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Google's program "has some terms that are favorable to Google, such as requiring an exclusive offer and agreeing that the offer won't serve as notice for willfulness purposes, but no one is being forced to offer their patents as part of this program," said Daniel Nazer, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Apple is probably "running as fast as it can to staff its stores with people who know not only how to sell computers, phones and tablets, but also how to sell luxury," he told the E-Commerce Times Prt Porter Dernier Cri...

Two recent assessments of government IT make the point. While each report focuses on a different aspect of IT management, the reports reinforce each other in stressing the need for government IT staffs to break with past practices and to deploy resources with a future-oriented approach...

"Section 1201 is often used by the entertainment industries not to prevent copyright infringement but to control markets and lock out competition," wrote EFF staff attorney Mitch Stoltz in a blog post last week. "So it's not surprising that ESA, along with MPAA and RIAA, have written to the Copyright Office to oppose this exemption."

I recently heard an amazing story about how an Apple shop had dumped Apple for Dell. Over most of the last two decades, the only time I've seen a move like this was when some change in IT forced it, and a lot of staffers subsequently would quit as a result. This move was largely user-driven. ...

"I'm sure there's a case that could be made that monitoring Americans' international telephone calls might reduce drug trafficking," said EFF staff attorney Mark Rumold However, mass collection breaches the protections of the First and Fourth Amendments, he told the E-Commerce...

Apple retail head Angela Ahrendts sent a memo telling staff to encourage customers to go online, Business Insider reported "Apple's introducing a different aspect to the smartwatch ecosystem in terms of styling and price point," Schreiner said. "I think it shows they're aiming...

"Without a clear understanding of the technology that underpins the use of data, the FTC would not be able to carry out its mission effectively. Having more staff technologists will allow the FTC to better assess whether businesses are using technology in reasonable ways," she told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Hospital RN allows hospital staff to access patient records from anywhere in a medical facility and, with the use of Apple's iBeacon location technology, identify patients by their proximity to an iOS device ...

Take a PC maker selling to corporations for instance. Is its customer the corporation's purchasing department, or the head of the department that placed a PC order? Receiving department staffers sign for deliveries, so where do they fit in? Are they the customers? ID Graph, po...

A controversy recently erupted over the Federal Trade Commission's decision in 2012 not to bring antitrust charges against Google after exploring its search practices. An internal document accidentally released to the WSJ suggested that some FTC staffers disagreed with that decision, but that Google had been given a pass due to its close political ties with the Obama administration...

In addition to being able to run all programs that run on Windows, the Surface 3 supports input from a stylus. Although acquiring a Surface Pen -- offered in silver, blue, red and black -- requires another outlay of cash, Microsoft is including two free programs that make good use of pen input: Drawboard PDF, which allows PDFs to be marked up with margin notes and such; and StaffPad, which permits music composition on the tablet...

IBM on Tuesday announced it will spend US$3 billion over a four-year period on a new Internet of Things unit involving thousands of consultants, developers and research staff. The company intends to establish an IoT Cloud Open Platform for Industries, which will extract data for business intelligence, and set up a Bluemix IoT Zone, which will help leverage that data for app design.

When I asked the builder about this stuff, I was told that you generally have to have a full time staff of up to three people just to keep the house clean and prevent it from falling apart -- and that was one of the better homes we viewed. Granted, you can find builders that...

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, along with Commissioners Julie Brill and Maureen Ohlausen, on Wednesday released a statement reaffirming the agency's decision not to prosecute Google over its search practices, and insisting it was in line with the recommendations of the FTC's staff.

Like everyone else, I love new technology. However, sometimes companies and their tech staff cross over the line and don't see it the way the rest of the world sees it. They don't realize what they have done until public outcry clobbers them over the head, like with Google Glass...

All the love in the world for STEM is meaningless, he said, if schools are staffed by ineffective teachers who are not truly versed in the STEM disciplines ...

A 160-page report that was far more complete than the FTC no doubt wanted last week was leaked to The Wall Street Journal, clearly showcasing that the FTC staff recommended action against Google for anticompetitive practices. The FTC commissioners then decided -- indicating ...

No graphical installation routine is available, only the text-driven Debian menu installer. This is doubtful to change, since Q4OS is a custom Linux distro that serves as a platform for installation of business-based open source applications by resident IT staff. The installe...

"You can see the value that an active, engaged, innovative developer culture brought to platforms like smartphones, for example," he told TechNewWorld, "but you can also see where the industry has run into trouble in training staff for legacy products -- such as the IBM mainframe."