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A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement

Another thing, Google has NO exclusive rights with the book publishers hereAnybody else can scan books and strike a deal with the copyright holders. Actually, it is in the interest of the copyright holders to make sure that Google is not the only one offering the books, and there is...

Tags: Cable, Google Inc., Google Book, Google Book Search Settlement, spirited defense, Google Book Search

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

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Flickr changes tune over Obama Joker image

Sorry but using a copyrighted material in satire or parody is allowed without permission of the copyright owner. Which is why Weird Al was able to make Amish Paradise without permission he normally asks out of courtesy and so he can collect royalties.I agree with thatAnd I am quite the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, way thing, Obama Joker, Flickr, Obama, Equality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

News to know: VMWorld; Disney-Marvel; netbooks; Blackberry Storm; mobile banking; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance, Day 1 Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Mobile Banking, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Netbook, BlackBerry Storm, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Wiki, Hardware, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-01

A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement

You've heard Google's case for digitizing out-of-copyright books and its settlement with publishers and authors. And you've heard the opposition from the newly formed Open Book Alliance. The most spirited take on the out-of-copyright book issue may have come from Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Google Book Search, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seats

While Sam Diaz and Mike Krigsman are slaving away in the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco at this year's Oracle OpenWorld I get the pleasure of observing from the comfort of my office in downtown Hicksville, Spain some 5,500 miles away. Once more, Oracle dropped...

Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway

There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...

Tags: Software, Software Company, SAP AG, Inflation, Dennis Howlett, Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

A fresh model for software maintenance

It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-19

On-Demand Integration: Salesforce, Hubspan, and the Future of Heterogeneity

Salesforce.com is nothing if not a font of great ideas whose time should have come a long time ago. Indeed, it almost seems as though Salesforce.coms top dog Marc Benioff is the only one in the kennel whos bark really matters: On demand CRM certainly was not invented by Salesforce.com,...

Tags: on-demand, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-11-27

2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GT 2dr Convertible (3.8L 6cyl 5A)

If we're being pedantic, the 2007 Eclipse Spyder GT is not really a spyder at all: according to the strict definition, the two prerequisites of automotive arachnids are a midmounted engine and rear-wheel drive. The Eclipse fails on both scores, but we're not ones to split hairs. Whatever it is,...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Mitsubishi Corp., Eclipse, Eclipse Spyder

Product reviews 2006-10-20

Sun has second thoughts about Linux on Solaris

Sun has second thoughts about Linux on SolarisGee, no one here to defend Linux?I guess they're all too busy bashing Microsoft in other forums.Sun is rightSolaris is a very good UNIX OS and targeted towards corporate markets. It therefore makes little commercial sense to support Linux apps on Solaris as...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, GPL, Linux, Sun Solaris, Xen, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-06-15