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  • Facebook applies for ad-targeting patent

    The social network theorizes that if a member hasn't adequately filled out his or her profile for sufficient targeting, that member's friends may be able to fill in the blanks.

    News items | October 29, 2010 9:09am PDT

  • U.S. trade body investigating Apple, RIM over patents

    The US International Trade Commission said it will launch an investigation into whether Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry infringe on a Kodak patent.

    News items | February 18, 2010 8:11am PST

  • I4i says not out to destroy Microsoft Word

    The chairman of the company that has won a landmark injunction against Microsoft says his goal is not to see Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves.

    News items | August 12, 2009 1:03pm PDT

  • Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

    Three patent applications made by Apple were published last week, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID.

    News items | July 7, 2009 4:40am PDT

  • Software patents hot topic at Microsoft event

    At a Microsoft discussion panel in Sinapore, members of a Linux group wanted to know if Microsoft would release its patents to the Open Invention Network, in line with its pledge toward...

    News items | April 29, 2009 5:04am PDT

  • Apple's 3D OS X interface unveiled

    A series of Apple patent filings reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces...

  • 40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study

    By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a report.

    News items | December 3, 2008 5:45am PST

  • Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch

    Silicon.com has rounded up and rated 10 of the most interesting and absurd patent applications submitted by Apple in recent years.

  • Patent auction nets millions for inventors

    CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the Ocean Tomo Spring IP Patent auction in San Francisco, where buyers snapped up $19.6 million worth of patents. While critics say these patents will...

    Videos | April 7, 2008 12:00pm PDT

  • The Low Point--a view from the Valley: The innovation game

    Innovation these days is being used as a code word for large, corporate controlled research and development, regardless of any results it might produce.

    News items | October 22, 2007 12:00am PDT

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