Neowin News Feed for: Companies

Patent trolling costs $29 billion annually in the US

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:40:35 +0100

Patent holding companies, known as 'trolls' for their business practices, are costly to fight legal battles against. A recent academic paper attempts to put a cost on the losses these trolls create. Read more...

Survey: 60 percent of company articles on Wikipedia have factual errors

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:00:22 +0100

A new survey says that 60 percent of the articles about specific businesses on Wikipedia contain factual errors and that it takes a long time, if ever, to see those errors corrected. Read more...

Ballmer tells companies to upgrade from XP

Sam Symons — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:03:06 +0000

CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Steve Ballmer, has warned companies to upgrade from Windows XP, or else they will face anger from employees. The reason for this is because, according to Steve, "If you deploy a... Read more...

Music Companies Sue Baidu and Sohu

Sagittarius — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:40:29 +0000

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According to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), popular Chinese search engines Baidu.com and Sohu.com have been sued for aiding illicit online copying, in a move by the music industry to control piracy in... Read more...

Companies still slow to green their IT – Survey

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:01:39 +0000

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Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned... Read more...

SanDisk Accuses 25 Companies of Patent Infringement

Slimy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:01:18 +0100

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SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in... Read more...

Record Companies finally woken up by Radiohead

Steven Parker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:02:48 +0100

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Remember 2001, when it was decided that the record industry was going to be brought to its knees by peer to peer sharing? Remember yesterday, when last time we checked, there was still a thriving... Read more...

Cable Companies Facing Big Bandwidth Crunch

Sagittarius — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:03:45 +0100

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With internet usage expanding exponentially and demand for high-speed connections ever growing, cable internet companies may soon be facing serious bandwidth issues, according to a report by ABI Research. The problem comes from more demanding... Read more...

Companies and Party Aides Censor Wikipedia

Lt-DavidW — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:40:29 +0100

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Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order... Read more...

Taiwan companies team up on Microsoft smartphones

Slimy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:28:39 +0100

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Taiwanese companies E-ten Information Systems and Arima Communications have signed a technology agreement to develop 3G and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, combining their technical expertise to deliver at least four new Windows... Read more...

Intel Invests in Another Six Companies

Slimy — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:57:02 +0100

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Intel has invested a total of $31 million in six companies through the company's venture capital arm: Intel Capital. In the first quarter of this year, Intel Capital invested $154 million in 43 deals worldwide,... Read more...

Cell Companies to Replace 1.3 Million Batteries

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:38:24 +0000

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NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said today. The batteries were manufactured before June 2006... Read more...

Uwe Boll Blames Game Companies

stncttr908 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:44:39 +0000

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Uwe Boll, the butt of many jokes from the gaming and movie communities due to his generally lackluster video game to movie translations, is blaming the game companies for his movies' poor showings at the... Read more...

Companies push Linux partitioning effort

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:54:35 +0000

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A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioningtechnology used by rival operating systems to make servers moreefficient. SWSoft is trying to get OpenVZmade part of the mainstream Linux kernel--the... Read more...

Steve Jobs Slams "Greedy" Record Companies

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:39:37 +0100

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Apples chief executive Steve Jobs spoke out ahead of the Apple showcase in Paris stating that record companies are becoming "greedy", pushing for higher prices on music downloads from iTunes music store. Jobs is determined... Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Cable Companies

shawncruiksh — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:20:23 +0100

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In their second major ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal court verdict that would have required cable companies to open up their networks to third party Internet service providers. The... Read more...

Companies Ramping up E-mail Monitoring

malebolgia — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:44:40 +0100

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The boss is getting serious about e-mail snooping. A new study has found that 63 percent of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read... Read more...

State AGs to warn file-sharing companies

WishX — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:04:45 +0100

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A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ... Read more...

Linux companies hit play on Real's software

malebolgia — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:03:04 +0100

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Red Hat and Novell have announced plans to include RealPlayer 10 in their operating systems. The fun isn't stopping there; they're also planning on integrating Real's DRM technology Helix. While this comes as... Read more...

Tough times for hard-drive companies, report says

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 May 2004 12:53:27 +0100

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The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,... Read more...