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Storage giant sues former executive
News Storage systems company EMC filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a former executive who allegedly violated a non-compete agreement when he switched employers. The case is the most recent lawsuit filed over a potential breach of a non-compete...
[October 11, 2001, 11:29]
Papermaster settles with IBM, sets Apple start date
News Apple announced on Tuesday that former IBM executive Mark Papermaster has resolved his dispute with IBM over a non-compete agreement and will start leading Apple's iPhone group on 24 April. IBM had sued Papermaster for allegedly violating the terms...
[January 28, 2009, 7:32]
US judge views Apple and IBM as chip rivals
News Despite the fact that Apple has yet to produce an iPhone chip based on its own design, and that IBM doesn't design smartphone chips, the judge overseeing the Mark Papermaster non-compete case views the two companies as chip competitors.
[November 26, 2008, 11:34]
Microsoft wins first round with Google
News Microsoft proposed on Tuesday settling its lawsuit with Google over the hiring of a former executive in China by asking Google to agree to limit the exec's duties until July 2006 when the non-compete agreement he signed with Microsoft expires.
[September 14, 2005, 7:50]
Microsoft-Google battle kicks off
News Attorneys for Microsoft and Google faced off before a US state court judge in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, arguing whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee should be allowed to start work for the search company before a trial determines...
[September 7, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft scores small win in Google battle
News Washington state Superior Court judge Steven Gonzalez on Thursday granted Microsoft's request for a temporary restraining order to prevent Kai-Fu Lee from violating his non-compete agreement. The same day that Google announced its new hire...
[July 29, 2005, 7:50]
Google ready to lose Microsoft battle
News Google in fact had devised a Plan B for Lee - 12 months of paid leave in the event the executive is barred from working at the search giant because of a non-compete clause with his former employer, according to documents filed in King County...
[August 5, 2005, 12:25]
Google's new hire hits back
News Last month, Microsoft sued Lee and Google, charging that Lee had broken a one-year non-compete clause in his contract by accepting a job heading up the search giant's China operations. Google has requested that the case be moved to its home state...
[August 22, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft moves goalposts in Google battle
News Late last month, Microsoft filed to switch to federal court Google's request that a California judge invalidate Microsoft's non-compete agreement with Lee, who was hired by Google to head its operations in China.
[August 10, 2005, 9:25]
MS gets heavy with shareware upstart
News Microsoft claims that Schnazzle -- which allows PCs on a home network to share music, photos and other media -- is similar to planned Microsoft technology and therefore violates the non-compete clause of the employment agreements Rao and Doise...
[June 11, 2003, 9:27]
Dismissal hearing scheduled in Microsoft-Google case
News Lee quit Microsoft in July to run Google's operations in China, and Microsoft promptly sued him and Google over the move, invoking its non-compete agreement with Lee. Google filed its countersuit a few days later in California, where the courts...
[September 15, 2005, 10:20]
'Recycled' document could be key to Microsoft case
News Last Month, Microsoft sued Lee and Google, charging Lee was breaking a one-year non-compete clause in his contract by accepting his new position. The document Microsoft said it found in Lee's recycle bin states that should the software maker...
[August 11, 2005, 9:00]
AMD adds Alchemy to its chip arsenal
News Advanced Micro Devices will use a little alchemy to compete better with Intel and other chip makers in the portable computing devices market. MIPS is processor architecture designed to offer high performance and low power for PDAs, networking and...
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
Apple snaps up top IBM chip and blade-server exec
News IBM says that Papermaster must abide to a non-compete agreement he signed with them (PDF here). Non-compete clauses are generally considered worth less than the paper they are printed on in California — Apple's home state — but different states are...
[October 31, 2008, 7:25]
IBM faces lawsuit for blocking exec's move to Apple
News Apple's iPhone leader-in-waiting, Mark Papermaster, has filed a countersuit against his former employer in a dispute over a non-compete agreement. Court documents filed late on Thursday in a federal court in New York claim that IBM's non-compete...
[November 17, 2008, 11:44]
Microsoft wins first round with Google
Talkback Microsoft wanted to stop Kai-Fu Lee from working for Google at all, whereas Google seemed intent on honouring the non-compete clause and having him work in unrelated fields, at least for the first year.
[September 14, 2005, 13:17]
Ballmer 'vowed to kill Google'
News The allegation, filed in Washington state court, is the latest salvo in an increasingly nasty court fight triggered when Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee jumped to Google in July in what Microsoft claims is a violation of a one-year, non-compete...
[September 5, 2005, 9:05]
KING'S CUP
Downloads Race around the clock at the King's Cup Derby, for non stop racing action. The odds for winning change with each race and as with horse racing, winning is always a mixture of skill and luckScore Board:Global Tournament mode available on all...
[May 16, 2008, 8:00]
Ultimate Bowling Fighter
Downloads Welcome to Ultimate Bowling Fighter - a non-stop, round-the-world bowling challenge tournament for your handheld. Ultimate Bowling Fighter features fast-paced game play, high-quality graphics, fun 'Strike' and 'Spare' effects...
[October 5, 2005, 8:00]
Snoodoku
Downloads Like Snood, it is non-violent, intellectually challenging, and non-confrontational. You can compete against yourself or against others! Snoodoku is the new puzzle game from Dave Dobson, creator of Snood.
[December 11, 2005, 7:00]
