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EFF: Groups Call On IP Czar To Get The Priorities Straight

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 03/25/2010 - 01:40

Among other things, the comments suggest that the government should only spend our tax dollars on IP enforcement when (1) the costs of enforcement do not exceed the damages caused by the infringement; (2) the infringement meets the standards for criminal conduct; and (3) the infringement involves clear legal violations of the law,


 

Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo – The Bahoo Bonanza

Linux Today  Thu, 07/30/2009 - 07:04

Tech Czar: "Its sad to see one of the earliest Internet companies lose the integral piece that made them famous, but it was even harder to see Yahoo turn into “altavista”.

Yahoo has been in a state of flux, with the only constant being their decreased market share."


 

Google Chrome OS -- a game of chess

Linux Today  Wed, 07/15/2009 - 19:32

Tech Czar: "What Google did was brilliant, very similar to its strategy with Chrome and I will outline it below."


 

Nokia, dethroned -- all hail the GM of mobile handsets

Linux Today  Tue, 07/14/2009 - 16:31

Tech Czar: "Nokia is stuck in a rut, losing ground quickly and unable to change its ways to meet consumer demand.

Four years ago, one would find it unthinkable that the leading handset manufacturer in the world would lose more than 20% market share (that is a conservative estimate, most have it around 40%) in two or three years."


 

Microsoft now all about cooperation? Yes, thanks to patents

Linux Today  Tue, 05/19/2009 - 22:33

ars Technica: "Far from being the evil monopolist, Microsoft has in many ways become the cooperative giant--and it's all thanks to intellectual property.

The company's IP czar takes us inside the corporate transformation in a new book, Burning the Ships, to show us how it happened (and to take a few potshots at Richard Stallman)."


 

WirelessHD Receives Hollywood's Approval

Extremetech  Thu, 08/28/2008 - 16:15

The WirelessHD technology developed by SiBEAM received a significant boost on Wednesday when Hollywood's content czar blessed its content-protection scheme.