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Creative sues Apple over iPod patent suit
News Electronics maker Creative said on Monday that it has filed two legal actions against Apple, charging the popular iPod infringes on its patented technology. In a complaint with the US International Trade Commission, Creative is seeking an...
16 May 2006, 11:05
Creative's Zen Vision to battle iPod
News Hoping to take a bite out of Apple's iPod bounty, Creative Technologies has started taking orders for its next-generation music and video player. Creative received a boost last week when Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates again mentioned that he would...
4 August 2005, 10:48
Creative will make Apple pay
News Creative, maker of MP3 players, has indicated it is expecting to earn royalties from its rival Apple. Sim Wong Hoo, head of Creative, told the BBC he intends to "pursue aggressively" his company's US patent on the navigation of music on MP3 or...
12 December 2005, 10:25
Creative wins patent for MP3 player interface
News Creative Technology said on Tuesday it has been awarded a patent for a user interface found in its portable media players and in competing devices, such as Apple's iPod. Creative applied for the patent -- which it has dubbed the 'Zen Patent', named...
1 September 2005, 9:42
Apple countersues Creative over patents
News Faced with a patent infringement suit against the iPod and iPod nano, Apple countered this week with its own complaint against Creative, which holds a distant second place in the personal media player market.
22 May 2006, 10:10
Adobe launches Creative Suite 3
News Adobe on Tuesday launched Creative Suite 3, a showcase for the company's merger with rival Macromedia that is designed to smoothly combine Web design with content creation. Creative Suite 3, which focuses on print designers, multimedia editors and...
28 March 2007, 10:24
Apple settles with Creative for $100m
News Apple and Creative have agreed to settle their legal dispute over music player patents for $100m, the companies announced on Wednesday. The $100m, to be paid by Apple, grants Apple a licence to a Creative patent for the hierarchical user interface...
24 August 2006, 10:31
DVR forcing TV advertising to get creative
News But the idea for the game was a creative and commercial endeavour that came from a collaboration between ABC Marketing and Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, according to an ABC representative.
24 May 2006, 13:06
Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found
News A number of Creative's Zen digital-music players infected with the Wullik.B virus have been shipped to consumers in Japan. According to the firm's Japanese Web site, the problem has affected 5GB Creative Zen Neeon with serial numbers between...
2 September 2005, 9:35
Images: Microsoft's new creative tools
News Microsoft's Expression Blend, due next year, is aimed at creative professionals designing visual Windows applications. Microsoft's Expression Web, released on Monday, is a standards-based Web design tool that the company is offering as an upgrade...
5 December 2006, 9:54
Users get more creative with passwords
News A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace members seems to implicate that Internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert. The average password is eight characters long and 81 per...
18 December 2006, 11:19
Adobe CS3 costs £1,000 more in UK
News UK customers will have to pay hundreds of pounds more than their US counterparts for Adobe's creative software, after the software supplier revealed the pricing for Creative Suite 3, launched on Tuesday.
2 April 2007, 10:41
Adobe warns CS2 not Vista-compatible
News Adobe, poised to release Creative Suite 3 next week, said it will not support Windows Vista on the current version. Running Creative Suite 2.0 on Windows Vista is "not recommended", Adobe said, and it will not update those products for Vista.
22 March 2007, 9:50
Photos: Asia's top ten MP3 players
News Conclusion: There's plenty going for the Creative Zen Vision:M -- true to form, Creative has come up with yet another serious iPod challenger to take on the incumbent MP3 champion. Creative Zen Vision:M (30GB)
3 July 2006, 11:24
Adobe holds its ground over CS3 pricing
News Adobe says it has no plans to change the price of Creative Suite 3, despite the fact UK users are being charged up to double the price of US users. He said there had been "lots of discussion around the pricing" since the launch of Creative Suite 3...
7 June 2007, 9:45


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