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Intel and AMD settle, agree cross-licensing deal
News Intel and AMD have settled all outstanding legal disputes between the two companies and have signed a five-year intellectual-property cross-licensing deal. The settlement, announced on Thursday, also ends antitrust litigation against Intel that...
[November 12, 2009, 13:48]
Motorola and Aruba agree Wi-Fi patent ceasefire
Blog On Friday, Aruba and Motorola issued a statement in which they said they had "reached an agreement that settles all outstanding intellectual property disputes between the two companies". Aruba Networks and Motorola have settled their long-running...
[November 9, 2009, 17:06]
Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
News Skype and Joltid launched UK lawsuits against each other in the first half of the year, while Joltid initiated another copyright suit in the US in September, claiming Skype was infringing on its intellectual property rights "at least 100,000 times...
[November 6, 2009, 14:49]
Gov't mobile working project saved from axe
News A statement on the Nomad website says that programme director Ian Laughton and his team will stand down, with all intellectual property rights and operations passing to the two new bodies. The government programme to support mobile and flexible...
[November 5, 2009, 8:50]
Symbian show hints at future user interface
News As much of the proprietary intellectual property in the old Symbian may not carry through to the new version, the Symbian-based phones that appear in 2010 may look very different from those that are available now.
[October 30, 2009, 16:22]
New Insider Threat Emerges in the New Economy
White Papers Information security experts are bracing for the law of unintended consequences to swing into action in 2009 as layoffs, downsizing and low morale bring the worst out of trusted insiders looking to profit off of proprietary intellectual property...
[October 29, 2009, 15:53]
Nokia vs Apple: The hidden scandal
News There is an enormous irony at the heart of intellectual property. Any handset maker who wants to join in has to license those thousands of pages of intellectual property, owned by immensely rich companies who depend utterly for those riches on...
[October 26, 2009, 15:29]
France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
News France's top constitutional court approved a revised plan to penalise those accused multiple times of infringing intellectual property, according to a report published Thursday in The New York Times. France has adopted a strong anti-piracy law, one...
[October 26, 2009, 14:05]
Nokia vs Apple: no easy answers in GSM wars
Blog The news that Nokia is suing Apple over ten wireless patents marks the start of what may be a fascinating and prolonged canter through the worlds of mobile phone standards and intellectual property. Alternatively, it could end up, as the Nokia...
[October 22, 2009, 19:01]
Nokia files patent suit against Apple over iPhones
News Nokia's vice president for legal and intellectual property, Ilkka Rahnasto, said in the statement that Apple had refused to agree appropriate compensation with Nokia for the patents and was "attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's...
[October 22, 2009, 16:11]
Not really
Talkback Besides, 'Intellectual Property' is a very new concept, and benefits only large faceless corporations. Nowhere near as important as the right to fair trial. This is wide open to abuse.
[October 20, 2009, 21:20]
Very serious
Talkback I really don't think people understand how important Intellectual Property rights are they are certainly more important than unrestricted Internet access You don't allow anyone onto a public highway even they may be safe.
[October 20, 2009, 16:43]
Europe assisting US with IBM antitrust probe
News We continue to believe there is no merit to T3's claims, and that IBM is fully entitled to enforce our intellectual-property rights and protect the investments that we have made in our technologies. The European Commission has confirmed that it has...
[October 9, 2009, 17:51]
Authorities reach agreement on travel card spec
News Both cards are manufactured under licence from Philips, which holds the intellectual-property rights. The Local Authority Smartcard Standards e-Organisation and Itso, the Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation, have reached a technical...
[October 9, 2009, 8:55]
MS and Novell: Relationship 'exceeding expectations'
Blog Asked about the impact on the Microsoft-Novell relationship of Microsoft's virtualisation interoperability validation with Red Hat, announced on Wednesday, Croney said his company was "very pleased" about the validation, but Microsoft would still...
[October 8, 2009, 14:03]
Organizations Should Re-Evaluate Personal E-Mail Account Policies
White Papers Regulatory and intellectual property leakage issues provide the strongest cases for blocking but may not apply to all employees. Corporate bans on accessing personal Web mail accounts from the office are often misguided.
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Chip Design Outsourcing Firms Need New Skills and Products
White Papers To survive as chip design moves to higher levels of integration, chip design outsourcing firms must develop new capabilities and new products, such as intellectual property and software. Design services companies have, for many years, provided a...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft controlling Australian Gov't 2.0 funds
News However, the blog post where the announcement about the contracts was made on Wednesday has drawn considerable discussion, particularly on the issue of intellectual property (IP). On Wednesday, Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce released a draft...
[October 1, 2009, 13:33]
Pirate Party makes waves in Australia
News The Pirate Party, which champions issues such as intellectual-property rights, free speech and data privacy, is on its way to becoming an official party in Australia. When it receives its full number, the party said on its Australian site that it...
[September 29, 2009, 8:37]
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
Blog They are Google's intellectual property and I intend to respect that," the post read. The maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included.
[September 28, 2009, 17:25]
