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Microsoft already has a patch for the patent problem in Word and is telling U.S. OEMs to apply it, removing the ability to strip out custom XML from files before allowing users to edit them.
Microsoft faces a threat of not being able to sell Word without changing its functionality because of a patent infringement suit. Depending on how things work out, this could become a significant problem or a benefit.
Between more powerful netbooks, smartphones, tablets, and e-book readers, we're seeing the emergence of the netdevice that could undermine the traditional PC powers.
Google makes billions in the U.K. but pays takes of under $250,000. See, they can do something other than take in ads.
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has issued a new test for whether a machine using a mathematical algorithm (read as computer-driven device) is patentable.
Twitter purportedly made $25 million off its multi-year deals with Microsoft and Google. That's still a long way from a long-term business strategy.
Verizon Wireless answers to FCC show how much of a scam early termination fees are.
AT&T may talk about wireless data overload because many customers opted for reducing cell phone expenses, leaving the subsidy paid to Apple more of a burden.
Rackspace gets hit with another outage raising the question of what it will take to attract customers over the long haul.
RIM's BlackBerry unit sales are still far stronger than Apple's iPhone
Pandora and other Internet radio companies may be going after the vehicle market, but they still haven't conquered the classic radio hurdle â€"- a seamless broadcast. At the recent San Francisco Music Tech conference, Pandora Radio CTO Tom Conrad noted there are three ways to have Internet radi...
Google is looking at Yelp because it is a media and publishing company that will continue to look for new content sources, no matter what it claims.
HP (HPQ) released its 10-K late yesterday. And when you read between the lines of numbers, you see that the EDS acquisition last year effectively masked some significant business issues and trends for the company. The first trend is one that we've been looking at for some time: the switch from a pr...
At last week's San Francisco Music Tech conference, Motorola's Senior Director of Multimedia Dave Ulmer said "Every year we're here, and every year we say 'This is the year of the mobile'. And it hasn't been." Fresh off his company releasing the Droid, Ulmer stopped just short of say...
