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• Patent offers clue in mystery of XBox hard drive

  Then again, maybe the next Xbox will have a hard drive.

• Lucent sues Microsoft over Xbox technology

  Lucent Technologies has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over the same MPEG-2 decoding technology at the centre of a 2003 legal dispute.

• Microsoft loses key patent ruling

  With little fanfare, a federal judge has issued a critical ruling supporting a patent lawsuit against Microsoft brought by InterTrust, a digital rights management company.

• Microsoft hit by patent suit

  Just days after Microsoft fell out with Novell over its allegation that Linux contains its intellectual property; the software giant has become embroiled in another patent dispute.

• Microsoft's eye on data protection

  With the settlement Monday of its long-simmering patent dispute with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft has cleared away legal concerns that have been looming over many of its most important plans.

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• Microsoft's eye on data protection

  With the settlement Monday of its long-simmering patent dispute with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft has cleared away legal concerns that have been looming over many of its most important plans.

• Winners and users: Tech prophecies for 2006

  IT remains a lively, exciting and suprising place. That makes predictions particularly foolish, but here are some picks for the winners and losers of the next twelve months.

• Will open source force a sea change in IT?

  Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?

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