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America's love affair with patent litigation has moved to another level, with a well-known patent expert arguing movies and movie scripts should be patentable.
Google has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) which will see it agree to cross-license open- source-related patents to other members free of charge.
European authorities have failed to close loopholes in legislation that will allow pure software to be patented. A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners
Microsoft has released its second commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Have you seen it yet?
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
How can you calculate the worth of creativity and invention, as in the case of intellectual property (IP)?
Coming off a good quarter for Symantec's consumer businesses, CEO John Thompson warns against viewing Windows Vista as a solution to security woes.
An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
As the two giants tussle for domination of online advertising dollars, it's increasingly clear that this tug-of-war is really a test of each company's corporate culture.
Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.
Get the affordable, sleek, and sexy 5G Apple iPod for its audio virtues. Although video looks great, poor video battery life and a relatively small screen hamper its appeal to video heads
Can the world's biggest software giant take down the world's best-selling encylcopedia? We put the two educational references head to head in our Australian review.
Call it spyware, adware, malware, or tracking software, those hidden bits of code may be broadcasting your innermost secrets to the world. Here's how to put a stop to it.
Microsoft's experimental office of the future is full of gee-whiz work tech. But would any of it really be an improvement over the tech you use today?
Apple drops iPhone NDA
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