It’s a simple fact that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) is inundated with patent applications. Given the sheer volume of applications, patent examiners can only spend a limited amount of time examining those applications. Further given the fact that an applicant applying for a patent …
SAN FRANCISCO–Netflix is banking on the belief that streaming movies to people’s living rooms is the future.
CEO Reed Hastings said during Netflix’s investor day that he expects that the business of renting physical DVDs will peak within the next five years. However, Netflix representatives later said they
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The Bush administration on Wednesday hit out at the European Union for imposing taxes on imports of certain electronics in alleged violation of an existing trade agreement.
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the United States has filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization, which means that …
In an interview with Walt Mossberg at D6, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, “We are working on a new version of video on demand, a for pay streaming service we will release in the next couple of weeks. The streaming service will start instantly and it’s a la carte, …
We’ll be covering the highlights of the D6 conference today and tomorrow, but we’re devoting special liveblog coverage to two key interviews:
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It’s still not up to 1.0, but Google on Wednesday announced completion of version 0.8 of OpenSocial, a standard for building social applications on the Web.
One notable difference with OpenSocial 0.8 is the addition of the RESTful API. This addition lets a wider variety of …
VMware said on Wednesday that it plans to acquire B-hive, a small company specializing in performance management tools for applications running on virtual machine-based systems.
B-hive, based in San Mateo, Calif. with a research and development center in Israel, was founded in 2005. VMware said that it will use B-hive’…
Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, will meet with Indian officials again Thursday to hash out an agreement over security concerns, Reuters reported Wednesday.
India’s security agencies have been pushing RIM to allow it to intercept e-mail that travels across its secure network. Under Indian law, the …
TiVo is gearing up to dish out Disney movie rentals, as the digital video recorder company expands its lineup of movies from major studios.
Under an agreement with Disney-ABC and CinemaNow, TiVo subscribers can download the movies for 24-hour rental. TiVo expects to offer the Disney rentals later this year …
During the joint Gates/Ballmer opening interview at the D6 conference on Tuesday (all stories), the audience was treated to an early look at Windows 7, which, according to Ballmer, will ship to customers in late 2009. The demo showed a full-screen multitouch interface embedded in the operating system. We …