LG, Samsung under investigation for Kodak patent infringement
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Judge denies most SAP motions to dismiss in Oracle suit

Cisco: Cyberattacks growing, looking more legit

Critics to ICANN: Top-level domain sale dangerous, costly

Cisco sued for copyright infringement over Linksys router

Apple code crashes, locks up Mac clones, Psystar claims

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DRM-free Apple rumors still just sound and fury
If you listen to the Internet -- and I don't recommend you listen too closely, as it will drive you mad as surely as if you were privy to the whispers of the vast underdeeps -- then you'd have good reason to think that Apple was going to unleash the rest of its vast iTunes catalog in a DRM-free format on Tuesday.

Opinion: Death of the album -- the weak spot in SanDisk's plan
For some reason, record companies -- and some of their partners in the hardware and software industries -- keep trying to promote an outdated business model: the album.

In the land of cheese, tulips and biometrics
The Netherlands' innovative use of biometrics improves customer service and reduces fraud.

Protecting your .Net app from would-be plagiarizers
Developers using Java, .Net and the like find themselves contending with unscrupulous code cribbers, who lift everything but the comments from their hard word. A company called Xenocode has a means of fighting back.

Opinion: Getting to governance
Stripping away the trappings of applications, systems and networks, information is the core asset of most organizations. Jon Espenschied describes how asserting the importance of information governance is crucial to making that asset tangible, addressable and protected.

Security goes to the movies: Iron Man
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with tech, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man.

Campus Whispers
Universities need to be more proactive — and vocal — in dealing with their students' use of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks for illegal downloads.

Opinion: A spring cleaning for security
The column undertakes spring cleaning as the writer checks in on issues raised by "In Security" over the past year. He's got good news and bad news...

Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds expressed doubt that interoperability advocates at Microsoft can triumph and ambivalence about Sun's recent overtures to the open-source movement in a recent interview with the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin.

The 7 most annoying developments in software
From product keys to click behavior, application developers need to stop annoying their users.

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