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- Can the networks support next-gen smartphone traffic?
- Can the networks support next-gen smartphone traffic?Mobile & networking equipment boomIt's a great problem to have. It could create a demand boom for mobile & networking equipment providers. It should also help advance deployment plans for 4G networks.Where there is demand, there will be supply. Companies don't normally miss opportunities,...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Patent law changes power ahead in Congress
- Patent law changes power ahead in CongressSenator Leahy: "promote and protect" patents.Quoting the quote in the article:"We have reaffirmed our commitment to ensuring that our nation's patent laws promote and protect the inventiveness of all of our industries..." Th e bill intends, of cource, to simplify and standardize the...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Judge won't block distribution of Google Earth
- Judge won't block distribution of Google EarthBut when has prior art every stopped the courtsinteresting to me if it did hold sway vs a patent.It DOES hold sway vs. a patentPrior art tells the patent holder and the courts that what the patent covers is NOT an innovation(read: non-obvious); it...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-13
- Tech firms to lobby for patent litigation reform
- Tech firms to lobby for patent litigation reformLawyers...The only ones getting rich are Lawyers, other than it is a huge waste of time.Just a bunch of fat cats, lining their wallets.Of course this comes from...Some of the largest patent holders in existance.The patent SYSTEM needs changing, not more protection for...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Does open source have boundaries?
- Does open source have boundaries?Open: UnboundedHere we have the classic definition of freedom. Lovers are often admonished to love enough to allow the loved one to go on. Commercially such a tactic has always appeared counterproductive on casual examination. Increasingly, the continued pervasiveness of the Web and Open Source paradigms...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- I want my BlackBerry
- I want my BlackBerryJust pay upGeeez, you lose in court and have your motions denied 3 times already. NTP gains nothing from a RIM collapse - so its in their interest to make modest demands. Maybe a sort of merging can occur, and the new company could start shooting down...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-08
- The ecosystem benefits of Microsoft's VC-1
- The ecosystem benefits of Microsoft's VC-1MS, standards, and "every device"First a minor quibble, you should say that MS will ensure that every NEW device supports VC-1.MS is famous for not really embracing standards. Their modus operandi has been to follow standards if they're playing catch-up and then club competitors...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Shining example of why patents and standards don't mix
- I've routinely used ZDNet as a bully pulpit directed at both the sellers and buyers of technologies who look to establish or adopt certain standards that have patents connected to them. When a proprietary often patented technology earns the status of de facto standard (aka: practically unchallenged...
- Blog posts 2005-07-27
- More on software patents
- More on software patentsNo threat of EU patents; they're there.Better than 30,000 and more flying out the door of the EU patent office every day.A survey from Duke law indicates there's no effective difference between the software patent systems in the US and the EU.My opinion is a bit nuancedBack...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
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- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- The best protection for software assets
- Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- MSFT appeals judge's block of Word
- It is hard to be sympathetic...... to a company that a wilfully infringed the patent in the first place, and b is more than happy to rattle the same software patent sabre at other companies when it's in its own interests to do so.Letting MS off the hook would basically...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Microsoft Word patent-infringement case: Playing chicken
- They will patchand then will try vigorously to render the offending patent invalid.i4i will become the next Eolas: irrelevant but with a lot of money from MS.If you don't infringe, then why do you care to provethe patent is invalid?Because a court does think you infringeDo you know what is...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror
- "Sitting on your rear end"?I think the authors did more then just sit on their rear ends: They wrote the books. (OK they sat on their rear ends while writing it, but that is better then standing the entire time)Everyone forgets that without that author writing the book, it would...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology
- Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technologyHere comes the patent trolls, sigh.The patent trolls strike again.IMHO we should have "use it or lose it" laws in the patent system: If you don't use a patent in an actual product, you risk losing it and can't renew it.Not to...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringementPretty frivolous patent hereAbout on the level of Microsoft's Page Up/Page Down patent.Live by the patent sword, die by the patent swordMicrosoft are 'disappointed' that once again they have been caught out stealing other people's ideas, incorpoarting those ideas into their own branded...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videos
- YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videosIts so sad...Its so sad that Youtube has removed the good works from the database. Even some of my posts in youtube were gone :-(Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comRE: YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videosSo Warner Brothers and others don't want all this free advertsing?Morons!RE: YouTube...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- Is TomTom testing Microsoft's patent cross licensing agreements?
- Is TomTom testing Microsoft's patent cross licensing agreements?Whoever invented digital---Went all the way to selling everything to the Governments.This rats nest in the future was seen and would be avoided.The dream is everybody writing software as easy.So... why does a car navigation vendor need FAT support?I could see things like...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Would Apple sue Palm over Pre IP?
- Would Apple sue Palm over Pre IP?Would be pathetic to do soThat would be low from even Apple to do so though this wouldn't surprise me. However this could show that Palm is the first to really worry Apple Smartphone wise. It could be interesting to see if Palm will...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-22
- IBM is tops in patents
- IBM is No. 1. The No. 1, patent holder, that is. And for the 16th year in a row. In a press release, IBM announced it had been awarded 4,186 patents in 2008, twice as many as Microsoft and Intel and three times as many as HP....
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
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