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USA Today Article on Patent Office Backlog

Kevin Maney at USA Today had an interesting article last week on the backlog at the PTO caused by insufficient numbers of patent examiners who are unable to kee…

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nature of blogging

To anyone even remotely familiar with blogging, websites etc its pretty obvious that a blog isn't a formal statement by the blogger on ANYTHING. Even more…

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CORRECTION regarding P2P Story

CNet reports a CORRECTION to the Reuters story discussed below; I reproduce it in full: Correction: This story was misleading in its description of eDonkey'…

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Yankees are Back in First

How could I forget such cataclysmic news?  My sincere apologies.  The Yanks -- my beloved underdogs -- are back in first place.  It'll be an interesting run…

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Broadband Growth Slows

A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that the pace of the growth of broadband's usage slowed in the first six months of 2005,…

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P2P Starting to Trot for the Hills

I guess it should be no surprise, in the wake of the US Supreme Court's Grokster decision and its endorsement of an "inducement" theory of liabili…

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Telkom and Helkom logos: fair dealing?

As I said in my previous blog entry, the Telkom/Helkom dispute has been settled. Its interesting to look at the copyright issue and compare; the Telkom image:…