Alcatel-Lucent scored a victory Tuesday when the U.S. International Trade Commission rebuffed a patent infringement claim filed by Microsoft.

The commission ruled that Alcatel-Lucent did not infringe on patent No. 6,421,439 patent, which deals with technology to identify and affiliate a user in a telephone network, according to the commission’s decision.

Last year, Microsoft filed a complaint [...]

Starting Thursday, Cartier began featuring branded pages for its “Love by Cartier” product line for MySpace’s English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese sites. They’ll be online for a year, and will feature new music from 12 artists, including Phoenix, Grand National, and Lou Reed.
When you think about “bling” on MySpace, you probably think about glitter [...]

The TimesPeople drop-down menu, with a news feed and people search.
The TimesPeople iPhone interface.
CNET News.com’s Caroline McCarthy interviews two NYTimes.com software engineers for a video in collaboration with Beet.tv. Note: The spelling of Derek Gottfrid has been corrected.(Credit: Beet.tv)

TimesPeople users can build up friends lists and can see a “news feed” of which stories their [...]

“I have been working on the same product for quite a while now. I liked working for a smaller company in the early days, and even at Google in the Early days. The team has become very large, and I left because I just need a change. I will always have fond memories of Google, [...]

Lawson may be able to hold the line against encroachments from SaaS and open source for years, given that it (like SAP) sits in a market (ERP and the automation of business processes) where the cost of transition to new technology may be outweighed by lower software acquisition costs. But its decision not to evolve [...]

The solution? A high level of coding that runs through Google’s Gears service that does all that data crunching in the background while you go about your business. You can see something similar in place in Google Docs and Spreadsheets and Box.net, which will keep copies and revisions of your files, even if you’ve changed [...]

This 5-pound all-terrain mini mite can be tossed–or dropped–from up to about 10 feet and is dual-side operable, which means it’s self-righting. The “hopper” feature is optional. It allows the EyeDrive to hop over 3-foot obstacles, enhancing its observational capabilities, according to the developer.
Release the fleas! SWAT and other urban assault teams could soon [...]