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Microsoft sued over Xbox, Halo games
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| Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, should pay a New York
| company $90 million for using its inventions in the Xbox video-game system, a
| lawyer told a federal jury yesterday.
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| PalTalk Holdings Inc. says Halo games and the Xbox console on which they are
| played infringe two patents for inventions developed by MPath Interactive
| Inc. PalTalk bought the patents for less than $200,000, Microsoft lawyer
| David Pritikin said.
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/03/10/microsoft_sued_over_xbox_halo_games/
Microsoft settles lawsuit over Xbox
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| Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it settled a patent-infringement suit in which
| a New York company was demanding $90 million in royalties on the Xbox video
| game system.
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| Financial terms weren't disclosed, Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster
| said, adding that it was an "amicable agreement." The settlement cuts short a
| trial that started this week over the suit, filed by closely held PalTalk
| Holdings Inc.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/403501_msftxbox13.html
Microsoft Settles Lawsuit Over Halo 3
http://www.talkxbox.com/article3087.html
Microsoft Settles $90m Lawsuit
http://www.zergwatch.com/Newsfeed-120784/microsoft-settles-90m-lawsuit.html
Microsoft Settles $90 Million Patent Case
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/45485/Microsoft-Settles-90-Million-Patent-Case
Patent Lawsuit Against Nintendo, Microsoft To Begin In Tyler
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| The trial for a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Nintendo and
| Microsoft will begin in Tyler on Tuesday.
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http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090315/NEWS08/903140365
Related:
Microsoft Needs Its Mojo Back
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| Somewhere in the Silicon Valley, there's a Doctor Evil holding a test tube
| full of Microsoft Mojo. Unlike the golden age of the 1990s, Microsoft isn't
| generating excitement anymore. Sure, people still care what Microsoft does,
| but lately it's more like the industry knows the company is headed for a fall
| and is just rubbernecking to see the inevitable result.
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| Problems are arriving on all fronts. Vista uptake in the enterprise just
| isn't happening; it's likely that many Vista licenses sold there are being
| downgraded to XP. Microsoft's plan to combine search forces with Yahoo hardly
| matters; at this point the both of them are plummeting against Google, which
| has nearly 70% share. The Zune music player is a minor nuisance to Apple's
| iPod. Sony just announced price cuts that are likely to push Microsoft into
| another round of XBox cuts, just as they were starting to eke out a profit.
| (Microsoft has lost about $7 billion on XBox since 2002.)
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/microsofts_need.html
Microsoft stock drops amid slumping sales
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| Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer
| market, fell 6.2 percent Fridayin Nasdaq trading after sales slumped, casting
| doubt on whether PC demand can hold up in a slowing economy. The software
| maker reported a 24 percent drop in sales of Windows last quarter and
| forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
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| "The risk is that Linux gets a foothold and then affects their long-term
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| revenue significantly."
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9061263
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