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Ruling Puts Microsoft’s ‘Windows’ Trademark at Risk
Microsoft recently landed several blows in Europe against Lindows.com Inc. in its ongoing “Windows” trademark battle. However, the Redmond firm on Tuesday suffered a potentially major setback stateside. Lindows.com hasn’t fared as well in European courts. Click here to read more. The U.S. District Court in Seattle ruled in favor of Lindows.com’s assertion that the…
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Sun Revamps its Enterprise Server Lineup
Sun Microsystems Inc. will on Tuesday announce one of the largest enhancements and upgrades to its enterprise server line in several years. Scott McNealy, the company’s CEO and chairman, will use Sun’s quarterly Network Computing event to be held in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce the first Sun servers based on the Advanced Micro…
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Weaving Social Nets for the Enterprise
Before his recent comeuppance, Howard Dean’s Democratic presidential campaign focused attention on the emerging category of social software, as Dean’s campaign team used Meetups and Weblogs to generate more than $40 million in contributions. In the enterprise, social software can help build connections between workers and their business contacts and customers. The social software phenomenon…
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Cisco Partner Summit Opens in Honolulu
More than 1,500 Cisco certified channel partners from around the world are expected to attend Cisco’s invitation-only Partner Summit which opens with an awards dinner tonight in Honolulu. The theme of this year’s summit is Improving Channel Partner Profitability to Drive Mutual Success. General sessions begin Wednesday with a keynote address and welcoming remarks from…
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Sun Acquires Server Technology Startup
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday announced that it would acquire server-technology firm Kealia, Inc. The start-up firm specializes in server designs utilizing Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processor. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who served as the company’s vice president of technology from 1984 to 1995, where…
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eBay to Expand Developers’ Access With Beefier Web Services
SAN DIEGO—eBay Inc. is expanding its developer program to support more Web services protocols and programming languages, the company announced on Tuesday during the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference being held here. eBay’s announcement meshed with one of the key themes outlined during the opening day of the conference: That major Web players such as eBay,…
