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05/24/2013 08:11:21 Daily, March 15Can't We All Just Get Along (Online And In The Air)?
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In This Issue:
1. Editor's Note: Can't We All Just Get Along (Online And In The Air)?
2. Today's Top Story
- BlackBerry Maker RIM Calls For U.S. Patent Reform
Related Stories:
- Blog: BlackBerry Case: Not Good Sign For Patent Challengers
- The U.S. Patent System In Crisis
3. Breaking News
- Microsoft Says--Briefly--That Vista Will Ship In November
- Movie Theaters May Ask To Jam Cell Phones (Reuters)
- Microsoft Adds Business Intelligence Tools To Dynamics SL Apps
- WebTrends Expands Beyond Web Site Analytics Into Marketing
Performance Measurement
- IT Governance: It Matters How Decisions Get Made
- Class-Action Suit Expanded Against IBM
- Cisco CEO: Video Will Drive Collaboration
- Ex-Apple Execs Form 'Blank Check' Company
- Arizona Electric Turns To SAP To Consolidate Apps
- Metro Wi-Fi Networks Expected To Grow 8,400% by 2010
- Sony Delays Playstation 3 By Six Months
- iTunes To Sell March Madness Games
- Ross Perot's Outsourcing Company Hires Controversial
Ex-CIA Agent
4. Grab Bag
- Review: Oboe Locker Protects Music Files (AP)
- IRS Warns Taxpayers To Beware Id Theft Scams (AP)
- Pushing The Internet Into Space (Wired.com)
5. In Depth: Security
- Adobe Warns Of Critical Flash Flaw, Drive-By Downloads
- Microsoft Office Bug Could Result In Drive-By Downloads
- Radio Chip Barcodes Can Carry A Virus: Scientists
- Google Confirms News Prank, Pulls Source Of Bogus Info
- Microsoft Files Piracy Charges Against Eight
6. Voice Of Authority
- Michigan's Anti-Outsourcing Legislation Would Cost More
Jobs Than It Would Save
7. White Papers
- Five Steps To Reduce Telecommunications Expenses
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Quote of the day: Lunch!
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -- Douglas Adams
"Let not the sands of time get in your lunch." -- National Lampoon
"There is no free lunch." -- Milton Friedman
Manners, or rather, the lack of them, have been all over our news
pages the last two weeks. The topics covered won't surprise
anyone, although the proposed remedies might. And yet when all is
said and done, what's really needed isn't some time-consuming
legal maneuver or more reams of survey data, but rather a dose of
good old common sense served up with a dollop of common courtesy.
Take the battle over in-flight cell phone use.
Cell phone makers rushed this week to refute a study making the rounds from
Carnegie Mellon that suggested cell phones were a flight
safety risk. The vendors want to make sure everyone knows that
the data that study was based on revolved around three-year-old
technology--many lifetimes ago in the fast-changing world of
mobile communications. Yeah, sure, fine, but the thing is, nobody
cares. I don’t know anyone who really believes using your cell
phone during a flight will interfere with navigational controls,
etc. (Eyes rolling here.)
What the flight crews and passengers are objecting to is the
increasing lack of common courtesy that sadly seems to go
hand-in-hand with some people's use of mobile technology. We
simply don’t trust our fellow passengers to keep phone use to a
minimum, or to keep it down. And we object to having the role of
eavesdropper forced upon us. Multiply that by a planeload of
digitally connected people, and it's not hard to figure out the
real fear here.
Why else would cinema owners be trying to get permission to jam cell phone signals in their theaters? Or a
New Jersey assemblyman have sponsored a bill to force participants in online discussion
forums, chats, and blogs to publicly identify themselves before
posting comments?
You can read more specifics about these efforts, why they're
doomed, and what the real issues are and how to deal with them by
going to my blog.
Patricia Keefe
BlackBerry Maker RIM Calls For U.S. Patent Reform
Related Stories:
Blog: BlackBerry Case: Not Good Sign For Patent Challengers
The U.S. Patent System In Crisis
Microsoft Says--Briefly--That Vista Will Ship In November
Movie Theaters May Ask To Jam Cell Phones (Reuters)
Microsoft Adds Business Intelligence Tools To Dynamics SL Apps
WebTrends Expands Beyond Web Site Analytics Into Marketing Performance Measurement
IT Governance: It Matters How Decisions Get Made
Class-Action Suit Expanded Against IBM
Cisco CEO: Video Will Drive Collaboration
Ex-Apple Execs Form 'Blank Check' Company
Arizona Electric Turns To SAP To Consolidate Apps
Metro Wi-Fi Networks Expected To Grow 8,400% by 2010
Sony Delays Playstation 3 By Six Months
iTunes To Sell March Madness Games
Ross Perot's Outsourcing Company Hires Controversial Ex-CIA Agent
In the current episode:
Chris Murphy With 'Web Bracketology'
Alex Wolfe With 'Spring Training'
Sacha Lecca With 'The World Cup Of RFID'
Peter Gorenstein With 'Betting On Technology'
InformationWeek 500 Entry Call
Massaging Data
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Review: Oboe Locker Protects Music Files (AP)
IRS Warns Taxpayers To Beware Id Theft Scams (AP)
Pushing The Internet Into Space (Wired.com)
Adobe Warns Of Critical Flash Flaw, Drive-By Downloads
Microsoft Office Bug Could Result In Drive-By Downloads
Radio Chip Barcodes Can Carry A Virus: Scientists (Reuters)
Google Confirms News Prank, Pulls Source Of Bogus Info
Microsoft Files Piracy Charges Against Eight
Michigan's Anti-Outsourcing Legislation Would Cost More Jobs Than
It Would Save
Five Steps To Reduce Telecommunications Expenses
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1. Editor's Note: Can't We All Just Get Along (Online And In The Air)?
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Now that it has settled a long-running patent infringement
lawsuit filed by NTP Inc., BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is
calling for a "more balanced" U.S. patent system.
Eric Chabrow says Research In Motion's decision to settle with
NTP for $615 million in an infringement case involving wireless
E-mail patents is good news for the likes of Tom Woolston, Dick
Snyder, and Neil Balthaser. All three hold patents on IT that
others contend they don't deserve.
The U.S. patent system is in disarray. Change requires not just a
better system, but better patents, too.
A Microsoft blog briefly reported that Vista will ship in
November, but later, the blog entry was rewritten to say the next
version of Windows will come out in the second half of the year.
Movie theater owners faced with falling attendance are
considering asking federal authorities for permission to jam cell
phone reception.
The new BIO will tap into SQL Server Analysis Services to provide reports
and scorecard performance metrics for small and midsized businesses.
The new WebTrends Marketing Lab includes an updated release of
WebTrends' core Web analytics software and a new data warehouse system.
IBM's Nackman touts the use of open-source principles in IT
governance in a keynote at Software Development West 2006.
Attorneys for plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against
International Business Machines Corp. seeking overtime pay
announced that the suit has expanded to include state claims in
Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Jersey.
The company will incorporate video into voice, E-mail, and
instant messaging applications as part of its push to help group
collaboration in large enterprises.
Acquicor doesn't make or sell any products, but rather will seek
acquisitions in the technology sector.
Arizona Electric Power Cooperative Inc. is turning to SAP AG's
"Safe Passage" program to support growth and consolidate legacy
applications, the nonprofit cooperative said Tuesday.
The growth of municipal Wi-Fi is being driven by several trends,
including public safety, increased efficiency, competitive
advantage, and the need to provide broadband access to
underserved areas, according to a new report from ABI Research.
The release has been pushed to November, reportedly due to copy
protection issues for its DVD player and (or) insufficient
development kits.
CBS Sports and Apple on Tuesday announced a deal in which
condensed versions of all the games in the NCAA Division I men's
basketball tournament will be sold on iTunes for $1.99 each.
Perot Systems hires David Szady, a former CIA official and FBI
agent, to sell more services to defense and intelligence markets.
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4. Grab Bag: News You Need From Around The Web
Having your entire music collection at your fingertips is simple
enough if you own an iPod or other portable digital player with
multiple gigabytes of storage--until you drop it. Or the PC that
you use to synch your player has a meltdown. Then what?
The Internal Revenue Service, noting an escalation in identity
theft scams, is raising alarms about E-mails designed to dupe
taxpayers into revealing personal financial information.
The interplanetary Internet sounds like something out of a sci-fi
novel. But it's moving closer to reality, thanks to delay-tolerant
networking technologies for communicating across vast distances.
Users are urged to update immediately to the patched 8.0.24.0
edition of the Flash player.
Microsoft patched flaws in Office that could allow attackers to
strike users who simply visit malicious Web sites.
The infected RFID tag can then infect a back-end database that
processes the information, researchers say.
Google confirms that a 16-year-old prankster was able to get a
bogus press release posted on the company's automated news service.
Microsoft said the sellers of the alleged bootleg software all
used eBay for their transactions.
Democrats in the Michigan state senate on Monday introduced
anti-outsourcing bills designed to put more of the state's
residents out of work while raising their taxes. OK, that's not
what the bills are "designed" to do, but that surely would be the
outcome if they become law. And this from a party that offshored
its leadership to Canada! Paul McDougall reports.
This white papers details five steps that large enterprises can
take to reduce telecom expenses. The steps discussed in this
white paper are based off the work MBG has done for companies
that spend over $10 million a year in telecommunications, or that
want to centralize invoices across their global organizations.
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