Jury orders Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion Microsoft must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday.
Jury orders Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion
Microsoft must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday.
Readers’ Choice: The 10 network-iest movies of all time
Readers saw our list of networkiest movies and had quite a few thoughts on the subject of their own. Just in time for the Oscars, here’s a new list, compiled from your responses.
New version of Google Apps offers less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office
Google today unveiled the enterprise version of Google Apps, a set of communication and collaboration tools that provide an alternative to Microsoft Office for companies that are willing to sacrifice functionality for cost savings.
The 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center
The benefit of virtualizing x86 servers is clear: break the link between software and hardware and create the foundation for a more dynamic, flexible and efficient data center. With the market for virtualization software expected to grow to more than …
Q&A: GM exec discusses huge contract with AT&T
GM CIO Ralph Szygenda talked with Network World senior editor Denise Pappalardo about what AT&T is doing for GM and how that fits in with GM’s overall globalization plan.
Microsoft makes free Vista migration tools available to IT
Microsoft this week released a set of six free tools for corporate users that are focused on assessment, planning, testing and deployment of Windows Vista.
Company hopes to tame Wal-Mart RFID requirement with IBM system
Schiff Nutrition International, a Salt Lake City-based maker of vitamins and nutritional supplements, is in the middle of an RFID pilot aimed at helping the midsize company deploy the technology in order to continue doing business with Wal-Mart.
Dell users demand Linux on laptops
The new team of leaders at Dell Inc. is weighing a request to give customers the option to purchase PCs with the Linux OS, instead of the default Windows, after thousands of users voted for that idea on a company blog.
Twisted Pair Podcast: Boondoggles and Banana HammocksKeith and Jason talk about flying JetBlue, the Cisco/Apple iPhone settlement, smokers as an IT security risk, men in Speedos and what did we do before the Web? (43:45) Listen now.Today on Layer 8, where we never really liked that Mr. Roboto song:They look a little like Legos on steroids and indeed, that’s what they act like too. Called Superbots, these robots are made up of identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and roll.
