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Software patents are legalised extortion

Software patents are legalised extortion

...Lodsys is one of thousands of shell companies leading back to a Silicon Valley start-up called Intellectual Ventures. Founded by a former Microsoft executive... Read more

30 October, 2011 by Mike Lee

Report: Apple eyes datacentre in Silicon Valley

...the company reportedly leasing space from a new wholesale datacentre facility in Silicon Valley. Data Center Knowledge reports that Apple signed a seven-year lease... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Nokia braces for strategy shake-up

...that the firm is considering moving its headquarters from Espoo, Finland to Silicon Valley. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Nokia prepares... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Cisco pledges $500m to East London Tech City

...towards the East London Tech City scheme to develop a competitor to Silicon Valley in the British capital. Prime minister David Cameron has welcomed a... Read more

31 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Google execs to get 30-percent pay rises

...it tries to hang on to employees amid a talent war in Silicon Valley. Those executives are also being given hefty restricted-stock awards, with... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Tom Krazit
Splunk 4.3.2

Splunk 4.3.2

Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for... Read more

4 May, 2012
Twitter: We won't use patents as weapons

Twitter: We won't use patents as weapons

...to a reduction of hostilities in the patent wars threatening to engulf Silicon Valley: a pledge to do no evil. The pledge, which could become... Read more

19 April, 2012 by Elinor Mills

California marks 'Steve Jobs Day'

...on Twitter, declared Sunday as 'Steve Jobs Day' in the Golden State. Silicon Valley royalty assembled at Stanford University to pay their respects to Jobs... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Steven Musil
Intel to invest $5bn in Arizona plant

Intel to invest $5bn in Arizona plant

...to an Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. On Thursday, Obama dined in Silicon Valley with some of the most powerful names in the tech industry... Read more

21 February, 2011 by Sam Diaz
Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...Nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, the Computer History Museum is dedicated to preserving artefacts from... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard

Cerf: UK government should offer IPv6 upgrade tax credit

Internet founding father Vint Cerf has proposed that the UK government provide incentives to help businesses prepare for the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 addresses Read more

12 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Cameron announces plan for 'East London Tech City'

...are all due to make investments in the UK's answer to Silicon Valley, Cameron said. The prime minister also announced plans for £200m of... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jack Clark

Zuckerberg beats Assange to be Time Person of the Year

The 26-year-old founder of Facebook beat contenders such as the Wikileaks editor Julian Assange to be named Time magazine person of the year Read more

16 December, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy
<endeca_term>Silicon Valley</endeca_term> Roots & Shoots 1.3

Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots 1.3

Guide to High-Tech Heritage Sites "Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots" is an insiders guide to the companies, people, and... Read more

29 April, 2012
<endeca_term>Silicon Valley</endeca_term> / San Jose Business Journal 4.0.0.33

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 4.0.0.33

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Your trusted source for local business news... Read more

10 March, 2012

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

4 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

9 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

9 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

9 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

12 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

12 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

13 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

18 hours ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

1 day ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

2 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

3 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

3 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux