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Microsoft indemnifies. But does it really matter to you?

Microsoft indemnifies. But does it really matter to you?The devils in the small print - LOOPHOLESEven Microsoft's 2004 May 27th changes which apply only to customers under enterprise licensing contracts, which Microsoft claims grants greater immunity, contains many loop holes which greatly negate Microsoft's liability.The section 6 clause contain...

Tags: Databases, Even Microsoft, Does Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., service deliverable, Timeline Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-11-10

Microsoft to back customers in infringement cases

Microsoft to back customers in infringement casesSomehow this smacks of more FUD and PRNice to see as soon as Novell stated that they give full indemnification up to i think $1.5 mil, M$ suddenly say they fully indemnify customers against IP. Pity they dont have some kind of recall for...

Tags: Even Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., service deliverable, Timeline Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-11-10

Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents

Group: Linux potentially infringes 283 patentsGood luck on this...Seems awfully shoddy... "potentially" infringing? Might sorta look like something that kinda resembles this one thingamajig...Ol' Linus doesn't have anything to worry about.283 patents?I think this is mostly FUD by the open source risk management to sell their "insurance".But still.....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, patent, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Timeline Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-08-01

Additional Resources

Psystar mystery adds up to phishing scam

Psystar mystery adds up to phishing scamThe differencesWith Jobs, Google, Dell, and Microsoft, there were a few pioneers who turned into satisfied customers and put out the word. In the early days, all of them were also easy to find. While Psystar is alleged to have taken credit...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Recruitment & Selection, Spam, Desktops, Apple Inc., Psystar, phishing, job

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Supreme Court won't block Novell's antitrust suit against Microsoft

Supreme Court won't block Novell's antitrust suit against MicrosoftNovell's 'Bad Decisions'http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a6Q4SAu_QKxA&refer=canadaNovell says the evidence includes a 1994 e-mail in which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ordered a delay in providing the data to give Microsoft's own Office software ``a real advantage.'' Without the delay, Gates wrote, ``we can't compete'' with ``WordPerfect/Novell.''So...

Tags: Word processors, Corporate law, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Corel WordPerfect, antitrust, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Is Microsoft's Danger play a poke at Apple? Google? (updated)

Microsoft said Monday that they're acquiring Palo Alto, CA-based Danger Inc., maker of the T-Mobile Sidekick QWERTY smartphone. Sidekicks feature a novel flip-up screen that reveals a full-size keyboard making easy work of texting and email. It could even be argued that the Sidekick (which the company...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Operating System, Advertising & Promotion, T-Mobile Sidekick, Acquisition, Google Inc., Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Wikipedia, iLounge, Marketing, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Successfully build a complex Web site with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Start with a comprehensive project plan

Attempting to create a complex Web site without proper planning would be like taking a trip from New York to California without the benefit of road maps. You may know you need to travel in a general westerly direction, but you'll probably make plenty of wrong turns before you arrive...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Web Site, Que Publishing, Chapter Coverage, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Book chapters 2007-08-16

From facts on Google-retrieved Web pages to historical graphs

A newly published Google Patent application entitled "Displaying Facts On A Linear Graph" appears to explain a method for extracting factual information from web pages retrieved via Google searches, and then organizing that info into tabular forms.So why would this technology be advantageous? A good argument for this is right...

Tags: Bill Clinton, Graph, User Interface, Timeline, Query, Module, Data, Collection, Fact, Information, Attribute, Icon, User, Object, Presentation Engine, Collection Module, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Designing IT Infrastructure to Meet Your Business Goals

Designing an IT infrastructure plan that meets the current and future business goals is well worth the time and energy required. Mistakes or lost opportunities can be expensive and limit growth in ways that easily justify investing the time needed for a good plan. If IT personnel are already overworked,...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, J.P. Schwartz, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-03-18

Apple pays 'Asteroid' legal fees; a timeline

A Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple, Inc. to pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF over US$700,000 in legal fees associated with the defense of three popular Mac-oriented Web sites PowerPage and Apple Insider in response to reports published about an unreleased Firewire breakout box for GarageBand, code-named "Asteroid."MacNN covered...

Tags: Legal, Apple Computer Inc., Electronic Frontier Foundation

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Google: Happy Birthday to us!

Google's homepage today features a special Google logo incoporating a birthday cake and an oversized number eight designed to celebrate "Google 8th Birthday!"According to Google's FAQ:When is Google's birthday? Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-27

Is Google News Archive Search really the latest Google information revolution?

Google's expansion of its news search index to include "old" news stories is being announced by Google with its usual bluster claiming benevolent knowledge creation and access for users and no-fee customer generation for content owners.Google puts forth any incremental product or service enhancement as just one more step in...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-06

SES on Click Fraud: Industry collaboration, or vested interests?

Yesterday’s SES panel, “Auditing Paid Listings & Click Fraud Issues,” began with a straight forward review of the legal status of outstanding click fraud lawsuits against leading search engines Google and Yahoo.When John Slade, Yahoo Search Marketing, addressed the audience, he underscored Yahoo’s committment to the recently announced collaborative Interactive...

Tags: advertiser, click fraud, Donna Bogatin, Google Inc., Interactive Advertising Bureau, search engine, SES

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Navigate Flash 8 with confidence: A beginner's tour

Flash 8 provides powerful and flexible tools to create interactive animations, but the accompanying interface (a blank white square and dizzying array of icons, many of which seem to do nothing when clicked) may not offer a particularly intuitive work environment. Animation beginners encountering the interface for the first time...

Tags: Chapter, O'Reilly Media Inc.

Book chapters 2006-06-12

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?OIN and other patent poolsOpen Source has Patents also. There are already several pools of patents pledged to Open Source and Linux. OIN aquired some more patents about a week or so ago http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php . OIN is just...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Open Source Movement, Eolas Technologies Inc., Red Hat Inc., patent, software, open source, software patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp., GPL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Microsoft buys Alohabob

What took them so long?For years, Windows users have been complaining that the process of moving programs and data to a new PC is needlessly complex. A whole cottage industry of less than perfect software utilities has grown up to deal with the problem.Today, Microsoft announced that it’s buying Apptimum,...

Tags: Apptimum Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Kodak wins Java patent suit

Kodak wins Java patent suitDo the right thingI'm no fan of Sun lately after their apparent change of course concerning Linux and their new attacks on RH. However due to the fact that software patents are a cancer on innovation and because of Sun's extensive contributions to FOSS in the...

Tags: Java, Eastman Kodak Co., patent, software, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-10-04

Patriot, Intel in patent squabble

Patriot, Intel in patent squabblewow.. this sounds like...sounds a lot like a SCO tactic... possibly a friend of Darl Mcbride running this company.yeah.. the way Intel implemented somthing... they have patented... so take it up with intel, dont sue people that buy intels chipswhat a joke![...they infringed Patriot's patents by...

Tags: Strategy, Intel Corp., patent, information technology

Discussion threads 2004-02-10

Microsoft loses round in display patent case

Microsoft loses round in display patent caseInovating againLooks like MS has been inovating other peoples IP again.Sorry Jim Desler, but that's the way patents work.Jim said, "there was no infringement of the technology in question, which was developed by Microsoft engineers" ... "We will continue to contend that the patents...

Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-01-29

IBM retains patent crown

IBM retains patent crownAnd yet with all those patents,IBM still support GPLAccording to John Carroll's and Microsoft's flawed reasoning, IBM would have the most too lose from the GPL being widely adopted...To quote some lawyers[i]D. Open-Source Software and the GPL21. Linux is open-source software. Open-source software is free in the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux Developers, Linux kernel, open-source software, GPL, Linux, SCO Group Inc., software, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-01-12