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A federal judge has signed off on a $1.53 billion jury verdict against Microsoft in a patent suit brought by Alcatel-Lucent SA. The ruling, the largest ever jury award in a patent infringement case, was awarded in February. U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster in San Diego entered his judgment Monday, according to the […]

Shares of financial publishing empire Dow Jones  soared more than 58 percent today to $57.28 on news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bid $60 a share for the publishing empire that owns The Wall Street Journal. It may all be for naught, however, as the family that owns a controlling interest in the company said […]

Yahoo’s  weak first quarter results did more than disappoint Wall Street. With a profit drop of 11 percent to $142.4 million, on revenues of $167 billion, up 7 percent, and earnings per share coming in at 10 cents compared to 11 cents in the same time last year, Yahoo is feeling even more pressure to […]

Any vendor that touches e-mail products for business customers is wrapping in plenty of extras to keep their computer systems virus or relatively spam-free. Symantec , for example, now offers disaster recovery and system backup along with its virus scanning and traditional security software. Gordano, a provider of messaging security software, is taking a slightly […]

Tech stocks stayed on the upside of middling after a pretty big pop in stocks yesterday on not a lot of economic data. Traders appeared to maintain a bit of caution, even with tech stocks still getting some play following yesterday’s rally, and with oil prices slipping downward following the end of the soldier standoff […]

Investors showed their continued faith in tech stocks Tuesday along with the overall strength of the economy, thanks to a dip in oil prices and signs that general housing sales don’t appear bedeviled by a shaky sub-prime lending sector. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 128 points, or just over 1 percent to finish out […]

Tech Stocks got the second quarter off to middling start Monday, but some merger and M&A news helped awaken the larger markets and ease the friction from the previous session Friday. Shares of Apple moved on news that it would ease up on DRM restrictions, and chips stocks ticked down on lower sales stats. Apple […]

Cisco Systems  continued its acquisition spree today by picking up privately-held SpansLogic of Mountain View, Calif. SpansLogic is a fabless semiconductor company that develops processors that are designed to increase network packet processing speeds. Cisco spokesperson Ron Piovesan said Cisco had been a customer of SpansLogic’s processing technology Financial terms of the deal were not […]

UPDATED: Oracle  threw a firebomb of accusations at SAP  today, charging its enterprise software rival with corporate theft “on a grand scale.” In a complaint filed in California’s Northern District Court in San Francisco, Oracle accused the German software company of engaging in “systematic, illegal access” to its computer support systems. The lawsuit alleges that […]

Better late than never to the hotspot party: Bruegger’s Enterprises (mmm… bagels) has pegged MegaPath to provide Wi-Fi access to customers at 250 bakery/cafes in 19 states. That’s actually just an extra — MegaPath is mainly focused on providing new and improved restaurant point-of-sale (with real-time credit card processing) and polling technology using wireless — they […]

2006 was a landmark year for WiMax, says Infonetics. Equipment sales revenue jumped up 286% from the previous year, to $549.2 million. The fourth quarter was particularly strong for both fixed and mobile WiMax. The latter was just getting off the ground, but still managed $45.8 million in sales; total of both fixed and mobile […]

Most of us can admit to having lost a pair of sunglasses or an important business card during our busy daily business lives. How about a cell phone, smartphone or other digital PDA that, for whatever reason was never recovered? Expect it to be a common occurrence; probably as common as the lost pair of […]