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Court patent ruling leaves software patents intact

The U.S. Supreme Court rules against one business-method patent in a narrow decision

SAP readies ‘River’ cloud platform for public debut

River will be for simple 'extension' on-demand applications, while Business ByDesign will support more complex ones

Google Chrome OS creator takes job at Facebook, announces switch on Twitter

Facebook hires Google Chrome OS engineer Matthew Papakipos

Supreme Court strikes down one part of Sarbanes-Oxley

The court rules that it's too hard to remove members of an oversight board

Intel SSDs hit brick-and-mortar retail stores

Analysts expect boot SSD drives will be the most successful at first

Obama wants to free up 500MHz of spectrum

A new White House plan follows up on recommendations in the FCC's broadband plan

VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco

Cisco CTO Ed Bugnion was one of five VMware founders

IT innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder

Wall Street Beat: Chips are up, why are stocks down?

U.S. stock markets fell Thursday, including the tech-heavy Nasdaq

NFC sees light at end of the tunnel with transit projects

As city transit systems adopt NFC, Nokia and other vendors are getting ready to announce compatible phones, says analyst