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Sound and vision extreme (Gallery: Mutant Clones from China)

Sound and vision extreme (Gallery: Mutant Clones from China)Great ideaBeats tinny headphones and digital zoom anyday. Now just make the lens small enough to pull out like a stylus from the casing, then you've got a marketable product. As it is it would be to easy to loose the lens...

Tags: Intellectual property, Strategy, Leadership, Gallery, vision, innovation, intellectual property right

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property

Good and bad news for European net users. The European Union's high court said that under EU law ISPs don't have to provider user data to record labels and movie studios looking to track down illegal downloaders, the AP reports. It seems that privacy rights in the...

Tags: Privacy, Intellectual Property Right, European Union, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Second Life IP rights; here today, gone tomorrow

Second Lifes IP policy reads: "You create it, you own it -- and its yours to do with as you please." The idea being that users own the Intellectual Property rights to any virtual works that they create in-world. However, a more honest version might read, "You create it, you...

Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab, intellectual property, intellectual property right

Blog posts 2007-02-03

The economics of Microsoft's kill switch

Would you sacrifice $10 million in sales to prevent $1 billion in software piracy? How about $100 million? How many customers would you annoy? Interesting questions with no hard and fast answers. Those are the types of questions Microsoft (the figures above are only there...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2006-11-20

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Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010

Recovery is already starting up...Around us, I've noticed construction is starting back up, which means jobs are starting to appear again, which means people won't be losing their homes, which means our local economy is restarting after the craziness. It's about time!RE: Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in...

Tags: Intel Corp., Otellini, patent, recovery

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents

Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

SCO story ends with a whimper

William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS

Why does Apple persistI am amazed the game of cat and mouse Apple users must play to get a phone that they can do with as they please. The same people who openly criticize Microsoft for all and sundry, but the beloved Steve Jobs whom it appears must own their...

Tags: Smart phones, Pwnage, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., jailbreak

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!

My gripe with EULA is when I'm patching software.Why do I need to read an EULA when I'm patching a piece of software (I'm looking at you iTunes)? Shouldn't the patch be covered under the same EULA agreed to when initially installing the software?As for understanding them I do. They...

Tags: EULA, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Light Peak fiber optic connector to replace Firewire, USB, monitor cables

100 Gbps is a pretty conservative estimate...100 Gbps is a pretty conservative estimate because the theoretical maximum throughput on fiber optic is however fast the hardware is on either end of the cable.Developed by Intel, not AppleWhile it appears that Apple may have been important in inspiring this particular standard,...

Tags: Network technology, Fiber optics, Optical networking, FireWire, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., Light Peak, Engadget, fiber-optics, cable, USB

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]

Great in theory, not so great in the real worldThe problem allways comes down to the simple fact that even though something can be done with hardware and software, the user is the component not fully addressed.an XBox or Playstation hooked to a 32 inch television in the den or...

Tags: Games, Virtualization, Game players, cloud computing, console, game, OTOY, Blu-ray disc, game console

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Give Google a break!

soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...

Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

Devaluation of intellectual propertyYou said: "And there are many who believe that ?free? software undermines the value of intellectual property."Of course if does. It is not a question of "believing", it is a fact. But so what? Intellectual property is devalued all the time when something better comes along -...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

The European Union is justifiably investigating whether Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun -- and its subsidiary MySQL -- will lead to reduced competition and higher prices in the database market. Of course it will, and that's part of the reason European regulators are taking a hard look...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-09-04