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Burst.com Faces Off With Microsoft
News Microsoft is being sued by US software developer Burst.com for allegedly stealing patented media transmission technology and using it in Media Player 9. Burst.com is still trading, but Lang is one of only two full time employees left and is now...
[September 4, 2003, 12:40]
Burst.com Wants Gates' Deposition Made Public
News Burst.com plans to file a motion in federal court in Baltimore requesting that US District Judge J. Burst's lawsuit, filed in June 2002, accuses Microsoft of stealing Burst's video-delivery technology.
[September 2, 2004, 14:10]
Microsoft Hits Back At Burst.com Allegations
News Microsoft has denied it used stolen intellectual property to build Media Player 9 and has called Burst.com's account of last week's trial on the matter "inaccurate" and "groundless". Microsoft was ordered by a US judge last week to produce...
[September 4, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft Hits Back At Burst.com Allegations
Talkback A quick look at the Burst.com patent makes me laugh. Anyone put any though into a possible reverse strategy where Microsoft loses software patent lawsuits on purpose? The price they pay to lose might be well worth the added teeth it gives some of...
[January 13, 2004, 6:17]
Microsoft Hits Back At Burst.com Allegations
Talkback When you try to ride a tiger, you usually end up in its stomach. Will these folks never learn? Micrisoft really does respect other folks intellectual property. Just ask Stac Electronics about their compression technology.they will tell you all...
[September 4, 2003, 20:56]
News Burst: Adabra.com Disappears
News Adabra.com, which launched a group-buying service last autumn, has sold its business and brand to Dealpartners Network in the latest aftershock of April's dot-com downturn. Other European sites to use the model include letsbuyit.com, which recently...
[July 31, 2000, 11:03]
News Burst: Amazon.com To Share Customer Information
News Customers of retail giant Amazon.com are being notified that their personal information could be shared with other organisations despite consumer concern over privacy. Full story to follow
[September 1, 2000, 12:33]
News Burst: Lastminute.com Buys French Company For £59m
News Lastminute.com could creep into the black earlier than anticipated after its £59m buyout of French online travel agency Degriftour, announced Monday. Lastminute and other dot-coms have faced increasing investor pressure to make profits as quickly...
[August 14, 2000, 10:05]
News Burst: Lastminute.com Shares Drop
News Travel site lastminute.com saw its shares fall on the London market after announcing a loss of £9.3m for the second quarter, ending 30 June. As of mid-morning shares were about 2p off their opening price of 155p.
[August 3, 2000, 10:27]
News Burst: Dot-com Workers Clueless About Security
News E-commerce firms in the UK are in a particularly poor state of health, with IT professionals blaming workers for ignoring security risks, according to research released Wednesday by computer security firm Network Associates.
[November 22, 2000, 10:34]
News Burst: MP3.com Dips Its Toe Into WAP Waters
News MP3.com launched its first WAP-enabled application Wednesday, a service allowing users to locate and purchase tickets to live events in any country from WAP-enabled mobile devices with MP3.com's Wireless Live Events Calendar version 1.0.
[May 31, 2000, 18:16]
News Burst: Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News British Internet news service netimperative.com has gone into liquidation following an emergency board meeting Monday. This comes just days after British online retailer boo.com folded. A statement from the company blames its collapse on ill-judged...
[May 22, 2000, 10:47]
News Burst: Dot-com Execs Have 'unsavoury Backgrounds'
News Executives at dot-com Internet firms are four times as likely to have an "unsavoury background" than traditional company executives, according to research from corporate security consultants Kroll Associates.
[October 24, 2000, 8:51]
News Burst: Breathe.com Gasps Its Last
News The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was appointed as its administrator. Breathe.com is to be sold without redundancies among its 140 staff.
[December 18, 2000, 10:35]
News Burst: Virus Downloading From Softseek.com
News Internet security Web site, PCHelp, has issued a security alert accusing popular software download site Softseek.com of infecting the computers of unwitting users with Trojan horse program, NetBus. The trojan leaves users vulnerable to remote attack.
[October 8, 1999, 10:37]
News Burst: Investors May Exit Lastminute.com Early
News Online booking agent Lastminute.com faces the possibility of its early investors selling out of the company this week, when the lock-up extensions they agreed in September expire. Lastminute.com share prices have more than halved to 81.5p since the...
[December 11, 2000, 9:25]
News Burst: AOL Invests In Blockbuster.com
News The deal will make Blockbuster a premier provider in AOL's video channel. The two companies will also work together to develop broadband content and delivery. Full story to follow
[November 3, 1999, 12:07]
News Burst: Geldof Rules Out Deckchair.com Flotation
News Criticising the UK finance establishment for a failure to understand technology companies, Geldof commented that e-business is the "new rock and roll", but continues to baffle UK investors. Geldof made his remarks at a New Statesman conference...
[October 29, 1999, 12:00]
News Burst: John Lewis To Buy Buy.com
News High street department store John Lewis is expected to announce Monday that it has purchased the UK operations of buy.com. According to reports, a deal was finalised at the weekend after the troubled dot-com announced that its British arm was up...
[February 5, 2001, 9:13]
News Burst: Investors Not Put Off By Dot-com Crash
News Despite last year's collapse in tech stocks, twice as many companies went public in 2000 compared to 1999, and those companies raised twice as much money as the year before. Research from accountancy firm KPMG released Monday, shows that 138...
[January 2, 2001, 9:26]
