After initial courtroom sparring in Symantec's trade secret lawsuit against Microsoft, the companies are now shaping up for the real fight.
Wireless e-mail vendor Visto has prevailed in a long-running patent infringement suit against rival Seven Networks, prompting a new legal challenge against Research In Motion and potentially strengthening Visto's position in a pending spat with Microsoft.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has repeatedly mischaracterised the validity of disputed NTP-held patents and wielded political influence to advance its position, the patent-holding company charged on Thursday.
The US government may have stood up for Research In Motion when its BlackBerry service was facing a shutdown, but it's not supporting eBay as the company prepares for Supreme Court arguments.
Microsoft plans to release a special "compatibility patch" that will temporarily undo some upcoming changes to Internet Explorer.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.
New e-Discovery rules being developed for the Federal Court of Australia will require CIOs to take a more active role in their organisations' legal affairs.
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
With Redmond on the hook for US$1.5 billion, should other audio tech users be worried about what's next?
The software maker says it is retiring several of its older products, including Windows 98, to comply with a court order related to Sun Microsystems and Java.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
In an about-face, Microsoft has said that it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP.
Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.
File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.
The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
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