Tag Archives: usa

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

August 18, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Economist – Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity

Yet another in a long line of arti­cles decry­ing the patent system.

August 1, 2011 – 11:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – US airports still vulnerable to attacks, says lawmaker

The TSA is so effec­tive it’s ineffective.

July 13, 2011 – 8:40 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Grist – The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme

I can’t say I agree with this, but it fits my per­cep­tion of America’s infrastructure.

June 28, 2011 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Groklaw – The Google Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification

This is a fun story.

April 14, 2011 – 7:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes

When this goes through (though pos­si­bly not this year) some busi­ness is going to make a mint pro­vid­ing a back-end ser­vice to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a pur­chase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Check­out should start build­ing that now, if they haven’t already.

April 12, 2011 – 11:26 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Google to be audited on privacy after Buzz complaints

Google hav­ing it’s pri­vacy poli­cies reviewed for the next 20 years is going to be rough on a com­pany who wants to orga­nize the world’s information.

March 30, 2011 – 9:01 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off