All the week’s IT market news.
‘Peanut butter’ memo reveals sticky situation at Yahoo, 11/27/06
Industry observers nodded in agreement last week at the conclusions of a scathing internal assessment that has come to be called the “peanut butter” memo.
Yet another Microsoft lawsuit, with a twist, 11/27/06
Seems hardly a day goes by without Microsoft being involved in a lawsuit somewhere – but this time, the legal battle comes from a rather unique place: a group representing a Chilean native language.
TeliaSonera links to Orange for international business, 11/22/06
Orange Business Services, the global enterprise networking unit of France Télécom, has strengthened its footprint in the Nordic and Baltic countries through an agreement with Scandinavian telco TeliaSonera.
Linux users to Microsoft: What ‘balance sheet liability’?, 11/21/06
While Microsoft may cast the Nov. 2 patent cooperation agreement it pushed on new partner Novell as a way to protect corporate users of the SUSE Linux operating system from potential lawsuits, CIOs Tuesday said they weren’t worried in the first place.
Alcatel sues Microsoft over digital video patents, 11/21/06
Alcatel has accused Microsoft of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things.
