The International Herald Tribune reports that “a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. […] Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers consider banning anonymous comments left by visitors to their pages and be able to [...]
I’ve been reading comments here on Groklaw about the great ODF vs. OOXML ‘war’ between IBM and Microsoft. But what really has me scratching my head is how hatred for all things MS has moved people to blindly support another big company. I’m stunned by the weird inverse logic that [...]
According to Yahoo!News, Turkey is the latest country to censor the Internet. In a worrying development, “[a] parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to the founder of modern Turkey.” Just two days ago, Thailand's military-appointed government blocked access to on-line [...]
According to InfoWorld, “[a] security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to compromise electronic devices like routers or mobile phones.” InfoWorld states that “[t]he vulnerability lies in the ARM and XScale microprocessors, two chips that are widely used [...]
As the tech and business community try to read the tea leaves behind various groups being left out (Apache) and those who just squeezed in (Google), it seemed appropriate to take a look at the legal ramifications of the new draft. So we asked our IP Counsel, Richard Wilder, to [...]