Microsoft hits back at Burst.com allegations
News Microsoft was responding to comments from Richard Lang, chief executive of Burst.com, who told ZDNet UK that two years after becoming a Microsoft partner, the software giant tried to buy the company's technology for $1m (£640,000).
[September 4, 2003, 12:05]
Burst.com faces off with Microsoft
News Richard Lang, founder and chief executive of Burst.com, claims his company grew from nothing into a $200m (£127m) business with hundreds of staff over a period of ten years, and then almost imploded during the dot-com downturn.
[September 4, 2003, 12:40]
Microsoft reaches settlement with Burst
News We spent over a decade developing and patenting the technology in anticipation of the markets that are now emerging," Burst Chief Executive Officer Richard Lang said in a statement. Software company Burst.com has agreed to a tentative $60m...
[March 14, 2005, 15:45]
Did Microsoft 'steal' Media Player 9 technology?
News Richard Lang, chief executive of Burst.com, explained to ZDNet UK that his company had spent more than ten years developing and patenting a media transmission technology designed to send video and audio files electronically.
[September 3, 2003, 15:15]
Apple accused of patent infringement
News Richard Lang, co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Burst, said the company's patented technology involves the delivery of music or video over the Internet "faster than real-time". Three of the four patents at issue in the new lawsuit are the...
[April 18, 2006, 9:40]
