Practical Technology

Every year Google takes a look at what we’ve been searching for on the Internet in 2011 in its Google Zeitgeist list. A lot of it shows that we love our dumb stuff. For example, Rebecca Black, whose fame rests entirely on one awful song and video, Friday, was the number one search. Looking deeper [...]

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I wonder if Apple is beginning to regret its world-wide war on Android and Samsung? After all, Apple’s just been hit in the chops by a German court injunction that blocks the sale of all iPhones and iPads in the European Union. In yet another chapter in the mobile patent wars, this time around Android-power [...]

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I’ve been poking fun at Apple’s intellectual property design claims for some time now. Then, I got a look at Apple’s “suggestions” on how Samsung could avoid Apple’s legal wrath and I realized I hadn’t even scratched the surface of how absurd Apple’s claims are. In a recently revealed Apple court document (PDF) we see [...]

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December 01, 2011, 7:00 AM — It used to be that when I said “cloud services,” people’s eyes would glaze over and in minutes they’d be gently snoring. That was then. This is now. While CIOs and CTOs still debate about what role the cloud will have in business, personal cloud services have been slowly [...]

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Some fools still have this delusion that software patent and product design wars have something to do with some mythological real value of intellectual property (IP). While there are indeed cases involving a better mouse-trap, most such cases are about nothing but extorting cash from people who create real products, or, in the case of [...]

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