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If you have never heard of a company called Rates Technology, then you soon will. It seems like this is going to be the new new NTP, only instead of wireless email, it will be the patent “big stick” when it comes to VoIP. The company has sued Google for patent infringement over the VoIP [...]

The Blog Plagiarism post has resulted in a wide ranging conversation - and well, now I can point to two that make a lot of sense and bring up different issues. Mike over at Techdirt thinks me flipping out is a pointless. Its a battle one cannot win perhaps? He says since services like Bloglines [...]

On the issue of wholesale copying of blog posts. This comment sums it up nicely.

A lot of us have bookmarked links, hoping to use them at some later stage. Except we forget. Del.icio.us kicked it off, and now many new bookmarking based services are cropping up that do that and more. For instance, Clipmarks. Here is another one, Diigio (pronounced as “dee’go”.) “Add Sticky Notes and Highlights to any [...]

Florida-based OpenPeak is about to introduce a brand new remote (most likely at CES) that can do it all. According to their PR firm, “Simple Remote, is part movie/IM command screen, part electronic program guide, part VoIP phone, and an all-in-one remote that controls appliances, TVs, garage doors, and stereos. It’s WIFI enabled and music [...]

Jeff Jarvis: Old girlfriends and stray dogs are more loyal than Yahoo.