EU makes baby steps towards common consolidated corporate tax base
The Economist writes that “[o]n May 2nd the European Commission gave an upbeat report on its progress towards legislation on a common consolidated corporate tax base. […] Under the commission's [...]
Digg’s Kevin Rose = Robespierre?
Suffering from insomnia brought on by someone's 3 day packing procastination (which has now devolved into packing panick), so I've been catching up on RSS feeds. Over at TLF, Tim [...]
Surprise – public testing for vulnerabilities might be dangerous!
According to Internetnews.com, research firm Gartner has criticized network intrusion prevention vendor TippingPoint for holding a public contest to discover vulnerabilities on the Mac platform, saying that “doing vulnerability research [...]
SCOTUS Gives Patent Examiners New Tool: Common Sense
For those of us that support the concept of software patents, there has always been a problem. A big one: the seemingly unending stream of idiotic software-related patents flowing out [...]
Effects of Monday’s Supreme Court patent decision already visible
The New York Times reports that “[t]he Internet phone company Vonage Holdings said on Tuesday that it was seeking a retrial of a patent infringement case against the company in [...]
World’s Largest Patent Database Now Online
Today it was announces that the world's largest patent database has been published online by FIZ Karlsruhe , a German organization that specializes in providing information on science and technology.According [...]