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Santosh Mishra

Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word software by Jan 11

December 23, 2009 Tech

Upholding patent-infringement charges by a small Toronto firm agaist Microsoft Tuesday, a US appeals court ordered the software giant to stop selling Word by Jan 11 and pay $290 million in damages. Microsoft said it will introduce the copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 without the offending technology by the court-ordered deadline. Tuesday’s ruling [...]

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Microsoft ordered to pay $290 mn in Word patent case

December 23, 2009 Tech

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a $290-million judgement against Microsoft for infringing on a patent in its flagship product Word relating to the use of XML or extensible markup language. The US court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programmes containing the infringing code from Jan 11, [...]

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Soyuz spacecraft blasts off

December 21, 2009 Tech

The Soyuz spacecraft, carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched here in the early hours of Monday. The TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 hrs from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and it separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule. It is scheduled to dock with the ISS in the [...]

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Google’s Chrome browser focuses on speed, not extras

December 21, 2009 Tech

Google threw its hat into the browser ring back in 2008. Chrome is what they called their new product, now available in its third iteration. A beta version of the fourth generation is currently making the rounds as well. While Chrome itself is clearly rapidly changing, one thing seems constant: the developers at Google have [...]

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Google, Bing sidelining Yahoo in search market

December 18, 2009 Tech

Once the world’s online search leader, Yahoo’s share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google with a staggering 65.6 percent share Yahoo’s search market share in November fell to 17.5 percent from 18 percent in October, the lowest ever recorded for Yahoo, according to [...]

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EU settles dispute with Microsoft over internet browsers

December 16, 2009 Tech

The European Commission said Wednesday it has resolved its long-running dispute with Microsoft after the US software giant agreed to allow customers a choice of Web browsers. European Union (EU) competitions commissioner Neelie Kroes said the Commission had dropped the antitrust case it opened against Microsoft for restricting the use of browsers in its Windows [...]

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Now, internet facility for rural Bihar

December 16, 2009 India

Thousands of people, particularly youths from rural Bihar, will no longer have to travel to urban pockets to surf the internet as the government is all set to provide the facility at the panchayat level. At least 6,000 panchayats in the state will be provided with internet facilities under the central government’s plans to connect [...]

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Microsoft ups the ante against pirates

December 16, 2009 Tech

With its operating system Windows 7 and other popular software products being increasingly targeted by cyber pirates, Microsoft has launched an initiative to curb the menace, primarily because customers are asking it to intervene. “We are seeing an upsurge in consumers coming back to us and saying I have been a victim of piracy. So [...]

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Soot and dust damaging Himalayas: NASA

December 16, 2009 Tech

Soot and dust contribute as much to a temperature rise in the Himalayas as greenhouse gases do, according to a new study by the US space agency NASA. Most of the soot goes from the thousands of wood- and dung-burning cooking stoves in use all over South Asia, says the study led by William Lau, [...]

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LCD screen, laptops herald paperless court

December 16, 2009 Tech

There were no bulky files on the table, only a sleek wide LCD screen and a touch-screen handbook for the judge as the Delhi High Court Tuesday launched its first paperless court to bring about speedy justice. In its first eco-friendly initiative, the e-court was started on an experimental basis in the court of Justice [...]

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