Via: Aarti Sethi
Dear Friends,
This is to announce a three day International Colloquium on
Information, Society, History and Politics, titled - 'Sensor-Census-
Censor : Investigating Regimes of Information, Registering Changes of
State' at Sarai-CSDS (29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054) on 30th November,
1 & 2 December.
A detailed programme of the three days is given below. Participation
by registration at the venue. Limited seats available.
Via: Seth Johnson
> http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,764,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
Wi-Fi Faces New Patent Woes
A federal judge in Tyler, Texas, ruled last week that an
Australian government agency holds the rights to patents on the
underlying technology used in two Wi-Fi standards and a third
proposed standard. The decision could have a wide-ranging impact
on wireless equipment makers and consumer electronics
manufacturers.
Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation filed a patent in 1996 that it says is employed in
some IEEE standards, potentially including 802.11. The group
said that Microsoft, Dell, HP, Intel, Apple, and Netgear have
initiated legal action in an attempt to overturn the patent. The
organisation says it intends to fight the action.
This isn't the first time a company or organisation has tried to
pursue companies in the 802.11 space for patent infringement.
Last year a patent buying firm called Acacia began sending
letters to access point makers that use redirect technologies,
saying those firms owed royalties for a patent Acacia owns on
redirect technologies. Its unclear how vigorously Acacia
followed up on its pursuits, but the move caused an uproar in
the industry.
The question remains why the Australian organisation is deciding
to pursue this patent at this stage in the market. While
companies must be able to reap the rewards of their own research
and development, there also must be consideration for the
positive effects that low cost products can have on a market.
"One reason that Wi-Fi has proliferated as it has is because
it's reached a point where it's incredibly cheap, so it's easy
to just stick a Wi-Fi chip in a consumer electronics device,"
said Stan Schatt, a vice president at ABI Research. "But if the
cost of the technology goes up to pay for the license, even a
little bit, it could throw off the economics."
Indeed, Wi-Fi products generate billions of dollars in revenue
for equipment makers. Just the access points that provide the
actual Wi-Fi signals in local area networks are expected to
generate USD 1.9 billion in 2006, according to ABI Research.
That figure is expected to jump to USD 3.7 billion in 2010.
Via: Priti Radhakrishnan
Dear Friends,
I wanted to share with you the tremendously important
website that
Professor Bhaven Sampat at Columbia University has
launched. For the
past year, he and collaborator Patrick Crosby have
been working to
'program' the Indian Patent Office's journals into a
searchable database.
The ability to search the Indian Patent Office's data
has been greatly
hindered by the lack of such a database. Now, it is
possible for the public to search patent applications
by company name or keyword. It is also possible to see
what patents have been granted to date in India. The
data are based on applications and patents published
from January 2005 onwards (including the "mailbox"
applications) and are updated weekly.
Please visit http://india.bigpatents.org/ to access
this important tool.
If you have feedback on features, particularly any you
would like to
see included in the site, please send an e-mail to
bns3@columbia.edu with the subject line "Indian patent
database".
Best,
Priti Radhakrishnan
Via: Seth Johnson
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [wwwac] Gareth Stack recorded a standard rant on DRM and
Net Neutrality
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:57:08 -0500
From:
To: wwwac@lists.wwwac.org
which I delivered at the 30 September 2006 NYU Free Culture
Club/Defective by Design rally against DRM at Apples' Fifth
Avenue and 59th Street store:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeculturenyu/sets/72157594306442005
The recording of my standard introduction to DRM and Net
Neutrality is pointed to on
http://www.dbspin.com/archives/138
and the good recording itself is at
http://www.dbspin.com/content/audio/jay%20sulzberger.mp3
Almon Strowger, whose name I could not remember, took direct
action for Net Neutrality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Strowger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_Automatic_Telephone_Exchange_Company
And today, we have the insufficiently known Bruce Kushnick, who,
in the East, is styled GREAT OCEAN OF TELEPHONE COMPANY TRUTH:
http://www.teletruth.org
oo--JS.
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Via: "Vinay Aravind"
Without making any judgements on Mr. Ryder or his actions, I think it fit
to point out that I am reviewing one of his earlier books for a magazine
and large swathes of it appear to be lifted directly from several freely
available internet sites.
vinay
