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• Could the RIM patent dispute be settled before 24 February?
  Thursday 26 January 2006 – 03:27
  US District Judge James Spencer yesterday set 24 February as the date for a hearing regarding whether an injunction against Research in Motion, Ltd., can go forward. If the injunction goes through, the company will be barred from providing BlackBerry service to customers in the United States, even though the company's main processing center is stationed in Ontario, Canada.
• Rambus 'deception' could cost $3 billion, FTC claims in appeal
  Tuesday 27 April 2004 – 01:31
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• Google's Gmail could be blocked
  Tuesday 13 April 2004 – 04:32
  Gmail, the planned free e-mail service from Google, could be facing strong legal opposition in California.
• Intel: Extent of restructuring could rival 1985 exit from DRAM business
  Saturday 29 April 2006 – 12:09
  Expanding on comments made by CEO Paul Otellini in an analysts' conference last Wednesday, Intel spokesperson Chuck Malloy today told TG Daily that the size and extent of the restructuring efforts that Otellini has ordered, could be as sweeping as those the company instituted in 1985, when it decided to shut down its lagging DRAM manufacturing business.
• AMD CEO: Consumer CPU capacity could be traded to fuel commercial growth
  Tuesday 7 March 2006 – 12:15
  The company that redefined CPU performance in the high-end desktop space, may lift its foot just a little off the gas in that market, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said today. The reason is to start concentrating more upon the lucrative commercial business market, where quantity sales abound, and margins are a bit higher. Will this move leave an opening for Intel?

• Could new broadband reforms lead to a "fast lane" for Google and Yahoo?*
  Thursday 6 April 2006 – 07:23
  Landmark new legislation introduced in the US House of Representatives just last week would make it possible for broadband internet service providers to become national franchisees, bypassing local regulations (but not local fees). Yet to do so, broadband companies may have to masquerade as cable television providers, and in so doing, create "premium tiers" of "fast lane" service for major content providers like Yahoo and Google.
• Nokia phones could warn of lightning strikes*
  Friday 25 May 2007 – 01:37
  Nokia, the top-selling handset maker may be running short on ideas for new phones, as the Finnish company recently patented a technology that warns users of imminent lightning strikes. ...
• The Best Thing That Could Happen To Intel's Pentium 4 - The SiS645 Chipset*
  Monday 8 October 2001 – 07:00
  Despite its history as a low-budget chipset maker, SiS had recently been able to prove its ability to provide high performance core logic with the introduction of the well-performing SiS735 Athlon chipset. Today SiS launches its first Pentium 4 chipset, dubbed 'SiS645', for DDR memory. SiS645 is not just a Pentium 4 DDR-chipset. It is also the first to support the new DDR333 memory, which provides 25% more bandwidth than DDR266 a.k.a. PC2100. The attractive SiS645 package is finally able to touch Intel's i850 ...
• iPod could interfere with pacemakers - study*
  Saturday 12 May 2007 – 03:01
  A new study authored by a 17-year-old high school student claims that Apple's iPod music player could interfere with pacemakers. ...
• Update: Oils derived from wood chips could reduce cost of biofuel*
  Saturday 19 May 2007 – 12:26
  The search for renewable energy sources is gaining traction and researchers from the University of Georgia now say they have found a way to use wood chips for the generation of biofuel that can be blended with biodiesel and petroleum diesel to power conventional engines. ...