Judge throws out $1.5 billion MP3 patent ruling against Microsoft
Remember back in February when a federal jury found that Microsoft owed Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion dollars for violation of 2 MP3-related patents held by that company? Yeah, looks like Microsoft isn't going to have to pay up after all. A federal judge has reversed the decision, after finding that Lucent did not solely own the rights to one of the patents, and that Microsoft had properly licensed ...
Big Blue has been eyeing a wireless software company called Vallent Corp., and is working to close a deal for early 2007. Vallent, a software company from Washington that develops network monitoring tools for wireless service providers, has developed software that is capable of monitoring traffic, identifying network bottlenecks, and protect against any service interruptions. Vallent's current ...





