Topic

Computer software

184 published works

The Trademark Blog April 15, 2004
Linspiration for Lindows
By Marty Schwimmer
Lindows has announced that it will change the name of its software product LINDOWS to LINSPIRE. The announcement makes no mention of a settlement of the worldwide dispute with Microsoft…
Tom Mighell March 10, 2004
Oops
By Tom Mighell
The folks over at the SCO group must not be aware of the dangers of leaving metadata in its documents. In a Word document recovered from the company, the hidden metadata…
The Trademark Blog February 25, 2004
Microsoft Office for the Rest of Your Life?
By Marty Schwimmer
Apple is promoting its iLife '04 product with the slogan "It's like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life." Interesting.
Tom Mighell February 10, 2004
Research that comes to you from Copernic Tracker
By Tom Mighell
Copernic, the company that makes the great Copernic Agent meta-search product, has introduced the Copernic Tracker, a utility that automatically monitors websites for you and notifies you of any changes or new…
Tom Mighell January 5, 2004
Toolbars, toolbars, everywhere…..
By Tom Mighell
Thinking of using one of the many toolbars now available from most of the major search sites? Read Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? first.
Tom Mighell December 1, 2003
Wayback to classic software
By Tom Mighell
The Internet Archive has received a DMCA exemption to archive copies of vintage software. This is great news, and very important -- keeping copies of these old programs around is important not…
California Employment Law Update November 1, 2003
Website Operator Was Properly Enjoined From Disclosing Trade Secrets
By Tony Oncidi
DVD Copy Control Ass’n, Inc. v. Bunner, 31 Cal. 4th 864, 75 P.3d 1 (Cal. 2003) Jon Johansen, a Norwegian resident, reverse engineered the Content Scrambling System (CSS), computer software used…
Tom Mighell October 16, 2003
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell
By No Other is brought to us by D.C. Toedt, a general counsel in a software company. Originally titled Business Lessons, the blog contains notes of lessons the author has gained…
Tom Mighell June 28, 2003
Microsoft seeks to compete
By Tom Mighell
Microsoft has launched software that will index web sites, called MSNBot. It is expected that Microsoft is making a move to compete directly with Google in the search industry.
DennisKennedy.Blog May 28, 2003
The Technology is Cooler as a Solo
By Dennis Kennedy
Vaio, Worldox, Enfish, CaseMap, ActiveWords, Lexar. Got something new for me to try? I've been experiment with some new hardware and software. It's so much easier to do as a…