Monthly Archives: January 2003

Readers keep sending more examples of work that appears to show SBC’s patents on framing and other Web technology are questionable. Here are their observations. Comments

Will Femia is showing the MSNBC weblogs he has been instrumental in creating. I’m posting this from the stage at a conference organized by the Newspaper Association of America, as a quick demonstration of the technology. Will just cautioned about … Continue reading →

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a Web form you can fill out to help the Librarian of Congress come up with needed exceptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (The law needs outright repeal, but let’s do this one … Continue reading →

I’m on my way to Orlando for the Newspaper Association of America conference called “Connections,” where I”ll be speaking on a panel about weblogs. I hope to convince newspaper executives that this is part of their future. But I won’t … Continue reading →

If the CDMA technology ends up at the heart of all wireless communication one of these days, and it might, Qualcomm will have what you might call an unbeatable business model. More in my Sunday column. Comments

New York Times: Senate votes to head off security sweeps. The Senate has voted to bar deployment of a Pentagon project to search for terrorists by scanning information in Internet mail and in the commercial databases of health, financial and … Continue reading →

The patent fiascos continue to roll in. Now SCO is waving around alleged Unix “intellectual property” against a variety of other operating systems including Linux. I’ve been assuming Microsoft would be the patent-wielding attacker of open-source software, and I’m still … Continue reading →

Reuters: Obesity Suit Against McDonald’s Dismissed. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs — including a 400-pound teenager who said he eats at McDonald’s every day — failed to show that customers of the world’s largest fast-food chain were … Continue reading →

Doc Searls says Hollywood won the Eldred case, allowing for essentially unlimited copyright terms, in part because the entertainment companies have gotten the rest of us to frame the debate on their inaccurate and loaded terms — copyright equals property. … Continue reading →

This is the 20th anniversary of a technology development that gets little attention outside its relatively small area. Two decades ago, companies shipped the first musical instruments using the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard. I stopped by a huge … Continue reading →