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The US Patent system has gone from a bit broken in some place to weird. I just read this article from Slashdot about an LSI engineer getting a patent for a Linked List in April 11 2006?!?! Now this is really strange.
Congratulations are in order to Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation who, in patent […]

Yes, that is right. Cost per action (CPA) might not be the most innovative thing in Internet advertising. But, if Google is doing it then it probably is something worth looking into. Here is some coverage by Techcrunch abiet using the term Pay per action (PPA) instead.
Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or […]

I previously blogged about the decline in available computer science skills and enrollments in computer science programs. As a member of the faculty, I find it sad that people are moving away from computer science. There are definitely signs that information technology is loosing its appeal. However, in the blog, I find it ironic because […]

We all know that United States of America has become a very litigious society where filling a lawsuit is become more and more common. But, this article from InformationWeek about a Colorado woman suing the Internet Archive for crawling her website despite a notice on her website clearly prohibiting its copying for any reason. The […]

Here is an announcement via Engadget about the impending release of another iPhone clone … the Meizu miniOne. Wow. Another iPhone clone that plans to be launched in China towards the end of 2007.

This miniOne “entrance” model (which will likely be called something else once the English is cleaned up) will lack a camera and […]

NetworkWorld has this fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) feature about a Global Military Telecommunications System that looks like a mix of satellite phone technology and commercial mobile phone technology (such as GSM).
LGS announced its Tactical Base Station Router (TacBSR), which was developed by Bell Laboratories, in February. The TacBSR is a single box that provides instant […]

Bloody battles have been waged here and abroad by operators and regulators on the proper use and allotment of the airwaves. The right to use a particular frequency band is particularly sensitive because only one operator can use the said frequency band to prevent interference. Therefore, literally chunks of the sky have been chopped up […]

Guru “can be a pro-blogger but does not want to admit it” Migz Paraz wrote a piece on developer exodus a few months back. In his article, Migs mentions the growing trend of Philippine software development talent moving abroad to find jobs that have more lucrative pay. This is typical of Java, dotNET and C/C++ […]

While reading the newspaper today, I suddenly encountered an article about a business man whose challenge to his employees was to “look beyond the status quo”. I found that particular phrase interesting enough to blog about. After a few more minutes of thinking, I replaced the words “look beyond” with “challenge” as it would make […]

Here is an article from BBC about the testing of an enhancement to the current domain name system that allows the use of Internationalized URLs.

The tests were carried out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) that oversees the running of the net’s addressing system. Currently net domains, such as bbc.co.uk, […]