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[Posted on July 16, 2007 - 2:51 PM]
Canadian memory chip designer Mosaid Technologies Inc. finally made a strategic move to focus on its core business, but it remains to be seen whether it will be enough to appease some restless shareholders. The company on Monday said it would sell its memory controller and so-called PHY connection chip intellectual property to semiconductor design software maker Synopsys Inc....

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[Posted on June 21, 2007 - 4:04 PM]
Universities are known for launching startups, but a couple of schools are really getting into the act. This week the University of Tennessee opened a $2.5 million, 15,000-square-foot business incubator that will give new high-tech companies in the region both a home base and financial support. The incubator is a partnership between the UT Research Foundation, the University itself,...

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[Posted on June 1, 2007 - 3:15 PM]
Ever wonder why the same companies that are lagging on the innovation curve are the ones leading the way in cutting costs? Motorola Inc. responds to a crushing loss of cell-phone market share by eliminating jobs, while design and innovation farms like Apple Inc. and Google Inc. seem to spend with abandon. Aside from the obvious logic that successful...

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[Posted on May 29, 2007 - 12:18 PM]
As video surveillance networks grow — and they are likely to, as venture capitalists are putting quite a bit of money into them — there are interesting questions about who owns the content. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority filed a lawsuit against YouTube Inc. and other video sites, demanding that a video of a car crash taken by the...

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[Posted on May 14, 2007 - 3:18 PM]
Protecting the proprietary software model isn't as easy as it used to be, thanks to the open-source movement. Oracle Corp.'s response has been to buy companies that own seminal code related to databases. Microsoft Corp. has been loath to pursue acquisitions — instead charging that open-source software violates 235 of its patents and asking for license fees from users...

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[Posted on September 13, 2006 - 2:20 PM]
In the "Bottom Line" column in the current issue of Tech Confidential, I recommend that organizations shore up their intellectual property in the increasingly competitive battlefield of business process patents. But organizations must choose their BP IP battles carefully—or risk suffering the slings and arrows of outraged customers and competitors. Since business processes first began receiving U.S. patents in the...

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[Posted on July 21, 2006 - 12:43 PM]
Once, the thought of offering up internal research that has no future at a company to another business was unthinkable. Today, the idea of tossing out unproductive research is akin to taking dollar bills and setting them on fire. Even Microsoft has offered some of its internal research up to startups such as Inrix once it realized it had no...

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