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  • Mozilla Jetpack ripped off our design, says MetaLab

    A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making. A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of…
  • Retailers breaking ban on Microsoft Word sales

    Microsoft today said that retailers can continue to sell unmodified versions of Word 2007, even though a court order that required the company to remove custom XML technology from the software took effect Monday.Retailers who had already purchased…
  • Microsoft stops selling Office online

    In May 2009, a court also ordered Microsoft to pay developer i4i nearly $300 million in damages, court costs and interest for allegedly violating the Canadian company's custom XML patent.Microsoft has posted updates for both Word 2003 and Word…
  • Microsoft ditches XML tags to meet court deadline

    The case, which began in 2007, pitted Canadian software developer i4i against Microsoft when the former accused the latter of illegally using its XML editing technology in Word.In May 2009, a Texas jury said Microsoft violated i4i's patent, and…
  • Microsoft set to be banned from selling Word

    Instead, said the judges, the only evidence entered into the record was Microsoft's five-month timetable, which the 11 January, 2010, deadline allows.Canadian developer i4i first sued Microsoft in 2007, accusing the US company of illegally using…
  • Apple releases firmware update to stop iMac flickering

    Users have reported cracked screens, a yellow tint in part of the display, and irritating flickers that come and go.The problems prompted one Canadian web developer to collate the complaints on a specially-built website, and may have been one of…

Latest Features

  • Top 10 most ridiculous tech stories of 2009

    The strange story involved Canadian internet teen star Justin Bieber and 3,000 screaming fans. The blogger claimed to have seen a "private developer beta" at an Acer event. Here is our round-up of the most ridiculous tech-related stories of 2009.
  • Facebook App Verification is good for developers

    The new rules, prompted by a Canadian government investigation, will take about a year to implement because they will require changes to the application platform's API.For now, when asked for an update on the Application Verification program, a…
  • Quake hits 10Gig Ethernet

    That's not as unlikely as it sounds, says Mitch Kahn, marketing VP at Canadian chip developer, Quake Technologies (which was recently acquired by AMCC). Chip-maker Quake tells us why it and others from the silicon industry are pushing SFP+, the…
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: Developer's 'micro-server' makes the case for Solaris on Power

    But for Solaris developer Dennis Clarke, running the operating system on Power makes perfect sense.Clarke runs Blastwave.org, a Canadian company that develops open-source software for Solaris. But Solaris developer Dennis Clarke reckons it all…
 
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