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Tech firms turning to WIPO to resolve contract disputes

...Castro, who was in Singapore on Friday to discuss the complexities of dispute resolution in IT. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Tyler Thia

SAP ordered to pay Oracle $1.3bn in damages

...can be demonstrated. "We're seeing increasing levels of similar software copyright disputes in the UK. Although payouts in the US are traditionally higher, there... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Ben Woods

Apple may face iPad trademark battle in China

...its efforts to secure the trademark name on its touchscreen tablet. The dispute centres on Taiwanese contract manufacturer Proview, which previously sold a tablet PC... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Erica Ogg

BT and union leaders agree pay deal, avert strike

...in BT since 1987, we're delighted to have resolved this pay dispute through talks," CWU deputy general secretary Andy Kerr said in a statement... Read more

9 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Microsoft, Google join forces to challenge GeoTag patent

The tech giants have asked a court to invalidate the geolocation patent, which has been used by GeoTag to sue customers that use the Bing and Google Maps mapping services Read more

3 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

CWU members back O2 pay deal

Union members at O2 have voted four to one to accept a deal that represents a 5.25-percent pay rise over two years for call centre, retail and engineering staff Read more

20 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Skype and Fring feud over mobile video calling

Fring and Skype lock horns over concerns that the third-party app provider was not sticking to the terms and conditions of its various API licences Read more

14 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

OpenSolaris board may quit over Oracle's silence

The group in charge of the open-source version of Sun's Solaris OS has threatened to resign in protest at a lack of communication from Oracle about the project's future Read more

14 July, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

ITC: Apple and RIM blameless in Kodak patent dispute

The US International Trade Commission rules that Apple and RIM are not violating a Kodak patent Read more

22 May, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn

Unite and Fujitsu end long-running dispute

Unite has ended its long-running industrial dispute with Fujitsu, which centred on pensions, pay, overtime and other issues at... Read more

20 January, 2012

PS3 imports blocked in Europe over patent dispute

An ongoing patent dispute between Sony and LG over Blu-ray technology has resulted in a... Read more

1 March, 2011

Oracle and NetApp end patent disputes

...NetApp announced on Thursday that it has settled its long-standing patent disputes with Sun Microsystems, now owned by Oracle. Terms of the dismissals have... Read more

10 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

Lodsys opposes Apple entry in patent dispute

...and technical resources," the filing said. "Accordingly, there can be no serious dispute that the defendants will more than adequately represent Apple's purported interest... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Oracle calls Google chief into Java dispute

...communications with Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison," the filing added. The patent dispute centres on Google's implementation of Java in the Android operating system... Read more

15 July, 2011

Wikileaks activists get hearing over Twitter data dispute

...more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Wikileaks hearing set in dispute over Twitter data on CNET News. Get the latest technology news and... Read more

9 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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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?

14 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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...

23 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

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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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...

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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.

3 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...

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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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