Kodak has announced 4,500 job cuts as camera sales fall and losses mount. Photograph Ian Waldie/Getty Images Kodak has launched lawsuits alleging that the iPhone and BlackBerry two of the worlds most popular mobile phones infringe its patents. The photographic pioneer said on Thursday that it had filed a case in the Western District of [...]

Im not forecasting flying cars this year but will we have them by 2015? Its prediction time again! Yes, I know that January is half-over already, but that gives me less time to make it all happen, doesnt it? And remember, fully two-thirds of these should be correct, going by past performance. Although please remember [...]

Microsofts options are dwindling in a palpable-infringement case brought by i4i, a small Toronto firm that sued the software colossus for infringing on its patent for a custom XML editor. Now, the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a “Reexamination Certificate” validating i4is notorious. While the move was expected, it leaves Microsoft with [...]

A man who ran a music-sharing website with almost 200,000 members has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court. Alan Ellis, 26, was the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing. He operated the site, called Oink, from his flat in Middlesbrough from 2004 until it [...]

Copyright violation P2P platform loses case against US record labels US record labels be seized of claimed another victory in their war against filesharing, winning a major court case against LimeWire. On Tuesday, a federal court ruled to match the popular peer-to-peer platform, finding LimeWires owners personally obnoxious for copyright infringement. The Recording Industry Association [...]

CSO You see it all the time on Facebook A friend moving on up in FarmVille. Another friend trying to expand his posse in Mafia Wars. Everyone thinks of them as harmless third-party applications, free from the crooks and cooks of cyberspace. Unfortunately, thats not the case. The sad fact is that these applications are [...]

IDG News Service Cisco on Tuesday will show just how serious it is about mobile data with the introduction of its first product derived from its Starent acquisition, the ASR 5000. The new platform for delivering mobile services, which is based on the Starent ST40, is being announced less than a week before the Mobile [...]

Microsoft had some good news for users of its Dynamics GP software itll finally be seeing an update in just a couple of weeks. Since its debut, Dynamics GP has morphed from an accounting platform into a full-fledged enterprise resource planning offering. Now, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 promises a number of enhancements like new reporting [...]

The first person in the UK to be prosecuted for online music sharing has been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud, scuppering the music industrys hopes that it would have a homegrown equivalent of last years high profile Pirate Bay case in Sweden with which to deter British music pirates. Alan Ellis, 26, was accused of [...]

IDG News Service Salesforce. com on Wednesday announced a private beta program for Chatter, the enterprise collaboration platform first announced last year, positioning it as an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. Chatter incorporates a range of familiar features, such as profiles, status updates from people or applications, document sharing and integrations with [...]