Patents are Property – Like it or Not

Lately I’ve seen a flurry of postings about patents that clearly indicate a lack of understanding about patents as property. Before I write anything more I have to say that I am not an attorney or a registered patent agent. I have a lot of experience with patents though.

Like any other property right, patents [...]

Pondering My Blog Strategy

WordPress is pretty heavy on resources for my needs. Even if I tune Apache and MySQL it’s hard to get it to perform well on a 256MB machine. Why 256? That’s the lowest offered from Slicehost. By the way, I like them a lot. You get a great server in minutes. 256MB with 100MB in/100MB [...]

Now Apple Bans the Word Android?

It’s almost comical now. Apple is really getting silly. According to PC Week Apple has banned the word ‘Android’ in apps submitted to the App Store. The article has a great summary of the evil doings of Apple around the iPhone so I won’t reproduce it here. But it’s clear that Apple is feeling a [...]

Apple Has Gone Too Far

I read tonight that Apple has announced in it’s developer forum that any application submitted that uses location services ‘primarily’ for the purpose of serving ads to the user will be rejected from the App store. If this is true, they have simply gone too far.

Now Apple is making rules about what kinds of [...]