Matt Hines

A federal judge in New York ruled in favor of InterDigital Communications Corp. in the companys technology licensing claim against mobile device maker Nokia Corp. In a filing submitted Wednesday, U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III confirmed an award of between $232 and $252 million granted to InterDigital in June 2005 by the ICC […]

Youre hired! If you were dreaming about convincing real estate mogul Donald Trump to bring you on as his next apprentice, you needed to look no further than your e-mail inbox in 2005 to find information on how to achieve the far-flung career goal, according to America Online Inc. While reporting that it made progress […]

The Recording Industry of America Association is celebrating a moral victory in its worldwide crusade to stop music piracy, based on the U.S. governments demand that Russian authorities work harder to stem counterfeiting in their nation. The RIAA issued a statement on Tuesday lauding the passage of a resolution last week by the U.S. Senate […]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of. When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, in 1990, his aim was to build a creative tool that would allow people using the nascent system to organize information and present it to others in a fun, dynamic way. Fifteen […]

Representatives at browser maker Opera Software ASA denied that the company is in the process of being sold to either Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp., and said the Norwegian firm has no other acquisition plans in the works. Opera markets an eponymous desktop Web browser as well as several mobile browser technologies. A number of […]

Joy to the world, the browser has come. Such is the holiday sentiment that nonprofit Mozilla Group is asking its customers to share in the name of promoting its latest open source Web browser, Firefox 1.5. The Mountain View, Calif.-based organization launched its first official marketing campaign ever on Wednesday, an initiative that will ask […]

Browser maker Opera Software released a final preview of its latest mobile application, dubbed Mini, which promises to deliver improved Web viewing to wireless handsets. The Norwegian company said Tuesday that it silently lifted a regional restriction it had placed on an advance version of the browser software, which had previously limited downloads to users […]

With its sudden rise to the forefront of debate over which technology providers are best positioned to cash in on the growing market for mobile e-mail infrastructure, Visto Corp. is framing itself as the Rodney Dangerfield of the industry, and demanding some respect. On a practical level, the company did just that Thursday, filing a […]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab has announced that Taiwanese device maker Quanta Computer Inc. has been selected to design and build the $100 computers planned as part of the schools One Laptop per Child initiative. After reviewing design submissions from several different companies, the OLPCs Board of Directors said it selected Quanta in […]

BOSTON—Oct. 12, 2005: a day that will live in infamy. If youre trying to remember the notable event that occurred on this date than youre probably not an advertising executive tasked with sorting through the growing morass of video content offered to consumers over Internet technologies. For, as anyone who fits this description knows, that […]