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- Apple sees red (delicious) over grocery logo
- total bs . . .There is absolutely no way that green thing resembles even remotely the Apple logo.Does this mean I'll have to pay Wonder Boy a royalty......every time I EAT an apple?The thinner Stevie Boy's body gets...the more swelled his head is getting.This is a truly pathetic attempt. :-(RE:...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Stevie-boy, Apple Inc., grocery
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Court likely to cut damages in MSFT patent infringement case
- M$ must pay the pepperstealing from small competitors should not be allowed.small correctionits Piper. But you were close.Didn't read the patent?? WTFFrom what I understand and as part of the facts of the case, MS received a a copy of i4i's product for evaluation and was offered a license to...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., I4i
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- The National Parks 1.0 (Mobile)
- With The National Parks join Ken Burns as he takes you through the documentary series. Watch behind the scenes video and mini-documentaries, get broadcast dates, and display National Park wallpapers on your phone. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, directed by Burns is the story of an idea as uniquely American...
- Tags: Mobile, PBS, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
- Poll: How often do you use your pocket camera?
- I fall into that "Only on special occasions" category so I selected every few weeks because that's about right. I always have it with me in my bag but typically only use it for vacations and festivals and that sort of thing.RE: Poll: How often do you use your pocket...
- Tags: camera
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Court lifts FCC limits on cable ownership
- Here come even HIGHER prices ....and thousands of channels of mediocrity.Look at satellite radio - unlimited channels of the same old same old !Satellite RadioActually when it first started and there was competing services ala XM and Sirius satellite radio was cheap, $9.99XM and $12.99 Sirius - both worked out...
- Tags: Network technology, Satellite radio, cable, satellite, cable ownership, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster
- On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Are Silicon Valley VCs killing innovation?
- VC's and InnovationThe title of your blog suggests that VC's are in control of innovation - a position that is correct only if entrepreneurs grant them that power.I am no fan of VC money (I get along with some VC's personally) because it is so expensive and the need for...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, investor
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter
- HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutterWell researchedThe problem with Blu Ray is the royalty aspect of this format.Thousands of dollars just to use their logo on the Jacket Cover and so on.Maybe this chinese will work.So is my HD-DVD player dead or not?In the US that is,...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- ImageSpan and liveBooks announce new partnership
- ImageSpan, owner and creator of the license and royalty program LicenseStream, announced today a new partnership with liveBooks, an online provider of portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers. The LicenseStream Creator program can be used to promote, protect, license, track, create new revenue streams and settle royalties for new and...
- Tags: Partnership, Imaging, Business Structures, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Licence Protector 2.7 (Windows)
- You have developed an application and you want to protect it fast, easy, reliable and cost effective? Licence Protector from Mirage Computer Systems administrates licenses and modules license manager and control, generates Demo- and time limited versions trial versions, provides you with software copy protection and supports network license per...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-business, Copy Protection, Web Activation Server, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-07-09
- Pandora saved from the hangman's noose
- Back in May I suggested that Apple acquire Pandora with some of its $29 billion warchest in order to save it from certain death. Well, it appears that Pandora and all other Internet music streaming services for that matter got the call from the governor that...
- Tags: Agreement, Pandora, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- SoundExchange, webcasters settle at last
- Let the music play. Finally, after two a half years, we have an agreement on webcasting royalties that doesn't doom sites like Pandora to the ashheap. The LA Times reports that SoundExchange and webcasters have agreed to a structure that doesn't require a per-song royalty payment....
- Tags: Webcaster, Operational Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Internet Radio agreement: Good enough for now
- Hollywood and Silicon Valley have reached an agreement on Internet radio - an experimental payment structure that is far from perfect but much better than the alternative rate system that threatened to put Web-based streaming sites out of business. The agreement creates a tiered-system for the radio...
- Tags: Revenue, Internet Radio, Agreement, Webcaster, SoundExchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Intel Core i7 950/975 CPUs on the way ... anyone interested?
- Intel Core i7 950/975 CPUs on the way ... anyone interested?... by your own petard.No divine worship here. While you offer up your '$350 gaming system' and 'performance PC' recommendations ... I simply buy a stock PC for much less from a royalty OEM. Unless one has specialised needs (as...
- Tags: Games, Processors, game, USD, CPU, Intel Core Microarchitecture
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- REALbasic Syntax Highlighter Module 1.0. (Windows)
- The Syntax Highlighter Module operates against any EditField in your REALbasic Application. As you type, your words are matched against a text file containing keywords, words that you wish to have highlighted in some way on your EditField, an example would be a SQL Query or a Language Editor. Whatever...
- Tags: SQL, Microsoft Windows, Keyword, Arten Science, Syntax Highlighter Module, Syntax Highlighter, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-04-18
- REALbasic Syntax Highlighter Module 1.0 (Mac)
- The Syntax Highlighter Module operates against any EditField in your REALbasic Application. As you type, your words are matched against a text file containing keywords, words that you wish to have highlighted in some way on your EditField, an example would be a SQL Query or a Language Editor. Whatever...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, SQL, Keyword, Arten Science, Syntax Highlighter Module, Syntax Highlighter, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-04-18
- Royalty Pro 1.0 (Mobile)
- Royalty Pro enables users to compute traditional monthly and yearly royalty streams, while simultaneously calculating conservative estimates and optimal annuity streams using proprietary models developed by industry professionals relying on empirical data and statistical analysis.
- Tags: Mobile, Annuity, Personal Finance, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-04-14
- Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?
- Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- The warning sound of TomTom
- The warning sound of TomTom As my grandmother used to say......"there's nothing worse than a reformed sinner."If someone will point me.....to Tom Tom's defense fund, I'll make a contribution.i hate hypocrites.MS is one of them. So are most people when it suites their needs.Wrong wrong wrong....TomTom has stolen valuable...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, middle finger, patent, Granny
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
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