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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that found Microsoft unlawfully infringed on i4i's document-editing patents by incorporating its technology in some of its Word products. ...

Spending on online advertising is expected to jump 20.2 percent over last year's spending, according to new figures from eMarketer. If this category of ad spend does indeed reach US$31.3 billion, as the company has projected, it will return to pre-recession growth levels and be accompanied by steady increases for the next four years. ...

Daily Discount Coupons: Pay Dirt or Raw Deals? - Part 1 ...

At this writing, the start of World IPv6 Day is a few short hours off, but if it's June 8, and you're reading this after having accessed it via a Google or Yahoo search, then World IPv6 day has been a success. ...

Once upon a time there was an online group called "The Point." It was a nebulous organization with the vague goal of using the power of social media to to do such things as crowdsource a design for the Chicago Stadium or launch a petition. ...

A legal dispute between Oracle and erstwhile client Montclair State University illustrates that despite the steady evolution of ERP technology and implementation methodologies, these projects can still turn ugly. ...

Business Process Management provider AuraPortal has added a new module to its product lineup -- Marketing Campaigns, or MC. It is based on template-oriented pattern processes -- as all of AuraPortal's applications are -- which means it can be easily tailored by end-users. ...

It seems Microsoft doesn't want to take any chances with rollouts of future Windows tablets. ...

An end to Sony's PlayStation woes is presumably in sight: The company has announced it will restore full functionality to the PlayStation Store by the end of this week. That includes in-game commerce, the ability for players to redeem vouchers and codes, and full functionality of Music Unlimited as well as Media Go ...

DemandResults is getting set to release version 2.0 of its SEO for Salesforce.com app. This iteration builds on the premise of the first app, founder and CEO Howard Brown said, which was essentially a basic insertion of Google Analytics into the Salesforce.com platform. ...

After much rumor and speculation, Twitter and TweetDeck announced what many had already concluded: the popular third-party client has been acquired by Twitter. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but various news reports put it between US$40 million and $50 million ...

Square, a startup founded by Twitter alum Jack Dorsey, has rolled out revamped versions of its iPhone/iPad and Android apps. ...

Salesforce.com is participating in a social media project with Toyota Motor, in what could launch the CRM company into an entirely new industry -- telematics. Or not. ...

Verizon Wireless is planning to cancel its unlimited data offering for smartphones this summer, replacing it with tiered packages including a family plan, according to comments made by CFO Fran Shammo at the Reuters Global Technology Summit. ...

Amazon has reached a momentum milestone: Its customers are purchasing more Kindle books than print books -- hardcover and paperback combined. This day was clearly coming. In July 2010, Kindle book sales surpassed hardcover sales. By December of that year, Kindle books overtook paperback books, becoming the most popular format on Amazon. ...

Aplicor rolled out Cloud Suite 7 last month -- the latest update to its flagship suite -- with some significant changes. One, the user interface, backed by new Microsoft Silverlight technology, is now completely customizable depending on the end-user's needs. ...

If the Internet is the equivalent of our solar system, then Netflix would be Jupiter, its largest planet. That, at least, is the imagery that Sandvine evokes in its latest report, "Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight." ...

The leak of a memo from HP CEO Leo Apotheker describing a tough upcoming quarter prompted the company to deliver its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, a day earlier than planned. Despite the beating the stock took after the memo was leaked, shareholders might just as well have waited for the originally scheduled date: The results for the second quarter were actually in line with expectations, but the company lowered its guidance for the rest of the year, citing soft demand for personal computers, a slowdown resulting from the natural disasters in Japan, and the need to make additional investment in its services business.

At 8:56 a.m. EDT Monday morning, 19 years after its first launch on May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour left NASA's Kennedy Space Center for its 25th and final flight. ...

The founder of LimeWire LLC, the distributor of the LimeWire file-sharing software program that was found to infringe copyrights on a massive scale, has reached an agreement with the music industry's trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, to settle its lawsuit for US$105 million. ...