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- Microsoft Patent App would add "trust system" to some cut-and-paste operations
- There's a newly published Microsoft Patent application that - at least the way I read it- seems to both alter and add significant options to the way in which cut-and-paste is performed between various Windows-compatible documents and utilities. That's not to say you...
- Tags: Word-processing, Application, Document, Portion, Paste, Managed Code, Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Logic, Determination, FIG, Managed Code Environment, Word-processing Application, Application Domain, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
- A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
- Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- EXCLUSIVE: Apple Patent app describes way for users to resize icons
- A newly published Apple Patent application describes technology that would let users adjust the size of their icons. The Patent app is entitled, Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons. What's significant about this application is- unlike the...
- Tags: Characteristic, Apple Inc., Size, Icon, User, Value, Patent App, FIG, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Browser-based spelling autocorrection described in Microsoft Patent app
- Technology described in a newly published Microsoft Patent application would enable automated spell-checking of text entered by the user in a networked Web browser.The way I read this Patent's literature, an example of this functionality would be if, when you were accessing the Web through a network-connected broswer, the technology...
- Tags: microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- BlackBerry Patent app enables custom fonts
- Technology described in a newly published BlackBerry Patent application would allow for customized fonts created outside the BlackBerry device environment to be exported into the device for use as text fonts.The Patent app is entitled, Method of Rendering Text on an Output Device.We can obtain a basic idea of the...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-07-07
- BlackBerry Patent app would dim unviewed portion of display screen
- Technology described in a fascinating IMHO newly published BlackBerry Patent application would seek to preserve battery life by darkening the BlackBerry display screen for portions of a view outside the "area of interest."The all-caps title of this Patent app is METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A DISPLAY...
- Tags: News, BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- New Google Patent would use media keywords to trigger social network connections
- Published just this morning, a new Google Patent application entitled Social and Interactive Applications for Mass Media would trigger instant connections to user's social networks based on a type of audio recognition of key phrases the user encounters in broadcast or multimedia applications they are watching or listening to.By mapping...
- Tags: Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- EXCLUSIVE WITH ART: Apple Patent app reveals all about forthcoming iPhone's form factor
- An Apple patent application published Thursday reveals more about a forthcoming iPhone "form factor" (shape, controls, and related functionalities) than other pundits have seemed to realize to date.So glad then, that you have come here. For I will present a greater detail about the Patent app than you can get...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Computer Inc., control element, embodiment, touch-surface, FIG
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Cool Codes
- Monday of last week was one of those “convergence” days. I’m sure you know the feeling. Besides being my 29th wedding anniversary, it was the first day of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. Before my wife and I drove out to Half Moon Bay to celebrate, I was...
- Tags: Fig, Hot Chips
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- Here's what the BlackBerry camera phone will look like
- I've just broke this on my BBHub blog...world exclusive, was first with this: BlackBerry patent application for a long-awaited camera-equipped, or camera-connectible BlackBerry has just been published.That's the abstract at the top of this post.Now here's a sketch of the device: From my BBHub post, this will help you...
- Tags: FIG, camera
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Here's the Patent Net2Phone is suing Skype for infringement about
- As my colleague Dawn Kawamoto reports today, Net2Phone has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Skype and eBay. Net2Phone, which filed its lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleges that Skype infringed on its patent, No. 6,108,704. The Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP patent was...
- Tags: FIG, IP, point-to-point
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
Additional Resources
- Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?
- Those projections about global cooling better kick in quick cause the temperatures here on earth in real time are real hot. September was the second hottest month ever recorded when you look at surface temps for both oceans and landmass. The month's daily temps average more than a...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows
- I don't see much use for dragging a window to the top of the screen.Might as well just double click on the title bar to maximize it and then double click on it again to restore it. It doesn't make sense to drag it to the top of the screen.Thanks...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, window, title bar
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Maldives taking their final dive?
- Will the island nation of Maldives disappear? Even Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV has reported on the uncertain future of the low-lying islands. And now the Maldives' president is asking the world to take action to save his tiny nation. Of course, Maldivians see their homeland threatened not...
- Tags: Sea Level, Global Warming, Maldives, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- U.S. still thumbing its nose at global warming agreements
- Japan's new prime minister is leaning toward putting greenhouse gas emission limits on his nation. This week he will tell the U.N. he wants a 25% reduction in emissions by 2020. The out-going Japanese regime had been less interested in taking action. There's no such move likely from...
- Tags: Agreement, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-20
- Global warming, bring it on...
- That's the attitude our current approach to global warming seems to reflect. We are doing precious little to blunt climate change. A report just published by a group of scientists finds the effects of global warming on other animals is already severe. This report focuses on arctic...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Global warming denial alert: human activities cancelling nature's cooling trend
- New scientific data shows that not only is the Arctic warming, but human-caused air pollution is cancelling out a natrual trend that would otherwise have the Arctic cooling. The Arctic is the warmest it's been in 2000 years. That's despite a natural wobble in the earth's solar orbit...
- Tags: Global Warming, Arctic, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
- Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Heartland to become Hotland?
- Nature Conservancy says Kansas and their neighboring states will bear the brunt of global warming. Here's Nature Conservancy's release on their study and projections if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Here's the Climate Wizard that allows you "map" the climate of any area of the U.S. ...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- It's about the timing
- In real estate it's location, etc. In global warming it may well be about the timing, the speed of change reflected in this interview. Sure, the earth's always going through heating and cooling cycles, but as this diver and conservationist argues, has the planet ever warmed this rapidly?...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
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