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Copyright truce excludes key voices
News That's why MPAA president Jack Valenti says he's not about to sign a truce. The peace accord was designed to show a unified front linking the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a pair of computer industry groups, thus persuading...
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Security researchers vs vendors: Hope for truce
News Historically, there has been a clash between security researchers who find security flaws in software products and the companies that make those products. But two recent examples of co-operation between researchers and vendors show hope for future...
[September 18, 2008, 10:55]
Police maintain uneasy truce with cybervigilantes
News The Metropolitan Police have turned to some unlikely allies in the fight against internet crime — cyberactivists who are taking action against online fraudsters. The police are working with certain cybervigilante groups, using them as a source of...
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
Cracks appear in Qualcomm-Nokia truce
News Qualcomm has admitted in a regulatory filing that it and Nokia are still at odds over 3G - a move that could potentially prove harmful to both companies. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the US provider of mobile phone...
[April 24, 2006, 16:00]
Real and Microsoft call a truce
News Microsoft and RealNetworks announced a sweeping deal on Tuesday that puts aside their legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital music strategies. Under the deal, Microsoft will pay $460 million in cash to RealNetworks to...
[October 11, 2005, 19:10]
Truce paves path of cooperation
News The landmark agreement between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft is as much a legal framework for working together in the future as it is a settling of old scores, the companies said on Friday. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Sun chairman...
[April 5, 2004, 8:40]
Companies look for truce in security flaw row
News A security coalition has published draft guidelines for issuing bug alerts, a bid to temper a hot debate over when and how alerts should be released. The draft rules were released Wednesday by the Organization for Internet Safety (OIS), a group...
[June 5, 2003, 7:49]
Intel, AMD call truce on 'bus war'
News Intel and AMD are moving to reassure users and manufacturers that their separate communications standards will work together, avoiding a potentially disastrous battle over the PC's nervous system. The two standards, 3GIO and HyperTransport, have...
[August 31, 2001, 17:17]
Truce reached in computing standards battle
News The Next Generation I/O Forum (NGIO) and the Future I/O group have come to terms on several major issues of disagreement. They are expected to announce an agreement Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum that will lead to the replacement of the PCI...
[August 31, 1999, 9:06]
Microsoft and Immersion settle legal spat
News More than a year later, Microsoft and Immersion have called a truce under a 2003 sublicence agreement between the two companies. Haptic technology maker Immersion said on Tuesday it has settled its legal dispute with Microsoft.
[August 27, 2008, 9:40]
Sun wants to buy Novell
Talkback Since many developers no longer trust Sun, especially due to its recent truce with Microsoft, Sun wants to buy that trust back through Novell. Sun used to be the company of choice for the guys behind Linux.
[August 2, 2004, 20:57]
MS, Netscape pledge interoperability
News Within 12 hours, more than 10,000 users sent in electronic signatures calling for a truce between Netscape and Microsoft. The two companies, with the support of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), will pledge to support recommended HTML tags and...
[June 13, 1997, 8:53]
BSA offers immunity for copyright confessors
News This gesture is not a repeat of the official 'Truce' which the BSA has run previously, but a spokeswoman admitted the organisation would consider a repeat of that campaign which she said had been "very successful".
[September 26, 2003, 11:00]
Napster offers billion dollar sweetener
News But Bertelsmann and Napster executives said the offer should serve as a token of good faith to bring the other labels back to the negotiating table, and to allow a temporary legal truce that would keep Napster operating.
[February 21, 2001, 8:40]
LG unveils multi-format next-gen DVD player
News Many expected the format war to be decided by which format could offer the most compelling content, and in another sign that the two camps could be forced to call a truce, Warner Bros is also expected to announce it will sell movies and TV shows...
[January 8, 2007, 7:44]
Sun gets closer to Web services elite
News The WS-I, envisioned as a truce broker in the contentious Web services market, has instead been mired in company turf wars since its founding in February. A proposal being considered by a key Web services organisation could pave the way for Sun...
[June 20, 2002, 12:29]
Sun challenged to release Java's code
News For example, in 2003, it hammered out a truce, under which open-source Java group JBoss would get access to Sun's Java compatibility test software. A day after Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy said that open-source software is his...
[February 16, 2004, 7:20]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News A truce only began in the 90s when Japan was already mired in an economic slide. The honeymoon between China and the US tech industry is over, and the warm feelings may be gone for a while. In the past several months, China has adopted a series of...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
Aaron Goldberg: "IT's Like This..."
News How long can the truce last? One of the most problematic situations for IT is when two key vendors get into technology-direction wars that put the customer in the middle. You know how it goes: Vendor A has a key product, but Vendor B doesn't want...
[August 18, 1998, 14:37]
