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Samsung and Nokia have had a cross-license patent deal in place for the sharing of knowledge by both companies for some time but this expired in 2022. Today, both companies have signed a new deal.

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A U.S. appeals court today granted Vonage Holdings Corp. a permanent stay against a lower court ruling barring it from providing service to new customers. On April 6, Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District...

Sorry for not having posted this sooner, but as some of you know I haven't been posting as much news as of late. Which I won't get into here. In any event, here you go...

On Monday, MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media said it had entered into a pact with Google that spans three years and nine months and gives the search giant exclusive rights to provide Web search...

HP and Gateway have agreed to settle their legal differences with a $47m payment, from Gateway to HP. The two firms fell out in 2004 over patent infringement allegations made by both companies against each...

Microsoft expects to show that it will recover from a recent sales slump when the world's largest software maker reports details of early orders this week for its next Windows version set to launch next...

It may be a small, $149 step, but Apple Computer's introduction of a U2 "digital box set"--a downloadable compilation of every song the band has ever recorded--could portend a shift in online-music pricing. ...

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced Monday that it has reached a $1.7 billion deal with the Radio Music License Committee to give stations the ability to legally stream their on-air content...

Beta sign ups for Pirates! have begun. Here are instructions on how to enter: Atari is now accepting applications for the beta test of Sid Meiers Pirates - interested people can sign up...

Microsoft is gunning for open source software this week by signing a new three year deal with the UK Government. Microsoft has indicated that it will help the public sector get more out of IT...

Moving all of Newham Borough Councils NT4 workstations, Office programs, and 130 Bespoke applications onto a modern Microsoft platform is cheaper than Linux alternatives claims a new study. This study claims that Newham can...

World Rally Championship developer to continue its racing franchise, create original games exclusively for Sony's current and next-gen consoles. UK-based Evolution Studios has entered into an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe...

Thanks to fellow Neowinian Krome for bringing this to our attention via BPN. PHP 5's official release occurred on July 13th with a complete re-haul of object-oriented programming features and improved MySQL...

Novell has signed agreements with Hewlett-Packard and IBM to expand support for its SuSE Linux operating system on their PCs and servers. HP announced that it will begin certifying and supporting a desktop version of...

Finally Microsoft is developing a tool that adds the ability to limit concurrent user logins in an Active Directory domain. There was a resourcekit tool cconnect but this was not AD integrated. It can also...

Trauma Studios, the creator of the popular Desert Combat free modification for Battlefield 1942, has been signed into a commercial deal with BF'42 creators Digital Illusions CE (DICE) to collaborate on a future game in...

Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. on Thursday said it has signed a deal with comic book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. to develop a series of fighting games pitting newly developed EA characters against Marvel...

If you have a passion for management technology and want to make a difference for your company and for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) users around the world, sign up to participate in the MOM 2004...

DivXNetworks, a US-based video compression technology company, and Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on September 22 officially inked a technology and development partnership deal. Under the agreement, ITRI's Computer and Communications Research Labs (CCL)...

Washington (AP) -- Promising the gift of silence for people bedeviled by telemarketers, the government launched a national do-not-call list Friday intended to block phone sales pitches from nearly all sources. The...

Visio 2003 is a diagramming program that can help you create business and technical diagrams that document and organize complex ideas, processes, and systems. Diagrams created in Visio 2003 enable you to visualize and communicate...

Hirdhav Virtual Desk software lets user create virtual desktops on thier windows computer, which helps users to get more space on taskbar to open lots of applications together, or they can even create desktops for...

Thanks to Bink for the heads up Microsoft Corp. is giving customers a preview of the pre-beta code for its Virtual Server, which it acquired when it bought the virtual machine assets...

Though it's small by Colossus of Redmond standards, the cash payout says a lot about how Gates & Co. sees itself these days At Microsoft's annual meetings each November, one shareholder question...

Microsoft OneNote™ is a new program in the Microsoft Office family that enables you to capture, organize, and reuse your notes on any laptop computer, desktop computer, or Tablet PC. It gives you one place...

Altough the record industry currently seems to see the importance of their web presence and are building their own website to distribute the music, they also don't seem to forget about tracing music pirates. EMI...

This will be the first and exclusive experience of the Everquest European servers and localised versions in German and French. It will last one month and is completly free of charge, all beta testers will...

Vivendi Universal Publishing (VU Publishing) and Marvel Enterprises, Inc. announced today a 10-year worldwide licensing agreement which grants VU Publishing's Games division (VU Games) the right to develop and publish online massively multi-player (OLMMP) games...

No. 1 software maker, Microsoft Corp., and the U.S.' No. 3 wireless telephone firm, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., on Wednesday said they formed a partnership to provide data services through wireless devices to corporations. ...