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A Medical Open-Source Legal Hell Hole
To open-source or not to open-source was never in question as far as Steve Shreeve, founding CEO and largest shareholder of Medsphere Systems Corp., was concerned. So, this summer, Steve, self-proclaimed open-source software leader, and his twin-brother Scott, released the company’s matured code on SourceForge under the GPL. Their reward? They were then sued for…
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Judge Dismisses Patent Lawsuit Against Google
Google has won dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a small Wisconsin software company involving patents for database search technology. HyperPhrase Technologies of Madison, Wis., in a lawsuit filed last April, had claimed that the popular, freely distributed Google search tool bar infringed upon its own proprietary search mechanism. HyperPhrase aimed its lawsuit at the…
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Job Seekers Fear They’re In for a Long Haul
Nearly 40 percent of job seekers feel that their age, and not the economy, has kept them from finding a new job, according to the results of a phone poll released Dec. 28 by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy in New York. An additional 6 percent of respondents said other forms of…
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IBM Rolls Out Lotus Notes for Mac OS X
IBM’s Lotus Software division is taking a bigger bite of Apple’s Mac OS X. The Armonk, N.Y. company on Dec. 28 formally rolled out the latest version of its Lotus messaging software package, dubbed Notes 7.0.2, which will include e-mail, calendar management tools and instant messaging that is specifically designed for Mac OS X users.…
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HDD Storage Expert Receives IEEE’s Highest Award
The IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, named Mason L. Williams on Dec. 27 as the recipient of its 2007 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award. The international award recognizes Williams’ contributions to the modeling and design of high-density magnetic recording technology in areas such as disk properties,…
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Robots: Surgeons’ Little Helpers
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unveiled a snakelike robot that might, one day, slither in patients’ throats to make incisions and tie off sutures. Another tiny robot could inject drugs into blood vessels in patients’ eyes, a procedure now stymied because surgeons’ hands tremor slightly. Right now, the steady-hand and snake robots for surgeries are…
