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Bloody Battles In The Courtroom: An Apple History
News Apple loses the suit in 1992, which seems to mean that "look and feel" cannot be protected by copyright. It eventually loses its case for the same reasons Apple will lose its case against Microsoft and HP.
[August 3, 2000, 15:00]
Inside The Linux Arcana
Talkback If SCO loses, Sun will buy and hold 1% or more of SCO's stock - giving Sun at least some access to what's left of SCO's IP when SCO dies. Sun doesn't really have a specific interest in propping up SCO, ithey will be just as happy if SCO wins or loses.
[March 19, 2004, 16:48]
Spamhaus Domain Name May Be Suspended
News Spamhaus has claimed that the Internet could be flooded with spam if it loses the domain. A US court may soon impose an order to suspend the Web site of UK-based anti-spam organisation Spamhaus. Spamhaus was found to be in contempt of court by a US...
[October 10, 2006, 14:45]
Jesse Berst: The Coming M$ Crash
News Even if Microsoft loses the first round, it is likely to win on appeal. No, I'm not talking about the antitrust trial. And I'm not even talking about the ever-present risk of new competition or declining PC sales.
[September 13, 1999, 10:38]
Tech Talk - XP To Vista, The Problem Details
Blog Basically, Vista loses the ability to find device drivers for standard or previously installed devices. After my post about finally giving up on Vista and going back to XP Professional, I have had several requests for a more complete list of the...
[November 30, 2007, 9:58]
Wippit Wants To Make MP3-sharing Legit
News We'll have to see if Napster wins or loses its case. If Napster loses then it depends on whether or not we have made deals with record labels by then. UK software company Wippit released Thursday an alpha version of a song-sharing program which it...
[November 6, 2000, 15:30]
Defender Of The Linux Faith
News There is a cost of €10,000 per case, although the party who loses the case pays all the legal fees. Earlier this week, open source developer Harald Welte personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at the CeBIT technology show...
[March 17, 2005, 12:35]
NASA Hacker Ready For A Long Battle
News His biggest concern is that if he loses on 10 May, the US authorities could ask that he be jailed while his case moves through the appeal courts. Waiting for the decision on his extradition hearing, expected on 10 May, Gary McKinnon has steeled...
[May 2, 2006, 12:45]
Nasdaq's Retreat: Breather? Yes. Correction? Maybe.
News While everyone agrees that a 20 percent pullback in the Dow signals the beginning of a bear market, even that argument loses some of its luster in light of recent stock performance. Down more than 400 points and counting, some market watchers are...
[January 7, 2000, 9:39]
MP3.com Shares Explode
News Even if MP3.com loses the lawsuit, the company could still implement its MSP service in a mutant form with slower conventional uploading, a process the RIAA seems willing to accept. MP3.com shares rose from the ashes on Thursday, rallying up 15 5/8...
[March 3, 2000, 10:53]
New Technology To Block Camcorder Pirates
News According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theatres. As one of the key architects of the discontinued Divx DVD system...
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Nationwide Fined £1m Over Laptop Theft
News Earlier this week, it was revealed that America's FBI loses three or four laptops each month. UK building society Nationwide has been fined almost £1m after a laptop containing sensitive customer data was stolen from an employee.
[February 14, 2007, 12:28]
IBM Begins Layoffs
News Typically, IBM loses as many as 15,000 employees through attrition alone each year, executives have said. IBM has notified approximately 1,000 employees in its server division that their jobs are being eliminated, according to a representative from...
[May 24, 2002, 14:29]
MS To Court: Keep Us Together
News Whichever side loses is expected to appeal to the US Supreme Court. Calling earlier proceedings "infected with error", Microsoft pleaded with an appeals court to keep the company intact in a 150-page brief filed Monday.
[November 28, 2000, 8:51]
Should Companies Care About Privacy Breaches?
News For example, if someone loses a laptop containing sensitive information. Large companies do not have an economic incentive to prevent privacy breaches occurring, according to researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities this week.
[June 30, 2006, 16:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But with no R&D, no noticeable marketing strategy and a desperately competitive environment, it won't have long before it too loses its way. Surely, this is the mother of all Monday mornings. Tube trains full of whey-faced bankers, grey streets...
[January 9, 1999, 9:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News But with no R&D, no noticeable marketing strategy and a desperately competitive environment, it won't have long before it too loses its way. Surely, this is the mother of all Monday mornings. Tube trains full of whey-faced bankers, grey streets...
[January 9, 1999, 9:17]
What's Next For Oracle?
News If it loses that case, Oracle could launch a proxy battle for control of PeopleSoft's board at the company's annual shareholder meeting next spring. But the drama is not over just yet. The US Justice Department, Oracle's antagonist in the antitrust...
[September 10, 2004, 15:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's one thing to have an Internet company that loses money now, tomorrow and forever. Monday 14/6/1999 In the immortal words of the Bay City Rollers, "bye bye eBay, eBay bye. That's OK. It's also quite alright to have a company selling something...
[June 18, 1999, 18:23]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News The bit where it loses altitude and comes down and lands is politically unacceptable, so he doesn't show that: all aircraft in his world are perpetually at maximum altitude. This is the week that Kewney's World hits the Web.
[July 26, 1997, 8:00]
