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Court Bans Sale of Microsoft Word

By | Published: December 23, 2009
A federal appeals court has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word. In addition, Microsoft is to pay the Canadian company i4i Inc. $290 million for patent infringement. Michel Vulpe i4i said it is “an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors.”
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Facebook Does About Face On Privacy

By | Published: February 18, 2009
After an angry crowd of Facebook users protested the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, posted clarification and a new policy. In the prior wording, it appeared Facebook was saying they owned all the users’ content for forever. Now, they make it clear that a user owns [...]
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