despite the...
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The PRO IP Act Has Bush By Its Side
The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO IP) of 2008 gained...
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AMD Will Split Into Two Operations
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was helped by two Abu Dhabi investment firms with several billion...
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Apple Removed The NDA For iPhone's Apps
In a Wednesday statement, which is addressed to the developer community, Apple has put an end to...
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Hillcrest Labs Challenges Nintendo Giant Over Wii Remote Patents
A small Rockville technology
company requested a U.S.
trade panel on Wednesday to prevent...
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Nintendo Targeted In Patent Infringement Lawsuits Over Wii Controller
Nintendo’s Wii controller is the latest target on the patent
infringement lawsuits list this year....
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NVIDIA Pays $25M To Use Transmeta LongRun Technology
Transmeta has signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement
with NVIDIA Corp. for its LongRun and...
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Update 1: As Hasbro Fights For Copyrights, Scrabble Loses Popularity
After multiple refusals from the creators of Scrabulous to
remove the application from Facebook,...
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Video Games
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PlayStation Home, Not Just Another Second Life
After two years since it was announced, Sony’s virtual
universe built around its gaming console...
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Nintendo Faces Another Patent Infringement Suit
United States company Hillcrest Labs filled Wednesday a patent infringement suit against Nintendo,...
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Rock Band Sequel To Include Online Modes, New Songs
Publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix announced in a statement that the sequel to their...
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Sony Working On A New PS3 Wii-like Controller?
According to several news reports, Sony is working to create
a new controller for its next-gen...
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Nintendo Sues Nyko Over Kama Wireless Nunchuck
The Japanese game maker Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against
Nyko, a company that creates...
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DualShock 3 Is Now Available in The United States
As it has promised in February, Sony will start to ship PlayStation
3's DualShock 3 controller in...
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Sony Dates MGS4: Guns Of The Patriots And DualShock 3
Sony seems to be determined to transforms the 2008 in the PS3’s
comeback year. And what a better...
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EA Enters The Ring With FaceBreaker
For all the boxing fans and Rocky Balboa wannabes, Electronic
Arts has a new surprise. The...
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Bungie Finishes The Fight, Opens New Chapter
Sometimes the rumors tend to become reality. Let me give you
an example. Earlier this week there...
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Activision Buys Bizarre Creations
The makers of the famous Project Gotham Racing, the UK
based Bizzare Creations, were acquired by...
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Feds Raid Console Modders’ Camps
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided more than 30 businesses and homes in 16...
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Crytek Plans to Port the CryENGINE 2 on PlayStation 3
It’s interesting what job-announcements reveal about a developer’s plans: after the famous...
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ESA Appoints Mike D. Gallagher As New President
Entertainment Software Association announced today that
Michael D. Gallagher will serve as the...
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A New IP Announced By Crytek
Crytek, the well-known developer of CryENGINE, announced a
new IP and a new game studio. The new...
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