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Microsoft Sues Linux Start-up Over Name
News The suit asks the court to order the start-up to stop using the Lindows name and also seeks unspecified monetary damages. Microsoft asked a court on Thursday to stop a Linux start-up from using a name the software giant contends infringes on the...
[December 21, 2001, 10:01]
Microsoft Publishes Office Specs In OOXML Push
News In a comment posted on Jones's blog post on Saturday, Rodriguez said that Excel's internal format table, known as BIFF, had missing records and a "reserved" specification, while Office Drawing also had unspecified records.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Cisco Source Code Leaks Onto Web
News An unspecified amount of the proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware has appeared on the Internet, the technology giant acknowledged early on Monday. While the company was investigating whether a breach had lead to...
[May 17, 2004, 10:20]
Microsoft Probed On Linux Retaliation
News These include whether Microsoft has retaliated against an unspecified computer maker for promoting Linux and has signed unlawfully restrictive agreements with Internet service providers. The software giant has targeted Linux, an open-source...
[July 8, 2003, 7:56]
Microsoft Patent Dispute Heats Up
News InterTrust said its latest lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction that would prohibit Microsoft's use of the technology.
[February 8, 2002, 10:57]
Service Pack 2 Gets The Green Light
News The company had planned internally to release the software earlier this week but pushed it back to fix some unspecified quality issues. The new tablet operating system, for example, includes improved handwriting recognition and other enhancements...
[August 9, 2004, 8:45]
Google Sued By Start-up Over Code
News Affinity Engines, which filed the lawsuit on 25 May in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara, is seeking unspecified damages and royalties from Google. A Silicon Valley start-up has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming an engineer...
[July 1, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft's Mac Manager Steps Aside
News Kevin Browne, who has headed Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) for the past three years and has been on sabbatical since July, is moving to an unspecified role in the company's Xbox unit. A five-year deal between Apple and Microsoft that...
[October 14, 2002, 9:00]
SGI Draws SCO's Wrath
News It says that by contributing to unspecified software products, "SGI flagrantly permitted the copying and use of our proprietary information. High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group...
[October 2, 2003, 9:25]
Microsoft Faces Second Patent Claim
News InterTrust is seeking unspecified damages and asking a judge to prevent Microsoft from shipping products that contain the disputed technology. Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said the software giant had not seen the amended complaint and could not...
[June 27, 2001, 10:46]
Marketing Companies Take Tips From Hackers
News Just this week, online entertainment Web site PassThisOn.com acknowledged it had knocked out the home page preferences of some consumers over an unspecified period using the same bug. Just this week, for example, United Parcel Service apologised to...
[February 26, 2001, 8:05]
Pen Pioneer Sues Microsoft
News The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed on Wednesday in US District Court in San Francisco by S. The founder of pen computing pioneer Go filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated antitrust...
[July 4, 2005, 9:20]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News Apple Computer, Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Oracle each declined to comment on the lawsuit, in which Netscape asks for a jury trial and unspecified damages. High-tech industry lobbyists issued a collective yawn after Netscape...
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Be Stings Microsoft With Lawsuit
News The company is seeking unspecified damages. Operating system maker Be on Tuesday said it has filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant's anti-competitive practices stunted the growth of the Be operating system.
[February 20, 2002, 8:52]
Lindows Seeks To Block Microsoft Suits Worldwide
News The judge in that case also postponed a 1 March trial date, itself a delayed start, to an unspecified time, pending an appeal from Microsoft. At the base of the legal battle, first launched in 2001, is Microsoft's belief that Lindows' name violates...
[March 17, 2004, 10:05]
Google Hit By GraphOn Patent Suit
News GraphOn is seeking permanent injunctive relief along with unspecified damages. Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patents.
[August 18, 2008, 12:34]
Second Vulnerability Found In Word
News In this case, attackers are taking advantage of a flaw that arises when an unspecified error occurs when processing a Word document, Secunia said in its advisory. The software giant is not expected to have patches available for the flaws when it...
[December 12, 2006, 8:31]
.Net And XP Hit By Patent Suit
News InterTrust said the lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of financial damages as well as an injunction prohibiting further infringements, such as Microsoft's distribution of numerous application, server and operating-system products.
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Sendo Withdraws Orange Lawsuit
News Last week, Sendo said that Texas Instruments had agreed to license unspecified patents for future smartphone products using TI's OMAP processors. In a separate and ongoing lawsuit against Microsoft, Sendo alleged that the software giant stole Sendo...
[July 22, 2003, 10:38]
Xbox Trouble Tests Microsoft Support
News He's since returned the Xbox for a second repair, but he was more troubled by a conversation with a Microsoft tech support representative who indicated unspecified modifications were made to the console on its first repair trip.
[March 8, 2002, 11:49]
