Technology

Ok – I’m stretching for a clever title for this post.  Several weeks ago I saw two great technical posts from friends.  The first is from Stan James – the

Oracle buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Sun Microsoft Systems buys MySQL for about $1.0 billion. Gregory Reyes – Brocade’s ex-CEO – gets 21 months in jail for backdating stock

Now that I use 267 different social networking tools, I’m confused.  I’ve got so many different "friends", but I don’t know how to differentiate between them. My &quot

I’m really pleased that Google has taken an aggressive position in fighting back against the Jarg search patent.  The Jarg patent is another absurd one and Google is on now

How about a portable turntable scratch pad for playing Guitar Hero. Or even better – using a real guitar to play something that looks like Guitar Hero. Nah – I

Tom Evslin picked up my challenge to help invalidate the proposed patent in my post Have You Ever Coded a Progress Bar?  Tom has prior art going back to 1987

I didn’t listen to any voicemail in 2007.  I got plenty of them – but I didn’t listen to any of them.  Yet I got 100% of the information that

It appears that Vonage had something in its patent portfolio that Nortel didn’t like.  Several weeks ago Nortel sued Vonage for patent infringement.  They just settled for a limited cr

Facebook.  MySpace.  LinkedIn.  Plaxo.  Gmail.  Email Contacts.  Bebo.  Every individual social networking software product that I use (Dogster, Shelfari, …) O

Our friends at IBM are trying to patent the "progress bar."  EDN has an article about it titled U.S. patent office looking for prior art on IBM patent application.  As