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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by Brian Prentice | July 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s nearly a month and I’m just getting around to posting my thoughts on the Bilski decisions. Mind you, being on an extended holiday is my excuse. But while I was trading winter in Australia for the blistering heat of the Eastern US, I did have a chance to read through the Supreme Court’s ruling [...]
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by Brian Prentice | May 18, 2010 | Comments Off
A couple of hours ago Microsoft announced that they are filing legal action against Salesforce.com for the infringement of nine of their patents. This is only the fourth time that Microsoft has proactively filed a patent infringement action. The patents Microsoft has included are: A system for mapping between logical and physical data A system [...]
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by Brian Prentice | May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Two days ago, at the Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe’s Kevin Lynch (CTO and SVP, Experience & Technology Organization) made the following comments in relationship to Apple and his view that they want to created a “walled garden” on the web: If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People [...]
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by Brian Prentice | April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
Remember the Android mobile device platform circa 2008? That was Google’s open source masterstroke. Backed by the Open Handset Alliance, it was set to commoditize the mobile operating system market and break down barriers between the mobile internet and their search-based advertising business. Fast forward to 2010. Now we have the Android mobile device platform [...]
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by Brian Prentice | April 20, 2010 | 11 Comments
“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.” – Socrates An old saying that has particular relevance in the world of information technology. Our industry loves couching ideas in clever new terminology. Sometimes the attempts are laughable. But every so often a new term will resonate. Unfortunately in IT, it’s only a matter of [...]
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by Brian Prentice | April 1, 2010 | 11 Comments
In a move set to rock the information technology industry, Microsoft has announced plans to migrate the world-famous Microsoft Windows computer operating system to an open source licensing agreement and provide it free of charge to end users, businesses and original equipment manufacturers (known as OEM). The announcement was made today by Microsoft CEO, Steve [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
Let’s keep a couple of things in mind with the Apple v. HTC complaint. We’re not talking about some patent aggregation company, shopping a case against an IT provider in the East Texas district court, seeking big dollars for the infringement of some obtuse, questionable software patent that provides only ancillary capabilities. We’re talking about [...]
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