Tag: Microsoft
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Microsoft $358 Million Damage Award Overturned
Categories: News and Trends(Reuters) – A U.S. court of appeals on Friday overturned a $358 million damages award against software maker Microsoft Corp in a long-running patent dispute with French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles many patent and trademark cases, held that Microsoft did indirectly infringe Alcatel’s… Read more
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Courts Say Microsoft Can Continue to Sell Word
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The U.S. Court of Appeals has granted Microsoft Corp’s request to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court that would have halted sales of some versions of its popular Word application. In an order issued on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Microsoft had met requirements… Read more
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Google Mail Outage Sparks User Concern
Categories: News and Trends(Reuters) – A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service. Google said at 5:37 p.m. edt (9:37 GMT) that it fixed the problem but was still investigating the cause of the outage, which lasted for over an hour.… Read more
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Yahoo to Compete with Bing Despite Microsoft Deal
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries. The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after news that… Read more
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Netbooks Drive Higher Technology Sales in First Quarter
Notebooks, netbooks and VOIP continue to boost sales for the small business reseller channel even as the recession grinds on. And there’s great promise in the coming release of Microsoft Windows 7. That’s according to recent sales results released by D&H Distributing. The privately held IT distributor which specializes in SMB resellers is not required… Read more
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Microsoft Files to Stay Word Injunction
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it filed a motion to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court last week which threatened to halt sales of some versions of its popular Word application. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Microsoft also asked for an expedited review… Read more