Environmental Searches Bloom Online
News The Property Search project, developed with Computacentre, has already cut the time taken to compile an environmental search report on a property from six weeks to just a few minutes. The online search facility is the EA's contribution to the...
[September 2, 2003, 16:05]
For 2001, Futurists Are Playing Coy
News In a virtual presentation by Gordon Bell on the Web, the chairman of University Video Communications and 23-year veteran of Digital Equipment predicted that a consortium of Internet police will emerge to watch for copyright infringement, trademark...
[January 2, 2001, 14:14]
OSDL Considers Open-source Code Repository
News A spokesman for IBM said the company believes in patents as being a model to protect intellectual property, but has a strategy to not apply patents against Linux or open source. Cohen said OSDL hopes to work with SourceForge, a Web site which...
[October 27, 2004, 14:40]
IBM Leads US Patent Pack
News Patents have been the source of several lawsuits and a number of intellectual-property licensing firms have emerged. In another effort, the OSDL is hosting a Web site called the Open Source Software as Prior Art project, which will be designed as a...
[January 10, 2006, 8:30]
Microsoft Email 'misunderstood' - SCO
News The cost of these suits and the rest of the company's SCOsource effort to derive more money from its intellectual property was $3.4m for the company's most recent quarter. On Thursday, a Microsoft representative told CNET News.com that the company...
[March 5, 2004, 7:55]
Open Source Project Aims To Map The World
News OSM has also been attracting interest from commercial users and London-based estate agency Nestoria has started using OSM mapping data for its online property-search service in the Isle of Wight. Access to postcode data is a more contentious issue...
[November 14, 2006, 7:52]
Google Reveals Its Social Side
News But instead of limiting the project to its own social-networking property, Orkut, Google has invited other sites along for the ride — including LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, Ning, and Friendster. In some ways, any of these different attempts to mash up...
[November 1, 2007, 7:55]
