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Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony: Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...; Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-06
White House censors global warming testimony...yawn: If Congress really wanted to hear the truth about global warming and is health effects, they'd invite testimony from somebody whose paycheck is not signed by President George W. Bush. Instead they heard from the head of the Federal Center for Disease Control. Well, they heard a little...; Tags: Testimony, White House, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-24
Sprint attorney at infringement trial: without our inventions, Vonage ..."could not exist": Testimony is under way in the patent infringement trial pitting Vonage against SprintNextel. Attorneys for SprintNextel are demanding $103 million from Vonage for what they believe is infringing use of SprintNextel technology to build its network. The particular alleged infringements relate to the way...; Tags: Testimony, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-09-05

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Frequent open source miles: Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...; Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix': Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix. ...; Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, SCO Group Inc., Unix, Court Case, Open Source, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, Novell, SCO, lawsuit; News items 2008-05-02

Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision: It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a seven-volume treatise on copyright law, Patry on Copyright (yours for just over $1,500). He's also...; Tags: Copyright Law, Judge, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-30
FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespread: InfoWeek reports that, according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Comcast was not merely blocking BitTorrent traffic during high-traffic times but pretty much all the time. Martin was testifying before Congress today. "Specifically, based on the testimony we have received thus far, some users were not able...; Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Federal Government, Networking, Internet, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Feds lift ban on IBM: From the AP: The government has lifted a week-old ban that prevented I.B.M. from getting new federal contracts in exchange for an agreement from the company to drop its protest of an $84 million Environmental Protection Agency contract it lost last year. ...; Tags: Protest, Ban, IBM Corp., Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-06
US Census: The future is paper: So it's not just elections. Seems that paper is the way to go for the national Census, as well. A $600 million contract to Harris Corp. to design and create handheld computers for the census takers is now just yet another government IT fiasco, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, plans to...; Tags: Harris Corp., Government, Handhelds, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video: Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...; Tags: Software, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., Mr., Video, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau: The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...; Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-20
YouTube hit OK Go testifies for neutrality: Free Press is publicizing the appearance of OK Go, apparently a YouTube musical phenom, at a net neutrality hearing at the House Judiciary Committee. "If people wonder whether the music industry will benefit from Net Neutrality they can look no further than...; Tags: U.S. Congress, YouTube Inc., Net Neutrality, Free Press, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout: Cupertino — After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers — most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone — about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-03-06
No Government rules on packet throttling, blocking, colleague says on Capitol Hill: Colleague George Ou, who is not a proponent of most net neutrality regulations, stated his opinions before a Congressional staffer-panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. That outfit, whose board is full of board members who have served in a similar capacity on...; Tags: Network, Wireless Network, Network Management, Networking, Government, Network Administration, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-03-03
A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management: I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...; Tags: BitTorrent, Japan, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Mr., Video, DOCSIS, Geek, Wireless Network, Presentation, Network Management, Richard Bennett, Cable, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet, Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-03
Windows Vista (In)capable: What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - don't care enough about their customers. Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working 'softies who do. I went through the Vista Capable lawsuit Exhibit A emails....; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, News, Intel Corp., Development Team, Features, Allchin, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-03-02
ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBI: ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBIThe Constitution was lost due to a technical glitchI suppose some day soon, we will be told that we no longer have any rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. They will have been lost due to a "technical glitch". I...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Federal government, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, FBI, U.S. Congress; Discussion threads 2008-02-19
ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBI: It was a "technical glitch" or "apparent miscommunication" that resulted in an unnamed ISP turning over to the FBI huge quantities of users' email -- far more than a judge approved. A FISA court approved the release of email from a single email account, but due to "miscommunication" the...; Tags: e-Mail Account, FBI, Internet Service Provider, Episode, E-mail, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Online Communications, Government, Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-18
SAP-Oracle case headed to mediation: Oracle's lawsuit against SAP over trade secret theft is headed toward mediation. On Feb. 12, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the case should be scheduled for mediation at a yet-to-be-determined date. Mediation would mean...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Mediation, SAP AG, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-14
The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy: Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...; Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-12