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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was to publish the world's first "storyline patent" application yesterday. According to Georgetown University law professor Jay Thomas, "The case law of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has established that virtually any subject matter is potentially ...
Network security was a big issue a decade ago. Now, ten years of technology later, it continues to be a top priority and it appears that it will be so ten years from now as well. That's because as IT security firms learn more about the tactics of hackers, crackers and malicious code writers, the lat...
Some unlikely candidates have been launching record labels lately. Last week, online social networking player MySpace.com debuted its new record label. Now video game maker Electronic Arts is planning to launch a recording label of its own. EA today announced it is teaming up with Nettwerk Music Gro...
Last week Microsoft announced its new online extensions to Windows and Office called, coincidently, Windows Live and Office Live. These say a great deal about both Microsoft's direction and the future of desktop software in general. In addition, HP announced an intent to eliminate the concept of the...
The technology battle between data and voice communications is intensifying, and data appears to have the momentum now. But, experts say, voice may be making a comeback someday soon as industry's favorite application. A new survey, released mid-October by J.D. Power and Associates, indicates that e...
On the heels of an initiative to offer complimentary access to Nintendo WiFi Connection in thousands of McDonald's restaurants in the United States, the video game giant announced today it will also offer its new wireless gaming service for DS handheld game console users in Europe and Asia. Gamers w...
The controversy over the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow wiretapping of Internet telephone calls continues -- as experts on both sides of the question battle it out in federal court and in the court of public opinion. Last week, an alliance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP...
The imperative to fight diseases like AIDS and cervical cancer is a no-brainer, yet new technologies that help in this quest are under assault from bureaucrats and advocacy groups. As technology advances, questions surrounding its control and use will only get hotter. A key set of guiding principles...
Lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would offer providers of fast-growing Internet calling services the same access to E-911 service that traditional phone companies have and give them more time to put the emergency service in place. The legislation, which was approved by the Senate Commer...
Nokia yesterday launched three multimedia smartphones and a new version of its open-source browser in effort to build on its position as top mobile phone maker. The new phones allow users to watch TV, play music, and trade files with other electronic devices. "We are seeing increased interest in adv...
In a move to market the PlayStation Portable as a multimedia device, Sony is enhancing its handheld gaming hardware with new software that lets players transfer various file types between the PSP and their PCs. Sony Media Software released the PSP Media Manager on Monday. Sony said the software allo...
A radical change in the relationship between technology and business has taken place in the past two years -- a change that promises to multiply the competitiveness and performance of companies that embrace it. Integration is the essence of this transformation: the insistence on integration of IT ca...
Vodafone UK and British Sky Broadcasting Group struck a deal unveiled this week that will provide mobile television service in the UK with news, music videos and other entertainment offered in a hot, but untested space. The companies said Sky MobileTV will give 3G handset users access to 19 mobile c...
Samsung plans to enter the nascent online music market and although there's a vast pool of consumers who have not yet made the leap to downloading songs, it will take "an incredibly compelling proposition" to make a dent in Apple's hold on the segment, one analyst said. Speaking to South Korean medi...
I'm either fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone through a couple of significant corporate cycles in the world of business in recent decades. In the 1980s IBM started as the most respected company in the industry and ended as that decade's "Evil Empire." In the '90s, and over what seemed to...
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