Judge tosses out most SCO claims
A US judge has thrown out almost 200 of The SCO Group’s claims of intellectual property violation against IBM on the grounds that SCO didn’t identify the alleged infringements in enough detail.
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BT division makes call to women engineers
BT Group's Openreach division has launched a campaign to attract more women engineers, hoping to expand its potential talent pool and better reflect the population it serves.
Novell board ousts CEO Messman
Novell's board of directors has ousted Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack Messman and Chief Financial Officer Joseph Tibbetts in a move designed to accelerate the company's growth, Novell announced Thursday.
Microsoft enters the robotics market
Microsoft Corp. released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications on Tuesday, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago.
Jonas’ future under Red Hat-JBoss combo questioned
Red Hat’s planned acquisition of JBoss has raised questions about the future of the Jonas application server, the best-known project to emerge from Europe’s ObjectWeb open source software consortium.
Microsoft taps Transmeta for secretive project
Just weeks after Microsoft Corp. pulled back the curtains on its Origami project, chip design company Transmeta Corp. has slipped out a few more details about another of the software giant's secretive development projects.
Germans unwrap Europe's fastest supercomputer
Jülich, a German Research Centre, has unveiled Europe's most powerful supercomputer, an IBM Blue Gene system that will be used by European scientists for environmental and particle physics research.
Google argues against disclosing search results
Google has argued that turning over more than a million of its search records to the U.S. government would undermine users' trust in its service and compromise its trade secrets.
IBM breathes new life into chip-making technique
IBM may have figured out a way to extend the life of a popular method for manufacturing semiconductor chips, potentially deferring for several years the costly transition to newer production methods, it said on Monday.
Euro open source consortium lifts game
The ObjectWeb consortium is giving itself a makeover this year to make its open source software more suitable for business use and to help it expand further outside Europe.
Europe's 'Google killer' goes into hiding
Europe's future search engine doesn't want to be found just yet.
Visto sues Microsoft over wireless email patents
Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.
BI vendors tussle over employees
MicroStrategy has won an appeals court ruling in a legal dispute concerning former employees who went to work for rival business intelligence vendor Business Objects.
Judge orders Kazaa to install keyword filter
The operators of the Kazaa file-sharing service have been given until Dec. 5 to update their software with a filter to screen out copyright material or else face the prospect of being shut down.
Gates memo puts services at heart of Microsoft
Bill Gates has backed a sweeping plan to reshape Microsoft’s development efforts to adapt to the threats and opportunities presented by the rapid growth of new internet-based services.