In a stunning bit of negotiation savvy, the Washington Research Foundation, a branch of the University of Washington, walked away with USD$15 million from CSR PLC. The original suit was launched against Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic for selling in mobile phones that use Bluetooth chips from CSR PLC that infringe WRF’s radio frequency patents. The […]

Who? Shahnaz Husain, an Indian entrepreneur in Mumbai. What? She plans to start a string of 25 glamourous coffee shops in India, decorated with posters of (presumably Bollywood, and not Hollywood) movie stars. When?God knows. Where?India. An excerpt from Reuters’ report (Source: The Brunei Times): Starbucks, the latest in a line of foreign companies facing […]

What’s “hard disk loading”? A very hard way of loading up a disk?! Well, unfortunately it’s a little closer to home than that. Notice every time you purchase a new (and sometimes shiny) computer, it comes with Windows? Well, not just Windows but also lots of nice software. Like DreamWeaver, Microsoft Office, etc. You just […]

BitTorrent is restyling its business to sell downloads of movies and TV shows licensed from studios. This development is a bit of a surprise because BitTorrent was the bane of Hollywood, making it a regular event for people to share video based media easily over broadband Internet. BitTorrent is betting that one third of current […]

Talk about how an intellectual property dispute can be amicably resolved! Today’s news covered one such incident: Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. agreed that both parties could use the “iPhone” trade mark for their respective products and that all prevailing lawsuits would be dropped. I anticipate that the iPhone will prove to be another […]