Why Blame Society when you can Blame Activision?

Ever wondered why lawyers get a bad rap?  Because we get blamed when guys like this file lawsuits (though Mr. Estavillo is apparently going this pro se against the likes of Activision/Blizzard Entertainment).  Mr. Estavillo is a serial technology litigant, in that he has sued Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft for other injuries sustained as the [...]

From My Pen to Your e-Record

Vernon Huang, an anesthesiologist, and his company, Shareable Ink, have created a pen that both writes on paper, and transfers your writing to an electronic health record system through the use of a tiny camera in the pen that keeps track of what you are writing.  (see article here)  Given that a majority of health [...]

iVirus: Proof of Popularity

So another virus was detected recently that is targeting iPhone users that have jailbroken their phones without changing the default SSH password (see article).  Back in the good old days, Mac users would go: “100,000 viruses for Microsoft, 2 for Mac.”  Now, the numbers are more like: “100,000 viruses for Microsoft, 2 for Mac, and [...]

Google’s Not the Only Online Book Deal

The academics have been working on digitizing their book collections with Google’s help.  (See Article here)  I suspect that, in spite of the fact that Google is ahead of the pack in total books digitized today, there may be a fair number of other groups that get together to digitize collections down the road, and [...]

Are You Smarter than Your Computer?

The answer appears to still be yes (even if you sometimes don’t feel that way) – see article here.  The folks at IBM have been working on simulating part of a cat’s brain with their super computer, and it takes a whole lot of processors to do that – almost 145,000 all together.
“Sentient” computers are [...]

Psystar’s Star Dims a Bit

Psystar and Apple have been in a tech law tango based on Apple’s allegations that Psystar violated the end user licensing agreement when it started releasing the OS X operating system on non-Apple manufactured clone computers.  The federal court ruled in favor of Apple on its claims on a motion for summary judgment.  (See article [...]

iPhone Virus – Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Yahoo reported today a virus that infects jailbroken iPhones has been released into the wild.  (See story here)  Apparently the worm will change your phone’s wall paper.  In order to be infected, you must be running SSH and have left the default password on the service.  I’d expect more of these kinds of viruses as [...]

Apple Moves to iTouch for in-Store Checkout

Wired reported today that Apple’s stores will be moving to use the iTouch for roving checkout instead of the existing Windows CE-based devices in use today.  I linked to this story in part for the entertaining Wired reader comments, particularly to the partisans of Apple and Windows that continue the division between the companies.  Besides [...]

Red Flags for Attorneys – Update

The ABA has prevailed upon a federal district court to interpret the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flags rule to not apply to attorneys.  (See ABA Press Release here)  The Court had granted the ABA partial summary judgment on its complaint, with a full opinion to be issued separately.  (See Order here)  So you attorneys out [...]