Admittedly, I should probably have read it before today, but I am still digging out from too much travel. For those with access, you're looking for "Legally Speaking:Reverse Engineering Under Siege" in the October issue of Communications of the ACM. (If you're not a member, consider joining at the …

According to an article on Brighthand, PalmSource will stop putting Graffiti into future PalmOS systems in deference to Graffiti 2 (which is based on Jot--I think that's the same one as Windows CE uses). The problem is a judgment against the company and in favor of Xerox.

SCO has released a press release today that refutes claims made in an earlier article by Linux Business Week (and referred to by this site). Text of the press release is in the body, but basically it says they have no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors …

An article in Linux Business Week's online edition is claiming to have seen an SCO press release about requiring a royalty payment of $96/CPU for all servers running non-SCO brands of Linux. They apparently claim that the license is required due to UNIX patents acquired by the company from …

Sounds more like a supercomputer than a game machine, but here are the basics:"...the computers are made of cells, each one containing a CPU, which will probably be a PowerPC, and eight APUs (vector processors) each with 128K of memory. It will run at 4GHz, producing a not inconsiderable …

There are a number of sites that have picked up pointers to this article in the News Observer about an Irish lad who created a browser that quadruples web surfing speed over a standard modem link (and plays DVDs). I've yet to find independent corroboration of the claims by the …

This morning I decided I wanted little icons for my web pages, so I set out to put them online. There's information on the web, but some of the tools have gone missing. Here are my hints What is a favicon? Favicons are those little icons that show up in …

According to a CNet article, IBM will be announcing today that they have been issued over 3200 patents, putting them firmly in the #1 spot for 2003, in front of Canon (the #2 at just under 2000 patents).

One of the things I was looking for at MWSF2003 was a good 11x17 full bleed photo printer. Here's what I found. A funny thing happened while I was looking for an 11x17 (min) full bleed photo printer at MacWorld San Francisco in 2003. Much to my surprise, I got …

Netgear's 802.11g AP with 4port hub and dual antenna is now available from Amazon, $200. The device can be seen at Amazon.com and appears to be in stock. No reports of Apple 802.11g interoperability, but I don't know of anyone currently having problems with the 802.11b …