I’ve talked about the new electronic voting machines before on my show and with Charlie Sherman and Paul Westcott. It’s scary to think that there’s no real audit trail on these machines, which are designed to provide a friendly user-interface and be reasonably easy-to-use. The real problem is the lack of an audit trail. We’ve [...]
Tags: Argonne National Laboratory·Audit trail·Business·Diebold·Hacking·IBM·Voting machine·ZDNet
Google‘s $12.5 Billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility gives it the opportunity to truly own two markets that it’s been pursuing heavily, Cell Phones and set-top Boxes. After the failure of its Nexus phones to build a real market, Google will be able to build on one of the best cell phone hardware platforms on the [...]
Tags: Android·Apple·Google·HTC Corporation·Microsoft·Mobile phone·Motorola·Motorola Mobility·cell phones
I’m not impressed with our current Patent system. The primary purpose of our Constitution-based Patents in the US was to encourage the development of new technologies which would be of the greatest benefit to the community at large. It’s served us well for more than a hundred years. Around the year 1900, a Japanese commissioner [...]
Tags: Apple·EastmanKodak·Failure to Innovate·IntellectualProperty·Kodak·Patent·Patent Abuse·Patent portfolio·Prior Art·United States
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