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- Company claims patent for download apps
- Company claims patent for download appsya knowI really miss the good ol days of the internet before greedy companies got involved. This is ridiculous! At this rate the internet is going to become too expensive to use because we have to pay for any and every action we do. I...
- Tags: Current patent law, patent, Pubpat
- Discussion threads 2004-06-15
- Why Europe is patently mad
- Why Europe is patently madKilling innovation to protect the big moneySoftware patents are indeed a big mistake.Current patent law has the opposite effect of what was intended.Instead of an incentive to innovate, patents have become a form of protection for big business to protect against innovative little guys.This is clearly...
- Tags: Current patent law, patent
- Discussion threads 2004-05-20
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- Watching you watch the debate
- Tonight, as you watch the second presidential debate, Google will be watching you to see what you're searching for. It's just another peek into the minds of voters to find out which issues matter most or which are most confusing or unclear. Take, for example, the results...
- Tags: Debate, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Online, hard to avoid debate
- Tonight's presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC's Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as "an odd mix of debates, speeches, political humor, soundbites and commentary." Hulu is also showing Crawford, a film about the effects of...
- Tags: Debate, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Blogger ethics, public relations... and you
- Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...
- Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data
- O'Reilly just released a new book, iPhone Forensics, Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets (US$39.99) by Jonathan Zdziarski. Any given iPhone is likely to contain sensitive information belonging to its owner, and some types of information that may belong to others: corporate email, documents, and photos, to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments
- I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- SAP: first to hit the buffers
- SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...
- Tags: Software, SAP AG, U.S. GAAP Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies
- The scene: An Irish preschool for toddlers. The children sit on the floor in a semi-circle, watching a TV screen. They squeal with delight at "The Little Mermaid," "Toy Story" and other Hollywood kids' fare. Enter a black-masked villain, carrying a fearful letter. He is not the true villain, though;...
- Tags: Villain, Hollywood, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Taxes, TVs, Free Trade, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Mice, Financial Planning, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system
- The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut down the key leg of its iPod empire was just corporate posturing) but the Board also set a...
- Tags: Board, Ring Tone, Rate, Copyright Royalty Board, Corporate Governance, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?
- I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...
- Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- I recently received a promotional email from a large Internet-based retailer that shall for the moment remain nameless (cough! Amaz-ahem!) As I was considered to be a high-volume "Prime" customer, this online retailer wanted to offer me a 30-day trial of their their premier store-branded consumer...
- Tags: Retail Company, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx
- IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebExWhy the big fuss over microblogs?The current pattern of Web 2.0 innovation starts with the incubation and socialization of a concept in the consumer space. For many vendors, this is just baiting the hook. Once these behaviors are socialized, maybe the most devoted...
- Tags: Bluehouse, IBM Launches, WebEx Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-05
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