The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Microsoft in a closely watched patent dispute that could limit the reach of domestic patents in overseas uses. Monday's 7-1 decision overturned a lower court ruling, essentially concluding that Microsoft is not liable for overseas patent infringements in machine...
Scoring a victory in its worldwide efforts to curb piracy of its software, Microsoft said it had agreed to settle a lawsuit with a French company that had allegedly made and sold thousands of unauthorized versions of Microsoft business software. Microsoft said its settlement with MPO Group included ...
People running pirated versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system and Windows Longhorn server software will face having the programs rendered inactive, the company said this week. Freshly installed software must be registered with its maker or it will operate only in "reduced f...
Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, ...
Can you discern a fake e-mail from a legitimate one? Most consumers can't, but erroneously think they can, according to a new study by Bank of America and National Cyber Security Alliance, a copy of which was provided to the E-Commerce Times. The survey showed that 87 percent of consumers polled sai...
Open source development has always been an international phenomenon. After all, the killer app of the movement -- Linux -- was born in Finland, and the quintessential dual licensing business was started in Sweden with mySQL. Companies like Red Flag have stepped up in Asia to take Linux into double...
Microsoft has expanded its Genuine Software Initiative, a pilot program to notify users of non-genuine Windows operating systems that their copies of the software are illegal. The software giant is using the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool -- a virtual equivalent of the exploding dye ...
In a move to reduce software piracy in China, Beijing has banned the sale of so-called "naked" computers, that is, personal computers sold without software, according to an announcement on Friday. The timing could be a political move to coincide with Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to t...
The lengthy patent battle between e-commerce giant eBay and a small firm that says it came up with the popular "Buy it Now" technology first will get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. The focus of the hearing will be whether MercExchange should be granted an injunction barring eBay ...
Continuing its aggressive campaign to cut down on piracy of its products, Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits against eBay sellers, accusing them of distributing counterfeit versions of the software giant's programs. The suits were filed against individuals in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, M...
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