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- New OASIS chairman replaced after only five months
- New OASIS chairman replaced after only five monthsFYIA much older standards body ([url="http://www.jedec.org"]JEDEC[/url]) which deals almost entirely in hardware [1] has a [url="http://www.jedec.org/Home/manuals/JEDEC_Patent_Policy_Stmt.pdf"]patent policy[/url] much stricter than OASIS' current RAND policy.If OASIS had adopted JEDEC's "unencumbered if possible, RAND if you must" policy from the beginning, I suspect that the...
- Tags: Corporate governance, OASIS, board, Eduardo Gutentag
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
- New OASIS chairman replaced after only five months
- No real details on this yet. But a quick examination of the Board of Directors page over at OASIS' web site reveals that after barely five months at the helm, OASIS Chairman of the Board Jim Hughes of HP--who held that title as recently as yesterday--has been replaced...
- Tags: OASIS
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
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- Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer
- An unpatched cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft's flagship Internet Explorer browser could expose Windows users to cookie hijacks and credentials theft attacks, according to a warning from security researchers. The zero-day flaw, which has been reported to Microsoft, is a variation of Eduardo Vela's IE Ghost Busters talk:...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Zero-day Bug, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Driving with poor vision becomes possible
- Spanish researchers have developed and successfully tested a computer simulator allowing visually impaired to drive. This system is called SERBA (short for 'Sistema Electro-óptico Reconfigurable de ayuda para Baja Visión'), which means 'Reconfigurable Electric-Optical System for Low Vision' in English. This innovative system is based on a reconfigurable device known...
- Tags: Patient, Vision, FPGA, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Artificial brains for robots?
- An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum -- the portion of the brain that controls motor functions -- inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for 'SENSOrimotor structuring of perception and action for emerging cognition.' One of the goals of this...
- Tags: Project, Robot, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Brazil: the beginning of the end of anonymity?
- Brazilian Senator Eduardo Azeredo has introduced a bill that would make it a crime to surf the Web behind a mask. If the bill is passed, youll land in jail for four years if you "send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously." All such activities must...
- Tags: Brazilian, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Verizon blocks county from using its poles
- You gotta love Verizon. They're tearing up New York City to install their own fiber-optics so they can better compete with the city's cable franchises. But when a school-government consortium in Michigan wanted to use the phone company's poles to string fiber for a public project? No way. The...
- Tags: pole, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Sun outlines Java open source roadmap
- Rich Green, Sun EVP for software, used the Linux World conference as the stage to update the story of Java's journey into the world of open source. It's part of the open sourcing of the entire Sun portfolio. During a press event, Green said that open source is a means...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Laurie Tolson
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Is there a case for the WebOS?
- Is there a case for the WebOS?Amen Brother!WebOS = A solution in search of a problem. I can do everything they talk about with JUST a browser - no need for PHP and Apache loaded locally. Just because something CAN be done is no reason to actually do it! Count...
- Tags: Desktops, Web, WebOS, desktop, word app
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- EyeOS - Case Study on how people are using a WebOS
- A few months ago I wrote a series of posts Most EyeOS users see it as "a virtual web desktop" on what I termed the WebOS, a web-based Operating System. Most of the feedback from ZDNet readers was about why anyone would need...
- Tags: EyeOS
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- WebOS conversation heats up - EyeOS claims Orca is vaporware
- My post on WebOS candidate Orca has stirred up a heated debate in the Talkback between representatives from WebOS companies Orca, EyeOS and XIN. I've already profiled two of these WebOS solutions, XIN and Orca also see my overview of the WebOS market. My review of EyeOS is coming soon....
- Tags: Orca, EyeOS
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Google's battle over library books
- Google's battle over library booksHey Google, look over shoulder at tv screenthey are trying to make it so you can't record content, . . the broadcast flag being the "at the discretion of the content provider" to allow or disallow time shifting and commercial skip, so yes, it makes perfect...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-24
- Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODF
- Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODFDeja vue all over againMicrosoft spent two years prior to the year with Massachusetts going through these exact same arguments with the European Union TAC commission. It was the same thing, with the EU/TAC setting their test for “openness”, and Microsoft arguing...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-10-14
- In raising ante on definition of 'open', Sun shuts its critics up
- Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Massachusetts' recent decision to standardize on the royalty-free OpenDocument Format ODF as one of the standard file formats that will be used to store and exchange that state's documents the other format was PDF, along comes news that may...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
- Good day, OASIS
- ZDNet's David Berlind observed a change at the helm of OASIS. Namely, Sun's Eduardo Gutentag has replaced HP's Jim Hughes as chairman of the board of OASIS.OASIS has been embroiled in controversy as of late, because its patent policy permits participating vendors to hold an unusual amount of control over...
- Tags: patent policy, OASIS
- Blog posts 2005-08-03
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