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Judge: Oracle must cut Google damages claim

...billion dollar settlement based on damages alone, Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, argued in a blog post on Friday. "Instead, the profitability of... Read more

25 July, 2011 by Ben Woods

Apple takes second ITC potshot at HTC

...to a blog post on Monday by Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign. The five patents in the complaint affect 17 HTC phones and... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Ben Woods

Apple and Nokia settle patent spat

...still benefit the iPhone maker, according to Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign. "Nokia emerges victorious, but this is a sweet defeat for Apple... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Google promises Blogger outage will be over 'soon'

...among many people who use Blogger to host their output, such as NoSoftwarePatents campaign founder Florian Mueller, who took a swipe at Sergey Brin's... Read more

13 May, 2011

Apple sues Samsung for 'blatant copying'

...its absolute determination to fight 'anything Android'," Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, wrote on his blog. "It looks like Steve Jobs would even... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

Lawyer: Android may be open to Linux copyright issues

An intellectual-property expert has said Android may be in breach of GPL licensing conditions, and third-party apps created for the OS could also be in violation Read more

18 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft, Google join forces to challenge GeoTag patent

...a common interest in curbing trollish behaviour," Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, said in a blog post. We are seeing two giants who... Read more

3 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

PS3 imports blocked in Europe over patent dispute

...EU member state in which the application was made," Florian Mueller, founder NoSoftwarePatents campaign, wrote on his blog. Mueller also suggests that Sony may be... Read more

1 March, 2011

Judge denies Google's bid to end Oracle case

...up the pressure in some other ways," Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "For example, Oracle could... Read more

22 February, 2011 by Ben Woods

Android named in updated Interval patent suit

...and for Android application developers,� wrote Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, in a blog post on Wednesday. "Patent holders can choose to... Read more

29 December, 2010

Oracle sues Google over Android's use of Java

...open-source, making Google's use of them legal, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign Florian Mueller noted in a blog post on Friday. "Even if... Read more

13 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Siemens mocked for mobile data patent

...a patent granting the company sole rights over business mobile data usage. Nosoftwarepatents, a German campaign group, gave Siemens the Software Patent of the Year... Read more

8 November, 2006 by David Meyer

EC slipping software patents 'through backdoor'

...it has developed for the European patent." Florian Mueller, the founder of nosoftwarepatents.com, warned that if the Community Patent law follows the current practice... Read more

6 October, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Software patents campaigners honoured

...Software Development at the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards. Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com and Rufus Pollock of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure... Read more

28 September, 2005 by Colin Barker and Ingrid Marson

Anti-patent campaigner hangs up his gloves

...for a second reading next month. But Florian Mueller, the founder of NoSoftwarePatents.com, said on Wednesday that he has made a personal decision to... Read more

30 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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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...

8 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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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...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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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.

14 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...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

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

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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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....

18 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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...

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

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

20 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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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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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?

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