Hitachi, Oracle to sell China anti-piracy tags: report
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Japanese electronics conglomerate Hitachi Ltd.  and U.S. software firm Oracle Corp.  will jointly market wireless tags in China that can be used to identify counterfeit goods, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
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Speculation spreads that China's biggest computer maker will buy IBM's PC business. Also:  Clinton attends launch of Chinese search engine powered by AI & hellip;.  A new DVD can play on old and new HD technology & hellip;. and more.
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Beijing, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--China's Zhejiang Province has ordered Toshiba Corp. , NEC Corp. , Fujitsu Ltd.  of Japan and Hewlett-Packard Co. of the United States to suspend sales of a total of five notebook personal computer models as they failed to qualify product inspections.
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Warner Bros.'s home video unit and  its Chinese partner on Thursday unveiled a new strategy to  fight DVD piracy in China by selling disks earlier, at lower  prices and in more stores than before with the backing of  government officials.
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Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday it will sell personal computers made by Hewlett-Packard Co. that are designed for businesses under the Hitachi brand in Japan.
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Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software &amp; Information Industry Association (SIIA)&#160;to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.The SIIA believes it is necessary to file the lawsuits because eBay has been largely uncooperative in cracking down on software piracy, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the trade group&#39;s antipiracy division.&quot;We haven&#39;t had very much success in getting [eBay] to work with us,&quot; he said.SIIA has asked eBay to stop &quot;buy it now&quot; and one-day auctions for software, but eBay has not complied, Kupferschmid said. In many cases, sellers offering pirated software are looking to sell it quickly, he said. SIIA also asked eBay if the trade group could buy banner advertisements warning about piracy when a user is looking at software, but the auction site declined, Kupferschmid added. &quot;We shouldn&#39;t have to do that,&quot; he said. &quot;eBay should do that themselves.&quot;Two eBay spokespeople didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments on SIIA&#39;s position.The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, are the largest round the SIIA has filed since launching its auction-site antipiracy program two years ago, the trade group said in a news release. Seven of the lawsuits were filed Wednesday, the SIIA said. Two others were filed two weeks ago. Most of the lawsuits target eBay sellers of Abobe PhotoShop CS3; one of the lawsuits targets a seller of several Symantec software packages.The defendants are from Texas, California, Washington state, Illinois, and New Jersey.&quot;SIIA has declared war against those who continue to sell pirated software on auction sites such as eBay,&quot; Kupferschmid said. &quot;Our goal is to give illegal software sellers a rude awakening so that unsuspecting software buyers and legitimate sellers are protected. For too long, auction sellers have been able to sell pirated software while risking only the removal of their auction.&quot;Since launching its Auction Litigation Program about two years ago, SIIA has filed about 20 lawsuits, not including the nine from the last two weeks, Kupferschmid said. The SIIA has won about six of those lawsuits in court, but in every case, the lawsuits have resulted in the seller stopping unauthorized sales of software, he said.&quot;Ultimately, they have stopped selling the illegal software, and that&#39;s what we&#39;re trying to do here,&quot; he said.
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IBM is selling its PC-making business to China's largest personal computer company, Lenovo Group Ltd., for &#36;1.25 billion, marking the U.S. company's retreat from an industry it helped pioneer in 1981.
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IBM is discussing selling its PC business to Lenovo Group Ltd., China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer, according to The New York Times.
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China is to make it easier to fight intellectual property right crimes, a move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant copying of movies, software and other goods that Washington says costs businesses billions of dollars a year.
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IBM will sell its once vaunted personal computer business to Lenovo Group Ltd., the leading computer maker in China.-The Washington Post
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The planned international trade agreement to fight piracy and counterfeiting could help reduce the distribution of fake semiconductors, analysts said Wednesday.The U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday announced that the U.S., European Union, and other countries will negotiate to establish the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which will encourage countries to follow intellectual-property rights established by the World Trade Organization and other global trade groups. The discussions will focus on better international cooperation, best practices, and the establishment of a legal framework to protect intellectual-property rights.ACTA is needed to tackle the proliferation of intellectual-property infringements and to reduce the distribution of counterfeit items, the European Commission said in a study released Tuesday. More than 130 million counterfeit items were seized in 2006.Companies are already taking losses from counterfeit chips, so cracking down on piracy and counterfeiting will ensure reliable electronics and more savings, analysts said.Effective anticounterfeiting measures will ensure electronics contain genuine semiconductors and deliver full performance and reliability, said the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in a statement, lauding the ACTA announcement. SIA already has its own measures to combat semiconductor counterfeiting, SIA said.Semiconductor counterfeiting revolves around replacing labels, said Daryl Hatano, vice president of public policy at the SIA. Semiconductor labels could be changed by counterfeiters to indicate a different brand or better performance, which could affect devices, Hatano said.&quot;If there&#39;s one bad chip, it can cause the failure of the computer,&quot; Hatano said. People who buy counterfeit chips could lose money too by overpaying for fake chips, Hatano said.Cases of counterfeit semiconductors in distribution has increased over the years, though SIA couldn&#39;t provide numbers. SIA is already working with the U.S. government to combat semiconductor counterfeiting, Hatano said.Counterfeit chips could affect research and development of semiconductor companies, said Jim Handy, an analyst with research firm Objective Analysis. Losses from fake chips cause semiconductor companies to tap into research and development budgets, a move that affects the development of future technologies, Handy said.Many cases of counterfeit semiconductors originate from China, which lacks strong intellectual-property enforcement laws, Handy said. Chinese courts tend to support local companies in patent-infringement cases, Handy said.International treaties need to be written in such a way that Chinese courts are motivated to be unbiased, Handy said.The trade agreement is not about ganging up against China or other countries that are not part of the group, the Commission said in its study. Countries are invited to join the initiative for &quot;stronger enforcement to deal with the challenges of piracy and counterfeiting today,&quot; the Commission said.The U.S. will engage in trade agreement discussions Canada, the E.U., Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and Switzerland, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said.
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Google  plans to enter the  online music market in China for the first time, as it steps up  its battle with local incumbent Baidu.com Inc , media  reported on Thursday. Google is expected to announce a joint  venture with Top100.cn, to allow users to listen to and  download licensed music files for free, major portal Sina.com  said, citing local newspaper reports based on sources close to  the U.S. firm.
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EBay Inc. and Taiwanese portal operator PCHome Online Inc. announced their newÂ joint venture Web auction siteÂ on Wednesday, an effort aimed at competing with market leader Yahoo Taiwan Inc.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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A state media report says Chinese law enforcement nabbed and destroyed millions of pirated software discs, CDs and DVDs in a campaign against intellectual property theft.
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Companies to jointly sell routers, operating software in Japan in attempt to increase market share. TOKYO  - Fujitsu Ltd.
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China's largest maker of PCs is one of the potential buyers, newspaper says.
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China promised on Tuesday to get tougher on copyright and patent violations, a long-awaited move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant piracy believed to cost foreign businesses billions of dollars every year.