The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from...
I have always asserted that Facebook’s most valuable asset was its event stream (which you can see by clicking ‘home’ from within Facebook). It shows you what’s happening in your network. The other day I complained about having to block more...
It doesn’t have the convenience of a Babel Fish, but this is about as close as we can get with modern technology. Sakhr, a company specializing in English/Arabic translation which serves such clients as the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security, has...
Have you had problems returning a damaged iPhone to Rogers Wireless? If so, I’d like to hear about it in the comments. It has been a year since Apple and Rogers Wireless launched the iPhone 3G in Canada. It was that summer, in 2008, I unloaded my...
Skype launched an iPhone client this week, everywhere except for Canada. According to a Skype representative interviewed by Tom Keating, “There are some patent-licensing issues which prevent us from offering it there.” Translation: This is a...
