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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.

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.

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.

If you've been frustrated by pokey performance, misformatted file names, or other anomalies when you try to play a CD packed with MP3s on a supposedly compatible DVD player, the vendors feel your pain--and they're beginning to craft a solution.

The Boeing Co. is changing the way it buys software and is making a product's usability -- the ease with which end users can be trained on and operate the product -- a fundamental purchasing criterion. It's a move the aerospace giant sees as an essential means of controlling IT costs.