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Internal emails put NVIDIA platform on Vista in bad light
You may have heard of the recently launched "Vista Capable" lawsuit in which there is mounting evidence that Microsoft tweaked the minimum specifications of what constitutes a PC as Vista Capable, much to Intel’s delight. Judge Martha Pechman, who is overseeing the class-action, has ordered the release of over 150 pages of internal Microsoft [...]
Vonage partly loses appeal, subscribers down
For the second time in two days, Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. was hit with bad legal news Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict and injunction against it for patent infringement.
A Virginia jury had awarded Verizon Communications Corp. $58 million in damages in March plus 5.5 percent [...]
No one left to sue, SCO goes belly up
Service provider SCO Group ended a major phase in the history of both UNIX and Linux today by declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy, forcing the company to reorganize before it can resume normal business. The sometimes scorned company said it had decided to take the action before it was absolutely necessary to make sure its existing [...]
Verizon to sue FCC because they can’t compete
When the Federal Communications Commission issued its final set of rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, reaction was mixed. Open access proponents were disappointed that the FCC failed to include all four of Google’s open access suggestions, while the telecoms bemoaned the fact that two of them were included. Verizon is taking its [...]
RIAA fails to pay attorneys fee
The RIAA owes former file-sharing defendant Debbie Foster more than $68,000 in legal fees after losing their case against her — but they won’t pay up. They haven’t responded to polite notes asking them to turn over the dough the court ordered them to pay, so now Foster has asked the court to “enter [...]
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