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Oracle adds to SAP lawsuit allegations
News Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against rival SAP this week, claiming in an amended complaint that SAP's CEO and other top executives were aware of alleged illegal downloading of proprietary software and documents before, during and... [30 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping... [10 Apr 2008]
OLPC on the hunt for CEO
News In the wake of a spat with former partner Intel and a reorganisation, Nicholas Negroponte is looking for a chief executive for his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation, according to BusinessWeek. Read all about IT… [07 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Technology and legislation have often been uneasy bedfellows and this latest Scrabulous spat may well set some legal parameters which govern how brands, consumers and social networks interact online going forward. [29 Jan 2008]
Vonage and Verizon settle patent spat
News Internet phone company, Vonage said it has resolved an ongoing patent dispute with Verizon Communications at a price tag of up to $120m. The announcement comes a month after Vonage, which has yet to turn a profit, lost the bulk of an... [26 Oct 2007]
Orange and TalkTalk the pits of customer service
News Frost added: "Despite the on-going spat between the two providers, both claiming to offer a better deal than the other, the results astonishingly show the two media giants coming neck-and-neck with a score of 76 per... [03 Jul 2007]
Virgin Media picks C&W as LLU best mate
News The quad-player has encountered some tough times recently, following a spat with Sky that saw the broadcaster pull some of its channels from Virgin Media. Virgin Media - formerly known as NTL:Telewest and Virgin Mobile -... [18 May 2007]
Vonage appeals for retrial in Verizon patent spat
News A pivotal US Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to challenge obvious patents has prompted Vonage to ask for a new trial in an ongoing dispute with Verizon. One day after the high court released a unanimous opinion widely... [02 May 2007]
Nokia pays Qualcomm $20m for patents
News The pair have sued and countersued each other in various countries across the world but have so far been unable to find a resolution to the spat over the patents, set to expire on 9 April. The ongoing legal battle... [05 Apr 2007]
Apologetic Virgin hammered by Sky switchers
News Neil Berkett, chief operating officer of Virgin Media, blamed the problems on its recent spat with Sky. Virgin Media has responded to the barrage of customer complaints it has received in recent weeks, claiming its... [23 Mar 2007]
Nokia: Qualcomm should be patently exhausted
News Nokia and Qualcomm's theatre of combat has widened - the long-running patent spat between the pair has now been taken to Germany and the Netherlands. The handset maker has filed a patent exhaustion case against Qualcomm... [19 Mar 2007]
Leader: NTL:Telewest - can the brand be rescued?
Leader Regardless of who you believe to be the injured party in the ongoing handbags-at-dawn spat with Sky, Virgin has lost nothing in publicity terms by appearing to stand up to the might of Rupert Murdoch. [07 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.03.07
Round-Up Analysts Ovum described the very public spat as "self-destructive PR", which seems a fair reflection of the image both brands are carving out for themselves. Imagine the Round-Up's surprise upon getting home last night... [02 Mar 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News And by iPhone, we mean Apple's iPhone, rather than Cisco's - the pair settled their trademark spat by agreeing to share the brand. The big names of the tech world dominated February's stories - with Apple, Google and... [28 Feb 2007]
Microsoft runs into Live trademark spat
News A company called Office Live has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Microsoft over the software giant's use of "Office Live" for its on-demand productivity tools. Office Live, which runs sites such as... [26 Feb 2007]
