Association: patent cases threaten computer industry
A computer industry association Friday blasted the $1.5 billion verdict in the Microsoft/Alcatel-Lucent case saying that current patent laws are broken and threaten innovation and the standards process.
Apple TKOs Cisco in iPhone bout, analysts, 02/22/07
Although Apple and Cisco remained mum Thursday on the details of their deal to share the “iPhone” trademark, some analysts said Cisco got the short end of the stick.
Qualcomm, Broadcom drop some patent claims
Qualcomm and Broadcom have settled some of their patent claims against each other, avoiding a jury trial scheduled to begin next month, Qualcomm said on Friday.
Mozilla fixes Firefox bugs
Mozilla Corp. has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a number of security flaws in the product.
Veritas to pay $30 million to settle SEC case
Veritas Software has agreed to pay $30 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it engaged in fraudulent accounting practices and aided Time Warner’s AOL in committing fraud.
Study: Consumers aren’t willing to pay $500 for iPhone
Consumers aren’t willing to pay what Apple may ask for the iPhone but if the price drops they’ll switch their mobile service to AT&T in order to get it, according to results of a survey released Thursday.
NAC gear lightens IT load at community college
Cleaning up student PCs was literally the only work the IT staff at Northwest Mississippi Community College could get done for the first two weeks of every school year — until this past fall when the college installed NAC gear that automates the process.
Skype asks FCC to force open mobile networks
Skype is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country’s mobile phone industry for “unlocked” devices and third-party applications — such as Skype.
Siemens, DiVitas bridge cellular and Wi-Fi nets
Two vendors are separately releasing products that let enterprise networks do something even the carrier networks aren’t yet doing: bridge the gap between corporate wireless LANs and cellular nets.
Second Google Desktop attack reported
Google’s PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
Network World Video: Storage resource management on the rise
What is storage resource management (SRM) and why go to a third party to get it rather than a strategic storage vendor like EMC? Onaro President and CEO Doug McNary explain the technology and its pain points on this week’s Network World Hot Seat.
Buzzblog: That pendulum swinging toward online privacy…
… may well come back and whack us on the kneecap.
Today on Layer 8, where we update our own Wikipedia entries:Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author of what Zoeller says is a defamatory paragraph about him on the Wikipedia site.
