New Battery: Zero to 80% in 60 Seconds

March 29, 2005

The Register reports on what appears to be an extraordinary breakthrough in battery design – a Li-Ion battery that can recharge to 80% within 60 seconds: Toshiba has developed a Lithium-Ion battery capable of being charged to 80 per cent of its full capacity in under 60 seconds. Filling it up takes just “a few […]

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What Programmers Really Mean

March 29, 2005

Tom Evslin has a very funny post about what programmers really mean. A few samples: “It’ll be done ASAP.” Translation: There is no schedule yet. “That feature shouldn’t add any time to the schedule.” Translation: There is no schedule yet. “It’s fifty percent done.” Translation: It hasn’t been started yet.

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Outsourcing Innovation and Design

March 29, 2005

Business Week recently covered outsourcing in a series of articles looking at it from different angles. Two articles particularly caught my eye. First, on outsourcing innovation – quote: Underlying this trend is a growing consensus that more innovation is vital — but that current R&D spending isn’t yielding enough bang for the buck. After spending […]

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New Tool Helps Developers Assess Their Use of O/S Software

March 28, 2005

Via Computerworld, “Black Duck Software Inc. today unveiled a hosted, on-demand service designed to help companies that use open-source and proprietary software side by side check license compliance, intellectual property rights and development integrity”. It sounds like the tool can analyze code down to the snippet: The software can recognize code from thousands of open-source […]

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The Art of Saying No

March 28, 2005

Bill Burnham has a couple of posts on the wonderful ways VCs say “no”.

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Packet Preferencing, Redux

March 28, 2005

A lot has been written about packet preferencing in the VoIP space lately, and the stories are accelerating as VoIP makes its push deeper into the retail telephone market – I commented recently on Michael Geist’s recent article on increasing ISP accountability – the particular context was the increasing social and economic importance of broadband […]

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Thomas Nelson Corporate Blogging Guidelines

March 28, 2005

Michael Hyatt has posted the second draft of his Corporate Blogging Policy, now described as Corporate Blogging Guidelines. I’ve updated my sticky post on the topic.

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Respect Works

March 28, 2005

The always interesting Seth Godin has a post on the importance of courtesy and respect – in the practice of law. Via the also always interesting Al Nye The Lawyer Guy.

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Software-on-Demand: The Beginning of a New Business Model

March 28, 2005

Frank Scavo has a fascinating post today on the business case for software-on-demand. Frank’s lead observation is quite compelling: I’ve long been convinced that the “on-demand” model for business applications has much to offer. Now, after listening in on a conference call with Timothy Chou, former head of Oracle’s On Demand business, I’m even more […]

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ABA Overview of Open Source Software Licensing

March 27, 2005

Via Anthony Cerminaro from Dennis Kennedy’s collection of open source resources, this ABA article on U.S. legal aspects of open source software licensing.

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Using the DMCA as a Barrier to Market Entry

March 27, 2005

Via Copyfight, a paper that analyzes the use of the DMCA as a barrier to competition – the Lexmark and Chamberlain cases are studied.

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Using FOIA to Spy on Competitors

March 26, 2005

Patent Baristas has an excellent post on the use of U.S. freedom of information legislation to spy on competitors. I’ve never seen an article of this depth that addresses Canadian law – if you have, please leave a comment or email me.

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