The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is considering to invalidate many (if not most) software patents and significantly restrict the issuance of new process patents. No doubt, intellectual property does deserve decent protection, and I think that this move…
Category: General
The current economic situation is not exactly ideal: amongst many significant issues, one of the most concrete and pressing problems of today is the highly volatile energy market. Many current problem in the world (such as clean water, food, housing)…
To day, I would like to take a peek at a technology that has been living in the shadows for some time. While HDTV and digital broadcast over-the-air have been getting some attention lately (especially with the January 17, 2009…
While Germany and Europe in general have some of the strictest rules regarding the use and storage of personally identifiable information, the last few months have seen rather extreme data security breaches. Today, the German media is reporting about a…
Starting today, I will try to review some of the more interesting gadgets that I have been playing with. The first installment will be on the Windows Mobile phone that I won last week at TechEd. After attending a Mobile…
I attended a meeting of the Hartford, CT, chapter of OWASP yesterday – James McGovern was so nice of inviting me there. OWASP is a group focusing on web application security, with a heavy emphasis on “application” (in contrast to…
There are quite a few indications that the hopes for an industry backed, ad-supported music exchange were – at the least – too early. Maybe it’s a scam, maybe it is just a test-balloon, but in a world of iTunes…
Maybe, maybe: there are signs on the horizon that the content industry will finally come to grips with the harsh reality that their old models just do not work anymore the way they used to: enter Qtrax, a free, ad-supported…
For years I have been playing around with all kinds of computer based TV and multi-media solutions and toys: Windows MCE in its various editions from 2004 to Vista, early versions of MythTV and proprietary stuff. Until now none of…
This is so brain-dead, it is actually quite funny: In a move to make sure that he will be seen – once again – as a brave contrarian, John Dvorak thinks that Oracle paid Sun to kill MySQL. After reading…