Patent

Blogs are updated every hour. Blogs with voting buttons are updated as soon as an article is published.

0Thumb
Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
0   Published 7 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim

When last we tuned in in the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit that Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial legal action.
Now, multiple sources sai...
0   Published 8 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Indefinitely Delayed by Patent Issue [Htc]





If you were looking forward to getting your hands on an HTC One X or Evo 4G LTE, you're in for a wait. Yesterday, it was announced that they'll be indefinitely delayed at US Customs for investigation of an...
0   Published 8 days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It's Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo's All-Hands Meeting

At today’s all-hands meeting for Yahoo employees — in the wake of the dramatic ouster of its former CEO Scott Thompson — what pop culture icon did new interim CEO Ross Levinson use to loosen up the crowd?
Why a little Al Pacino from mov...
0   Published 10 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board

Earlier today, Yahoo’s persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company, demanding that Yahoo fire its new CEO Scott Thompson, as well as director Patti ...
0   Published 19 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0
Yahoo Patent Letter to Facebook Referring to Memcached and Other Open Source Technologies
Yahoo Patent Letter to Facebook Referring to Memcached and Other Open Source Technologies: Sarah Lacy:
The technologies in question include things like memcached which was created in 2003 by LiveJournal and has been used longer than Facebook has been aliv...
0   Published 20 days ago in
myNoSQL • NoSQL Databases and...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days, which would mean its road show could begin as early as...
0   Published 23 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Facebook claims to be ‘perplexed’ at Yahoo’s latest ‘erratic’ claim
As we reported earlier today, Yahoo has added two more patent claims to its case against Facebook.
A Facebook spokesperson gave us the following comment regarding Yahoo’s latest move:
We remain perplexed by Yahoo’s erratic actions. We disagree...
0   Published 27 days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Byte Me: Yahoo Files More Patent Claims Against Facebook

In spite of intense criticism against its patent infringement lawsuit in March, Yahoo filed additional claims against Facebook today.
“Today Yahoo! filed additional claims against Facebook in U.S. District Court in San Jose related to two additiona...
0   Published 27 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
In Pricey Microsoft Patent Deal, Facebook Delivers Another Smackdown to Yahoo Lawsuit

When I wrote that Facebook was going to play rough after Yahoo sued it for patent infringement earlier this year, perhaps it would have been more prescient to say that it was going to pay much.
Except not to Yahoo, whose bully-boy bluff has effectively j...
0   Published 31 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Microsoft vs.Facebook – Who got the better bang for their billion?
April 9th, 2012 will go down in shopping history as the day the software gods emptied the coffers to preserve mobile market share with two very disparate strategies. While both companies were acting in large part to block competitors, their moves couldn&#...
0   Published 40 days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Does HTC's Face Unlock Patent Mean Android In-Fighting? [Htc]





HTC has been awarded a patent for a technology that would let you unlock your smartphone or tablet with your face. However, Face Unlock is already a feature on Android that first appeared on Ice Cream Sand...
0   Published 50 days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Yahoo's Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s massive round of layoffs — which is likely to impact up to 2,000 employees — is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will hit the storied Silicon Valley Internet giant in the m...
0   Published 51 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Here Are the 10 New Back-at-You Patent Exhibits in Facebook Versus Yahoo

Here are the actual 10 patents that Facebook is using in its just-filed counter-claim against Yahoo’s patent infringement lawsuit.
Several are held by Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other employees of the social networking ...
0   Published 51 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Google wants to serve you ads based on the background noise of your phone calls
Just when you think that we’re pretty tech savvy, companies like Google and Nokia file outlandish “forward-thinking” patents that make you feel like we’re all in a Star Trek episode. In the case of Google’s latest patent, it...
0   Published 64 days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos "Real Change Is Coming" (It's Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

It began: “Yahoos: A lot has happened since I last talked to you.”
You can say that again!
Yesterday, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson sent out an email to the troops in what appears to be an attempt to soothe the company, which has been under a lot ...
0   Published 70 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Nobody Puts Dan Loeb in the Corner: Third Point Begins Proxy Bombing Yahoo in 3 … 2 … 1

Yahoo just got yet another poison-pen letter from activist investor Dan Loeb of Third Point, which says the company has been “dismissive” of his alternate slate of board members, including former NBC head Jeff Zucker.
It is another doozy, ful...
0   Published 71 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before

A hot Internet company poised for an even hotter IPO is attacked in court by a competitor whose lunch it has been eating.
Sound familiar? Actually, it’s just as much Google in 2004 as Facebook yesterday.
What the pair have in common is Yahoo, for ...
0   Published 72 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls "Puzzling" (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networkin...
0   Published 73 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook's Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

On the sixth page of its just filed patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo quotes the social networking company’s CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg:
“Getting there first is not what it’s all about.”
The quote, which Yahoo conten...
0   Published 73 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly matters.
And in 2012 — which also happens to ...
0   Published 76 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Apple Barred from Beating Kodak's Dead Horse [Apple]





Apple has been pursuing a patent lawsuit against Kodak over the rights to its LCD screen previews used in its digital cameras, printers and digital picture frames. But with Kodak in Chapter 11, U.S. Bankru...
0   Published 77 days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Google and Motorola Forced to Hand Over Android Development Secrets to Apple [Google]





Google and a Motorola Mobility unit have been ordered by a US judge to turn over details relating to the development of Android to Apple. Along with it, Google is to hand over information about Google's pe...
0   Published 79 days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
So It's the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo -- The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

It was Yahoo legal head Mike Callahan who had the thankless task yesterday of calling Facebook’s general counsel Ted Ullyot to tell him the Silicon Valley Internet giant was intent on pursuing patent lawsuits against the social networking giant.
Th...
0   Published 86 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Like I Said: AOL Activist Investor Files Alternate Slate (and AOL Declines to Agree)

As I reported this morning, an activist fund aiming at AOL took a shot today, by putting up its slate of alternate directors.
In a nutshell, Starboard Value does not like the way CEO Tim Armstrong is running the company and thinks it can do better.
My tw...
0   Published 90 days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Is a New Magsafe Data Cable Going To Replace Apple's 30-Pin Connector? [Rumors]





The idea of Apple moving to Magsafe charging for iOS devices has been aired before, but the lack of data transfer stymied such plans. Now, however, an Apple patent suggests that future Magsafe connectors w...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
The Times of Its Troubled Life: A 2007 Visit to Kodak (Video)

In 2007, after its CEO, Antonio Perez, appeared on stage at the fourth D: All Things Digital conference, I was invited to visit the HQ of Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., to see up close the transition to a digital imaging company he was attempting.
At the time...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Kodak refuses to go away quietly, sues Samsung over five patents
Two weeks ago, we reported that Kodak was looking into filing for bankruptcy if it couldn’t sell off enough of its patents. Kodak licenses some these to companies like LG, Motorola, and Nokia. A week after that report, Kodak sued both Apple and HTC ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Here’s a fun fact: IBM was granted 6,180 US patents in 2011, Apple? 676
IFI Claims has released its top 50 US patent assignees of 2011. IBM was number one of the list with an astounding 6,180 granted patents. The rest of the list is made up of some pretty heavy hitters in the technology space. Samsung had quite a busy year, e...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to "Top Chef"

Being the huge fan of “Top Chef” that I am — hellllloooo, Padma! — it was even more a treat to see former Microsoft legend, controversial patent grabber and full-time fiddler Nathan Myhrvold as a guest judge this past week on the ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Did Apple Just Patent Xbox Kinect? [Apple]






Apple was just awarded a whole mess of patents by the USPTO. But one stands out in particular: a 3D display and imaging system. Wave your hands and the system picks up your movement. Sort of like the Xbox...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Did Google Only Get "Crap Patents" When They Bought Motorola? [Patents]






When Google ponied up $12.5 billion to swallow Motorola Mobility, many people thought it was to snare some patents to protect Android from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. But according to a patent exper...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
3G MacBook Pro Prototype Heads Back to Apple [Apple]






Apple isn't too keen with their prototypes ending up in the wild, no matter how old they are or how they got there. The 3G MacBook Pro that appeared on eBay, garnered an incredible $70,000 bid before bein...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
With HP's Raising of the World's Biggest White Flag, Will Jon Rubinstein and Todd Bradley Surrender Too?

It wasn’t until dinner this past Sunday night that CEO Léo Apotheker told Todd Bradley, the head of its Personal Systems Group, that he was about to push key parts of Bradley’s huge unit off the cliff.
That included stopping selling hardware ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
If Apple Supports Augmented Reality, Will People Finally Care About Augmenting Their Reality? [Apple]






However much weight big-names apps such as Layar throw behind augmented reality, it's furtherest from my mind when I'm trying to find a location—and I imagine you're the same. But with Apple Maps ti...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Did Apple Just Win a MagSafe Patent Application For iOS Devices—Or Something Else? [Apple]






Over a year ago Apple filed a patent application for adding a MagSafe-like connector to iOS devices. Unfortunately, their newly-granted patent may sound like MagSafe's coming to iPads and iPhones—bu...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
The Patent Cold Wars, Visualized [Patents]






It's one thing to say that everybody is suing everybody over mobile patents. It's another entirely when you actually see the battle lines all drawn out for you, as Thomson Reuters has so painstakingly don...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Larry Page Might Be Bill Gates+, But He Wants to Be Steve Jobs

Let’s face it: Everyone in Silicon Valley — one way or another — fashions themselves as the next Steve Jobs.
And why not? Both the professional and even personal story of the legendary Apple CEO — which will be chronicled in Nove...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Viral Video: Om Nom Nom Nom

On Sunday, I motored up to Petaluma to be on This Week in Tech, or TWiT, at its new offices. Hosted by Leo Laporte, it’s a roundtable on the news of the week in the digital sector.
The other panelists included GigaOm’s Om Malik, CNET’s ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up
With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile.
With the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, the iconic but struggling maker...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
The rise of Android and why it could be about to crumble
If you’re reading this, there’s a fair chance you own either an iOS or Android mobile device.
News emerged this week that Android now has almost half of the global smartphone market sewn up, whilst Apple – the world’s number one sm...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Why Apple's Inductive Charging Patent For iPhones Is a Red Herring [Apple]






Just because a patent's filed, doesn't mean the company in question has any ambition to actually make the damn thing. Take Apple's inductive charger, which proposes wrapping headphones around a charging t...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

After Google’s legal head David Drummond let forth with a blog post about how Microsoft and Apple had formed an evil patent cabal against the search giant, the software giant’s PR head Frank Shaw was not having any of it.
In his post, Drummon...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Kara Swisher - AllThingsD: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Microsoft Strikes Back at Google's Patent Rant With Condemning Email [Google]






Are you following the controversy surrounding Google's attack on its competitors for buying up the Nortel patents? It took a strange twist when Microsoft revealed that Google was originally in on the deal...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
HTC seeks negotiations with Apple over dual patent rulings
HTC’s legal wrangle with Apple took a turn today, when the Taiwanese mobile phone maker said it was willing to negotiate with its Californian counterpart in the ensuing patent fight.
As we reported two weeks ago, the US International Trade Commissio...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs to Fit Your Typing Style [Keyboards]






Typing on a touchscreen is not one of life's pleasures: the one-size-fits-all nature of most virtual keyboards is a hassle that puts many of us off using them. I've lost count of the number of times I've ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Two Lenses Will Fix Compact Cameras' Depth of Field, Proposes Samsung [Cameras]






Rather than be used for 3D photos and video, Samsung's proposing that this dual-lens camera patent could actually help compact cameras capture a shallower depth of field, where focused objects stand out m...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0Thumb
Apple reportedly to lose key patent lawyer next month
Apple may lose Richard Lutton Jr., its chief patent counsel, at a time when the company is engaged in numerous patent battles and acquisitions, Reuters is reporting.
Lutton Jr. currently manages Apple’s patent portfolio and is expected to leave the ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
HTC “disappointed” at Apple’s ITC complaint, denies all patent claims
HTC has responded to claims by Apple that it had infringed on a number of patents linked to the iPhone and iPad by saying it is “disappointed at Apple’s constant attempts at litigations”, stating that it vows to protect its intellectual ...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0Thumb
HTC buys S3 Graphics, beefing up patent defense against Apple
If you haven’t noticed the massive battle going on between Samsung and Apple over patent violations, you’re most likely in the minority. The news has been a hot topic over the last couple of months and it seems that HTC has been paying attenti...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details

All posts

Page 1 out of 20:

1 2 3 4 5 ... 19 20 Next »

Blogs with invalid RSS feeds, or feeds that contain more than 50 posts are not included in TopBlogLog. Blogs that spam can be removed from the main page or deleted from TopBlogLog.

Categories


Your blog is missing? Add it here. Requires registration. The system is updated every hour. If you wish your site to be updated in real time, please use TopBlogLog ping service and add voting button.