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- How evil is China?
- Matt Asay has a headline today that's doubtless worth a click -- Microsoft and Novell seek to exonerate Chinese piracy. The news peg is that Microsoft and Novell extended their existing agreement on IP to China. They call it "an incremental investment in their relationship" aimed...
- Tags: China, America, Matt Asay, Matt, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Allatori Java Obfuscator (0-Demo)
- Allatori is a Java obfuscator which belongs to the second generation obfuscators' family so it has all spectrum of opportunities on protection of your intellectual property. We have managed to provide the most comprehensive set of features on the market for the highest possible protection. Our obfuscator combines all classic...
- Tags: Protection, Smardec, Allatori, Programming Languages, Intellectual Property, Java, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-04-21
- Invincible ignorance and the Pirates Bay
- Some people are truly exasperating in the depths to which they will go to justify what is clearly wrong. To add insult to injury, their activities undermines the cause of real reformers who might help build a copyright system less tilted against consumers which recognizes that intellectual property is different,...
- Tags: Sweden, Nanotechnology, Intellectual Property, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard
- Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google and Yahoo...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- eVoting systems come under fire
- As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...
- Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Dow Corning Uses Enterprise Rights Management to Help Protect intellectual property
- Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation. The company is based in Midland, Michigan. Dow Corning needed to make it easy for employees to share information while following the company's information protection policies, which dictate how intellectual property must be protected. The company deployed Active Directory...
- Tags: Corning Inc., Rights-management, The Dow Chemical Co., Intellectual Property, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Research & Development, Business Operations, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-27
- Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console
- Still super gluing your USB ports shut? Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual property accounted for more than 74 percent of IT financial losses last year. Put away the super glue and let Novell ZENworks to assess,...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Novell ZENworks, Console, Security Management, Intellectual Property, Financial Accounting, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2008-02-21
- LiveStation: Another Microsoft Silverlight touch point
- Skinkers, a Microsoft OEM, is expanding the beta this week of LiveStation, a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that delivers live TV and radio to a user's PC. LiveStation, which Microsoft Research co-developed with Skinkers, includes a client-based player that runs on top of Silverlight, Microsoft's rich-media technology. Even...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., LiveStation, Microsoft Windows, Peer To Peer (P2P), Intellectual Property, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Great source on cyber espionage
- I am taking a couple of days to explore the slopes at Boyne Mountain. For those of you who regularly ski the Alps and Rockies I have one thing to say. 450 foot (150m) vertical! This is a great article by Christopher Burgess, a 30...
- Tags: Espionage, Slope, Intellectual Property, Sales Tools, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Sales, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- IP-guard
- IP-guard is an all-in-one unique solution for managing and protecting your online and offline computing resources as well as Intellectual Property. IP-guard provides flexible modules-based in our purchase scheme, you can choose specified modules to fit your organization or corporation needs. IP-guard enables your enterprise to understand exactly how the...
- Tags: Module, Computer, Teclink Development, IP-guard, Productivity, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Endlessly extending copyright
- The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Charlie McCreevy, recently declared that copyright for performers be extended from 50 to 95 years. This was proposed, according McCreevy, to remedy a fundamental unfairness, wherein the composer the author of a song has rights that extend 70 years after his death, whereas...
- Tags: Incentive, Financial, Property, Pension, Financial Incentive, Intellectual Property, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources, Sales, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- New Microsoft copyright education initiative sounds neat-o!
- Information Week is reporting on a new Microsoft initiative designed to convince young people of the serious consequences associated with copyright infringement. Microsoft recently conducted a series of studies and found that kids were less likely to violate copyright law whether for software or digital media if they were...
- Tags: Information Week, Microsoft Corp., Intellectual Property, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- VisBiz
- VisBiz is a clever software application which runs on either a single Windows computer or over a network. VisBiz provides you with a suite of practical tools and systems to manage the visibility and controlled access to your underlying business or project files. VisBiz, featuring the original RealFS Relational File...
- Tags: Support Services, Tool, VisBiz, Intellectual Property, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, It Services, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?demanding cloud-based apps?I agree with you that users don't care where applications come from, so anyone -- enterprise or consumer -- won't necessarily demand cloud-based applications. I think the important part of that OpSource point is that users *are* more and more used to going...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, tool, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property
- EU: User privacy rights trump intellectual property...WOW! Kind of makes the home of the [b][u]free[/u][/b] look more like a police state! Oh well the experiment is almost over! ]:)Personal privacy is a higher rightPersonal privacy is a higher right than copyright. If not, every copyright holder would be entitled to...
- Tags: Insurance, Personal Privacy, intellectual property, privacy right
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- 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
- AT
- ATGood questions but a couple of points ...Regarding:"Funny thing is, says law prof Tim Wu, AT&T spent six years lobbying for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which freed them from the responsibility for monitoring,"The DMCA didn't really "free them for monitoring", it gave them an excuse to. Further ...Most...
- Tags: Network technology, Web, Comcast Corp., intellectual property, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?
- Over the summer, a jury handed down a record-setting award in a patent infringement case against Microsoft: $1.5 billion. Alcatel-Lucent claimed Microsoft had infringed their patents in the "backup HQ encoder" in Windows Media Player. The jury calculated the damages by giving Alcatel-Lucent 0.5 percent of the average cost of...
- Tags: Patent, Perlman, Microsoft Windows, Intellectual Property, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?
- Klausner Technologies, a company founded by Judah Klausner who invented the PDA, is suing Apple, AT&T over iPhone's visual voicemail patents. For good measure Klausner is suing Comcast, Cablevision and eBay's Skype. Sound familiar? It should Klausner almost sounds like NTP, which sued Research...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PDA, Cablevision Systems Corp., Patent, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., eBay Inc., NTP, Klausner Technologies, PDAs, Intellectual Property, Handhelds, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Under PIRATE bill, Justice Dept would sue filesharers
- Those representatives of the people, your U.S. senators, may not be able to block the nomination of an attorney general who is not sure that waterboarding is torture, but they are ready to fight against a true evil: P2P pirates. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John...
- Tags: Patrick Leahy, Attorney General, Piracy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Government, Intellectual Property, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Research & Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
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