It’s a term that’s been thrown around a lot over the past couple of years, at times being more popular than at others. Now seems to be one of those times when “innovation” is the hot word—but what the heck does it even mean?I was at a Business of Innovation [...]
The Google book search settlement seemed all but wrapped up in a bow, that is, until hundreds of objections were filed with the Court, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on September 10 examining the antitrust, privacy and copyright issues implicated by the deal, and then the Department of Justice [...]
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Entrepreneurial guru Guy Kawasaki pointed last week to Bill Meade's list of the ten things companies can to do re-start their IP program if it hasn't been paid much attention lately. (Not paying attention to your IP?! I won't shake a finger at you and say, "Tsk tsk"... Even if [...]
Maybe because technology moves so quickly now—what some are calling the “ten year century”—we’ve come to anticipate the type of technology and innovations that once you have it, you can’t imagine how you lived life without it. But sometimes the game-changers aren’t wild, new, complicated, ground-breaking technologies like smart phones [...]