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Written on 7 Sep, 2009 at 1:11 in COMMUNICATION, COMPANIES, FEATURED, WEB TECHNOLOGY | viewed 578 times | 1 Comment
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Online auction site eBay has agreed to sell the majority of internet phone company Skype for about $2bn (£1.2bn). Skype is to be majority-owned by a group of private investors, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and private equity firms. EBay will keep... (Continue reading)

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Written on 6 Sep, 2009 at 15:36 in COMPANIES | viewed 347 times | 0 Comments
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Researchers have devised a penny-sized silicon chip that uses photons to run Shor’s algorithm - a well-known quantum approach - to solve a maths problem. The algorithm computes the two numbers that multiply together to form a given figure, and has... (Continue reading)

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Written on 6 Sep, 2009 at 15:20 in COMPANIES | viewed 360 times | 0 Comments

Microsoft has overturned a ban on it selling its flagship Word software, imposed after a patent dispute. The block was imposed by a Texan court following a ruling that its use of formatting language XML in Word 2003 and 2005 infringed... (Continue reading)

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Written on 4 Sep, 2009 at 0:43 in COMPANIES, FEATURED, TECHNOLOGY, WEB TECHNOLOGY | viewed 391 times | 0 Comments
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The man who led Google’s expansion into China is leaving the company to start his own business. Lee Kai-Fu, who joined from Microsoft in 2004, will step down as president of Google in greater China in September, the company said. When he... (Continue reading)

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Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

Written on 17 Aug, 2009 at 23:14 in COMPANIES, FEATURED | viewed 156 times | 0 Comments
Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The patent relates to the use of XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files... (Continue reading)

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