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Beating patent trolls at their own game

Saul Hansell's piece in the Times is called Trolling for Patents to Fight Patent Trolls. Kinda like a war for peace. At a recent patent auction in San Francisco, which in general didn't go that well for the auctioneers, one company that was snapping patents up was...

Tags: Game, Patent, Acacia Research, Patent Troll, Saul Hansell, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Copyright battle over iPhone jailbreaks

Nice piece from Saul Hansell in the Times around Apple's copyright claims on iPhone jailbreaking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing PDF with the Copyright Office, urged an exception to copyright law that would allow customers to jailbreak the iPhone. Apple responded PDF, urging no exception. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Copyright Law, U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., Saul Hansell, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-15

Broadband tax credit cut from stimulus bill

The tax credit for companies that install new broadband service was cut from the latest version of the economic stimulus bill, according to the New York Times' Saul Hansell. The bill will still award more than $6 billion in grants to help build high-speed Internet service, mainly...

Tags: Tax Credit, Broadband, Stimulus, U.S. Senate, Saul Hansell, House, Personal Finance, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Zune of the future may come with copyright cop

Microsoft is "exploring" the possibility of building in copyright protection into the Zune player, Saul Hansell writes in the Times. The agreement is part of NBC Universal's deal to sell its programming for Zune. Microsoft is parsing this story very closely -- to Clintonian levels, in fact....

Tags: Content Management, Enterprise Software, Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, NBC Universal Inc., Richard Koman, Saul Hansell, Software, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Google bets billions to lock-in search dominance

If Google is to continue to be not only the darling of the search world, but the toast of Wall Street as well, it must withstand not only Yahoo and Microsoft head-on competitive search and search advertising initiatives, but up-start Goolge wannabes, to boot, claiming they are the next big thing...

Tags: Yahoo, Wall Street, Search Advertising, Search, Microsoft, Google, Copyright, Content, AdWords

Blog posts 2007-06-03

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White House launches Data.gov

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has launched Data.gov, serving up federal datasets in standard formats like XML, CSV and geo-formats KML/KMZ and ESRI. Discussing the site in the Times, Saul Hansell notes: The value of this, of course, is that when information is made...

Tags: White House, Data, Sunlight Foundation, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-25

Google on trial in Italy: Should it prevent video publication without consent?

Four executives from Google are about to face criminal charges in Italy and privacy violations.  The lawsuit, noted by the New York Times' Saul Hansell and the International Association of Privacy Professionals, revolves around a 191 minute second cellphone video in 2006. In the video, four high school...

Tags: Google Inc., Video, Prosecutor, Italy, Cajani, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-03

ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market

The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping â€" Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...

Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system

The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut down the key leg of its iPod empire was just corporate posturing) but the Board also set a...

Tags: Board, Ring Tone, Rate, Copyright Royalty Board, Corporate Governance, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-06

What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet

There's a lot of discussion today about whether Verizon's $23 billion investment in its FiOS network was worth it, but the argument really comes down to this: How much is future-proofing your business worth? The New York Times did an in-depth analysis about Verizon's FiOS rollout and...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Internet, TVs, Financial Accounting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Apple sets gag rule for iPhone app makers

A posting by Saul Hansell late last night on the New York Times Bits blog notes that Apple is forcing app makers to keep mum about their wares until noon EST today: The most interesting aspect of the launch of Apple’s new iPhone 3g Friday is the beginning of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Internet, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense

Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright." The problem with "clear...

Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Even an unlocked 3G iPhone will still be an AT&T iPhone

Saul Hansell wrote up a good response to the $199 iPhone rumor. He stated that the report may actually mean that AT&T wants to lower the price of the iPhone and raise the price of data plans and/or Apple will start selling unlocked phones. However, even if the 3G iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Google to test video ads in search; Will there be a revolt?

Google is reportedly going to test visual ads in its search results instead of the usual small text ads. The big question is what the reaction will be? According to Saul Hansell at the New York Times' Bits blog, Google has begun experimenting with video ads on...

Tags: Google Inc., Video Advertisement, Advertisement, Video, Search Result, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-15

C block action continues, moves into Phase 2

Saul Hansell of the Times reports that big excitement happened in the C block auction Monday in the bidding for the super powerful spectrum that the TV broadcasters are abandoning. The bidding had appeared to be over with a $4.71 billion bid on Friday. That suggested to...

Tags: C, Fact, Spectrum, Auction, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-06

On key Internet digital content policing issue: Verizon good, AT&T bad

Saul Hansell, the thought-leader  on the NY Times Bits blog, has a very interesting conversation with Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive veep for public affairs. Although Tauke doesn't specifically mention Verizon's largest direct telco competitor AT&T, he- unlike AT&T, isn't enthusiastic about doing the bidding of major digital...

Tags: Internet, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Digital Content, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Latest 'The Group' podcast delves into Google Android, Yahoo's China syndrome, and Facebook gestures (again)

Steve Gillmor's The Gang debuts its second coming for the second time. There's always good tibits and chunky nuggets in these roundtable gab-fests. As usual the topics straddle places more weight on the Web 2.0 side than the IT side, but I'm working on it. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Podcast, Yahoo! Inc., Steve, Web 2.0, Podcasts, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps

The future of social networking is coming into focus and it looks like Facebook-ish features will be increasingly be integrated into your everyday applications. To wit: Yahoo and Google are looking to integrate social networking into their email applications, reports Saul Hansell at the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-14

The new old social network: Directory services and widgets

Saul Hansell of the NYT has fleshed out a few threads on the expected strategy from Google and Yahoo on the social networking front. The two will take advantage of their massive numbers of email and personalized page users as a base for a social network. Instead...

Tags: Google Inc., Directory Service, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Newsfeed, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-13

With Google, everyone is an armchair HR critic

The handwringing over Google's hiring practices is getting to be comical. Google hired 2,130 people in the third quarter and now employs almost 16,000. Oh no! News.com's Elinor Mills asks what these people do? Short answers: Sell ads, cook up new technology and add brainpower to the...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-19