Nigerian firm demands $20m from OLPC
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Non-profit org slapped with infringement suit Lagos Analysis Corporation (Lancor) is continuing its legal attack against the One Laptop Per Child foundation.â¦
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Airports operator BAA is to say that last month's terror security alert cost the business at least Â£20m.
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Business & money: Insurer Resolution is under pressure to seek talks on a Â£35bn bid from rival Pearl Group.
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The Nigerian Senate has ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to pay 1.5 billion dollars (1.2 billion euros) compensation for damages caused by nearly 60 years of exploration in the Niger Delta, a Senate document said.
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An engineering firm has unveiled ambitious plans to nearly triple its workforce after its parent company agreed to invest pounds 20m in its expansion.
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THE Nigerian Government has ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to pay $2.13 billion in compensation for damage caused by nearly 60 years of exploration in the Niger Delta, a Senate paper said yesterday.
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Telecoms equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent  could cut up to 20 percent of staff, French weekly l'Expansion reported on Tuesday.
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Canada and Nigeria agreed to terms under which the Canadian International Development Agency is to provide 24.9 million Canadian dollars (20.4 million US) for health projects in the west African country.
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The Nigerian government has launched a $7bn lawsuit against the world's largest drug manufacturer over claims that a medical experiment left children dead or with permanent disabilities.
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Airports operator BAA will announce on Tuesday that last month's security alert cost the business at least Â£20m.
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Nigeria's umbrella union body said on Tuesday it would give the government until Sunday to reverse a 20 per cent hike in domestic fuel prices in the world's eighth largest oil producer or it would call a general strike.
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About 20 Nigerians  working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted  during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying  oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Telecommunications giant tries to attract consumers who make few long-distance calls with a $20-per-month local plan.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University $20 million toward construction of a new computer science building.
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A company suing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement has asked for $20 million to settle claims that the nonprofit had copied its keyboard.Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor, is still trying to settle after&#160;filing the patent lawsuit&#160;in Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Nigeria, said Ad&#233; Oyegbola, Lancor&#39;s CEO. Lancor, now based in Natick, Massachusetts, has offices in Nigeria and owns a Nigerian patent for a four-shift keyboard, allowing computers to better handle multiple languages, Oyegbola said.Oyegbola on Wednesday confirmed information published on the Groklaw blog saying that in August his company had asked OLPC for $20 million. That figure was based on OLPC information on potential distribution in Nigeria, Oyegbola said.Nigeria, in July 2006,&#160;placed an order for 1 million of the laptops, but the Nigerian government is now reviewing that decision. Lancor&#39;s Konyin Multilingual Keyboards sell for $19.95, meaning 1 million of them would be worth approximately $20 million.Lancor in December obtained a temporary injunction against OLPC distributing its laptop in the country.&quot;We didn&#39;t start the process because we&#39;re looking for the money,&quot; Oyegbola said. &quot;It doesn&#39;t make sense for us not to protect our intellectual property.&quot;Lancor, in its lawsuit, accuses OLPC of illegal reverse engineering its multilingual keyboard.But OLPC had not yet begun selling its laptop at the time of the demand, OLPC&#39;s lawyer wrote in a letter published on Groklaw. &quot;I feel obliged to note that, given the fact that OLPC has sold no multilingual keyboards, and that, according to Lancor&#39;s Web site, its multilingual keyboard sells for $19.95, your demand for $20 million is not well founded,&quot; lawyer Bruce Parker of the Foley Hoag law firm wrote.Groklaw&#39;s Pamela Jones, a frequent critic of patent lawsuits against open-source projects, called the lawsuit &quot;ridiculous.&quot;&quot;In short, they apparently jumped the gun, sending the dunning letter before OLPC had even shipped anything, not to mention that OLPC is a charity, not a business, and asking for money in a sum that doesn&#39;t match reality,&quot; she wrote.A OLPC spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for a comment.Oyegbola said he hopes his company can still settle with OLPC. &quot;We&#39;re hoping it doesn&#39;t get to [a trial],&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s in the hands of the lawyers now.&quot;The evidence against OLPC is sketchy, Jones wrote on Groklaw. She questioned Oyegbola&#39;s motives, saying his actions may aid a rival project by Intel.&quot;Maybe this doomed litigation effort will last just long enough for a Nigerian knock-off of the OLPC, or the&#160;OLPC on Intel, to become ready for release,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Maybe it&#39;s just about money a couple of guys want. Who knows why people do things like this?&quot;The goal of the nonprofit OLPC, founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte, is to donate laptops to children in developing nations. Through Dec. 31, residents of the U.S. and Canada could&#160;donate $400 and get one laptop for themselves, while sending a second to a child overseas.
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Nigeria's top energy adviser says oil extraction partnerships with foreign firms should be reviewed.