Ed Oswald

The networking company says that Vonage is violating nine of its patents, including those related to emergency and information calls, as well as click-to-call functionality.

Just when it seemed Vonage might be able to spend the winter out of court, it finds itself dragged back in. Nortel filed suit against the VoIP provider last Friday in US District Court for the State of Delaware, seeking an injunction against it to prevent further use of what Nortel claims to be its technologies.

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While it might not be as good as actually getting a Wii for Christmas, Nintendo and GameStop have joined forces to help consumers get their hand on one...eventually.

"Tens of thousands" of rain checks will be available through the video game retailer for those who agree to pay for the full $249 price of the popular gaming console up front. The rain check would be redeemable in January.

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The struggling DVR company has once again changed hands, this time to the nation's largest satellite provider.

"Although we valued this asset and the business was profitable, the sale of ReplayTV to DirecTV makes the most sense for this business, its employees and us," D&M Holdings CEO Eric Evans said in a statement.

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By adopting its competitor's platform, the site will allow developers to port their applications to its network.

This newfound partnership probably will not be the last, either. Facebook is inviting others to join in and use its API, likely in a move to counter Google. It's OpenSocial platform is backed by MySpace, LinkedIn, and others.

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In an attempt to further spur development for its chosen next-generation DVD platform, Microsoft is making the tool available for $2,999.

The company says by offering an inexpensive way to test HD DVD videos for their playability before the movies are burned to disc, this should in turn reduce the number of problems with disc playback. All the testers need is a connection to Xbox Live and a console to use the emulator.

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Just when Microsoft thought it had the EU out of its hair, Opera may have brought it back to the bargaining table.

UPDATED Opera has struggled against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, only managing a little over a half percent worldwide market share compared to IE's 77% in November, according to NetApplications.

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A study finds that only one out of every 20 e-mails is from a legitimate source, and business professionals now rate it the top form of junk advertising.

Barracuda Networks found that nearly 95 percent of all e-mail sent today is spam. This is up from just five percent of all e-mail in 2001, and 85 to 90 percent of e-mail in 2006.

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Google's expansion of the street view option for its mapping service into another eight US cities has renewed privacy concerns over what it photographs.

With the addition of the new cities, 23 municipalities can now be viewed in a realistic street-level view through Google Maps. While the focus is currently on the major cities of this country, Google says it plans to add cities big and small in the future.

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Microsoft pulled the free software offer from its Web site Tuesday, which made free copies of Vista and Office among other applications available in exchange for feedback.

Users will be required to install a piece of software on their computers for three months in order to receive the software for free. However at the same time the offer may have been tantalizing for some, for others it may have raised privacy concerns.

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The long wait for a new version of Microsoft Office for the Mac OS X platform is just about over, with development of the suite completed.

Microsoft said the code was released to manufacturing Tuesday night, and an official launch is set to occur at Macworld Expo in January. The new version of Office ends a nearly four year wait for the software.

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Microsoft announced the filing of 52 lawsuits against sellers of pirated and fraudulent copies of its software, as well as referring another 22 cases to law enforcement.

Fifteen of the lawsuits stemmed from activity surrounding a Chinese piracy syndicate that Microsoft was successful in breaking up back in July of this year. That ring spanned five continents and 26 countries.

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The entertainment group continues to move on from its breakup with Apple and iTunes, this time signing a deal with SanDisk to provide content for "Fanfare."

Fanfare is intended to complement the company's new TakeTV video player, which allows consumers to play downloaded content on their television sets, much like how AppleTV currently works.

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The company's FolderShare application is intended to allow customers to synchronize files across multiple machines, but a bug has ended up deleting them.

According to a statement from Microsoft sent to users of the service, an issue with FolderShare deleted files that contained special characters, such as trademark signs, accents and tildas, and the like.

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While Blu-ray has certainly won the opening salvos, new data suggests those new to HD seemed to have a preference for HD DVD.

Much of this switch could have to do with the changing demographic of the HD owner: whereas current owners are generally white and have higher incomes, newer owners will be younger, more ethnically diverse, and less affluent.

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Developers are claiming that they are close to allowing users to place VoIP calls over the iPod Touch, with initial tests proving successful.

The primary work is quite simple, with basically only communication with the SIP server possible. However, this step is important and lays the foundation for an actual VoIP call.

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