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Congress Scurries to Take 11th-Hour Patent Reform Action

The Goodlatte bill includes a "loser pays" provision -- designed to deter aggressive patent holders that would risk paying the defendant's fees if the defendant should win the case. The Senate measure does not offer a similar 'fee shifting' proposal. "We are hoping to work with the Senate staff to address the fee structure," Molino said...

The Sky Is Falling – No, Wait, It’s Just a Package From Amazon

"It's an interesting concept, and if it can overcome all the hurdles it could save on gas and staff," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld. "However, you would have to have more local distribution centers -- note that the distance from each to the end customer would be limited -- and you would have to deal with the maintenance, repair, and potential loss of the drones. So, any savings may just be a wash."

OPINION

Apple, Microsoft and the Innovation Delusion

If the billions of dollars difference between Microsoft and Apple valuations were based on Apple getting an idea that Microsoft didn't, then you'd think the effort to capture ideas would be funded and staffed by both firms at a level consistent with the opportunity. Shouldn't the biggest and most successful VCs be tied to the biggest and most successful firms because one would ensure the other? ...

PRODUCT PROFILE

Zoho Sets Its Sights on Large Businesses

"Companies with a lot of sales staff need this feature," he said The module allows users to organize customers by geographic locations, industry type, expected revenue, product lines and divisions. It also gives users the ability to do forecasting based on territories, identif...

Musk Heaps Fuel on Tesla Model S Fire

"This showcases Tesla's need for a well-staffed formal PR function and its need to put a leash on Musk," he commented. "The back-and-forth makes it look like Musk or Tesla were lying about requesting the investigation, which was apparently launched over Musk's objections, according to Senate testimony." ...

Want Customization With That?

So is the make-it-your-way vendor promise a better option than what the open source community offers? Is a business owner with specialized software needs better off hiring a programmer or paying his own IT staff to do double duty as a software development center? The answers o...

EXPERT ADVICE

9 Ways to Stay Up and Running on Cyber Monday

It is impossible to prepare for everything that will come up on Cyber Monday, and you should expect your cloud partner to act as an extension of your operations team. Make sure you have escalation procedures and names and numbers of expert staff in case of emergency 7. Conside...

PlayStation 4 Launch Dampened by Dearth of Hot Games

Issues cropped up for staff of game publication IGN after they updated the system with the Day 1 patch, intended to offer additional functionality that was not ready by the time units started shipping Sony did not respond to our request to comment for this story....

OPINION

What if EMC’s Joe Tucci Were US President?

We are constantly reminded that the administration is either incompetent or crooked. For instance, the latest NSA scandal -- spying on allies -- was presented as something the president didn't know about. Given that Obama micromanages drone strikes, this seems unbelievable unless his staff believes him to be incompetent. That's binary: His administration is either lying or lacks competence, and the practice alone is incredibly stupid.

Patent Trolls May Soon Get Wake-Up Call

"These demand letters are often vague, lacking basic detail of what the recipient does to allegedly infringe the patent at issue," Julie Samuels, a senior staff attorney at the Electric Frontier Foundation, said in her testimony. "The letters frequently list patent numbers without detailing which parts of the patent -- which typically comprises many pages of dense technical content and legalese -- are at issue."

OPINION

3 Ways Corporate Culture can Crush CRM

The blame often goes to individuals in the company -- a sales vice president who fails to lead, sales people who are stuck in their ways, IT staff who can't grasp business issues, and so on. Of course, failure is really a team sport -- it's actions and reactions from the entire sales and marketing team that cause CRM efforts to collapse...

FOSS in the Enterprise: To Pay or Not to Pay?

An enterprise's own in-house staff, of course, will also play a key role. "Even with your own very good software engineers in-house, it is often a better deal to pay for support from the developer rather than have your own staff learn the product from scratch," Pfeifer added....

TECH TREK

Discharged Female Cadet Sues Aussie Gov’t for Sexual Harassment

In addition to saying it was "very sorry," eBay noted that it doesn't allow such items on its site, and that it dedicates "thousands of staff to policing" for such objectionable material. The company padded its apology with a charitable donation of nearly $40,000 [Source:The G...

How to Choose an Enterprise Server Linux Distro

Factor in the cost and success of in-house IT care versus outside server services. Free Linux server distros are not much of a bargain if your operation requires high maintenance because the in-house staff is inadequate This is a common situation. If it's the case for you, the...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

‘Hacker Madness’ Strikes Idaho Judge

"The court took a pretty extraordinary step by relying on stereotype and hyperbole rather than really digging into the facts," EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury told TechNewsWorld "We would hope that courts look beyond the scary word hacker and really assess whether the defen...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Federal Cybersecurity Falls Short on User-Friendliness

The center will draw on the expertise of more than 500 IBM professionals aligned to the facility, including consultants, researchers, IT infrastructure architects and software developers. Company consultants with agency-specific expertise will also be on staff to help each federal agency quickly and effectively take advantage of the cloud.

The Unhealthy State of Healthcare.gov

Several staff of the Assisted Housing Services Corp. of Ohio, the California Affordable Housing Initiatives, and the North Tampa Housing Development Corp., list themselves on LinkedIn as CGI employees, according to Wonkblog CGI Federal makes millions from handling the Section ...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Cost Control, Security Top Federal IT Managers’ Worry Lists

To advance its capabilities, the company has added Anthony Stephens, a former Army intelligence officer and cybersecurity expert at both BAE and Raytheon, to its staff. "Our cybersecurity sector is aiming its focus on becoming a digital security advisor to our customers," MIL...

A Hacker by Any Other Name Might Have Escaped Data Seizure

"The biggest problem for me is that the court authorized the seizure of the devices by relying on stereotypes and hyperbole about hackers," Hanni Fakhouri, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told TechNewsWorld. The fear that open source poses some sort of...

OPINION

Demo Fall 2013: Little Slices of Amazing New Technology

After watching these guys, I was hit with the Idea that the Obama administration should fire its tech staff and hire the folks from Justworks as replacements, because their solution should just work. For the small company needing a tool for its employees, something both comprehensive and easy is a godsend. ...

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