tech:

taffy

Siemens, Klausner Technologies Enter Into License Agreement

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Siemens Enterprise Communications Inc. and Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG have entered into a patent license agreement with Klausner Technologies, under the Klausner Technologies Visual Voicemail patents.

Siemens is Klausner Technologies’ 40th licensee under its U.S. and foreign patents. Other licensees include international mobile operators, cell phone manufacturers, cable/VOIP providers, providers of OTT Visual Voicemail products as well as providers of Visual Voicemail products and services for the enterprise market.

Klausner Technologies was founded by Judah Klausner, inventor of the PDA and electronic organizer. It owns a catalogue of 25 Visual Voicemail patents, in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Taiwan, Korea and Japan covering the basic Visual Voicemail feature in which users can selectively view and listen to their voice messages via their mobile phones or computers.

Just in

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone — The Verge

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users, writes Tom Warren. 

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it — The Verge

President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year, writes Lauren Feiner.

IBM to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM and HashiCorp have entered into an agreement for IBM to acquire HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security management products, for $6.4 billion.

Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry — CNBC

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter, writes Ashley Capoot.