Google has a team of 60 engineers, & Microsoft has 40 people, fully devoted to avoiding violation of privacy laws in the US and around the world. At a recent legal seminar executives from Google and Microsoft described how many resources they devote to privacy law compliance. Google’s senior privacy attorney Keith Enright said that [...]
VOIP is likely headed in a new direction now that Microsoft agreed to pay .5 billion for Skype. It was reported that Facebook and Google’s offers were in the to 4 billion range, while at the same time Skype was still considering an IPO later this year. As a result of this purchase, Microsoft may end [...]
By the fall of 2011 BlackBerry mobile devices will use Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine (with Bing maps) in direct competition with Google and to try to capture location based marketing opportunities. This should not be a surprise to anyone since Microsoft’s reported a 4% decline in sales of the Windows operating system [...]
The US Supreme Court will hear argument on April 18 in the patent infringement case in which Microsoft has been enjoined from selling Word with XML features. The US Solicitor General filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court against Microsoft and endorsing the US Patent & Trademark Office who issued the 5,787,449 patent that [...]
Executable (exe) files are used in Microsoft operating systems to run routines and applications, and enable the stable, secure running of your computer. However as they can run without any user intervention these files are an ideal way for hackers to infect your computer with a virus or malware program, as they can run malicious [...]
<p>This is huge:</p> <blockquote>Welcome to the world of surprising patent lawsuits. A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell Word – yes, Microsoft Word, the cornerstone of Microsoft Office – in the United States.</blockquote> <blockquote>Toronto-based i4i Inc won an injunction against Microsoft regarding the company’s XML patents. In the words of i4i, the injunction [...]