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  • Favicon Nathan Myhrvold Now Capitalizing On Failed University Patent Intitiatives

    We've discussed, in the past, the infamous Bayh-Dole Act, which tried to push universities to patent more of their research, with the idea that it would make research more commercializable. In fact, the unintended consequences were to significantly harm university research. Universities quickly set up "technology transfer" offices, with the idea of selling off patents for tons of money, but the vast majority of universities discovered that such technology transfer offices cost a lot more than they

  • Favicon Yellow-Pages Publishers Teetering On The Brink

    A few times a year, I find a copy or two of Yellow Pages directories sitting on my doorstep. Never mind that I haven't used one in several years, they just keep on coming, from multiple publishers. Personally, it's far easier -- and better -- to just search online for whatever I'm looking for. There's the easy access to maps, or the ability to go to a site like Yelp and get other people's feedback and opinions on various businesses. While I imagine there's still a fair amount of people that use their

  • Favicon Google Kills Lively Quickly

    Just a few months ago, when Google launched its "Lively" 3D chat offering, I questioned Google's strategy , as it didn't seem to offer anything different or compelling. Some people here disagreed , and believed Google would be able to turn the service into something compelling, but that appears not to be. Since the launch, to be honest, I can't recall ever hearing about Lively again -- and had pretty much forgotten it existed. And, indeed, less than six months after launching it, Google has killed

  • Favicon Kentucky Appeals Court Tells Kentucky To Hold Off Seizing Domains

    While a lower court in Kentucky had agreed to allow the state to seize 141 domain names as being "illegal gambling devices" despite having nothing to do with the state of Kentucky, other than being available on internet connections there (and everywhere else), an appeals court has now issued an injunction to stop the state from seizing the domains until the appeal can be heard. While we still have to wait for the full appeal, at least damage won't be done in the interim. There's one other interesting

  • Favicon Spammers Trying To Regain Control Over Cut Off Spam Bots

    Last week, there was a lot of attention over the shutdown of McColo , a hosting company that was apparently used by a huge number of spammers to control some of the largest zombie botnets out there. While we were initially skeptical of just how big an impact this had (the press and some antispammers have "cried wolf" way too many times in the past on the impact of shutting down certain spam operations), the evidence in the days that followed suggested, indeed, that an awful lot of the world's spam

  • Favicon Should It Be Illegal To Sell A Keylogger? Or Just To Use It?

    A court has issued an injunction temporarily banning the sale of a keylogger product called RemoteSpy . The ruling probably makes sense under the current FTC law, but it does raise some questions about whether it really makes sense to ban the sale of such a program, versus just the use of one. I can certainly understand why you might want to ban the sale of such programs, because if they're sold, they're perhaps more likely to be used. However, it still seems wrong to make it illegal to sell some

  • Favicon Australian ISP Agrees To Filter... Just To Show How Stupid It Is

    Australian politicians have been pushing to censor the internet for years, with its latest initiative being the most extreme and most ridiculous. Of course, even though each and every past effort by the Australian government has failed miserably , they always seem to think that this time it will be different. At least the largest Australian ISP thinks the government is out of its mind. The CEO of iiNet has agreed to sign up for the filters, but only to collect hard data in order to prove to the government

  • Favicon Music Industry Squanders $69 Billion Worth Of Free Promotions In 2007

    Over the years, we've seen so many bogus reports on the supposed "losses" to various industries due to unauthorized file sharing, that it's about time the story was flipped. Reader SteveD writes in to point out the latest research, claiming that in 2007, the dollar value of all unauthorized music file sharing was $69 billion . The research company that put out the number does clearly state that those numbers are not lost revenue (good), but then goes on to still claim that this shows how damaging

  • Favicon Microsoft Realizes No One Wants To Pay Microsoft To Fix Its Own Security Flaws

    Back in 2005, when Microsoft was first mulling the idea of offering security software , we noted that the company was between something of a rock and a hard place. If it decided to charge for the software, people would accuse the company of trying to get people to pay to protect themselves from the security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's own software. Yet, if they went free, then they would face screams about antitrust violations for undercutting competitors in the security software market. We also

  • Favicon Hulu 'To Catch YouTube' -- Great, But So What?

    The FT's got a story saying "YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially" by Hulu, the online video site owned NBC and News Corp. It's based on a report saying Hulu will make as much in advertising revenues as YouTube next year, about $180 million, despite having far fewer active users. Two points: first, is this really surprising given the strengths of Hulu's parents at selling advertising around content; second, when did this become a zero-sum game? The article sets up some sort of adversarial
 
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