75 blog results for "microsoft lawsuit settle"

Claims of patent infringement and trade secret theft have been dropped in a settlement between Microsoft and former worker.

Posted in News - Microsoft by Elinor Mills

Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.

Posted in News - Digital Media by Elinor Mills

Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open-source code.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

As part of a class-action settlement, Yahoo plans to create a new ad distribution option that will give advertisers more control over where ads purchased through Yahoo appear.

Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit

A group of Microsoft rivals is trying to buy a set of patents to protect Linux from patent trolls, according to The Wall Street Journal. The patents were sold by Microsoft to another group earlier this year.

Posted in News - Microsoft by Lance Whitney

Librarians and academics have weighed in on the Google Books settlement, but what do authors need to know before Friday's deadline to opt out?

Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit

The software maker also asks an appeals court to quickly hear an appeal of the order, which threatens to halt sales of Microsoft Word in its current form.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

The two companies are said to have had an agreement not to actively recruit each other's employees--at least that is before Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board.

Posted in News - Apple by Jennifer Guevin

Microsoft finally got around to substantiating its claims that Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents, and the Linux community quickly set to work coding around those claims.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

A lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court claims Microsoft, Yahoo, and RealNetworks did not properly license more than 200 compositions that they offered through their streaming services.

Posted in Digital Noise: Music and Tech by Matt Rosoff