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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]
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]
Study Of Factors Influencing QoS In Next Generation Networks
White Papers Next generation networks (NGN's) handle a wide variety of traffic types (both real-time and non-real-time) that compete for resources. As a result, there is a lot of interest in modeling Quality of Service (QoS) in NGN's, both wireline and wireless.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Staying Alive: High Availability In Web Server
White Papers In order for a web site to compete in the Internet space, being impervious to failure is a requirement. Accomplishing this feat, however, is a non-trivial task that typically requires a large sum of money.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Federal Research And Development: Budgeting And Priority-Setting Issues, 109th Congress
White Papers In non-defense R&D, space R&D was important in the 1960s as the nation sought to compete with the Soviet Union; energy R&D was a priority during the energy-short 1970s, and, since the 1980s, health R&D has predominated in civilian science.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Boots Ups Stockfile Accuracy 10 Percent, Reduces Workload 15-20 Percent With Symbol Solutions
White Papers Boots has to look closely at all other operating costs to ensure it can compete effectively, and, as is the case with every retailer, there were costs associated with managing the inventory; in the form of non customer-facing time and stock...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Economics Of Network Pricing With Multiple ISPs
White Papers ISPs that are not co-located may not directly compete for users, but are nevertheless involved in a non-cooperative game of setting access and transit prices for each other. This paper examines how transit and customer prices and quality of service...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A White Paper For High Availability In Web Server Environments
White Papers In order for a web site to compete on in the Internet, it must be impervious to failure. Accomplishing this feat, however, is a non-trivial task that typically requires a large sum of money. With the expectations of Internet users for content...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Allied Telesyn Products Enable Largest FTTH Network In The U.S.
White Papers SureWest needed a non-proprietary solution that would help them not only consolidate all of their fiber assets onto a single network, but also scale for future growth and provide advanced video services to compete with the incumbent cable provider.
[July 18, 2008, 0:00]
