Norwegian food retailers discard over 50,000 tonnes of food annually – much of it of perfectly good quality. New technology from Norway could substantially reduce this wastefulness.

Billionaire Paul Allen invokes patents won by long-defunct research firm to ensnare 11 of the biggest technology and office-supply companies in an infringement lawsuit.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is suing nearly a dozen major companies, including tech giants Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC.

# patents Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has launched a salvo of litigation over disputed patents, targeting Apple, Google, AOL, and Netflix, among others. None of the patents involve technology Allen was responsible for creating, but were licensed through his Silicon Valley incubator. More »

The University of Texas at Austin’s new Health Information Technology program has received $2.7 million as a part of the Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information Technology (PURE HIT) consortium project supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.

Networking Technology, Inc., the leader in electronic health solutions, today announced that their electronic health record modular technology, RxNT eHr V 7.0 earned additional certification in CCHIT’s Preliminary ARRA IFR Stage 1 program.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Samplify Systems, Inc., a leading provider of signal-compression technology, semiconductors, and solutions, today announced that the Chinese Government has granted the company its second series of technology patents for medical imaging applications. These new patents come on the heels of the first series of patents that were granted earlier this month …

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Rambus, NVIDIA, Micron Technology, Nelnet and SLM

Oracle Corp. filed a patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc., claiming its Android software for mobile devices uses technology Oracle obtained in its January acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Oracle Corp. filed a patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. over its Android software, citing technology gained from the January acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc.