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A few days after a federal judge doubled to US$39.3 million the damages Qualcomm would have to pay for infringing the patents of rival Broadcom, Lou Lupin gave up his posts as general counsel and executive vice president for the beleaguered firm. Carol Lam, senior vice president and legal counsel, will serve as acting general counsel while the company searches for a permanent replacement...

Google may be No. 1 in terms of overall usage of its search engines, based on a number of recent surveys. However, it appears to be falling short in one very important, non-tech metric: customer satisfaction ...

IBM upgraded the functionality in its RFID (radio frequency identification) technology tailored for the pharmaceutical industry that it introduced in December ...

ReachForce, an on-demand provider of marketing databases, is making the jump into a related software niche ...

A group of hackers infiltrated the United Nations' Web site over the weekend, defacing the page of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with antiwar political graffiti ...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites ...

IBM and Linux distributor Novell are strengthening their partnership in order to encourage cross-adoption of their respective platforms and products, especially in the small to medium-sized business space ...

Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco ...

Recent events have raised questions as to whether San Francisco's municipal WiFi project will ever reach completion. The latest twists in the saga are leading some industry watchers to wonder whether the deployment of WiFi technology across a city may ever reach its full potential ...

Minutes before a looming midnight deadline,California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Friday night decertified e-voting machines manufactured byDiebold Election Systems,Hart Intercivic andSequoia Voting Systems and adopted for use in 39 California counties. The vendors will have 30 days to submit their products for recertification ...

An Ottawa-based provider of CRM for small and medium-sized businesses,The Long Reach Corporation has a surprisingly far-flung customer base, with clients in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan ...

StayinFront has shifted its CRM application to .Net architecture in what is the first major overhaul of its flagship product in two years ...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material ...

Shoshanna Berman, an intern in New York City, is happily dating her ideal future husband: a nice, young -- and tall -- Orthodox Jewish man who is also outgoing and easygoing ...

A report commissioned by the Florida Department of State has found flaws in Diebold's e-voting software that could compromise the integrity of its optical scan and touch screen machines. Although Diebold corrected many flaws previously identified, significant vulnerabilities remain, found researchers at Florida State University's Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory...

Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold ...

Genius.com has released Genius Team -- a new edition of SalesGenius, the marketing and sales application it debuted last year. The new team application automates many of the tasks in SalesGenius and provides a venue for greater administrative control, according to Felicity Wohltman, vice president of marketing for the firm ...

A test of three electronic voting systems certified for use in California has uncovered serious security flaws. Researchers at the University of California conducted the tests at the behest of Secretary of State Debra Bowen under a US$1.8 million contract ...

Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchangeAdECN -- its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform ...

Oracle released its latest semiannual upgrade of its Siebel CRM On Demand product. Unlike previous releases that focused on smaller changes and tweaks, Release 14 incorporates substantial improvements to its architecture and integration capabilities. In fact, it is the product's most significant update yet, according to Anthony Lye, senior vice president of CRM On Demand...