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- Software and business method patents may still be valid
- Software and business method patents may still be validNot meaning to be picky, but...The real questions are:1. Was State Street rightly decided? In other words, are software and business method patents really valid, or did the Federal Circuit call it wrong? I think it's the latter.2. ...
- Tags: Wieder, patent, business method patent, software, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?
- A rejection of a patent application by a U.S. appeals court today is expected to send shockwaves through some industries, notably the software industry, as it will likely put an end to the patenting of "business methods" considered to be more entrepreneurial than innovative. Meanwhile, some say the ruling is...
- Tags: Innovation, Patent, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- KY judge gives gambling sites 30 days to block users
- KY judge gives gambling sites 30 days to block usersI doubt this will stand a Supreme court...challenge. This is no less than stealing by the court. It is not the duty of individual site owners to block specific users from their site.I can't see where a state court could have...
- Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Web technology, sites 30-day
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
- In court: iPhone suit dismissed, Qwest conviction reviewed
- Lots of court action today: Apple won a summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit charging the company with deceiving consumers on iPhone batteries, Bloomberg reports. ``Apple disclosed on the outside of the iPhone package that the'' battery has ```limited recharge...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Qwest Communications Inc., Arbitration, Apple Inc., Conviction, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Levin out as Black Duck's CEO
- Black Duck Software -- a pioneer in the open source legal consulting business -- has lost its CEO. On Thursday, Douglas Levin, the company founder and a director at the Waltham, Mass.-based company, announced his resignation, effective Sept. 1. The announcement came the same day that...
- Tags: Black Duck Software, CEO, Corporate Governance, Open Source, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- It's a big day for open source software as a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that just because a developer gave code away for free doesn't mean it's not copyright protected. The win, which stemmed from a railroad hobbyist spat, was praised by Stanford's Lawrence Lessig. The...
- Tags: Eleventh Circuit, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- COPA suffers another blow
- InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- COPA is unconstitutional
- The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally overly broad and vague. The court also ruled that...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Parental Control, Third Circuit, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web search
- Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web searchSo what?So what if her "rights" were "violated"? If, in fact, the illegality of the actions of the police had not shown her to be guilty, then she is owed an apology and possibly some sort of monetary award. However, as...
- Tags: SEARCH, Internet search, Web, killer, Police Blotter, investigator
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasm
- Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasmCompetition vs. consumersYour second pre-condition for evaluating the appropriateness of anti-trust regulation was "Whether the regulations actually result in better systems that benefit consumers."Worth noting that "better" is a subjective decision, and an ambitious regulator would in effect be asked to judge whether his power grab made the world a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Regulations, Litigation, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Fuming over fumes: E.P.A. is 0 for 3 with a loss in the blogosphere
- The Environmental Protection Agency Orwellian doublespeak in its current incarnation seems to be having its own lame duck problems during the final months of the current American regime. The latest two attacks come from the non-executive parts of the federal government itself. A federal appeals court...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blogosphere, Blogging, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Google's antitrust throwdown
- Google's antitrust throwdownWell...I too am unconvinced that this takeover thing is good in any sense. Personally, I think where anti-trust is going to come in is not over search, but over the portal, IM and webmail dominance it'd give Microsoft. Mind you that presumes that the userbase for these services...
- Tags: Web browsers, Corporate law, INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Interesting JC, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- U.S. appeals court hands Google patent case setback
- U.S. appeals court hands Google patent case setbackU.S. appeals court hands Google patent case setbackHAHA Google isn't the almighty and just can't do as it pleases. Smack in the face for Google!
- Tags: Google Patent case setback, case setback, Google Patent, Google Inc., U.S. Appeals Court
- Discussion threads 2007-12-27
- SCO bankruptcy was celebrated online in 2007
- SCO bankruptcy was celebrated online in 2007SCO "Suing Commendable Operating_systems"Like a game of all-in no limit poker, SCO thought they had 4 aces and called all in. Linux said, "we'll call", and flopped the Royal Flush". Whether or not SCO had any legitimacy to it's claims, the way they went...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, bankruptcy, SCOG, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-15
- Appeals court: Damn the whales, full steam ahead
- It seems like every year at this time, the Navy wants to use sonar in training exercises off the California coast, and every time the issue winds up in court. This year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Navy the thumbs up, Reuters reports. There...
- Tags: Panel, Sonar, Mitigation, Navy, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Microsoft says (again) it will comply fully with EU antitrust demands
- Microsoft says again it will comply fully with EU antitrust demandsThe new proxySure, MS caves to the EU's demands. Of course the interface specs will still be encumbered so the FOSS community won't touch them. No big loss for MS.On the other hand MS continues the attack. It's now known...
- Tags: Government, OPEN SOURCE, suspicion, Microsoft Corp., DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS, EU Antitrust, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- News to know: Office service pack; Salesforce.com; IT woe; Ubuntu flaw
- Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: The first Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta is out.Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com landing larger deployments. Dennis Howlett: The ERP mess we're in.David Berlind: Tech Shakedown #5: Microsoft justifies Vista's forcing of unwanted reboots. More Technology Shakedowns.Michael Krigsman: 10 ways implementation teams destroy IT projects.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Ubuntu, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, XenSource Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
White Papers and Webcasts
In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, Principal Engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, "Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms."
