Part of the sale will be paid by a consortium of technology companies that was organized by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation.
[C1.] BUILDING A NEW NETWORK A consortium of technology and telecommunications companies intends to build a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks.
A good example is the Liberty Alliance, a consortium of technology companies, led by Sun, and many large corporate customers like United Airlines, American Express and General Motors.
A consortium of technology and computer companies are already lobbying House members to resist addressing procedures to re-examine patents in their bill.
Novell also plans to sell some intellectual property assets like patents for $450 million to a consortium of technology companies led by Microsoft.
There is already a measure to evaluate data centre energy efficiency: the power usage effectiveness metric, developed by The Green Grid, a consortium of technology industry leaders including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
A consortium of technology heavyweights led by Facebook wants to fill the world with enormous low-cost computing centers, using the same collaborative techniques that created an explosion of software development over the past decade.
Named recently by a consortium of technology magazines as one of the most 100 influential people in the field of information technology, Felten believes that many important problems with the Internet have less to do with the technology itself than with the way in which people use it.
A consortium of technology companies is creating a standard for machine-readable privacy disclosure on the Internet.
Bluetooth is actually a consortium of technology and phone companies announced last May to develop a wireless standard that uses short-range radio frequencies to connect laptops, digital cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), network access points and other peripheral devices such as cameras, printers and PC cards.
Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft, for $450 million in cash, which payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.
