GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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Ex-employees accused of stealing over 100,000 files Chipmaker AMD has sued four ex-employees, alleging that they have stolen secret documents and trade secrets before joining its rival Nvidia. AMD filed a lawsuit in the US District ...
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AMD has accused four former employees of stealing 100,000 confidential files before leaving to work for rival chip manufacturer Nvidia, filing a suit described in the case document as "an extraordinary case of secret transfer [,] ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are alleged to have left the company to join Nvidia with confidential documents and trade ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a notice of allowance (NOA) to biopharmaceutical company Amarin for its claims related to Vascepa and FDA-approved MARINE indication. The NOA, which is issued based on patent ...
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A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Hanjuan Jin, 41, a ...
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IDG News Service - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the payout in the separation agreement between Hewlett-Packard and its former CEO Mark Hurd in 2010. The lawsuit filed by HP shareholders against Hurd and the company's ...
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1. How to protect trade secrets and processes? The best thing your company can do is to only disseminate trade secrets to those who have a need to know the information. When outsourcing manufacturers you may consider separating your ...
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People will spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting desktop and laptop PCs. In a recent study by analyst Forrester, 33% of respondents ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...
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CSO - It happened more than three and a half years ago. So it presumably would be old news that Chinese hackers broke into soft-drink behemoth Coca-Cola's computer systems and stole confidential files relating to its effort to acquire the ...
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Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives report questioning the company's ties to the Chinese government, with a Huawei official suggesting the report was politically ...
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A US congressional panel examining the Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE is concluding an investigation into whether the companies' equipment is a threat to US infrastructure and commercial confidentiality with a public hearing. In ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) says that the Superior Court of Santa Clara ...
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