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  • EU set to decide on Oracle next week

    European antitrust regulators are set to announce Tuesday whether they will block Oracle's hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.

  • Europe: No patents for software

    Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.

  • Microsoft faces AU$721m fine from EU

    Antitrust regulators from the European Union's 25 countries voted unanimously on Monday to levy new daily fines on Microsoft for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.

  • Microsoft called back to court over Novell settlement

    The judge presiding over Microsoft's appeal of the European Commission's antitrust decision has called the software behemoth's lawyers back for an 'informal hearing'.

  • Europe threatens Microsoft with daily fines

    The European Commission issued Microsoft a warning on Thursday that it could face a retroactive fine of up to US$2.37 million a day for failing to comply with its antitrust order, based on its preliminary review.

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  • Bill Gates and other communists

    Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.

  • Ballmer opens up on Microsoft's future

    What is Windows' strongest competitor? Will Microsoft expand successfully beyond the PC? Find out what Steve Ballmer thinks.

  • What's next for Oracle

    The US Justice Department charges have been rejected, making way for Oracle's US$7.7 billion PeopleSoft merger. What does the future hold? Additional reading: New twist in software licensing

  • Intel colonises with chipsets

    Although Intel garners most of its revenue and profits from such well-known processors as the Pentium 4 or the Xeon, it's unsung heroes like the US$40 915G Express chipset, released earlier this year, that have let Intel become the largest and fastest-growing graphics chip designers on the planet.

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