Tag archive: Tyler

$65 million sounds like a lot of money. Okay, it is a lot of money. But compared to the $15 billion valuation put on social networking site Facebook, it’s peanuts. Yet it’s the amount Mark Zuckerberg agreed to pay former Harvard classmates, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to settle the suit they brought against him, claiming he stole the idea for Facebook from their site, HarvardConnect, which became Connect U. The amount had… Read More

In a particularly complex legal tale, ConnectU has been ordered by a court to honor an agreement and hand over its stock to Facebook, even though ConnectU is suing Facebook over misrepresentation of its value in the settlement on another suit. Got that? Good. Back in 2004 the founders of the ConnectU social networking site, brothers Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss and Divya Narenda, sued their fellow Harvard student Mark Zuckerbug, claiming… Read More

Sony has announced three new AV receivers in its Elevated Standard (ES) line, aiming to please the home theater crowd with 1080p video support, the latest high-end audio codecs, and Faroudja DCDi Cinema technology for video upscaling. The new models also sport a PlayStation-inspired xross media bar onscreen interface to esy navigation and configuration. The ynits also sport Sony's Digital Cinema Auto Calibration for setting up… Read More

A federal jury in an Texas court has found that Nintendo infringed on a patent held by the Tyler, Texas-based company Anascape, and ordered the company to pay Anascape $21 million. The suit, filed in mid-2006, claimed that the controller for Nintendo's GameCube, as well as the company's WaveBird and “Wii Classic” controller, infringe on Anascape's patents. The company also sued Microsoft over the design of its… Read More

Apple may be rolling in dough from the successful release of its iPhone, but all that money lying around also seems to have made the company a lawsuit magnet. First, a Chicago man sued Apple for the iPhone’s battery life limitations, and now a Florida company is claiming its touch-screen keyboard violates a seven-year-old patent it holds. According to AppleInsider, SP Technologies formally lodged its complaint against Apple… Read More

For the second time in three years, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in court, facing charges that he stole the code that’s the basis for his massivelysuccessful social network site.   The court date this week in Boston has been brought by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda, who claim that Zuckerberg, whom they asked tohelp them create a college social networking site in 2002, when they were all students at… Read More

The program, which runs from July 18 through September 6, 2004(1), will leverage HP's electronics recycling expertise and Office Depot's retail presence to offer consumer and business customers the most comprehensive, convenient and environmentally responsible electronics recycling service available. Office Depot and HP will collect and recycle a broad range of information technology and digital entertainment products from any… Read More