I think I’d like to own one of these, but like the other Apple hardware, they’re quite expensive.
I still want one though.
Some companies are finding that OS X and Xserve are a viable, sometimes cheaper, alternative to Windows-based networks,” reports BusinessWeek online. [Aug 5] [Apple Hot News]
Somehow, I simply don’t think that this would be well respected if it happened in my corporation. But would be interesting to see.
I would love to goto a conference where this is common. Dave, let me come to BloggerCon!.
NY Times: In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus. Mr. Aral discovered that he was not alone. The next day in the auditorium, which was outfitted with a wireless link to the Internet, a group of people booted up their laptops, opened their IM programs and spent the next three hours happily exchanging notes during the presentations. [Tomalak’s Realm]
I used to think it was wildly funny and somewhat entertaining when some enterprising company ran out, purchased a patent or a portfolio full of patents from some smaller firm (or an individual), and then proceeded to sue a bunch of people over using that patent.
As I remember from my classes on US History – the patent system was intended to protect the inventor of a unique product from having that product copied – thus infringing the patent. I’m fairly confident that it was never intended to be used to patent things like HTML Navigation, One-Click Shopping, the transmission of data over the internet, and so on, and so on.
A group of my friends, who operate a variety of websites and a part of a large online community, are being pressured by Acacia Media Technologies Corporation to hand over large portions of their earnings for having streaming audio and/or video content on their sites.
I’m certain that there is prior art that makes this patent invalid – but who has the time and the funding to challenge this. These folks are all running small businesses and don’t have the time, the expertise, or the money to fight this out in court. So they’ll do what almost every other business that Acacia is going after will do…
Pay.
Must review this!
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