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UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
News The FFII, an intellectual property campaign group, provides information on a number of European Patent Office software patents that it considers trivial, including a patent for a progress bar and a menu tab.
[February 7, 2006, 9:00]
EU Considers Changes To IP Enforcement
News The Commission considers it essential to crack down on the 'big' offenders, and the proposal accordingly focuses on infringements committed for commercial purposes or causing significant harm to right holders," she wrote, noting: "This view has...
[May 16, 2003, 16:06]
Vodafone Considers Charging For Mobile Spam
Talkback Spam is accelerating at such a fast pace that this is probably a good solution for Vodafone to implement.
[June 7, 2004, 19:46]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback I can't speak for FFII, but I've talked to them enough to know that the list of patents in the FFII website is not there because they are trivial, but because they are software patents, or patents in non patentable fields.
[February 7, 2006, 17:05]
US Government Considers Action On Patent Trolls
Talkback Big Business wanting to put the small entrependuer out of business. Patents take years to develop which put the inventor thru a gaunlet of test to get to market. If the patent has no value then why try to outlaw it or steal it ?
[June 18, 2006, 17:17]
HP Considers Selling Tools For Open Source
Talkback Sounds like it's time for HP to get real and get a real Open Source strategy. Join ObjectWeb and make it happen. Stop making partneships with losers and deal with visionaries such as Red Hat. These guys know what they're doing.
[January 19, 2006, 10:22]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback All of ZDNet UK pages are blocked with some stupid ad covering up the top half. Why are you hiding content underneath some useless ad? The whole of this site is now spam. Well done!
[February 7, 2006, 11:45]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback Get rid of the dumb ad - your site is unusable.
[February 7, 2006, 11:41]
Internet Regulator Considers Anti-paedophile Powers
Talkback There is a vile bug which has found its way onto my computer and keeps changing my homepage (however many times I remove the 'spy' ) to a site which portrays sexual activity/nudity of chidren and very young teens - my ISP is not interested other...
[November 20, 2003, 19:17]
HP Considers Selling Tools For Open Source
Talkback However, Red Hat's priorities don't always align with HP's, as in the case of ObjectWeb's Jonas application server. I haven't heard a lot of demand for that at all," Martino said. Hmm. Could be that JBoss invests more in PR than in technology.
[January 19, 2006, 10:16]
Australia Considers Sending Spammers To Jail
Talkback Can they please also jail everyone responsible for PAPER junk mail through my front door, including, letters, brochures, leaflets, flyers and free newspapers. And while they are at it, I am fed up of being spammed in the street by offensive...
[August 28, 2003, 14:42]
HP Considers Selling Tools For Open Source
Talkback "I haven't heard a lot of demand for that at all," Martino said. JBoss is the name we hear most frequently. This is crap. What people ask for is open source J2EE. JOnAS is just as good as JBoss, and is even more proven in production.
[January 19, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft Considers Taking Admin Rights From Employees
Talkback Well, experimenting today with a security model common to every other modern OS seems a bit late in my view. And I wonder what this will do for backward compatibility.
[May 31, 2006, 23:47]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback Continued from previous comment (why isn't the length limit applied when you click submit? Where you might need patents is for a way of doing something in software which is very difficult to discover, but once dicovered, easy to reproduce in...
[February 9, 2006, 9:38]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback The previous comment hits the nail on the head exactly. Surely we need to consider what patents and copyright are actually for? If someone patents the obviously best way of doing something, and then charges a large sum to licence that 'best way...
[February 9, 2006, 9:36]
Regulator Considers VoIP Phone Numbers
News The UK's telecoms regulator is considering issuing ranges of telephone numbers to voice and video services carried over the Internet. Oftel will launch a consultation paper on the future of the 05 prefix later this month, and will consider...
[April 2, 2002, 13:12]
London Considers E-voting Options
Talkback My team built exactly this FIVE years ago. It was done inpartnership with Sun Microsystems. The system was a first of it's kind supporting PC, iDTV, Gamesplatform, kiosk, mobile phone, PDA and other devices.
[October 20, 2004, 11:40]
ICANN Considers Anonymous Registration Of Domain Names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is to conduct a review of the Whois database for domain name registrants, and assess the feasibility of allowing individuals and companies to register domain names anonymously in the...
[August 1, 2001, 17:23]
US Considers Jailing Hackers For Life
News A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison. The US House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
Yahoo Considers Spurning Google For Inktomi
News Internet portal giant Yahoo has given one of its strongest indications yet that it will soon end its reliance on Web search technology provider Google. Yahoo Australia search producer Peter Crowe has revealed that the company had started testing...
[August 20, 2003, 13:00]
