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- Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case
- Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent caseAnd...As far as I can see, patents are often for very vaguely worded methods. Which is I guess one major reason is why people are ticked off regarding software and patents.Pursuit of JusticeWe have reached a point where the volume of Intellectual Property...
- Tags: patent, patent case, Alcatel, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-05
- Court rejects Vonage patent case appeal
- Court rejects Vonage patent case appealThey rolled the dice one too many times I guess.They should have forgot the appeal and settled for the $80 million figure.Good Idea, bad justice systemFigures, a company that has a technology that works and is easily usable and reliable and the court cans it....
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., patent case
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Supreme Court hears patent case
- Supreme Court hears patent caseLG Greed?Well...I get really tired of companies squandering their income then holding the world hostage when they are either fiscally irresponsible or greedy...Why not just stop buying everything with an "LG" on it for a month or so and let them know they can be replaced...
- Tags: patent case
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Broadcom wins patent case against Qualcomm
- Broadcom wins patent case against QualcommAll patents must die [nt].well if broadcom is not going to put it in production they shouldn't havethe patent in the first place.and why give someone a patent on something that is an obvious evolution of the tech. ??just to make money and trash the...
- Tags: patent, patent case, Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Patent case seeks to silence Nuance voice recognition
- Patent case seeks to silence Nuance voice recognitionanother blah software patent... why? unless the code is word for word..Probaby didnt fringe on it.. its a method of figuring out what the person is saying. I am not sure i agree the idea here is geniune.Patents should be reserved...
- Tags: patent, software patent, Nuance, technique, software, patent case, voice recognition
- Discussion threads 2006-11-09
- Forgent settles JPEG patent cases
- Forgent settles JPEG patent casesIt's not easy being the @ssholeMaybe these "IP" companies will think twice before relying on lawsuits as their prime income.Lawsuits Only Option With Patent PiratesUnfortunately many companies, especially the washed up tech companies who make up the Coalition for Patent Fairness, better known as the Coalition...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Forgent, patent case, JPEG
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Amazon wins 1-Click patent case
- Amazon wins 1-Click patent caseAmazing, a Court decision that doesn't harm consumers. NT.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, patent case, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-23
- Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent case
- Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent caseSupreme Court won't review Microsoft patent caseLet me guss, Micro$osft (notice I use the $ instead of an s to be more 1337-like) didn't pay enough money to bribe the judges.*rolling eyes*How Do You Spell Microsoft?D-E-N-I-E-D!Made my day!Patent caseCome on, nobody calls them Micro$oft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent case
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
Additional Resources
- Cloudworks shows the green side of managed services
- Here's a refreshing twist: An executive with an ostensibly "green" technology who really isn't willing to pitch it that way. I'm talking about Cloudworks founder and CEO Mike Eaton, who really cares more instead about the "overall convenience and efficiency" of his company's services. He's playing the economy card, rather...
- Tags: Managed Services, IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Small Business, Cloudworks, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ready for real Indian medicine?
- Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...
- Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- The little wind turbines that could
- I have to admit, I'm more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose it makes sense to flip this idea on its head. Just heard about the example of Proven...
- Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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