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IBM joins OSDL but will USPTO look inside?

Open source attempts to establish easier ways to establish prior art on software are unlikely to make a difference, says PatNews publisher Greg Aharonian, poo-poohing news that IBM has joined up with Open Source Development Labs to create an open source software repository. "This initiative is a great example of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Open Source Development Labs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2006-01-20

The usual suspects are on a patent hunt

It's not every day you see two press releases that passed through the same sets of hands, from different groups, about different things, both telling one story.Yet here they are. The Open Invention Network (IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony are all mentioned) wants to bring Linux patents into...

Tags: Linux-patent, open source, Open Source Development Labs

Blog posts 2005-11-15

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Tim Bray on surviving the tough times

Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...

Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-11

IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting

A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...

Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video

Unlike previous blurry pictures of the new MacBooks, there's a new video of Tuesday's upcoming MacBook revision. It's very clear in spots and, if real, provides new angles at the unannounced machine. The video ("New Aluminum MacBook Ver. 1") clocks in at about 2 minutes and takes...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Video, Machine, Power Button, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake

Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Open source is about belief in code

The code will make you free. It's free code. Build something with it. Add to it and (if it's GPL code) bring those enhancements back so can build the stack higher. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare

News items 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee

News items 2008-10-10

Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

easyStock DataGenerator (exe)

With easyStock DataGenerator the user can produce random generated stock price data. The data looks like real stock prices but is not. User may use this type of data to test trading systems against 100% unknown data. Up to 50000 data periods are possible (end of day = 200 years)....

Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Data, easyStockDater, Output Format, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Pheedstorm (zip)

An open-source Delphi program that monitors web sites and RSS or Atom feeds for keywords and pops up alerts when match is found. It also learns over time about the kind of content that interests you and will alert you when it sees an article you may find interesting. This...

Tags: Web Site, Wuul, Web Site Development, Web Technology, RSS, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Employee PC Activity Monitor (zip)

Instant Monitor allows you to monitor employee's activities on all network computers, such as email, instant message, keystrokes, FTP file transfer, Web sites visited, and applications used. Instant Monitor also can log file operations on employee's computer, such as copy, delete, create, rename, open, and copy file to removable disk....

Tags: Monitor, PC, FLAV, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-10

PHP Source Encoder (zip)

PHP Source Encoder is to protect your PHP or HTML source codes. Obfuscated and encrypted sources run under all platforms. It supports domain name, IP address, and script timeout locks. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: PHP, PHPSourceEncoder, PHP Source Encoder, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Payne Source (exe)

Payne Source is an online multiplayer extreme paintball game that combines elements of paintball and action. The game is free to play forever, but there are advantages to purchasing upgrades. The game can be difficult to learn at first, but others will be there to assist you. Join in and...

Tags: Matt Payne, Payne Source, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10