10 posts and columns on claim

51 Percent of CIOs Planning Tablet Deployments in 2011

in News on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected.

Barnes & Noble: We Have a Best-Selling E-Reader Too

in News on December 30, 2010 at 11:41 am PT

If ambiguous, imprecise sales milestones are good enough for Amazon, then they’re good enough for Barnes & Noble too. The company said today that its Nook e-reader is its best-selling product ever. Which is exactly what Amazon said of the Kindle earlier this week–and as far as sales metrics go, equally meaningless. A more interesting data point: Barnes & Noble’s claim that it now sells more digital books than physical ones on BN.com.

News Byte

Paul Allen’s Suit Against Tech Industry: Take Two

in Mobile on December 28, 2010 at 11:34 pm PT

Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing has revived a patent lawsuit against a number of tech companies, including Google and Apple, filing a new set of court papers on Tuesday. Allen sued Google, Apple, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples and Yahoo in August, but the case was dismissed earlier this month, with Tuesday set as the deadline for Interval to file an amended complaint. As noted by open source industry blogger Florian Mueller, the new claims include allegations that Android infringes on Interval patents, adding to a growing list of legal claims being leveled in the mobile arena.

RIM Sends Message to Kik by Filing Lawsuit

in Commerce on December 1, 2010 at 11:19 am PT

Two weeks ago, the BlackBerry Messenger lookalike was banned by Research In Motion from its app store, and now the company is sending a more serious message by filing a lawsuit against Waterloo, Ontario-based Kik, claiming patent infringement.

HP CEO to Oracle: Here’s Looking at You, Kid–Suntory Time!

in News on November 10, 2010 at 12:37 pm PT

The process servers Oracle’s hired to track down former SAP Chief Leo Apotheker can take a few days off. Apotheker, who’s just begun his new gig as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is far beyond their 100-mile reach.

Ellison to Self: Damn, Damn. I Knew I Should Have Said $4.5 Billion

in News on November 10, 2010 at 11:25 am PT

Whatever damages Oracle is awarded in its suit against SAP, they’ll be $500 million lighter, thanks to an order by the judge presiding over the case.

SAP Attorney: Board Knew TomorrowNow Was Infringing at Time of Acquisition

in News on November 9, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT

Proceedings in the Oracle-SAP trial kicked off today with a comment, startling in both its source and content. While discussing instructions to be given to the jury before it begins deliberations, SAP attorney Greg Lanier remarked that “at time of acquisition, the board was aware of [infringing] software on TomorrowNow’s computers.”

SAP to Ellison: Save the Drama for Your Mama

in News on October 27, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

Lest anyone forget–and given the back-and-forth between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard these past few months, you could be forgiven for doing so–Oracle’s opponent in its upcoming intellectual property trial is SAP–not HP. And SAP finds all the histrionics between the two companies a bit much.

Google Asks Court to Toss Oracle’s Android Lawsuit

in News on October 5, 2010 at 8:50 am PT

Silicon Valley’s latest Goliath versus Goliath battle is officially on. Google today responded to Oracle’s claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year. This morning, the search sovereign filed an answer to Oracle’s suit, denying all seven of its patent-infringement charges, and asking that the company’s copyright-infringement claim be dismissed because Google feels it is “legally deficient.”

Psyonara, Pt. III

in News on December 10, 2008 at 3:04 pm PT

In its last legal salvo against Psystar, Apple suggested the Mac clone maker was backed by a silent third party or two. And at this point it better be, because there’s going to be hell to pay when Apple legal is through with it, regardless of how Psystar revises its original complaint.