Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine
Blog Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations — in the... [12 Oct 2009]
Judge asks to be shown live BitTorrent demo
News A judge presiding over a copyright-infringement hearing in Australia has asked to see a live demonstration of how BitTorrent is used to download movies [07 Oct 2009]
Google, Apple, others hit by Eolas patent lawsuit
News In a bigger sequel to its years-long patent-infringement case against Microsoft, Eolas has sued Apple, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Playboy and many other corporate giants [07 Oct 2009]
Microsoft controlling Australian Gov't 2.0 funds
News Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce has revealed that any contracts for its Project Fund will be between successful bidders and Microsoft, not the Commonwealth [01 Oct 2009]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US district court has reversed an April ruling that would have seen Microsoft being forced to pay $388m in a patent-infringement case [30 Sep 2009]
Pirate Party makes waves in Australia
News The Pirate Party, which champions issues such as intellectual-property rights, free speech and data privacy, is on its way to becoming an official party in Australia [29 Sep 2009]
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
Blog The maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included. The shift in strategy follows a... [28 Sep 2009]
Microsoft infringed patent, says appeals court
News A US court also said the $358m jury award against Microsoft was disproportionate to the small feature in Alcatel-Lucent's patent that appeared to be little-used [14 Sep 2009]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News The search giant has offered competitors a reseller programme that would let them share some rights and revenue, but Amazon has turned this down [11 Sep 2009]
Google fleshes out Book Search privacy policy
News Privacy advocates had criticised Google's Book Search settlement as incomplete regarding its privacy policy, and the search giant has responded with additional commitments [04 Sep 2009]
Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction
News The landmark injunction would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month [04 Sep 2009]
- Woolly-Bully Patent - Xwindowsjunkie
Google Books deal: Amazon calls in the lawyers
News Google's digital book settlement with publishers and authors is to be challenged in the courts by Amazon [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft files appeal in Word injunction case
News The company has found fault with rulings that led to a jury's patent-infringement ruling that threatens to halt sales of the current form of Word [27 Aug 2009]
Microsoft signs confidential IP deal over NTFS
News Tuxera, an open-source NTFS company, has signed a confidential deal with Microsoft to co-operate on exFAT, a proprietary alternative to the NTFS file system [26 Aug 2009]
SCO group wins Unix copyright appeal
News An appeals court has ruled that a judge was hasty in deciding Novell did not sell Unix copyrights to SCO Group [26 Aug 2009]
- No but .... - Moley
Even the BSA attacking Mandy over P2P crackdown
Blog Peter Mandelson's proposals for cutting off file-sharers have kicked up an almighty ruckus. Technical and legal experts, as well and ISPs and the Open Rights Group, are lining up to give the... [25 Aug 2009]
The Elephant In The Room
Talkback ... is, of course, that actual financial loss to the industry from file sharing is negligible. Groups such as the RIAA and MPAA count each and every download as a 'loss', which is as utterly... [25 Aug 2009]
ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
News Lord Mandelson's proposals to disconnect the internet service of illegal file-sharers have come under criticism as disproportionate and worrying for businesses [25 Aug 2009]
- This is not good... - CA
- Copyright? - razer
Gov't proposes disconnecting file-sharers
News Internet users suspected of illicit file-sharing could be disconnected under proposals by Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills [25 Aug 2009]
- The Elephant In The Room - The Blitterbug
- They must regard me as the ultimate enemy then. - Tezzer
- ...but not very convincing - knapper
Swedish court orders ISP to shut Pirate Bay
News A Swedish ISP has said it was ordered by a district court to shut down the BitTorrent tracking site or face penalties [25 Aug 2009]
Coalition to oppose Google Books settlement
News The Internet Archive is reportedly forming a coalition of tech giants to be led by veteran Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback [21 Aug 2009]
US Justice Dept defends $1.92m file-sharing fine
News In move that echoes Bush administration arguments, Obama's Justice Department says Jammie Thomas's $1.92m fine for infringement of 24 songs is constitutional [17 Aug 2009]
- American Justice - Moley
Judge sides with Hollywood in RealDVD ruling
News RealNetworks loses a critical ruling in the RealDVD case, as a US judge issues a preliminary injunction that will prevent the company from selling RealDVD software [12 Aug 2009]
Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
Blog The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft adopts GPL for Hyper-V Linux components
Blog Mark this day in your diary: Microsoft has decided to use the GPL for some of its software. This is according to Matt Asay over on our American sister site CNet News, who reports that the... [20 Jul 2009]
Software patents, and how to route around them
Blog Microsoft recently used its patents on some aspects of the FAT filesystem to beat TomTom into submission, with the latter ending up having to change its products, pay Microsoft and license some of... [03 Jul 2009]
Government attitude to open source improving?
Blog Last year a Government project called Timely information to citizens was announced, which provided funding to local authorities for projects that gets information out to people faster and more... [26 Jun 2009]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The W3C is seeking prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardise web apps [18 Jun 2009]
FAT replacement licensing must be pragmatic
Blog The settlement between TomTom and Microsoft may not be the outcome that everyone wanted, but it ends the uncertainty over the company's future, and as Rupert Goodwins noted, Microsoft's statement... [02 Apr 2009]
TomTom agrees to pay MS for patents, settles suit
Blog CNET US reporter Ina Fried has just reported that MS and TomTom have come to terms on their suit-countersuit. It looks like TomTom caved: "Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday that they have... [30 Mar 2009]
