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Well, the Mono debate has been raging in the Linux blogosphere for some time now, and it shows no sign of abating. Ever since RMS himself stepped into the fray to proclaim his own opinion, the fires have been burning higher than ever -- as we noted last week. Close to 150 fresh comments appeared on...

When Microsoft won its bid to make Office Open XML an international standard last year, it was a pivotal moment for many in the FOSS community and beyond. The process had been a highly contentious one, with protests from nations and corporations around the globe, and the International Organization f...

Rambus has won a patent-related trial against three semiconductor companies. The long legal battle may not be entirely finished for the technology developer, however. Put in basketball terms, Wednesday's victory was more a three-point shot with a minute remaining than a last-minute slam dunk. A jury...

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ordered DRAM chipmaker Rambus to license its technology to third parties and capped the amount the company can charge others for using the technology -- penalties stemming from a long-running antitrust probe. The FTC's remedy is designed to correct "effects of ...

During the last quarter of 2006, Cingular Wireless' profits jumped fourfold and Sun Microsystems registered a profit for the first time in more than a year; however, Seagate Technology's earnings dropped by about 50 percent. Nevertheless, as many major tech companies report their earnings this week,...

Apple said it has discovered additional irregularities in the past granting of employee stock options and as a result will likely be forced to restate some past earnings, including those as recent as the second quarter of this year. The move and the resulting restatement will delay Apple's formal qu...

Several major technology companies -- including semiconductor maker Broadcom and Internet job site Monster -- disclosed Monday that they have established committees to investigate the handling of stock options grants as scrutiny of the practice spreads to include dozens of companies. Also caught up ...

High-speed chip interface designer Rambus on Friday said it has signed a technology licensing agreement with IBM. The agreement allows IBM to building Cell Broadband Engine processors and companion chips using Rambus' technology. IBM is licensing Rambus' FlexIO processor bus and XDR memory interface...

In the latest version of Rambus' high-bandwidth XDR memory interface, XDR2 uses a DRAM core innovation known as microthreading and other enhanced technology to allow data rates of 8 GHz and higher, five times today's graphics DRAM memory, the Japanese company said. The interface is expected to be av...

A new architecture that uses micro-threading in DRAM cores may result in four-times faster performance for gaming applications, among other uses. The development, announced today by Rambus, a technology licensing company that specializes in high-speed chip interfaces, will increase memory subsystem ...

Toshiba and Elpida Memory both announced today high-performance DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips they claim achieve the fastest data transfer rate yet attained by any memory device. The second generation 512-megabit XDR (extreme data rate) DRAMs each have a peak operating speed of 3.2 Ghz, ...

An appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as $3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent...

The U.S. federal government is moving forward with civil -- and possibly criminal -- cases against major makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. The cases are being investigated on both coasts. The Federal Trade Commission this week disclosed in court documents released in Washington, D...