While Steve Jobs battles "Antennagate," Bill Gates is riding under the radar with Corbisgate.

A 6-person company near Seattle sued stock photo company Corbis (Bill Gates is sole owner) and won a $20 million judgment. Naturally Corbis is appealing the decision.

The Superior Court jury decided Corbis did enter business with Infoflows and then developed the company's ideas into a service for identifying objects in its digital photo collection. The court called Corbis's behaviour "fraudulent."

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Samsung is asking: "Are you a high-tech entrepreneur, university researcher, or technology company having trouble getting the right people at a major high-tech company to listen to you about your innovative technology? If so, then the Samsung Electronics TechQuest is for you!"

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Lenovo buys back the mobile phone unit, the same unit it spun off only last year...now probably "THINKing" its decision to focus on its core business in PCs might have been hasty. Continue reading...

Canon ($44.99 billion in 2008 revenue) will to buy the €2.9 billion Océ (Dutch printer and copier machine producer) for €730 million in cash.

Océ remains a separate legal entity in Venlo as a Canon division. The Océ brand is to be maintained and applied in all relevant markets. Océ to lead its R&D and manufacturing. Its Management Board and key management remains in place.

But the combined companies hope their synergy will soon make them the Number 1 printer company in world, says the Océ CEO, R Continue reading...

HP will purchase 3Com for approximately $2.7 billion

“Companies are looking for ways to break free from the business limitations imposed by a networking paradigm that has been dominated by a single vendor,” says Dave Donatelli, executive vp/gm, Enterprise Servers and Networking, HP.

Uh, that's HP-speak for "Companies are buying too much Cisco."

So guess who the "HP+3COM" punch is aimed at?

The acquisition of 3Com expands HP’s Ethernet switching offerings, add routing solutions and significantly st Continue reading...

IBM Shows Cloud Computing Concept

Watch as IBM Conceptualizes Cloud Computing for 2009 CeBIT-goers in Hannover...

Go IBM Looks Up to the Clouds

BLUFF or REAL?  IBM Walks Out of Sun Deal.

Sun didn’t like the reduced offer IBM made. The Sun Board threatened to open the sale to other bidders. IBM decided to walk out. Now it’s a game of brinkmanship as we see who blinks first.

The deal’s collapse raises questions about Sun’s next move, but IBM’s offer was only reduced from $9.55 a share to $9.40 after 100 lawyers did due diligence.(For one example, IBM says change-of-control payments to senior employees are Continue reading...