Show me the reason, and we’ll show you the money
A US appeals court has ordered a reconsideration of the damages that Microsoft must pay to a Guatemalan inventor who successfully sued it for patent infringement.…
Trade body stands by US import ruling
Nokia has won another round in its ongoing spat with Qualcomm, as the US International Trade Commission stood by its decision to allow Nokia to import handsets into the USA.…
Worm wars get stealthy
Miscreants have created a strain of malware capable of removing rootkits from compromised PCs, only to install almost undetectable backdoor code of its own.…
‘Off the shelf’ rocket suffering technical hiccups
Visionary PayPal multi-millionaire Elon Musk has revealed setbacks in his plans to develop cheaper access to space. It now appears that the inaugural flight of Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher and Dragon capsule will be put back from early Q4 this year to late Q1 2009.…
Someone’s got to pay for free weekend calls
BT is in the middle of a massive marketing campaign for its new “Unlimited Weekends” calls package, which will offer free calls on Saturdays and Sundays. There’s a doozy of a catch, however: weekday evening call charges will rocket to more than 2000 per cent of their current cost.…
