Japanese Corporations Dominate US Patent Registrations in 2005; IBM Still in Lead

January 12th, 2006 The US Patent and Trademark Office has declared that patents Microsoft holds on file allocation tables (FAT) are valid. Unfortunately Linux OS uses FAT file system.

July 8th, 2005 Merck tried to patent a drug that would reduce heart attack risks for Vioxx (COX-2 selective inhibitors) users, three years before the company withdrew the painkiller drug from the market because of safety concerns. According to government records, the company applied for the patent in 2001.

September 21st, 2009 LONDON - Hate retuning your car radios again and again after losing your favourite channel during long journeys? Well, IBM's new software that connects the radio with the vehicle's satnav could be your ultimate saviour. In a recent patent application, IBM has claimed that merging car radios with satellite navigation systems could solve the above problem, and it could have safety benefits, too.

December 8th, 2005 Apple could be in for a big legal fight with competitor Creative over the navigation technology used in iPod music players. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo plans to pursue aggressively a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players.

July 27th, 2009 Japan to order Qualcomm to stop unfair practicesTOKYO — Qualcomm Inc. has been notified that Japanese regulators plan to order the U.S.

August 19th, 2005 Japanese Overclocker Set Super PI World Record with Prescott 2M at 7.1GHz

August 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), may lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change. The breakthrough is the development of a high performance electronic device, known as a dual polarized Frequency Selective Surface filter, that is to be used in future European Space Agency (ESA) missions.

April 18th, 2006 Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple Computer claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com. Burst is asking for royalties as well as an injunction.

July 21st, 2009 Space station astronauts use robot arm, go TwitterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts inside the international space station on Tuesday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the orbiting outpost's Japanese-made lab.

May 16th, 2005 An analysis of growth pattern of top weblogs.

August 10th, 2009 Toshiba to join rival Blu-ray camp, plans productsTOKYO —Having lost the video format war, Toshiba Corp. said Monday it will make Blu-ray disc products and plans to join the once-rival camp, the Blu-ray Disc Association.

May 18th, 2005 A good article from JavaWorld which describes how you can build intelligent robots that can learn and show emergent behavior. It uses artificial neural networks.

July 7th, 2005 European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented. The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive.

January 11th, 2006 Major Indian outsourcing outfit Infosys Technologies reported on Wednesday a 31 per cent rise in its Q3 net profit, while meeting the expectations for the quarter. The company said that its net profit surged to Rs 642 crore in the quarter ended December 31, 2005, as compared to Rs 496 crore in the year-ago quarter.

March 18th, 2005 Coverage of posts and websites of interest participating in the nofollow debate.