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MapR Patents Its Big Data Cruncher
Talk to MapR CMO Jack Norris and he’ll make no apologies for the fact that his company’s big data crunching technology is not 100 percent open source.
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A Promise to Call You Back
A Richmond, Va.-based call center software company claims its product is unique — and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agrees. USPTO today issued CallPromise a patent for its virtual queuing technology, which gives customers the option to receive a return call rather than wait on hold.
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Don't Look Back - Google Just Got Creepier with Gaze Tracking Patent
You’re sitting in a sidewalk café, stroking your beard as you peruse the latest news on your Google Glass headset. A pretty woman walks by and you look up, raising your headset as you do so.
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Nokia Targets BlackBerry With Phone Ban After Patent Win
With all the heavyweight action between Samsung and Apple, it can be easy to overlook the other mobile players throwing patent actions at each other. The latest round sees a victory for Nokia as it wins a WLAN renegotiation dispute against the BlackBerry maker.
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Facebook and Yahoo Settle Patent Dispute, Expand Relationship
Facebook and Yahoo announced Friday they have settled their major patent dispute. The settlement will result in an expanded relationship between the companies, including a new advertising partnership and an agreement to extend and expand their distribution arrangements.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Launches Initiative to Reform Software Patents
A new initiative from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) seeks to do something about the state of software patents. The initiative, called Defend Innovation and announced earlier this week, highlights seven steps toward reform. Software patents have been criticized in many quarters for such problems as stifling innovation, patenting commonly
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Patently Perplexing: Why Patent Law and Patent Reform are Affecting Everything
Let's play a game! I'll talk about three current trends that span business and technology and you try to guess what is at the heart of all of them.
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Apple, Samsung to Resolve Smartphone, Tablet Patent Disputes
Apple and Samsung have been on an all-out war against each other for the best part of 2011, with either claiming patent infringements by the other.
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CrowdEngineering Puts a Patent on Crowdsourcing
CrowdEngineering has put a patent on crowdsourcing. As you may remember, CrowdEngineering provides a platform designed to fully integrate existing processes and applications with the benefits of technical crowdsourcing.
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Asia to Benefit From Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition
When Google (news, site) announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, industry watchers wondered about the potential effects on the mobile industry. In particular, Google will, in effect, be competing against its own Android smartphone and tablet licensees.
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Salesforce and Microsoft in "Alley" Patent Fight
Analyst calls are often dull, stat-heavy affairs. So it's good to hear some spirit as Salesforce's (news, site ) CEO calls Microsoft "Alley Thugs" for its legal tactics in another of IT's endless patent disputes.
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Clearwell Receives US Patent for Components of eDiscovery Platform
Congratulations are in order. Clearwell Systems (news, site) has been awarded US Patent No. 7,593,995. For those of us who are not patent examiners, US Patent No. 7,593,995 refers to “methods and systems of electronic message threading and ranking.” According to the U.S Patent & Trademark Office
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The Waiting's Over: Vignette Scores Three New US Patents
Vignette has secured three US patents for core elements of its Web CMS and collaboration suite. The news caps a busy twelve months for its developers, which launched a marquee new product in Vignette Digital Services Hub, before posting disappointing Q3 financial results, then bounced back with the launch
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Google Gives Wings to Open Source Guardian Angel
Google, a long time Linux user and supporter, is giving back to the open source operating system that has helped it reach its remarkable status by becoming Open Invention Network’s (OIN) first end-user licensee. OIN is an intellectual property company set up in 2005 for the purpose of acquiring and
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