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- Doing the Microsoft patent math
- Just over a year ago, Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents -- but refused and continue to refuse to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there's a new piece of...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- PatentWrangler (exe)
- PatentWrangler is for individuals needing quick access to United States patents, published patent applications from the USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office, and European Patent Office. It's a solution that enables you to conveniently download patents and patent applications in PDF format at home, work, or on the road....
- Tags: Patent Application, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, PatentWrangler
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent application
- Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent applicationthey used to have one...i hadn't realized it was gone. i used it a few times they had really nicely designed cards not the cheese ball stuff from most other services....maybe they are thinking of restarting it?It's still there....
- Tags: e-card service, Patent Application, e-card, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Gpay: Send money to people with SMS?
- Paying for things with your cell phone isn't a new concept, but as with most things, it seems to get more interesting when Google does something with it. A patent filed by the search engine outlines a system for distributing money through SMS. How will it...
- Tags: Google Inc., SMS, Patent Application, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program
- I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...
- Tags: Advertisement, Patent, Search Engine, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Image 2 (Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application)
- Image 2 (Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application)oh hey.. another obvious patent.. throw it out please.thanksAll patents must die [nt].I wish there were a control device based upon using.......my FEET. Then I could use both my hands for more useful things, like holding my cup of coffee and my smoke.Huh?A...
- Tags: patent, patent application, Image 2, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
- Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application
- Images from Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc.
- Image galleries 2007-05-11
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhone
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhoneMore specific...."Can you imagine an iPhone with GSM, FM, Bluetooth and WiFi built-in?"- is this a reference to poor batteries in ipod devices or a wrong comment in light of devices such as the M3100 orange TYTN which does all of the above (minus the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone, Patent Application, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhone
- Yesterday I posted a note about Apples United States Patent Application #20060268528 for a "handheld computing device includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a ceramic material that is radio-transparent." The details of the patent (USPTO, text, PDF) are extremely revealing about where Apple is headed with the future...
- Tags: enclosure, Patent, Mobile phone, iPod
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- EXCLUSIVE: New Apple Patent art I show you here may point to iPod with camera
- Although Apple takes pains for illustrations in a U.S. Patent Application published on Thursday to be regarded as only "exemplary" of a multiple-function multimedia device activated by touch-screen "bezel" technology.Yet, since so much space in the Application is devoted to ways that such systems as digital photography and music can...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Digital cameras, Digital photography, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, camera, Patent Application, bezel, orientation
- Blog posts 2006-10-29
- Are Maps mashups patentable?
- Someone asked me today whether they could file a patent application concerning their Google Maps mashup. Not being a patent lawyer, I haven't the foggiest, but it's an interesting question. I don't see anything in the API Terms that would specifically preclude patenting a maps app. (Commercial...
- Tags: patent, API
- Blog posts 2006-09-02
- Amazon prepares for online taxes
- Amazon prepares for online taxesThe day I pay taxes online......The day I pay taxes online is the day I stop shopping online.Benjamin Franklin said:"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"Famous quote by Benjamin Franklin, one of the forefathers of the United States... which broke away from the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Consumer electronics, Amazon.com Inc., tax, DVD, patent, patent application
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- KIPO Launches Next-Generation Administrative Information System
- KIPO, the Korea Intellectual Property Office was founded to help promote development of industrial technology through timely protection of Korea's intellectual property KIPO, the world's first online patent application system, had to be updated to cope with rapid technological change; standardization of laws, regulations, and intellectual property systems; and escalating...
- Tags: Patent Application, Information System, BEA Systems Inc., KIPO, Intellectual Property, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Exclusive: I visit the patent office and dig out the newest VoIP patent applications
- Long before the pitches to potential partners, long before the press releases and marketing campaigns, innovators in the IP telephony space are likely to apply for a patent. The interval between patent application and approval can exceed two years. With that fact in mind, I thought I would get the...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2004-12-07
Additional Resources
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
- Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki releases Kilen Woodds, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...
- Tags: Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Application, Video Game, Video, CRM, Desktop Application, Games, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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