10 posts and columns on motion

Oracle to SAP: How's This for Grossly Excessive–We Want Another Half-Billion in Damages

in News on February 24, 2011 at 9:41 am PT

The $1.3 billion jury award given Oracle in its intellectual property infringement case against SAP is not only “grossly excessive,” it’s a “miscarriage of justice” that “shocks the conscience.” So says SAP in a new motion seeking to sharply reduce that award, which it says is in conflict with copyright law and founded on sheer speculation.

Mark Hurd Really Wants to Keep the Jodie Fisher Letter Private

in Enterprise on December 28, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Shareholders suing HP want to make public the letter that cost Hurd his job as CEO. He disagrees, and has asked a judge to let him become a party to the lawsuit.

Microsoft Eyes Wider Net as Xbox Turns to Entertainment

in Commerce on December 20, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

The Kinect has been an early hit for Microsoft, but an even bigger moment to celebrate will be if the new gaming accessory can help move the Xbox beyond the hard-core gaming-crowd demographic to appeal to a mass audience for general living-room entertainment.

Kinect Score: 2.5 Million Down, 2.5 Million to Go

in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Microsoft’s Kinect videogame motion sensor passed the one-million-sold milestone after just 10 days at market. And now, 15 days later, it’s passed another: 2.5 million sold in 25 days.

New Motion Control Patent Could Shake Up Smartphone Industry

in Mobile on March 24, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Here’s a potentially noteworthy development in the patent litigation-riddled mobile device market. Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a very broad patent on motion-based smartphone control, one that could have significant implications for the industry.

Psyonara: Apple Wins Permanent Injunction Against Mac Clone Maker

in News on December 16, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

After 17 months of litigation, the hammer has finally fallen on Psystar. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday granted Apple’s request for permanent injunction against the Mac clone maker, barring it from peddling PCs with the Mac OS X operating system preinstalled, circumventing the technological measures Apple uses to prevent unauthorized copying of Mac OS X and assisting others in doing so.
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Volpi and Index Smack Back at Skype Founders With Motion to Dismiss (Plus Filings!)

in News on October 15, 2009 at 3:49 pm PT

The legal high jinks in the contentious battle over the fate of Skype got worse this afternoon, as former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the founders of Skype–Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, via Joost and Joltid–against them. It’s yet another chess move among a group of well-known tech players, who used to work together closely and are now at odds.
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Fox Slaps Back (Legally) at Redbox

in News on October 1, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

In the ongoing fight between Redbox–which rents DVDs from kiosks for $1–and major Hollywood studios, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment just filed a brief to dismiss Redbox’s lawsuit against it. The fascinating legal battle between Redbox and the studios centers around the issues of steep discounting, windowing and the price for premium content.
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Fullpower: The Full D7 Demo

in D7 on June 11, 2009 at 11:15 am PT

Did we have demos of new products at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference? Oh, yes we did! First up, legendary entrepreneur Philippe Kahn’s new company, Fullpower, which has developed the MotionX Recognition Engine. The company is developing accelerometer-based hardware and software intended to do for motion and gesture what speech recognition did for speech.
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D7 Tech Demo: Fullpower

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Philippe Kahn’s history of entrepreneurship is nearly as old as the PC itself. He developed software for the Micral N, one of the earliest commercial personal computers, back in 1973. As CEO of Borland Software, he touted himself the “barbarian” of the software industry and embraced that identity by holding one of the first press conferences for his company in a McDonald’s in Las Vegas during Comdex. Ousted from Borland in 1995, Kahn went on to found wireless synchronization outfit Starfish Software, which he sold to Motorola. He followed that up with LightSurf Technologies, a picture-messaging company acquired by Verisign in 2005. Today Philippe Kahn is at D7 as CEO of Fullpower, a company developing accelerometer-based hardware and software.
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