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Judge Throws Out Defamation Suit Against Google

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:29:21 +0000

KinderStart sued Google Incorporated in March 2006 accusing the Mountain View, California-based company of violations of antitrust, free speech, unfair competition and defamation and libel laws. In a ruling issued Friday, Judge Jeremy Fogel of... Read more...

Court Throws Out Microsoft Win on Keyboard Patents

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:16:07 +0000

A federal appellate court on Tuesday said a lower court erred in invalidating two patents for ergonomic computer keyboards, dealing a blow to Microsoft Corp., which fought to have them voided after being sued by... Read more...

Norway throws in the towel in DVD Jon case

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:10:24 +0000

Jon Lech Johansen, creator of the DECSS DVD crack, won't be going back to court. The Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (Ã˜kokrim) today confirmed that it will not appeal the upholding of his acquittal on copyright... Read more...

Celera Throws Compaq Servers In Trash

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:46:25 +0000

When scientists at Celera Genomics and the government-funded Human Genome Project created their maps of all human genes, one indisputable winner was Compaq Computer. Both groups used Compaq supercomputers. Today, Celera announced that it would... Read more...

Hewlett-Packard Throws Walter Hewlett Off Board

Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:53:35 +0000

Walter Hewlett, the son of one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard Co. lost his seat on the company's board of directors on Friday after shareholders approved a new slate that deliberately excluded him because of... Read more...

Oracle throws weight behind Itanium

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:33:06 +0000

Oracle has released a version of its database management software designed for Intel's Itanium processor--a move crucial to the chip's success, according to hardware executives and analysts. Itanium-based servers won't take off commercially until... Read more...