News briefs: Amino rejects patent breach claim; NextGen raises £1.5m
IPTV platform supplier Amino rejected the claim that it has infringed patents relating to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard and said that it has not been served with any patent enforcement actions.
In cooperation with its suppliers as appropriate, Amino Communications, a subsidiary of Amino Technologies plc, said it will vigorously defend itself. Amino will also seek an award of its attorney's fees in defending itself and for damages to its reputation.
Amino asserted that those parties threatening to issue enforcement actions have no legal right to remove Amino products containing MPEG-2 technologies from sale, or to receive any damages or other recovery from Amino or any person purchasing Amino's products.
CEO Bob Giddy (pictured) said: "Since 2005, we have tried to reconcile agreements with our suppliers and MPEG LA. We treat this matter and our obligations on third party IPR very seriously. Amino has numerous third party licenses, including licenses with MPEG LA, and together with our suppliers we continue to press MPEG LA to resolve the matter at the earliest opportunity."
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NextGen said it has conditionally placed 500 million ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each through its broker, Ellis Stockbrokers Ltd, with an existing shareholder. The Placing Shares are to be issued at 0.3 pence per share to raise £1.5m before expenses, to provide development funding and general working capital, which the Directors believe will be sufficient for its current requirements.
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Lemur Consulting said its Flax Basic enterprise search solution is available for download free. Flax Basic is a search application, and offers an example of some of the features of Flax, the advanced enterprise and site search engine. Flax Basic meets the search requirements of many organisations. For those requiring more complex search functionality, Lemur develops tailored, business-centric solutions based on the proven Flax platform.
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Through a collaborative effort with DisplayLink, InFocus is incorporating DisplayLink’s USB graphics connection technology into future InFocus projectors.
With the pervasive use of presentations in meetings, the awkward ritual of connecting a laptop to a projector has become a significant source of technology frustration and meeting delay. The goal of the InFocus and DisplayLink development effort is to eliminate the setup hassle and make meetings everywhere more seamless and productive.
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TTP LabTech , part of TTP Group plc, said it has been granted a licence for the application of Resonant Acoustic Profiling (RAP) technology incorporated in the RAP•id 4 instrument in the areas of drug discovery and life sciences by Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH (part of the Inverness Medical Innovations group of companies).
TTP LabTech has also acquired the design, manufacturing, and marketing rights to the RAP•id 4 instrument, together with associated sensors and consumables, from Akubio Ltd.
RAP is based on resonant quartz sensor technology optimised for the detection of molecular interactions. By directly detecting molecules bound to the surface of a quartz crystal, the system enables concentration measurement and analysis of the binding events between specific molecules in complex samples that may contain solvents, serum, growth media or other impurities. Currently, few technologies offer life scientists the ability to detect real-time kinetic data of this quality across such a broad range of samples, sample purity and sample concentrations.
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Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, said it has entered into a significant license agreement with Fortis to license Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer software.
Autonomy ZANTAZ, a leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive Information Risk Management markets, said its Digital Safe on-demand compliance and eDiscovery archival solution had the largest amount of data under management.
Leveraging Autonomy's IDOL search engine, ZANTAZ claims the unique position of being the only service provider to create a consolidated archive of all information sources, including e-mail and IM, voice video, and enterprise systems. The November 2007 acquisition by Autonomy of electronic records management software provider Meridio will provide more-robust retention management technology for integration with the archiving offerings.
8 March 2008
