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MSNBC
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Internet icon Yahoo, under pressure from Microsoft to accept its $41 billion buyout offer, said Monday it doesn't oppose a deal with the huge software maker but wants a better deal.
The statement comes after Microsoft warned Saturday that if a deal isn..
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BBC News
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Software company Adobe is to enter into the word processing market by acquiring Virtual Ubiquity.
The deal means that Adobe will own the online word processor Buzzword, which allows a number of people to edit a document online.
Adobe is best known f..
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Reuters
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IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.
IBM said it would offer document, spreadsheet and presenta..
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Reuters
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Software included with high-end memory sticks sold by Sony Corp can make personal computers vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, according to researchers with two Internet security firms.
Sony's MicroVault USB memory stick and fingerprint reader i..
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MSNBC
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XM Satellite Radio experienced a second day of outages Tuesday after software problems resulted in the loss of one of the network’s four satellites, the company said.
Company officials initially expected to correct the problem Monday evening, but are..
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BusinessWeek
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The Redmond giant said open-source software violates hundreds of its patents; bloggers ask which ones, and how it plans to collect
Now that the computer industry has its first accounting of how many patents Microsoft says are violated by open-source so..
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Times Online
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Bloggers who posted links to a software key that would unlock the copy protection on some high-definition DVDs have been threatened with legal action.
The entertainment industry-backed consortium which developed the protection said that it was looking..
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CNN
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The boss battle at Take-Two Interactive Software is over - with the leaders brutally squashed, then discarded. It sounds like a storyline straight out of "Grand Theft Auto," but in this case, it was corporate Darwinism at work.
Thursday's coup at the v..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Microsoft was yesterday fined a record $1.52bn (£777m) for infringing a digital music patent which could throw into doubt the future of the digital music industry. A San Diego court ruled that the software giant has infringed patents, owned by Franco-..
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The Register
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EMI is close to removing rights management software from its digital music for good, in a move which would pile pressure on the rest of the recording industry to follow suit. According to the Wall Street Journal, the London-based label took a strategy..
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Washington Post
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Pirated Microsoft Corp software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian President Traian Basescu told the company's co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday...
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Forbes
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Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday...
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New York Times
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Less than three weeks after they reached an accord hailed as proof that rival software companies could work together, the chief executives of Novell and Microsoft are engaged in an unusual public dispute...
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Business Review Online
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While the Software Freedom Law Center is still sifting through the details of Novell’s patent covenant agreement with Microsoft to protect each others’ customers and the GPL implications, it has spoken out on Microsoft’s pledge not to sue unsalaried..
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Yahoo News
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Software maker Novell Corp. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell's open-source..
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CNET
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Adobe will donate software to run JavaScript programs in the Firefox Web browser, the largest code contribution yet to the open-source Mozilla Foundation...
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News.com.au
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PIRACY statistics are labelled "self-serving hyperbole" in a draft government report. A confidential briefing for the Attorney-General's Department, prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology, lashes the music and software sectors...
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Ars Technica
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What is it about viruses that engenders so much hair tearing? Are you sick of hearing about how we're—the whole world of us—not prepared for the avian flu? A resurgence of Spanish Flu? This winter's flu-of-the-month (just four easy payments of $19.9..
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Reuters
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Bookmarks have become the cluttered closets of Web surfers. Internet media company Yahoo Inc. is looking to give users an easier way to organize, search for and share favorite sites or Web pages, the company said on Tuesday...
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MSNBC
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U.S. sales of video game hardware and software were $1.12 billion in May, up 37 percent from a year earlier, with Take-Two Interactive Software's "Grand Theft Audio 4" the best-selling title for the month, market researcher NPD said in a report on Thursda..
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