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- Eolas sues tech giants over Web technology
- It was just a matter of time.They didn't bleed enough from Microsoft so now they are going after other big names. No one is safe.Two words:Frivolous lawsuit.And they said......Eolas would only sue MS. :)Stupid and blind indeed. The Eolas patent is particularly bad, but all software patents need to...
- Tags: Web, web technology, Eolas Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Open Books Alliance: Google Books is nothing less than price-fixing and collusion
- Open Books Alliance accuses Google of creating Rockefeller-like collusion that defeats antitrust and copyright law. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Collusion, Corporate Law, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Amazon knocks Google Book Settlement; Opposition (and some support) lines up
- All partisan and self-interestedI've read several of the briefs as well as Google's proposal, and all of them are filled with self-serving doubletalk. The challenge for the courts will be to decide if one way or the other is less harmful than the other.The "Open Book Alliance" is truly an...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
- You've heard Google's case for digitizing out-of-copyright books and its settlement with publishers and authors. And you've heard the opposition from the newly formed Open Book Alliance. The most spirited take on the out-of-copyright book issue may have come from Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Book Search, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- News to know: Stimilus bill, Twitter Twestival, Microsoft stores, Netflix, Facebook value
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Andrew Nusca: Broadband tax credit cut from stimulus bill Sam Diaz: Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Retail, Personal Finance, Microsoft Outlook, Taxes, E-mail, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Management
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...
- Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Apple is not the real enemy of open source
- Apple embraces DRMs, and any other restrictions the copyright industries want. This is at the heart of its power. Its alliance with the copyright industries has brought Apple from the brink of irrelevance to dominance of the handheld Internet and gadget markets in this decade. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics, Dana Blankenhorn, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital-rights Management, Linux, Management, Open Source, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Security, Software, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
- The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever. The panel pictured from left to right consisted...
- Tags: Innovation, Lawsuit, Patent, Harbor, TiVo Inc., Fred, Lohmann, Copyrights, Copyright System, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Hollywood dinosaurs and the Internet
- Not that this tops the list of things that matter to geeks, but if you live in Los Angeles like I do, it's hard to avoid news about such things. The Director's Guild of America DGA recently cut a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
- Tags: Compensation, Hollywood, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Studio, Music, DGA, Internet, Sales Strategy, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft may sell better in Europe
- Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft may sell better in EuropeUmm......Opera isn't open-source.One correction[i]Forcing Microsoft to strip IE out of Windows or abandon its web standards charge could be a major setback for Microsoft, which still owns more than 93 percent of the PC desktop market.[/i]This isn't true. Apple...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Opera Software ASA, operating system, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- METAmachine 1.6 (Mac)
- METAmachine is an inexpensive, metadata browser that streamlines the important process of editing or adding keywords, licenses and other essential metadata to images, either individually or in batches. METAmachine reads and writes XMP formatted metadata in TIFF, JPEG, PSD and DNG images. METAmachine can be used to write a...
- Tags: Metadata, Apple Macintosh, Image, Hindsight, METAmachine
- Software downloads 2007-11-16
- Hollywood's copyright enforcer
- Hollywood's copyright enforcerI got here from Law School - that says it allLets get businessmen back into business and put the lawyers back into home offices. From this businessman's perspective what is the difference between going to your local library and checking out the film vs pirate copies? How about...
- Tags: Lets Get
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Pro-piracy politician proffers his worldview
- Pro-piracy politician proffers his worldviewReaction...This is a natural reaction to the corruption of reasonable copyright laws by big media. Media companies have been buying our lawmakers for years for the purpose of extending copyright protections virtually forever.This was never the intent of the artificial exclusivity discussed by the founders. No...
- Tags: Pirated Software, CD, RIAA, Swedes
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby group
- Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby groupThat's exactly what it is..." RIAA President Cary Sherman, for his part, has denounced the group's stance as an "extremist" interpretation of the law designed to frighten consumers and policymakers."They just forgot to add.. "Because we want to suck you dry of all...
- Tags: Fair Use Act, CD, voter, copyright law
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability features
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability featuresInsignificant Incremental InventionResearch in Motion has once again produced an invention of minimal significance. It is really obvious to use timing to alter keyboard behavior.It is RIM's inability to produce significant inventions and their unwillingness to fairly compensate those...
- Tags: Strategy, RIM BlackBerry, alliance, patent, inventor, independent inventor, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Google CEO trumped by power video play
- Google’s greatest cheerleader, CEO Eric Schmidt, is being trumped at his own online video game, big time!Schmidt confidently boasted just weeks ago that the Google one-two YouTube and Google Video punch renders Google invincible on the Internet video front, saying to Wall Street that other sites may host their own...
- Tags: Donna Bogatin, Google Inc., NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc., News Corp., online video, video
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- No open source pressure in Viacom-Google case
- Why write about Viacoms suit against Google in an open source blog?Because there but for the grace of open source goes software. (The image is from the ZDNet blog of Donna Bogatin, who holds a different, albeit quite valid, view on these topics.)Back at the turn of the century stories...
- Tags: Google Inc., Business Software Alliance, Viacom Inc., open source, piracy
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recording
- Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recordingGood luck with that :o)And you forgot stationripper, for windows users. Oodles and oodles of free music.:o)Do SomethingHey,These people need to do something of value for the country, like resign.OK, let me understand...I can tape or otherwise record music that plays over the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, satellite, satellite radio, DMCA, Internet radio, music
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- The gag is off: Samba's Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell deal
- On December 21, word leaked out that lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison quit Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell alliance, unveiled in early November. Other than sharing the fact that he had taken a new job with Google, Allison said he couldnt provide specifics on his decision until some time...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Windows server, Windows client, Jeremy Allison, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-30
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