The blogosphere has been all aflutter with the analysis that Tom Kemp at Centrify has done of the draft protocol-patent mapping provided by Microsoft for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) and the Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP). Many people find it interesting and surprising that 80% of the [...]
Recently, The 463: Inside Tech Policy blog did a post on a new music service called Muxtape. Muxtape is undeniably cool. It brings us back to a time when creating a mix tape was a work of art we all practiced. As John Cusack proclaimed in High Fidelity: [...]
Over at the Open Source Blog, IBM's Savio Rodriguez discusses a presentation by Spring Source's Rod Johnson at EclipseCON. Rod and Savio come to the same conclusion that we at ACT has been discussing for years: Innovation takes a Bazaar and a Cathedral. As Savio writes: Rod challenged the notion [...]
There's a lot of hoopla surrounding Bain Capital's buyout of beleaguered 3Com Corporation, due to the fact that one of the buyers is Huawei, a company from China. Or "communist China" (gasp!) according to today's press release from Rep. McCotter: News circulated today Bain Capital and communist China's Huawei plan [...]
The European Parliament has a department called “Scientific Technology Options Assessment” or STOA. STOA has recently announced a report on the European patents system, outlining policy options for improving the system. As readers know, patent systems tend to be a controversial issue and theSTOA’s preliminary report was therefore the hotly [...]