Gibson on Hamachi

December 18, 2005

In the latest Security Now! podcast Steve Gibson gives an almost ecstatic review of Hamachi, the zero-config p2p VPN NAT traversal app. I’ve been looking at it for a while but Steve’s podcast in particular has me sold. The podcast is the 4th instalment in Steve’s series on VPNs. Gist: Hamachi Rocks!! This week Leo […]

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The Customer Support NDA

December 18, 2005

I see non-disclosure agreements of all kind and description all the time. But here’s one I’ve never seen – it’s mentioned in Ellen Roseman’s column in the Star yesterday, which is about customer service. Writing about a woman who purchased a faulty Toshiba laptop, only to have it replaced by another faulty machine, Ellen notes: […]

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The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

December 17, 2005

Dion Hinchcliffe’s list is a must read.

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Fear Factor

December 17, 2005

The scariest story I’ve read this year. From South Coast Today: A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.” Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student […]

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More on RIM-NTP

December 17, 2005

Lots of activity in this case over the last few days. RIM has requested that the U.S. Supreme Court hear its appeal from the Federal Circuit’s decision against it on the relay server jurisdiction issue, and YANPHBTO (yet another NTP patent has been tossed out – OK, call it a ‘non-final rejection’ that the USPTO […]

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The War Over the Walkman Patent Finally Ends

December 17, 2005

The New York Times tells the David v Goliath story of Andreas Pavel, who after a 25 year battle has finally settled his lawsuit with Sony and has won the right to be called the inventor of the walkman, as well as what is rumoured to be an 8 figure settlement, and royalties. Pavel says […]

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Celphone Cloning

December 17, 2005

The Globe runs a remarkable story this morning on one customer’s journey through the nightmare of having her celphone number cloned – to the tune of a $12,000 bill that her carrier, Rogers, insists she pay. What happened next is quite remarkable: Since making that call to Rogers last August, Ms. Drummond and her partner, […]

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U.S. Difficulties With Electronic Voting Systems

December 16, 2005

Clearly, there have been many, with some observers of this issue going so far as to suggest that the electronic voting machine system was subverted in the last U.S. presidential election, with significant effects on the outcome. But concerns appear to be many and multifaceted. In a recent article on the Huffington Post titled “The […]

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Cooperation Between Microsoft and Mozilla

December 16, 2005

OK, it’s not much, but it looks like Mozilla is permitting Microsoft to use Firefox’s default RSS feed icon in IE7.

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The Strategic Value of Legal Services

December 16, 2005

The Wired GC writes today about an interview in HBS Working Knowledge with Harvard Business School Professor Constance Bagley on the eve of the publication of her new book, “Winning Legally: How Managers Can Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk.” The good Professor sees an effective in-house and outside counsel […]

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VON Radio Podcast – Canadian IP Thought Leaders

December 15, 2005

I had the great pleasure earlier this week of being interviewed by Jon Arnold for the VON Radio Canadian IP Thought Leaders podcast. I’ve gotten to know Jon through our mutual interest in each other’s blogs and it was great fun to talk about CALEA / Lawful Access. The podcast is here. Be sure to […]

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Good Timing on the Visto-NTP Deal

December 15, 2005

Much has already been said of the licensing deal just announced between Visto and NTP. I’m willing to bet that the timing, which presents a great PR opportunity for NTP at an anxious moment in its battle with RIM, has earned Visto a nice discount on the terms that would otherwise have been available to […]

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