Robyn Weisman

A recent decision in Geicos lawsuit against Google for alleged trademark infringement has lawyers for both companies claiming victory. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a written opinion last Aug. 8 that stated Google violated Geicos trademark rights, “solely with regard to those Sponsored Links that use Geicos trademarks in their headings or text.” Although […]

After a 20-year career at high-tech behemoth IBM, Dave Dobson was named CEO of Corel in June 2005. What led Dobson to sign on with a company that only two years ago was about to be bumped off of Nasdaq? “I joined Corel based on its amazing turnaround. In two years it has gone from […]

Only three years ago, Canadian-based software company Corel Corp. looked to be circling down the drain. Despite such software offerings as the venerable WordPerfect and CorelDRAW, Corels stock was hovering at about 70 cents per share. The company had already gone through at least seven rounds of layoffs and was losing millions of dollars annually. […]

Last week AT&T Corp. announced its selection of emergency solutions provider Intrado Inc. to provide some of its CallVantage subscribers with E911 services. Intrado will deploy its V9-1-1SM Mobility Service so that “nomadic users,” whose telephone area codes do not correspond to the local rate center, will still have their 911 calls routed to the […]

VOIP service providers have one more week until the July 29 Federal Communications Commission deadline that requires them both to inform their customers that they do not offer as yet enhanced 911, or E911, functionality that people take for granted from traditional mobile and landline carriers and to obtain what the FCC calls an “affirmative […]

At the start of its two-day Fujitsu Forum 2005 in Tokyo on Thursday, Fujitsu Ltd. in conjunction with two of its subsidiaries, Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., showcased its latest invention: a film substrate-based, flexible color e-paper that has the ability to retain images in its memory. Fujitsu spokesperson Scott Ikeda said this […]

Chuck Sholdt, vice president of weather services at Weather Central Inc., credits Apple Computers scripting language AppleScript for making his job—supplying daily weather maps to some of the largest newspapers in the country—feasible. “I wouldnt be in the newspaper business if it werent for AppleScript. We bought Weather Central 11 years ago this March. Back […]

The two founders of Ubuntu, a popular flavor of Linux, announced Friday that they have established a foundation to support and propagate the Debian-Linux variant. Mark Shuttleworth, one of Ubuntus two founders, in conjunction with Canonical, has donated $10 million to kick off the project. “Its important for us to distinguish the philanthropic and non-commercial […]

Microsoft released a patch Tuesday that fixes a memory leak problem that has frustrated users of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. Microsoft said the problem resulted from a memory leak in the Tablet PC operating systems tcserver.exe service. According to Microsoft Corp., a certain subset of users—those who do not power down their Tablet […]

Two experts in the Wi-Fi field told e-seminar participants on Thursday that not only are SMBs ready for wireless networking, but setting up a secure Wi-Fi network can be accomplished relatively easily. One of several seminars being featured during Ziff Davis Internets SMB Solutions Virtual Tradeshow, a hot-button virtual panel titled “Keep Employees Connected at […]