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Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policyThere's NOTHING Wrong with the IETF IPR PolicyWe went through this discussion 2 years ago. Nothing has changed. These are GOOD policies. Rationale is here:http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/there_is_nothin.htmlIETF does not standardize EthernetIt's IEEE which is in chargeof Ethernet.

Tags: Ethernet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Larry Rosen, patent policy, Rationale

Discussion threads 2007-01-26

Good day, OASIS

ZDNet's David Berlind observed a change at the helm of OASIS. Namely, Sun's Eduardo Gutentag has replaced HP's Jim Hughes as chairman of the board of OASIS.OASIS has been embroiled in controversy as of late, because its patent policy permits participating vendors to hold an unusual amount of control over...

Tags: patent policy, OASIS

Blog posts 2005-08-03

New OASIS chairman replaced after only five months

No real details on this yet. But a quick examination of the Board of Directors page over at OASIS' web site reveals that after barely five months at the helm, OASIS Chairman of the Board Jim Hughes of HP--who held that title as recently as yesterday--has been replaced...

Tags: OASIS

Blog posts 2005-08-02

Additional Resources

Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game

Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...

Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Evil tech administrators

Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...

Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way

I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-21

McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement

McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringementPatent for?"Method for detective intrusive agents"???You gotta love the busted US Patent system. (not; unless you're a lawyer; Shakespeare was right)-MPS: I'm sure someone has a patent on toilet paper.RE: McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringementDownload DeepNine's patent in PDF for free at...

Tags: patent, patent infringement, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement

A federal jury in Texas has ordered McAfee to pay $18 million in past and future damages for infringing on a patent held by DeepNines Inc., according to Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog. The court decision, revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, was handed down last week. ...

Tags: McAfee Inc., SEC Filing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePointSharePoint Best Practices!!!I'm not disputing the result of the studies but i think the downsides are normally excerbated by inappropiate practices. Every product has its downsde but i believe these downsides can be overcome if appropiate practices are used: SharePoint Best Practices Start...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....

Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

U.S. health care not getting better

U.S. health care not getting betterThe study has predetermined the result[Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, summed up what's wrong with the study: "The report does nothing more than reveal which nation does the worst job of satisfying the subjective preferences of the people who conducted...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Health, medical care, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Why does open source need a villain?

Why does open source need a villain?It doesn't need a villianIt just needs competition. And Apple provides some, but they also leave the door open for F/OSS given their restrictive policies.villain or hero?Linus Torvalds"By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history""Some of Torvalds' supporters portray...

Tags: open source, villain, open source need, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite

I just spoke with Jerry McCloud, VP of Business Development of Fastscale Technology, about the newest release of their product, FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite. This product is aimed at reducing the complexity of creating and maintaining virtual machine images. Previous versions of the product supported VMware's ESX Server. This version adds...

Tags: Software, Environment, Image, Virtual Machine, FastScale Composer Suite Software Environment, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Group Policy Health Cmdlet (zip)

This PowerShell Cmdlet can be used to return a quick green or red working or not working Group Policy status against remote Windows machines. It tells you whether Group Policy is functional, return characteristics about the machine and the currently logged on user, and lists which GPOs have applied and...

Tags: Group Policy, SDM Software

Software downloads 2008-07-18

Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers

Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...

Tags: Asset, Card, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-17