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Microsoft tries 'concept-car' Singularity OS
The operating system is available for free to the academic and research communities in the hope that they will use it to develop new kinds of computer architecture Read more
12 March 2008, 10:02 | Tags: Microsoft, operating systems, patents, San Francisco, Silicon Valley
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Vista pushes HD Photo centre stage
The operating system's launch tomorrow will put Microsoft's own photo format into consumers' hands. Could it be a nail in JPEG's coffin? Read more
29 January 2007, 11:44 | Tags: Microsoft, Mac OS X, Vista, Windows Vista, patents
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Microsoft: open source violates 235 patents
Top Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith has alleged in a magazine report that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents Read more
14 May 2007, 08:00 | Tags: IBM, Microsoft, NEC, Philips, Red Hat
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Adobe attempts to unify image formats
With its Digital Negative project, Adobe is championing an effort to improve photo quality and longevity. If only it were that simple... Read more
21 November 2006, 10:48 | Tags: Adobe, PowerShot, patents, megapixel camera, SLRs
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UK judge frowns on software patents
Sir Robin Jacob has questioned the need for software patents and scolded the US for letting "anything under the sun" be patented Read more
16 January 2006, 10:33 | Tags: IBM, Microsoft, patents, European Commission, Parliament
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Government reviews intellectual-property laws
After a year in which patents and IP violations have dominated the IT sector, the British government is investigating whether legal changes are needed Read more
5 December 2005, 10:43 | Tags: patents, European Commission, copyright, Software
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IBM expands free access to software patents
Healthcare and education groups can use Big Blue's patents in open-software standards for Web services, e-forms and open document formats Read more
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Microsoft has Linux-related patents rejected
The US Patent Office has rejected claims on the popular FAT storage format, used in the open-source OS. But the software giant can pursue the issue further Read more
6 October 2005, 08:51 | Tags: Microsoft, Linux, Unix, patents, digital cameras
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Google's grand ambition
The search giant could become more important than Microsoft, says an author who has studied Google's patents and engineering Read more
22 September 2005, 10:08 | Tags: Google, Android, Gmail, podcasts, data centres
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Antispam standards gain momentum
Internet standards group IESG has approved "experimental" proposals to curb spam using domain authorisation and email authentication Read more
30 June 2005, 08:55 | Tags: Cisco, Microsoft, spam, phishing, patents
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