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Autodesk, Microsoft Ink Cross-Licensing Deal
Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies access to a broad range of one anothers patent...
Will Microsofts Spyware Buy Cast a Giant Shadow?
Microsofts sudden acquisition of highly rated anti-spyware startup Giant Company Software has set the cat among the pigeons.
As competitors rush to spin the news...
MySQL Lures Open-Source Newbies with Consulting Deals
MySQL AB is offering consulting packages and GUI tools for those who want to jump into open-source technology but lack in-house gurus and are...
Google Moves into Product Reviews
Google Inc. is combining online reviews into its Froogle shopping-search service, but rather than eliciting new opinions it is aggregating reviews and ratings from...
IDC: Linux Market to Top $35B by 2008
The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday unveiled key findings from a newly completed IDC market study, projecting that the overall revenue for desktops,...
Intransa Continues iSCSI March
Continuing its quest to provide a wide range of IP storage-area network products, Intransa has introduced the IP7500, a product the company bills as...
Google Gets Off Task
Am I the only person who wasnt knocked senseless by Googles announcement that it plans to put five major libraries online? To read the...
Oracle Paid Real Money to Land PeopleSoft
"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." Thats one of the better known bon mots from the...
Google Victory Boosts Legal Prospects for Ad Model
Google Inc.s victory in a major search advertising case could spell the beginning of the end for trademark-infringement claims against search engines that sell...
Bugs Bring New Dangers to Acrobat Users
Adobe Systems Inc. has warned of two serious security flaws affecting Windows, Mac OS X and Unix versions of its Acrobat software. The bugs...