General Mills has settled a lawsuit in the US questioning health claims associated with its YoPlus probiotic yoghurt. A spokesperson for the group today (12 February) confirmed General Mills has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit ...
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
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An appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google's commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use, the software company said in a filing. "This Court should not stop at finding that Google ...
Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched. The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District ...
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A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
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Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market and has a monopoly on support revenue. Oracle terminated CedarCrestone's partner license ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
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Google filed a patent infringement lawsuit against BT Group companies in a court in the U.S. stating it was defending itself against the British communications services company's own "meritless patent claims" and its arming of patent ...
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Google has issued a lawsuit against BT in both the US and the UK over what it claims is an infringement of its patents. In 2011, BT launched its own legal action against Google for infringing six of its patents in a US court in Delaware. ...
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Oracle is once again attempting to prove that Google illegally copied unlicensed software code in its Android mobile operating system, but this time the Java developer is invoking the spirit of Harry Potter to push its claim through the ...
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Oracle has said that an appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google’s commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use. “This Court should not stop at finding that Google ...
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) and various entities affiliated with CSN have filed a lawsuit against Tenaris SA's Brazilian subsidiary Confab Industrial SA and various subsidiaries of Ternium SA. The ...
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IDG News Service - SAP is planning to impose a higher price on its Standard Support software maintenance offering later this year, with the increase applying only to new contracts. "In order to ensure the same high level of quality ...
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