Alexander Wolfe

Chalk up another technology innovation for the folks in Redmond: Microsoft has patented a scroll mouse. The software giant was awarded U.S. patent 6,700,564 on March 2 for an “Input device including a wheel assembly for scrolling an image in multiple directions.” The new twist in the invention appears to be the addition of horizontal […]

Do you Yahoo? Personally, I try to take off evenings and weekends. But at Jupitermedia’s recent Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference & Expo in New York, I ran into people thinking 24/7 about how to help you and your site grab more mindshare on the search listings pages that — let’s face it — are […]

UPDATE: After a week of telling the story about its latest Linux lawsuits on its own terms, SCO Group is getting some major pushback from the open source community. In one development, open source guru Eric Raymond posted a leaked e-mail from an outside SCO Group consultant to a SCO Group vice president. The e-mail, […]

As CEO of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), Stuart Cohen is leading the Beaverton, Ore.-based group’s efforts to propel Linux into new technological and geographical frontiers. To help move the open source operating system beyond its beachhead in the server arena, OSDL recently initiated an effort to develop an industry-wide specification for a common […]

A U.S. Court has directed SCO Group to place its cards on the table and show detailed code to back up its lawsuit against IBM involving copyright infringement and breach of contract over Linux. In an order signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells, SCO has been told to “provide and identify all specific lines […]

UPDATE: The SCO Group has filed lawsuits against auto giant DaimlerChrysler Corporation and auto parts retailer Autozone as part of its intellectual property challenges over parts of Linux. The latest actions follow up on letters that SCO had sent to major Linux users late last year asking them to certify their agreements over the use […]

NEW YORK — The “search wars” are entering a new phase, with emerging realities such as paid listings and personalized searches beginning to impact the landscape just as Google’s dominance wanes, according to a search engine expert. “The Google monopoly that people feared is over,” proclaimed Danny Sullivan in the Tuesday morning keynote during the […]

Efforts by The SCO Group to collect Linux licensing fees it claims it’s entitled to bore its first public fruit today, with the company announcing that Texas Web-hosting house EV1servers.net has signed on to an intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement. Under terms of the deal, EV1servers.Net gets a blanket site license that allows the use […]

A U.S. District Court has given SCO Group the OK to add copyright infringement claims to its Linux lawsuit against IBM. “The Court, therefore, finding good cause shown hereby grants SCO Group’s motion for leave to file amended pleadings,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke C. Wells wrote in the ruling. (Amended pleadings refer to the legal […]

IBM has told a U.S. court it won’t oppose a motion by the SCO Group to add copyright infringement claims to the latter’s Linux lawsuit against Big Blue. “IBM does not oppose plaintiff’s [SCO’s] motion,” attorneys for the company wrote in papers filed the United States Court for the Central District of Utah. However, in […]

The European Commission is preparing a ruling in its antitrust case against Microsoft that will find the software giant guilty of abusing its dominant position in the operating system market, according to reports this morning. Separately, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has raided Microsoft offices in Tokyo as part of its independent investigation as to […]

Spotlighting its push into next-generation wireless phone technologies, Intel has previewed a prototype of a “converged” PDA which combines handheld computing features with a new, advanced mobile processor. The PDA, code-named Carbando, was spotlighted by Paul Otellini, Intel’s president and chief operating officer, during a speech at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. As […]