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  • Red Hat appoints new CTO

    Red Hat has reshuffled its board and appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.

  • Microsoft's 'Mr Office' keeps tags on court case

    A patent case in Rhode Island concerning a key component of Microsoft Office is underway with Steven Sinofsky, the company vice president in charge of Office, in attendance and expected to testify.

  • Google throws bodies at OpenOffice

    Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense.

  • IP law to stay hot in Aust in 2004

    Issues surrounding intellectual property (IP) set the legal agenda this year, and the trend is likely to remain hot in 2004, according to Melbourne based IT lawyer Erhan Karabardak.

  • Will Microsoft tweak IE?

    Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.

  • New lawsuit targets DVD copying

    The DVD Copy Control Association, a Hollywood-backed technology group, filed suit against software company 321 Studios on Friday for allegedly infringing patent rights on its DVD copy protection.

  • Patents Hook Start-Ups

    Three years ago, Steven Golden, chairman and chief executive of Cool Savings, came up with a hot new idea for how to distribute coupons to consumers over the Web. The business by all accounts turned out to be a smashing success. Golden said Cool Savings became responsible for close to 40 percent of all coupons distributed via the World Wide Web.

  • In name dispute, it's Googles vs. Google

    Internet search giant Google is the target of a trademark complaint filed by the owners of children's Web site Googles.com.

  • US Supreme Court keeps Net porn law on ice

    A divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.

  • E-Store finds a buyer

    E-Store has been acquired with an agreement signed this afternoon, the troubled e-tailer has confirmed.

  • Microsoft moves to ease customers' legal stress

    Microsoft has a new sales pitch for Linux users: Buy our software and stay out of court.

  • Why we can't trust Microsoft's 'trustworthy' OS

    Stung by criticism of its current offerings, Microsoft seems to be pinning its hopes for a truly "trustworthy" operating system on a future version of Windows, code-named Palladium.

  • What the heck are Web services?

    Just about every technology company on the planet -- including Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems -- are placing big bets on Web services. So, just what are they all about?

  • Coop's Courtside: Courtroom standoff

    Has David Boies finally met his match?

  • Sun's appliance of science

    Over its ten-year existence, Sun Labs has had to battle to prove its bright ideas were worth spending hard cash to develop. But the success of research products such as Java software and UltraSparc chips is swaying the naysayers.

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