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Judge throws out $1.5 billion MP3 patent ruling against Microsoft
Remember back in February when a federal jury found that Microsoft owed Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion dollars for violation of 2 MP3-related patents held by that company? Yeah, looks like Microsoft isn't going to have to pay up after all.A federal judge has reversed the decision, after finding that Lucent did not solely own the rights to one of the patents, and that Microsoft had properly licensed that technology from the co-owner of the patent.
And the other patent? Yeah, the judge ruled that Microsoft simply hadn't infringed on that one.
Alctael-Lucent plans to appeal the latest decision. While the lengthy appeals process could get rather expensive, it's not likely to approach $1.5 billion any time soon, so what does the company have to lose, besides face? And some money. And time.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
