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It may not have been the ringtone heard ’round the world, but there sure was a lot of fuss over a phone Friday. At 6 p.m., the Apple iPhone went on sale. “I’m hoping it will make me cool,” Ryan Petty, 37, joked of the phone, which he
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At this years All Things Digital Conference D5, hosted by the Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were on stage together in a “fireside” interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. This coming together was billed as one of the great events of all the D: conferences and
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Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal – Network World The patent agreement between the two companies seems to make it clear that Novell does not accept any of Microsoft’s patent claims. Section 3.4 says, “Nothing in this Agreement shall imply, or be construed as an admission
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PC World – Microsoft Patent Claims Hint at Internal Issues In a follow up to Microsoft takes on the free world, PC World has an article today which points to internal issues as Microsoft that may be driving their recent “behavior” vis-a-vis patents. Microsoft’s claims that it will ask distributors
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Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Folks, it is time to take a stand. Yes, everyone is
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Is a $200 Billion Suit Headed Microsoft and Apple’s Way? All I can say, for fear of being sued, or should I say it, for fear of being sued for NOT saying it??? We have sunk to a new low… With the rise of intellectual property (whether it be
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Big Paychecks – Forbes.com The chief executives of America’s 500 biggest companies got a collective 38% pay raise last year, to $7.5 billion. That’s an average $15.2 million apiece. Exercised stock options again account for the main component of pay, 48%. The average stock gain was
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Set-top Boxes Open Up “However, many assert that it’s Microsoft Corp. –which doesn’t make STBs and is often accused of attempting to lock in users to its own priority technologies %u2013 that has done the most to advance the role of the set-top box. “ I always love it
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InformationWeek Blog | Sometimes Steve Ballmer Just Takes Your Breath Away Very insightful article which helps blow past the Ballmer spin machine. Of course, Ballmer has such an “historic” perspective on Microsoft’s success. In a USA Today interview Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is asked if he wishes consumers would get
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InformationWeek Blog | Ballmer Says iPhone Won’t Succeed. Has Windows Mobile? Steve Ballmer seems to be full of bluster these days. In his latest potshot at the iPhone, the Microsoft CEO says, “the future of the mobile handset business will primarily depend on software influence rather than hardware.” In other
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Apple Stokes a Digital Music Standards War The accord marks a fundamental change in the digital music landscape, a feat Apple is pulling off with increasing regularity of late. If I were an employee of Microsoft and involved with its confusing digital-music efforts, built around its highly DRM-protected WMA format,
