On March 1st, Google is going to combine its 70 different product-specific privacy policies and terms of service into one super-duper privacy policy. You’d think from all the screaming out there that Google was kicking in your door, ripping your credit cards out of your wallet, and taking your children hostage. Would everyone please chill [...]
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Google’s new privacy rules: Get over it already
February 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off
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The CIO and Patent Lawsuits
February 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
The recent Bilski Supreme Court decision has made it far, far too likely that your company may face a patent lawsuit at some point. You may think that the last thing on earth that could happen to your company would be that your business might be sued because it used a particular software program. You’d [...]
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Apple’s Android nightmare: Google’s Motorola purchase gets EU OK
February 13th, 2012 · Comments Off
There are two major kinds of patent lawsuits. On the one side, there are the patent trolls, like Eolas making fundamental Web technology claims . Here, the idea is to use flimsy patents to collect hundreds of millions from the businesses that actually use ideas to make a product or service. Then, there’s what Apple [...]
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Eolas loses landmark Web patent case
February 9th, 2012 · Comments Off
The idea that someone could actually own a patent on the Web may sounds ridiculous to you. Alas, in these days of intellectual property (IP) lawsuits, it isn’t only possible, it’s actually happened. For years, Eolas has been successfully suing major companies like Microsoft for violation of its Web patents. So when Eolas went after [...]
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Apple gets kicked in the teeth by German patent lawsuit decisions
February 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off
I like Apple products. God knows I own and use enough of them. But, I hate their out-sourcing business practices and their world-wide anti-Android lawsuits. So, when I learned this morning that Motorola Mobility had won a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud service in Germany because of a patent violation and Motorola had followed that [...]
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