<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest [dndjlatest] from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/filter/dndjlatest.htm</link><description>Latest [dndjlatest] from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>.NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:34:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest [dndjlatest] from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/9/dndj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/filter/dndjlatest.htm</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Icahn Moves To Force Microsoft &amp; Yahoo Together</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/568520.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/568520.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/568520_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Corporate raider Carl Icahn started his proxy fight for control of Yahoo this morning, beginning with the classic Icahn opening, the letter of reproach to the Yahoo board telling them they have acted 'irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft.']]></description></item><item><title>&quot;RIA&quot; vs &quot;Rich Client Platform&quot;: The Term Is Now Up for Debate</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['RIA' is slowly fading in terms of its definition. When I first started the RIA Evangelism role in Microsoft, I had this nagging feeling that the term RIA was just all over the place. Depending on which technology you are backing and which stream of alliance you uphold, the truth is th]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET developers are bored with traditional books that outline concepts in a lengthy way. These books are good if you like to learn the features in a detailed manner. However, by the time the book is read, a new version will be released. Hence, many learners including myself prefer s]]></description></item><item><title>Peer Networking Series - A Closer Look at PNRP vs. Bonjour/ZeroConf</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems as though whenever I bring up PNRP and its benefits, I am immediately inundated with a list of questions or comments indicating that Microsoft is re-inventing the wheel and that PNRP has already been implemented before in the form of ZeroConf and, more specifically, Apple's im]]></description></item><item><title>db4o Open Source Object-Oriented Database Supports LINQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[db4objects has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft's LINQ. With the new support, developers can choose an object-oriented optimized engine without changing the API or compromising performance. db4object's db4o database offers a persistence solution to]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft, Unisys, Yahoo and Vista</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563180.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563180.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563180_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, which spent $6 billion on aQuantive and was chasing Yahoo for its ads before it came to a dead stop, has been supporting - as in helping write - legislation in New York and Connecticut that would regulate the data that companies like Yahoo and Google collect for targeted adv]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Xceed Launches Microsoft Silverlight 2 Control</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xceed launched Xceed Upload for Silverlight, the commercial offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. The product is available now for purchase or as a fully functional 45-day trial on Xceed's website. Xceed Upload for Silverlight lets developers add uplo]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft To Keynote 4th International Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551735.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551735.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551735_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the tec]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Virtualization Takes Management Cross-Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558074.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558074.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558074_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is making System Center, its central management scheme, natively manage Linux, Unix and VMware virtual servers. The widgetry has always been a Windows-only affair, but now there are betas available showing off Microsoft's cross-platform prowess, important to Microsoft's place]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization Conference Keynote Webcast Live on SYS-CON.TV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/460503.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/460503.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/460503_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's  Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Virtualization Journal&quot; Debuts This Week at JavaOne</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548403.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548403.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548403_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Founded in 2006, SYS-CON Media's 'Virtualization Journal' is the world's first magazine devoted exclusively to what Gartner has earmarked as the single highest-impact IT trend through 2012: virtualization. And now it will be available on newsstands worldwide, as SYS-CON Media seeks to]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Will End Up Buying Yahoo Anyway</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558502.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558502.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558502_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have re]]></description></item><item><title>3rd International Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo: Themes &amp; Topics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544193.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544193.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544193_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown]]></description></item><item><title>Mainsoft Announces Sharepoint Integrator for IBM Lotus Notes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/561452.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/561452.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/561452_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mainsoft announced the release of its SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. This add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8, an Eclipsed-based Rich Client Platform based on Java, provides point-and-click access to Microsoft SharePoint content, including Word documents, Excel worksheets, and PowerPoi]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo That Demanded $37 From Microsoft, Sinks to $22.30</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558496.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558496.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558496_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Monday morning before the markets open Bloomberg reported 'Yahoo, that spent three months fighting a takeover by Microsoft, tumbled $6.37 to $22.30. The software maker said this weekend it walked away when Yahoo demanded $37 a share. Microsoft had increased its $44.6 billion bid by abo]]></description></item><item><title>IBM, Microsoft &amp; Google Eras of Computing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/560856.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/560856.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/560856_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[By now it is conventional wisdom to say that there was an IBM Era of computing, then a Microsoft Era, and now we are in the Google Era. In this post, I will explain why Microsoft was not the 'next IBM' and why Google is not the 'next Microsoft' - there are significant qualitative diffe]]></description></item><item><title>The Dot Net Factory Introduces EmpowerID Role Enforcer For Sharepoint</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/559184.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/559184.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/559184_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Dot Net Factory introduced EmpowerID Role Enforcer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the role-based entitlement management application for SharePoint permissions. EmpowerID Role Enforcer for SharePoint enables enterprise-wide access control, auditing, and enforcement of]]></description></item><item><title>EFF Faults Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on its site complaining that Microsoft has 'betrayed MSN music customers' and urging him to fix the problems Microsoft will cause when it turns off its Music validation servers at the end of Au]]></description></item><item><title>Vendors Keep On Selling XP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft claims to have sold 140 million copies of Vista. Ah, but, in an effort to scratch the widespread 'Save XP' itch, Dell, HP, Sony and Lenovo all say they are going to supply XP past June 30 when large OEMs are supposed to stop supplying it.]]></description></item><item><title>CLINQ v1.1.0.0 Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response t]]></description></item><item><title>P2P Explained: What Exactly is a Peer Network?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552879.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552879.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552879_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft May Shatter the Silence Today, Wall St. Journal Predicts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal thinks that Microsoft is about to break the break the deafening silence that has hung in the air since Yahoo! ignored Microsoft's Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. The Journal thinks that Microsoft could nominate a proxy slate o]]></description></item><item><title>New Version of ESB Software Extends the Microsoft .NET Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Neudesic announced the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron-ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus that extends the Microsoft Platform by providing real-time messaging, integration and web service management. Neuron-ESB accelerates SOA adoption by helping companies successfully imple]]></description></item><item><title>Europen AJAX Technology Leader Telerik Announces .NET Components and Reporting Tool</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Telerik announced the landmark release of its Q1 2008 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and WinForms, and Telerik Reporting. The new release represents a final touch in Telerik's goal to offer a comprehensive and mature toolset of next-generation web and desktop components.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - ILOG Targets RIA Development on .NET Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553185.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553185_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ILOG announced that its latest graphics toolkits for the .NET platform are aimed at helping Microsoft developers create rich internet applications (RIA), specifically interactive and visually-rich diagrams and Gantt charts. ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization Meets DaaS - Desktop-as-a-Service</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548498.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548498.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/548498_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also started SOA Software, US Interactive and IVT, picked up $17 million in first-round funding about a year ago from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, Citrix Systems and the China-base]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Experiments with Subscription-Based Office</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is going to experiment with subscription-based software that as near as we can figure out won't be on-demand or web-based - or even available as a download - so it's hardly a retort to Google Apps and its ilk like people thought. This is the stuff that's code named Albany tha]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Disappoints; Windows Sales Off</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After three strong quarters and against a backdrop of heady expectations, Microsoft came in with lighter-than-expected fiscal Q3 revenues of $14.45 billion Thursday, earnings of $4.38 billion, or 47 cents a share, and operating income of $4.41 billion. Earnings were off 11% against a h]]></description></item><item><title>Word Documents Generated By the Current Version of Office 2007 Don&apos;t Conform to ISO/IEC 29500</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552122.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552122.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552122_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Word documents generated by the current version of Office 2007 don't conform to ISO/IEC 29500, the OOXML file format draft standard Microsoft moved heaven and earth to get ISO to accept. At least that's what Alex Brown, the guy in change of the ISO group that's supposed to maintain OOX]]></description></item><item><title>BluePhoenix Expands Modernization Collaboration with Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BluePhoenix announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft on legacy modernization projects. The collaboration provides customers moving their applications or databases to .NET-based environments the best in both modernization services and technical support. BluePhoeni]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Threatens To Walk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551091.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551091.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551091_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Time is running out on Microsoft's deal-or-else ultimatum to Yahoo! Basically Yahoo! has to move off the dime by Saturday or else Microsoft could try taking the place by force, lowering its rejected $31-a-share bid in the process or - scarier still for Yahoo! - Microsoft could walk awa]]></description></item><item><title>Is the Silverlight Adoption Rate Artificially Inflated?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/534868.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/534868.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/534868_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex]]></description></item><item><title>Xceed to Embrace Microsoft&apos;s Silverlight in Upcoming Product</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xceed is poised to launch Xceed Upload for Silverlight, its offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. Slated for release in May or June 2008, Xceed Upload for Silverlight provides programmers with HTTP upload capabilities for C# and VB.NET development usi]]></description></item><item><title>Sybase PowerBuilder Delivers AJAX and .NET Enhancements Enabling Rich Internet Application Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547550.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547550.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547550_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sybase announced that AJAX development capabilities and further Microsoft .NET enhancements have been added to the latest version of Sybase PowerBuilder 11, the premier 4GL rapid application development (RAD) tool. PowerBuilder 11.2 represents another milestone in the PowerBuilder road]]></description></item><item><title>DataDirect Builds Custom ADO.NET Providers for Pervasive Software&apos;s PSQL Summit v10 Database</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataDirect and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation announced Pervasive Software has embedded custom engineered DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET providers from DataDirect Technologies into the Pervasive PSQL Summit version 10 relational database. Microsoft .NET Framework]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft and EBSnet Collaborate on the .NET Micro Framework</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft announced that the EBSnet Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack is included as a component of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 2.5. With TCP/IP, the .NET Micro Framework is delivering on the vision of helping to create new business opportunities for]]></description></item><item><title>Jury Tells Microsoft To Pay Alcatel $367m</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Remember that swat of 15 infringement complaints that Lucent made in 2003 against Dell and Gateway? A couple of which, concerning MP3 audio technology in the Windows Media Player, resulted in a record $1.5 billion decision against Microsoft that subsequently got overturned? 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