Tesla Open-Sources Its Patents Nick Kolakowski, June 13, 2014 Most tech companies devote considerable time, money, and effort to enforcing their patents. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has decided to buck that longtime tradition by opening …
Coffee Maker Uses DRM to Block Competition Kevin Fogarty, March 3, 2014 Competitor sues to keep leading coffee-pod maker Keurig from adding tech that will block unlicensed coffee pods from its machines. …
Google’s Pay-Per-Gaze Intriguing, But Needs Foundation C.S. Magor, November 4, 2013 Not long ago, Google filed a patent for pay-per-gaze technology. The technology, which allows Google to assign advertising revenue to content providers based on a reader’s …
Is Hadoop THE Answer for Big Data? R. Emmett O'Ryan, October 7, 2013 Are companies and Big Data professionals who embrace Hadoop putting themselves at risk by being at the mercy of Google? In March 2013, after about four …
Obama’s ITC Veto Could Spark New Debate Over Patents Nick Kolakowski, August 5, 2013 The ITC ruling would have banned sales of older iPhone and iPad models in the United States. …
Was Google’s Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? Nick Kolakowski, April 26, 2013 Motorola Mobility’s failure to get billions in patent royalties out of Microsoft throws Google’s acquisition strategy into doubt. …
Facebook Is Sued Over ‘Like’ Button Functionality Dice Administrator, February 14, 2013 It’s another lawsuit for Facebook, this time over the way its “Like” button works. Supposedly, a Dutch programmer, Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, patented a …
Microsoft Rages Over FTC’s Google Decision Nick Kolakowski, January 4, 2013 Microsoft’s very public irritation with the FTC’s decision hints at its long-burning rivalry with Google. …
Google’s Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups Nick Kolakowski, December 5, 2012 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t see his company or Apple as the losers of the current patent wars. …
Linus Torvalds: Patents and Copyrights Problematic in Current Form Nick Kolakowski, October 11, 2012 As much of the tech world engages in a series of IP wars, Linux guru Linus Torvalds believes that the patent situation is problematic. …
