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- Inventor: SSL not to blame for security woes
- Inventor: SSL not to blame for security woesThats Right!People who insist on taking their entire customer database to the beach with them on their silly laptop using the most insecure thing of all, WiFi, to connect to the database so their kids can play games on their laptop that they...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Innovation and competition
- Innovation and competitionInvention first - then innovationThomas Edison invented hundreds if not thousands of things. Many of them were the start of major industries as evidenced by utility companies that still bear his name. Henry Ford was a close friend of Edison and other inventors, and he went on "camping"...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail
- Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemailNot sure his patents pass the litmus test.Wouldnt star trek and most other sci-fi shows pre-date some of his patents.Just because you come up with an idea doesnt mean you have a patent... you have to establish a process and provide code that does...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Inventor of Web lamented election results
- Inventor of Web lamented election resultsLAUDING G DUBYA????i had come across these statements while searching for an article and (albeit 4 yrs later) i was appalled by the plaudits given him by so many!!! he will, no doubt, be remembered in history as a "who cares" and the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Mouse inventor sighted at Macworld Expo
- Mouse inventor sighted at Macworld ExpoWhen??When does the Mac Book Pro get the multi-touch? I'd like to see that.RE: Mouse inventor sighted at Macworld ExpoThanks David,Besides Steve stopping for a few minutes to talk to Doug and inviting us to get together for lunch, this has been on of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?
- Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?Yes, the awards are completely outrageous.That would be like you inventing a 10 dollar switch an Ford comes along and not paying you for the idea and you get an infringing award of $100 on each car instead of the added value of...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Fixing a broken patent system
- Fixing a broken patent systemReform?Patent reform is meaningless unless software patentability is abolished and it remains first to invent. First to file tends to reward companies with deep pockets. Not necessarily the actual innovator.Sourcing has astronomical elasticity. Example: Compression RDK_aa3.4.6..i2Bill Gates owns most anything to be said and made for...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- House passes patent reform, as White House voices objections
- The House of Representatives handed the technology industry a big win by passing the Patent Reform Act. The bill changes the way damages for patent infringement are calculated, InfoWorld reports. Under the current scheme, damages are calculated based on the value of the entire product containing the infringing invention....
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- Interview: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better thanWeb inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data accessZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Sir Tim Berner-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the MITX Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange Technology Awards held at the...
- Videos 2007-06-07
- Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashion
- Earlier this week, I participated in a panel discussion at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering where we covered the challenges to science and technology journalists in separating the truth from the hype. Hype in science and technology you say? There's no hype! It's all truth! He he. ...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Microsoft makes its biggest acquisition ever
- Microsoft makes its biggest acquisition everMicrosoft innovation by accquisitionIn the words of the song, "Same as it ever was"http://www.microsoft.com/msft/acquisitions/history.mspx#EVfor a list of accquisitionsorhttp://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/catalog.shtmlfor a list of accquisitions and an insight into just how many companies Microsoft purchased so that they could can distribution or just snuff out of existence, a...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability features
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability featuresInsignificant Incremental InventionResearch in Motion has once again produced an invention of minimal significance. It is really obvious to use timing to alter keyboard behavior.It is RIM's inability to produce significant inventions and their unwillingness to fairly compensate those...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them together
- Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them togetherLegalforce is NOT revolutionary!!!After reading your blog, I went to legalforce.com. It is my sincere opinion that it definitely does NOT look revolutionary, at least their beta release is NOT impressive. Following are my observations:1. Knowledge Process Outsourcing seems...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- In the era of the Live Web, tweak your client and bungle your pitch at your peril
- In the era of the Live Web, tweak your client and bungle your pitch at your perilThis shocks you?The inventor didn't even read the patent. I wonder if the patent examiner caught it also?Clumsiness hardly ever does......but if you're going to be as brazen as this lawyer was, you'd...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- With 'open innovation,' no idea is left behind
- With 'open innovation,' no idea is left behindPatents should only be held by the human inventor.Failure to promote the patent should place it into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Add-ons to patents which only build on the patent rather than represent another idea should NOT be allowed.The current system inhibits innovation. This...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-21
- Politicos mull action against patent system abusers
- Politicos mull action against patent system abusersPatents are a toolPatents are tools to prevent innovation. Patents nowadays are the combat armor and weapons that corporations use to fight with their competitors and/or used to keep new competition from entering the battle field market. If a corporation plays its...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Bruce Perens lashes out at absurdity and injustice in software patents process
- Bruce Perens lashes out at absurdity and injustice in software patents processZD JournalismPhi[b]ll[/b]ips is an oil company.Perhaps you meant Phi[b]l[/b]ips, the Dutch electronics company?Well DUH, Bruce P. wants to steal everyone's ideas.Are you just now catching on?Ever hear of whipping a dead horseGovt absurdity hmm where have I heard that...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- What port security, patents, and out-sourcing have in common
- In March of 2000 "Patently Absurd", an article by James Glieck, appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Here's part of his description of the original rationale for the patent system: Patents long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national...
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
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