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Microsoft has closed a deal to buy 332 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudon County from Peterson Cos. valued at nearly $73 million. The Redmond-based giant is expected to build data centers in the area.

Ruel Revales · Sep 23, 2018 · Hot! with 7 comments

After New Zealand made the controversial decision to (almost) kill off software patents on Wednesday, experts have expressed doubt at the bill's validity; they question how best it can be enforced.

Paul Ferson · Aug 31, 2013 · Hot! with 19 comments

On the heels of the recent Microsoft / Novell patent and business collaboration announcement, many in the open source community have speculated that Microsoft, feeling the pressure from ever advancing Linux technologies and increasing adoption...

· Nov 17, 2006 · Hot! with 79 comments

Antec, a well-known producer of gadgets for making PCs look fancy, claims that computer cooling fans with LEDs is their intellectual property and no other companies are allowed to make or sell them because of...

· Apr 8, 2004 with -1 comments

Microsoft plans on Wednesday to announce a new program for licensing some of its intellectual property to others in the technology industry. The move, to be announced by general counsel Brad Smith in a teleconference,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 3, 2003 with -1 comments

It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something in return....

· Sep 1, 2003 with -1 comments

The SCO Group, Inc., the owner and licensor of the core UNIX® operating system source code, today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux®. The run-time license permits the use of...

· Aug 5, 2003 with -1 comments

In what adult Internet search engine Sex.com is calling a partial victory in its case against registrar VeriSign Inc., a federal appeals court has asked the California Supreme Court to consider whether a domain name...

· Jan 16, 2003 with -1 comments