by Brian Prentice | December 11, 2011 | 20 Comments
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Atos’ CEO Theirry Breton’s plan to implement a zero email policy for internal communications. According to Breton, only 10% of emails received per day are useful. 18% of all email is spam. I’m curious – what percentage of emails generated internally are deemed as being useless by [...]
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by Brian Prentice | June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
Personally, I think Apple’s new iCloud service is brilliant. Personally, I’ll be making heavy use of it. Personally, I like the idea of being able to synchronise contacts across devices. Personally, being able to coordinate documents across all my Apple devices will probably push me to buy an iPad as my primary travel computer. I’m [...]
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by Brian Prentice | May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ah, serendipity. It’s 5am. I’ve been up for the last two hours. It seems the Tylenol PM didn’t do it’s job of knocking me out senseless for the 8 hours I needed to avoid the jet-lagged induced fog I’ll be dealing with around 3pm this afternoon. So, I’ve been up in my hotel room here [...]
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by Brian Prentice | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
It’s gotten to the point where patent infringement actions in the mobile technology market are about as numerous as offshoots of The Real Housewives reality TV series. And the patents which feature so prominently in these cases seem to share many characteristics with the women in the TV shows – they’re more likely to be [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 6, 2011 | 5 Comments
The day before yesterday I posted the response by Ian Birks, CEO of the AIIA, to my blog on the recent changes to intellectual property rights (IPR) considerations in Australian Commonwealth and State Government procurement policy. Since this is a topic of considerable importance, I feel compelled to respond and reassert my position. One issue [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 5, 2011 | 4 Comments
After my recent post, Dissecting AIIA’s Flawed Position on IP Rights, the CEO of AIIA, Ian Birks, took the time to write a detailed response which he submitted as a direct comment. Unfortunately a glitch with our moderation settings resulted in Ian’s comments not being posted. While we’ve identified, and can fix the problem I [...]
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by Brian Prentice | November 5, 2010 | 3 Comments
Last week Horatio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s Deputy General Counsel, made some interesting comments regarding the intellectual property implications of cloud computing. One insight that I think is particularly profound is that the ability of patent holders to detect infringement is going to become much harder. That makes a lot of sense. After all, cloud computing is [...]
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by Brian Prentice | September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
Travelling through South America at the moment I was struck by a couple of statements which are being attributed to Microsoft’s President of Latin America, Hernán Rincón (here’s the report in Portuguese). I really hope that he was either misquoted or something was lost in translation because in a meeting with Latin American journalists, Rincón [...]
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by Brian Prentice | August 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
Ho hum, another day, another patent infringement suit. I’m becoming de-sensitized. And we all know the cycle by now. File infringement action, issue press release, enter cone of silence while negotiations take place, work out cross license agreement, issue press release, provide no further detail. But with news of Oracle’s patent and copyright infringement action [...]
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by Brian Prentice | August 5, 2010 | 10 Comments
Has anyone else noticed these days that you can’t have a competition for children and only reward the top achievers?. Apparently, handing out ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place can negatively effect the self-esteem of all the other kiddies. So everyone gets a special award for participation – even if they failed miserably or [...]
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