There’s not really a setting in a search engine to make a disproving search versus a finding search. If there was, then many patent trolls would be uttering a long bellow of anguish and going back under the bridges where they were hiding.
0 replies - 1664 views - 02/09/12 by Jason Hull in Articles
Google may be in hot water with their judge in the Android lawsuit pre-trial hearings. Judge William Alsup was recently informed of several emails written by Google engineers occurring between 2005 and 2010. One of these emails from 2005 by Andy Rubin,...
2 replies - 9462 views - 07/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
As the nightly builds for Emacs 24 start to churn out, developers can expect some cool new features. These features include UI changes, custom themes, bidirectional support, clipboards enabled by default, new version control support, and a...
0 replies - 23533 views - 01/03/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
While Google originally intended to have Chrome OS-based netbooks ready by the holiday season, the manufacturers are now saying that we won't be seeing Chrome OS for consumers until 2011. Although Google might be able to spin up a beta or developer preview...
0 replies - 15230 views - 11/30/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Here's an interesting news item: "Red
Hat’s Secret Patent Deal and the Fate of JBoss Developers".Here's
an ancient -- but still relevant -- piece from Tim O'Reilly: "Software and Business
Method Patents".
1 replies - 4869 views - 11/25/10 by Steven Lott in News
A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at random were sending GPS data and phone numbers to advertisers and remote servers. Several months...
1 replies - 15546 views - 10/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Free Software Foundation has been relatively quiet about Oracle's lawsuit against Google, which was announced nearly a month ago. This week, the organization's compliance engineer Brett Smith asserted the FSF's position on the lawsuit. Unsurprisingly,...
0 replies - 3628 views - 09/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The software industry is constantly trying to find the next-generation tools and methods that can make development, testing, and production more efficient. It's a core part of the developer's inner drive to try and envision how things could be better. At...
0 replies - 5695 views - 08/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found out this week that another one of their top 10 "Most Wanted" patents was shot down by a jury in Eastern Texas District court. The Most Wanted list includes the original 10 patents mentioned in the...
0 replies - 4209 views - 08/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Well, I suppose I didn’t tell you so, I didn’t knock on every Java developer’s door and say it. But I did say it. To myself. In a soft mumble. LOL. What
I said is that Java is not any more “Open Source” than .NET is.
Granted, a huge majority of...
18 replies - 8393 views - 08/13/10 by Jon Davis in News
In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and "Antennagate". Apple CEO Steve Jobs threw up some stats during their presentation showing...
0 replies - 16994 views - 07/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In New Zealand, a major battle is almost won for those who want to see an end to software patenting. Today the NZ Commerce Minister Simon Power announced that the Patents Bill in Parliament would not be modified despite lobbying efforts from the pro-patent...
1 replies - 7604 views - 07/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The test automation vendor Automation Anywhere really liked the movie "Avatar". They liked it so much that it inspired the creation of their newest utility for their recently-launched Testing Anywhere 6.5 product. DZone asked Automation Anywhere...
0 replies - 10113 views - 07/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
After an unusually long wait, the US Supreme Court finally handed down its decision in Bilski v.
0 replies - 5604 views - 06/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Today, Replay Solutions announced its success in obtaining a US patent around their software's ability to reproduce and fix race conditions. Race conditions are a big problem for developers working on multi-threaded applications. Voke Inc.
3 replies - 6859 views - 06/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
