Microsoft settles VPN patent case for $200M
From Computer World
Lost in same Texas court that made it pay i4i nearly $300M and banned Word sales
Microsoft today said it will pay communications software maker VirnetX $200 million to settle a three-year-old patent infringement case.
In the original February 2010 lawsuit, Scotts Valley, Calif.-based VirnetX claimed Microsoft used its patented virtual private networking (VPN) technologies in Windows XP and Vista, Windows Server 2003, Live Communications Server, Windows Messenger, Office Communicator and Microsoft Office from the 2003 edition on.
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How your Web browser rats you out online
From ARS Technica
You're concerned about your online privacy, and you do all the right things to keep from being tracked around the Web: purge your cookies regularly, clean out Flash "supercookies," even switch to browsers like Browzar, which lets you "search and surf the web without leaving traces on your computer." Doesn't matter—your browser is giving you away.
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