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- A new look at virtual autopsies
- Using computed tomography CT scans for autopsies is not new. This kind of exam is routinely practiced in several countries read this for example. But except for some autopsies of American soldiers, this technology is not really used in the U.S. This might change now that the Radiological Society of...
- Tags: Computed Tomography, Examiner, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Patent Office 2.0?
- The Patent Office is taking steps to turn itself into a Web 2.0 web service, allowing the public to comment on software patent applications in an effort to improve and speed up the review process, The Washingotn Post reports. The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project...
- Tags: Government technology, Patents
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- As I reported last week from my interview with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas, the patent process is about to taste Web 2.0. The Washington Post reports that a pilot social software project that allows for third-party comments and voting, adding a community, peer review dimension to...
- Tags: Government, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy
- The patent system is not broken, just not perfect. That is the viewpoint of John Dudas, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO. Dudas knows his way around the patent and intellectual property worlds. He was appointed to...
- Tags: Legal, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Can social networking save the Patent Office?
- Here's Technology Review on a fascinating proposal. The US Patent Office is working with several Silicon Valley companies to seek out groundbreaking new ways to deal with the problem of backlog and prior art. The United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO is in a pretty...
- Tags: Beth Noveck, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, examiner
- Blog posts 2006-01-18
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- What's on Obama's iPod?
- On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Data Stream Examiner (zip)
- This program reads a sequential file and has 3 output options: Visual Display with text and HEX options, File Conversion and Data Profiling. Handles EBCDIC and ASCII input, fixed length, text, or CSV. Filters records. Selects individual fields or all fields. Ease of use. Saves initial specifications for re-use as...
- Tags: Data Tools Studio
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PATENT Process, Patenting software, patent, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- SQL Examiner 2008 Professional Edition (msi)
- SQL Examiner 2008 Professional Edition is a database software utility that enables you to compare and synchronize SQL Server database schemas. Now, merging two databases is quick and easy, requiring only a few clicks of your mouse. SQL Examiner 2008 Professional Edition delivers precise results by analyzing the dependencies between...
- Tags: SQL, SQL Examiner 2008 Professional Edition, Databases, Programming Languages, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Work Examiner Standard (zip)
- Work Examiner - Internet monitoring software that allows to generate detailed reports, lock/unlock separate applications or groups of applications. Installing a remote computer monitoring program has never been easier: network installation requires only 3 mouse clicks! This computer and internet monitoring software offers an incredible value at an extremely competitive...
- Tags: Monitoring
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Convicted cop may have been framed with false science
- Former Baltimore police sergeant James A. Kulbicki has served a dozen years in a Maryland prison for the murder of his girlfriend. He was convicted based on the testimony of an FBI forensice expert, who said, that even though police couldn't match the bullet to the gun, a science that...
- Tags: FBI, Fragment, Juror, Prosecutor, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Facebook settles with NY attorney general over sex predators
- Facebook agreed with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to settle charges that the social networking site has failed to responsibly deal with sexual predators on the site, Reuters reports. "Social networking sites, popular among young people, have quickly gained members and appeal, but also act as a magnet...
- Tags: Facebook, Attorney General, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- First patent suit against Linux has a Kevin Bacon-esque connection to Microsoft
- First patent suit against Linux has a Kevin Bacon-esque connection to MicrosoftI LOVE Prior ArtEspecially where Patent Trolls are concerned. I feel a reexamination request coming soon.Not to Mention GEMWhich came out in the late 1970's developed by Xerox for their word processing system. It was used as...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Kevin Bacon-esque connection, Kevin Bacon-esque, Linux HAS, Kevin, Linux, patent suit, First patent suit
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Fixing a broken patent system
- Fixing a broken patent systemReform?Patent reform is meaningless unless software patentability is abolished and it remains first to invent. First to file tends to reward companies with deep pockets. Not necessarily the actual innovator.Sourcing has astronomical elasticity. Example: Compression RDK_aa3.4.6..i2Bill Gates owns most anything to be said and made for...
- Tags: Patent Reform, sourcing, patent system, inventor, patent, continuation, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- URL Examiner (exe)
- Monitor specific URLs. Be alerted by email when a web page fails to load. Be alerted by email, pager or text message when a web page fails to load after numerous concurrent failures. Include cookie information required by some pages. Exclude a block of time to not check (for instance,...
- Tags: Web Page, Cookie, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-10-02
- NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner (exe)
- Account Lockout Examiner will do its best to help you find the source of account references that might be causing account lockout. Just press the button and all possible sources of account lockouts will be scanned on appropriate computers. The tool checks passwords saved for service accounts, persistent drive mappings,...
- Tags: Account, Product, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-09-24
- Peer-to-Patent site relies on public for prior art
- Taking the patents to the people could be the new motto for the US Patent and Trademark Office. Beta News reports that the patent office will launch a new website to allow citizens to evaluate the validity of patent applications.The idea behind the change is to have the Peer-to-Patent website...
- Tags: Patents
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- EnCE EnCase Certified Examiner study guide: Investigate computer components, the boot process, partitions, and file systems
- Computer forensics examiners deal most often with the media on which data is stored, but media devices don't exist in a vacuum, and knowledge of a computer's various components and functions is a must for the competent examiner. In this sample chapter from Encase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCE: EncCase...
- Tags: File System, Sybex, Computer, Productivity
- Book chapters 2007-05-11
- Should the law deputize computer technicians into nabbing child abusers?
- Should the law deputize computer technicians into nabbing child abusers?Bad...Bad...BAD!!!!!Until 18 months ago, I lived in Connecticut. There is a teacher there that has been accused of having porn on a system, which was apparently delivered by spam or malware. She was pronounced guilty and this is now...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, computer technician
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Hardware-based rootkit detection proven unreliable
- For years, weve been convinced by companies like Komoku and BBN Technologies that hardware-based RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to sniff out the presence of a sophisticated rootkit on a compromised machine. Not so fast, says Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher at COSEINC Malware Labs....
- Tags: Black Hat, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
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