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Thursday, September 05, 2002

Apple Keeps x86 Torch Lit with 'Marklar' - As Apple Computer Inc. draws up its game plan for the CPUs that will power its future generations of Mac hardware, the company is holding an ace in the hole: a feature-complete version of Mac OS X running atop the x86 architecture.

According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been working steadily on maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of its Unix-based OS. The project (code-named Marklar, a reference to the race of aliens on the "South Park" cartoons) has been ongoing inside Apple since the early days of its transition to the Unix-based Mac OS X in the late '90s. - EWeek

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News: Patent suit could dock eBay:"eBay, one of the biggest success stories on the Web, is being threatened with a patent infringement lawsuit that could force it to modify its winning auction format. A loss could compel the Internet auction company to pay millions of dollars in royalties and damages and even to make significant changes to its business model. MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site's offer to purchase his patents. The company first contacted Woolston in 2000 with an interest in buying the patents, and e-mails to that effect are expected to figure prominently in the case since they indicate that eBay knew about his patents yet continued to infringe them, he said. "
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