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IBM will not use its open-source patents in any potential legal actions it may bring against TurboHercules, an IBM company executive seemingly asserted on Wednesday. “IBM stands by this 2005 Non-Assertion Pledge today as strongly as it did then. IBM will not sue for the infringement of any of those 500 patents by any Open [...]

IBM will not use its open-source patents in any potential legal actions it may bring against TurboHercules, an IBM company executive seemingly asserted on Wednesday. “IBM stands by this 2005 Non-Assertion Pledge today as strongly as it did then. IBM will not sue for the infringement of any of those 500 patents by any Open [...]

On Tuesday, a jury in Utah sided with Novell in its long-running legal dispute with SCO. “This decision is good news for Novell, for Linux, and for the open source community,” Novell wrote on its Web site. [ Novell recently rejected a $2B takeover bid from a hedge fund. | Stay ahead of the key [...]

Notion Ink, a startup in Hyderabad, India, has developed a touchscreen tablet PC running Google’s Android OS. The company, with development teams in Taiwan, the U.S., and India, aims to target the global market. [ Discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the InfoWorld Test Center. ] The device, built around an as-yet-unannounced Tegra [...]

Notion Ink, a startup in Hyderabad, India, has developed a touchscreen tablet PC running Google’s Android OS. The company, with development teams in Taiwan, the U.S., and India, aims to target the global market. The device, built around an as-yet-unannounced Tegra system-on-a-chip (SOC) from Nvidia, can also double up as an e-reader, the company’s CEO, [...]

Red Hat is dropping support for Intel’s Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday. Dropping support for Itanium makes economic sense for Red Hat, according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC’s European Systems Group. The number of Itanium-based servers [...]