Many a geek have participated in Netflix’s competition to improve their recommendation algorithm. The prize? $1 million. However, Netflix has now officially cut the second iteration of this competition short due to privacy concerns. Apparently, a woman filed a lawsuit against Netflix claiming that her private life could be violated by the huge database of more »

A couple of months ago, the tech community got wind of a patent infringement allegation from a Toronto based company i4i against Microsoft. The basic accusations consisted Microsoft Word’s handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files were infringing upon a certain XML handling algorithm i4i had patented. However, the buzz died within a few minutes more »