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The best protection for software assets

Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...

Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

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Seeking a Stallman for open source

Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman, open source, Icaza, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall

'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfallI used to really dislike the RIAA......But now. They are my enemy FOREVER. They are a criminal organization no different than the mafia that use something they didnt create, something that scientists and DARPA created and is currently maintained by techology geeks...

Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, RIAA, downfall

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google

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. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratorium

Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumnonsensesequestration of CO2 is just total nonsense. It is technically impossible and outrageous.RE: Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumWaxman would happily feed his children to polar bears if the Sierra club said it was the right...

Tags: carbon dioxide, coal, heartland, coal plant

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

News to know: Debate Hub, Clickjacking; RIM's Q2; Twitter; Slingbox goes HD

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled ‘Debate Hub’ as social, political destination Former Google product manager ‘disappointed’ by T-Mobile G1 ...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Matthew Miller, Research In Motion Ltd., Sam Diaz, Security, Twitter

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...

Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Indictments in huge hacking & theft case

Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...

Tags: SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Retail, hacker, hacking, huge hacking, wireless, Manifesto, theft case

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Indictments in huge hacking & theft case

A federal grand jury returned indictments today on 11 defendants in one of the largest hacking and online theft cases ever. The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals from around the world with stealing 40 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking the networks of nine retailers and stealing an...

Tags: Belarus, Hacking, Debit Card, Ukraine, Debit Card Number, Unauthorized Access Device, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput

Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaputWhat happens if...Icahn's slate wins this is still a serious possibility and MS still isn't interested in buying, or would only be willing at a greatly reduced price? I would think that Icahn would have no choice but to run Yahoo...

Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Yang, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote

Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML voteAsk any lawyer[i]Ultimate question: Now that three formal appeals have been filed, is the Joint Technical Committee going to take them seriously?[/i]Well, we can start by asking "what happens if they don't?" We can look in the Directives for answers there, for instance...

Tags: ISO standards, Office Open XML, ISO, anti-MS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" system

Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" systemHow Soon We ForgetEven WITH Apple consent and lots of sales Power Computing and its Mac clone line is long gone. Apple does not need to disable hackintoshes; benign neglect will do the job quite well, thank you.Putting it another way, if one...

Tags: Professional development, Blogging, Psystar, Apple Inc., career, Hackint0sh, PC, science experiment

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Skytap and the test lab in the clouds

Several companies in the virtualization software club have focused on using some combination of virtual machine software, virtual access software and management software for virtual environments to make development and testing easier and more productive. Since most organizations having industry standard system configurations are only using a fraction of the...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Environment, Resource, Skytap, Skytap Virtual Lab, Skytap Library, End-user Organization, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-14

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ringbig brother is watching usIf a governor was watched for suspicious terrorist activities just imagine those with weird names and no fame being checked every day, or worse, detained at undisclosed facilities.The REALLY interesting IT angle on thisI found...

Tags: Strategy, prostitution, hooker, Eliot Spitzer, information system

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Revealed: The mysteries of Apple's logo and other high-tech brands

Like other high-tech companies, Apple sometimes changes its logo to better express its brand and its current corporate personality. However, few of the logos from its silicon-era peers have undergone such a vast transformation as Apple. A post by Alex Santoso on the Neatorama site tracks the...

Tags: Logo, Brand, Article, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-20

What are the best interests of advertisers on Facebook?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk, who has spent 15 years as a creative director crafting messages for advertisers, explains what advertisers really want in the age of Facebook. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg took this weekend off. You know, hung out at Starbucks,...

Tags: Facebook, Brand, Advertiser, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Turtle Beach Ear Force AK-R8

Plenty of PC headphones and audio cards offer a "headphone surround-sound" mode, but it's often little more than a sophisticated reverb mode that uses psychoacoustics to trick the mind into thinking it's hearing something beyond a stereo (2-channel) source. That's why the Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA headphones were so...

Tags: Ear Force AK-R8, headphone, Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA, PC, AASRM, earcup, USB

Product reviews 2007-11-01

Steve Jobs proves you can't please all the people all the time

Steve Jobs proves you can't please all the people all the timeSpot onWell written. I do agree and have made a similar case myself on occasion though not so well written. Apple is a luxury brand (well, probably more of an interesting blend of luxury and commodity).RE: Steve...

Tags: Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Products

Discussion threads 2007-09-24