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Flurry of Earnings: Tech Firms Go Gangbusters

During the last quarter of 2006, Cingular Wireless' profits jumped fourfold and Sun Microsystems registered a profit for the first time in more than a year; however, Seagate Technology's earnings dropped by about 50 percent. Nevertheless, as many major tech companies report their earnings this week,...

AT&T Unveils Mobile to Wireline Phone Plan

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

AT&T Unveils Mobile to Wireline Phone Plan

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

AT&T Unveils Mobile to Wireline Phone Plan

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

Year of the Tech Patent Lawsuit, Part 3

For better or worse, 2006 is going to be remembered as the year the U.S. court system should have set up a special turnstile for patent cases; litigation in this usually less-than-sexy body of law seemed to continually challenge once-established points of law. The result? Major case law was establis...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

OpenNet Partner Ronald Deibert: Internet Censorship on the Rise

The OpenNet Initiative's mission is to determine where Internet censorship exists and expose it. It accomplishes this through a network of volunteers -- some of whom do the work at great personal risk -- and proprietary technology and software tools developed by the participants. The E-Commerce Time...

Dell Urges Industry to Go Green

Dell on Wednesday introduced its new "Plant a Tree for Me" program, in which customers can donate a small portion of the purchase price of a Dell product to funds that plant trees around the world. The program, which complements Dell's recycling service it has been offering customers since 2004, is ...

Year of the Tech Patent Lawsuit, Part 2

One of the last cases to go before the Supreme Court, KSR v. Teleflex, was also one of the most significant, at least to patent attorneys, as the basic standards used to grant a patent are now under review. It was a fitting end to 2006, during which a number of high profile patent disputes made thei...

Year of the Tech Patent Lawsuit, Part 1

What is shaping up to be a landmark technology patent lawsuit, KSR v. Teleflex, is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. At its most basic, the decision could redefine the standard of "obviousness" that is used when deciding whether a patent should be granted for a particular invention or...

IBM to Acquire Consul Risk Management Solution

IBM this week announced an agreement to acquire Consul Risk Management, a provider of identity access monitoring software that works across mainframe and distributed environments. When the acquisition closes sometime during Q1 2007, the software will be part of IBM's Tivoli software unit, complement...

Microsoft’s Loss in South Korean Patent Case May Signal Trend

Microsoft lost a key ruling this week in the South Korean Supreme Court, which upheld a finding that the company infringed on Korean-English translation software patents held by a local inventor. The plaintiffs -- the academic who invented the language-switching process and the company representing ...

Yahoo Adds Food to List of Specialty Portals

Yahoo is preparing to do for food what it has done for finance, sports, news, pets and a myriad of other subjects: Build it a Web-based portal. The food category has been underserved by Yahoo thus far, Deanna Brown, general manager of Yahoo Lifestyles, told the E-Commerce Times. "We are targeting a ...

Foreign Ownership of Machines Latest E-Voting Fear Factor

Concerns have been growing that voting machine mishaps might undermine the results of the upcoming Congressional elections -- among the most bitterly fought in recent memory -- either through glitches in the new technology or through outright fraud. The latest worry? The ownership of Boca Raton, Fl...

IBM Registers Stellar Performance in Q3

Reporting a quarterly profit of US$2.2 billion, IBM handily beat Wall Street's expectations with its Q3 earnings. Impressive sales of its hardware and licensed software sales were the primary driver of the company's gains. The only cloudy note in the report was the decline in its services unit, whic...

The Googleplex Goes Solar

Google is planning to deploy a solar electricity system that will have a capacity of 1.6 megawatts at its famed million square foot headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. It will be the largest such installation on a corporate campus in the United States and one of the largest in the world, the compa...

Equity Firms to Take Open Solutions Private in $1.3B Deal

Two private equity firms, The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, jointly announced on Monday that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Open Solutions in a transaction valued at over US$1.3 billion. Under terms of the agreement, The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partner...

Microsoft’s Refusal to Share Vista Kernel Still Drawing Fire

Third party antivirus vendors are becoming increasingly convinced that Microsoft's rigorous security protocols for its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system are in effect a back-door effort to gain market share in the computer security space. Symantec -- and more recently, McAfee -- have charg...

Intel May Be Edging Toward Antitrust Showdown in Europe

European regulatory authorities have taken a step toward bringing allegations that Intel is violating antitrust law closer to a resolution -- and the company's probable prosecution. Officials investigating claims against the chip maker reportedly have presented their evidence to an internal panel of...

Laptop Battery Recall Escalates

As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions -- with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire -- Dell has expanded the recall it initiated on Aug. 15, adding more products to the list. Sony, for ...

AOL’s Privacy Policy on Trial

AOL's privacy policy and how it is interpreted by the courts and federal government will be in the spotlight as two separate actions against the company move forward. In the latest reaction to AOL's erroneous posting of some of its members' search term data this past August, two unnamed California ...

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