U.S. Patent Office Sides with RIM By Carmen Nobel December 20, 2005 from eWeek.com The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has indicated that it will formally and finally reject the patents at the heart of a lawsuit in which NTP Inc. is suing BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. for patent infringement. But while such a ruling would be good news for RIM and its customers, … [Read more...] about The Patent Trolls Take Another Blow!
The Harrow Report
Jeff Harrow, who occasionally contributes to the "Other Voices" column in CONTROL, is one of the ur-parents of email newsletters. I remember receiving his then newsletter, "The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing" weekly during most of the 1990s, and it was required reading for techies in Silicon Valley, Redmond, India and elsewhere. He was a Digital Fellow, a Compaq Fellow, and … [Read more...] about The Harrow Report
Levenger Strikes A Blow for Service!
This entry is crossposted from The Big Yellow Book, with additional commentary: I've been a fan of Levenger for years. One of the nice things about moving to Chicago is that the Marshall Field's State Street store (sadly, soon to become J.A.M. {just another Macy's}) has a Levenger shop inside. Last year, Laura Patrick of ABB made my day at the ABB Automation World, by handing … [Read more...] about Levenger Strikes A Blow for Service!
R.I.P. Ron Khol
Machine Design's Ron Khol now into celestial mechanics From the Machine Design blog: On Saturday, December 10, Ron Khol, Machine Design chief editor for over 20 years, passed away. Below is his obituary, written partially by Ron himself. ********************************************** Ronald Khol Made technical magazines readable Having an engineering degree in the 1950s was … [Read more...] about R.I.P. Ron Khol
A Wee Brag on the CONTROL/CONTROL DESIGN/INDUSTRIAL NETWORKING Team
If success in this business is judged by advertising space, we've made it. For 2005, the Control/Control Design/Industrial Networking team produced over 54% more advertising space (pages) than our nearest competitor. The reason I lump all three magazines together is that we took the path of covering process automation, discrete automation and machine builders, and industrial … [Read more...] about A Wee Brag on the CONTROL/CONTROL DESIGN/INDUSTRIAL NETWORKING Team
