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Winklevoss twins end Facebook legal battle

...Winklevoss and partner Divya Narendra have decided to drop their long-running legal dispute with Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Tyler and Cameron... Read more

23 June, 2011 by Steven Musil

Google Street View is legal, says German court

...A Berlin court has ruled that it is legal for Google to take street-level pictures, according to reports. A German... Read more

22 March, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

Spanish firm NT-K defeats Apple in iPad lawsuit

...Apple has lost a legal fight against a small Spanish tablet manufacturer called NT-K, maker of... Read more

3 November, 2011 by Luke Westaway

Schmidt offers HTC support in battle with Apple

...Taiwanese smartphone maker. But his words provide some reassurance following an initial legal victory for Apple against HTC and, by extension, all other Android OS... Read more

20 July, 2011 by Roger Cheng

Lodsys files suit against New York Times over patents

...York Times Company and five others, all of which have previously taken legal action against it in separate court filings. The suit (PDF), filed in... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Samsung ordered to show Apple prototype devices

...phones for Apple to pore over, in the latest twist in the legal battle between the two companies. A US federal court has forced Samsung... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

Symantec acquires archiving firm Clearwell for $390m

...bolstering the security company's efforts in the growing market for electronic legal-document discovery. The deal is worth $390m (£239m). Symantec, best known for... Read more

20 May, 2011 by Steven Musil

IBM buys data analysis company PSS

...policy and disposal of information. Its aim is to help companies meet legal requirements while maintaining their storage costs. According to IBM, PSS software is... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft turns Rustock botnet case over to FBI

...many as 30 billion messages a day at its peak. In a legal filing, Microsoft disclosed that the IP addresses associated with servers that were... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jay Greene

Apple wins temporary European ban on Samsung tablet

...excluded from Apple's suit as the iPad maker has initiated separate legal action against Samsung there, according to patent expert Florian Mueller. Samsung has... Read more

10 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Facebook faces facial feature scrutiny in Germany

...further biometric data', then we will come to a decision about what legal measures we will take." Caspar noted that the maximum fine the Hamburg... Read more

4 August, 2011 by David Meyer

ITC begins probe into Apple's Samsung complaint

...seeking similar ends. Both of these complaints came on top of the legal battle between the two firms that Apple first kicked off in April... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Developers swarm to fight off patent lawsuits

...involves pooling resources to hire a technology lawyer, provide money to back legal defences in patent-related cases, and draft intellectual property legislation that would... Read more

2 August, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
Julian Assange's extradition appeal kicks off

Julian Assange's extradition appeal kicks off

...s actions would not constitute an offence in the UK. Assange's legal team has laid out their grounds for appeal in a document presented... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Apple seeks to ban four Samsung devices from US

...its mobile devices to the US, in the latest round of the legal spat between the two companies Read more

4 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

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Horace Ontalhold

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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

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