Remember the Knack? A monster hit called “My Sharona” catapulted the band to fame in the late 1970s - briefly. The Knack couldn’t follow up, quickly descending to trivia fodder.
The flubbed follow-up: The business world is littered with them.
Motorola Inc. knows this only too well: Its StarTAC mobile phone in the late 1990s was a […]

Apple Computer Inc. Wednesday (Aug. 23) said that it will pay Singapore’s Creative Technology Ltd. some $100 million as part of a broad, out-of-court settlement over MP3 technology.
The settlement ends a bitter dispute in which Apple (Cupertino, Calif.) and Creative swapped various patent suits over MP3 technology. Creative alleged that Apple’s iPod product line infringed […]

Apple Computer will resolve its patent squabble with Creative Technology by paying the Singapore-based company US$100 million for a license to use a recently awarded patent.
The deal announced today ends all legal disputes between the companies, including five currently pending lawsuits, according to a statement. In return for its payment, Apple will get a paid-up […]

Microsoft’s challenge to Apple’s reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to “DJ” by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.
Plans submitted to the
Federal Communications Commission by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba provided a glimpse at the workings of an MP3 player designed by Microsoft Corporation based in Redmond, Washington.
The […]