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Just today, a Cheryomushky District Court judge in Moscow, Russia, threw out a legal case against Denis Kvasov, former head of Mediaservices, the company behind the now defunct online store AllofMP3.com. The store, which was...

Microsoft is pouring cold water on a warning from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro that a new PowerPoint zero-day attack is under way. The Trend Micro warning, first issued Aug. 19, said that a specially crafted...

Open source will fail to deliver innovation and is more likely to break applications, according to Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP. "We all talk about how great Linux is,"...

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a claim by five California cities and counties that Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, had overcharged them for software. U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz in...

A judge in California has dismissed approximately 50 toxic chemical lawsuits filed by former IBM employees against the computer giant, following a round of court-ordered mediation. The employees had charged that IBM...

Microsoft has dismissed speculation over the Xbox 2 game console's backward compatibility with its predecessor. A story on a UK-based Web site had quoted unnamed sources close to Microsoft's development team as...

Microsoft will not get involved in any potential acquisition of Disney, the software maker's chairman said late Wednesday. Bill Gates was responding to a question from Channel Thirteen's Charlie Rose about Comcast's...

A U.S. judge has dismissed a complaint brought against Rambus by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that the company tried to unfairly monopolize the memory-chip market. Judge Stephen J. McGuire, the FTC's chief administrative law...

AMD this week cocked a snoot at rival Intel's pursuit of high-k dielectric materials as the foundation for future, 45nm process technologies. The chip maker's own solution is a three-gate transistor design,...

Amid a declining handheld market, HP fends off users demanding a recall of 'defective' iPaq devices. Hewlett-Packard has dismissed claims that many of its iPaq handheld computers are defective and warrant a recall, saying...

Steve Ballmer, speaking to an industry group, dismissed rival Sun's efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation" on Wednesday. "I think what we...