Stories about: Kodak

The possibility of a gadget world without wires took a big step forward Thursday when 14 of the biggest names in consumer electronics said they would work with Sony on its short-range, high-speed "TransferJet" wireless data system.

Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Photos, one of its two photo-sharing sites, and focus all its efforts on its other photo-sharing site, Flickr.

Jorge Villagran supervises one of the most important and sensitive projects in Guatemalan history: preserving and digitizing a massive trove of documents from the National Police files so that the country can gather evidence about human-rights abuses and bury the last vestiges of a brutal civil war.

Eastman Kodak has come up with an idea that some may find difficult to swallow--an edible radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

Socialtext plans to open source more than 80 percent of its software, the company announced Wednesday. The U.S. startup specializes in software and support for enterprises looking to set up their own internal wikis and Web logs.

Dignitaries from the open source and venture capital communities serving on a panel Tuesday evening tossed around perspectives on building a business in open source, but essentially were in agreement about the potential negative effects of patents on open source projects.

The chances of a user being sued for intellectual property (IP) infringement related to software usage are slim, industry observers say. But that may change, as some companies hoard patents for the express purpose of using them to extract money from sellers and users of software.

Sun Microsystems chairman and CEO Scott McNealy defended his company's open source track record in an occasionally raucous meeting with members of the Canadian press recently.

Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a software patent lawsuit brought against it by Eastman Kodak, Sun announced Thursday.

A federal jury in New York has dealt a legal blow to Sun Microsystems, ruling that Sun violated several patents held by Eastman Kodak Co. when it developed its Java technology, a Kodak spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

Veritas Software this week will announce that it plans to port all of its storage management tools to SUSE Linux AG's version of the open-source operating system.