The case for WordPerfect is resurrected in the Supreme Court
Microsoft is now resurrecting an ancient battle by asking the US Supreme Court to quash a lawsuit filed by Novell back in 2004, alleging that Microsoft maliciously ruined WordPerfect's chances in the office productivity market.
In its suit against Microsoft, Novell claims that, between 1994 and 1996, Microsoft maliciously withheld technical information about Windows 95 so as to give Microsoft Office an advantage over its rivals and to effectively squash WordPerfect and other competitors in the marketplace.
AT&T: U-verse gets speed boost, broadband customers get free Wi-Fi
AT&T announced today that its U-verse fiber-to-the-node Internet service will begin offering more bandwidth and higher speeds to top-tier subscribers, and free Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity to all of AT&T's broadband customers.
The AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Max tier will cost $55 a month when bundled with U-verse TV, and will now have downstream speeds of up to 10 Mbps, and upstream speeds up to 1.5 Mbps.
MPAA admits 'human error' in its revenue loss estimates from piracy
Back in 2005, the Motion Picture Association of America released a study that blamed 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses on college students illegally downloading movies. Now the Association admits its numbers were wrong.
A more accurate figure, the MPAA now says, is about 15 percent, in an admission to educational groups cited this morning by the Associated Press. It attributed its overestimate of student-based losses to a "human error."
HD DVD, Blu-ray playback added to new entry-level ATI cards
For years, ATI played itself as the performance leader in the graphics space. But now as part of AMD, which is having a difficult time of late making its case for CPU performance, ATI may have to make like its new corporate parent for a little while.
It was not a premium feature of high-end graphics cards for very long: This morning at a rollout event in Beijing, AMD is announcing its ATI division has added DirectX 10.1 support to two new Radeon cards at the low end of the price spectrum, with the new HD 3400 model expected to retail for as low as $49.
Apple's attention shifts to Mac as iPod growth slows
In the last few weeks, its biggest news has been the deals it's made with movie studios for streaming content over iTunes, and its having deflated the bulk of a notebook computer to a razor-thin profile. Didn't Apple used to sell those little song gadgets?
A public corporation always puts its best foot forward for its quarterly earnings report, and in that case, Apple Inc. is no different. But when a seasoned performer has become accustomed to always entering the stage with his right foot, as many have trained themselves to do for whatever reason, you take notice when one enters the stage with his left.
Can EMC convince you to do online data backups?
How do you deal with backing up your data, especially when you're out on the road with your laptop? With today's announcement of EMC's MozyEnterprise, you can now encrypt, back up, and store your laptop or desktop PC data in a high security data center for not much more than $5 per month.
MozyEnterprise might finally be enough to convince even the most reluctant home users, small businesses, and enterprises that online backup and storage over the Internet is a safe, effective and maybe even necessary way to go, according to some industry analysts.
Internet Explorer 8 to feature 'super' Web standards mode
If the next edition of the world's most distributed browser expects all Web sites to pass the Acid2 test, one of its key architects said yesterday, an unfortunate irony might be that many sites could break in that browser.
In one of the stranger admissions yet to come from a Microsoft developer, Internet Explorer 8 platform architect Chris Wilson acknowledged on his team's blog yesterday that one of the quandaries his team has faced to date is meeting the simultaneous challenges of embracing Web standards to a greater extent than ever before...while not breaking Web sites that tweaked themselves years ago to comply with IE6.
Verizon offers Bluetooth FM transmitter for cars
Verizon today announced it now offers the Venturi Mini, an A2DP bluetooth FM transmitter that can broadcast music and voice calls through in-car audio systems.
Similar in function to the Motorola MotoROKR T505, the Venturi Mini pairs with stereo bluetooth-enabled phones and broadcasts the phone's audio over the car's audio system on a free FM channel.
Ten-year eBay CEO rumored to be eyeing retirement soon
Is Meg Whitman preparing to leave the top spot of the highly successful auction site? People close to the situation think that the corporate leader, mentor, and self-made billionaire is now ready to open eBay's doors to some fresh new ideas.
With Web mega-auction site eBay about to announce quarterly earnings tomorrow, rumors are afoot that the company's long-time CEO, Meg Whitman, will soon retire from the job she assumed back in 1998, when the then-start-up employed merely 29 people and operated only in the US.
NBC Direct adopts personalized ad network
NBC has announced that its NBC Direct downloadable TV platform currently in beta will utilize the YuMe network for its advertising.
YuMe was designed especially for broadband video, providing ad and campaign management, trafficking and reporting for its users. It delivers metrics on viewership and ad performance in both downloaded and streaming playback, and even changes overlaid ads to embedded ones when the content is moved from place to place.
EU leaders clash with Google over the meaning of 'personal data'
With the EU crafting new laws governing how data collectors such as Google protect users' personal data, lawmakers there are clashing with US business leaders over how far that protection can and should extend.
A document currently being drafted by a group called the Article 29 Working Party (Art. 29) may extend the formal definition of "personal data" with regard to legal protections granted by the European Union government to its member states' citizens. Specifically, despite arguments by its own authors to the contrary, the document would extend the definition to include any kind of data that can be traced back to an individual.
Flexible e-paper displays move to mobile phones
Polymer Vision has announced the production of its Readius 3G phone with a 5-inch foldable e-paper display.
Prototypes of the device were shown in 2005, but the device is a product of over ten years of research and development. The company began working on organic flexible displays under Philips, and then continued as a spinoff company under the name Polymer Vision, partially funded by venture capital. Rollable displays became the company's specialty in 2002.
Google-funded DNA testing to launch in Europe later this week
Maybe you're related to John Lennon, Hillary Clinton, Genghis Khan, or the Iberians of ancient Spain? Beyond providing social networking, several Google-funded Web sites targeted at North Americans will test your DNA and may give you some genetic clues.
With the demo of Web-enabled DNA testing later this week at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Google's DNA Project -- the basis of a unique type of social networking -- will extend itself to Europe. There, one might locate Dr. Bryan Sykes, a DNA genetics researcher who once found a Florida accountant named Tom Robinson to be a descendant of Genghis Khan.
Layoffs at Yahoo likely to come next Tuesday
A rumor brought to light this morning by notorious financial insider and blogger Henry Blodget may this time be true, as Yahoo's response appears to warn of bad news ahead in its next restructuring move.
A Yahoo spokesperson's statement to BetaNews this morning appears to indicate that the company may be preparing to announce some tough news during its upcoming quarterly analysts' call next Tuesday. Specifically, the spokesperson declined to deny a rumor posted to Henry Blodget's Silicon Alley Insider blog yesterday evening, saying the company was preparing to dismiss as many as 2,500 employees -- about 17% of its present workforce.
Red Zune, meet pink iPod nano
Sadly, the days of showing your love for someone with a mixtape are all but gone. However, device manufacturers look to be gearing up for similar Valentine's day gifting by offering appropriately-colored portable media players.
Apple announced today a new pink iPod Nano, available with 8 GB of storage for $199. If sales of this particular iPod are not phenomenal, expect to see them repurposed as breast cancer awareness iPods.
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