4 posts and columns on licensing agreement

BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidt's Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on December 3, 2009 at 1:30 pm PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for translation. Well, BoomTown shall not tarry from the task of decoding the extra-long rumination from the head of Google, who was responding to the recent spate of aggressive attacks by traditional media publishers. They have blamed the search giant for everything from their current business woes to the destruction of journalism to Tiger Woods’s dicey marital troubles. Okay, not that! But the rest for sure.
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Sales of Windows Through China’s, Ahem, “Local Distribution Network” Will, of Course, Continue…

in News on November 18, 2009 at 5:45 am PT

Well, this is ironic: Microsoft has been found guilty of violating intellectual property rights in a nation where 82 percent of all software is pirated, a nation that is home to a counterfeiting syndicate that in 2007 was busted for manufacturing and distributing more than $2 billion worth of counterfeit Microsoft software.
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InterDigital Shares Pressured as Q4 Profits Disappoint

in News on March 3, 2009 at 5:02 am PT

Wireless technology company InterDigital shares are heading lower in early trading after the company posted weaker-than-expected Q4 profits. The company’s profits of nine cents a share fell short of the Street’s expectation of 16 cents.