Today I thought I was entering a chat room with Skype’s technical support and customer service team. It looked like a chat room, but it was actually a journey into the heart of the Twilight Zone. While at the Los Angeles Airport, I was about to use the free wireless service provided here when suddenly [...]
After 3 years of planning and navigating complex political waters, a historic event finally took place in Beijing last week at China’s top university for IP law, Renmin University. Top justices, judges, lawyers, business leaders and academicians from the US and China gathered for 3 intensive days of sharing regarding intellectual property and the courts. [...]
The Doritos Superbowl commercial features a guy staring into his “crystal ball” and asking if there will be Doritos for him that day. Then he throws the ball into the glass front of the nearby vending machine stocked with nothing bus Doritos products, shattering it wide open for easy looting. “I think that’s a YES!” [...]
I recommend David Greenfield’s Information Week article, “How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas ,” highlights a new trend in corporate innovation management: IT tools for online voting for ideas submitted. These tools include voting alone as well as predictive markets – faux markets used to evaluate ideas and make predictions. Excerpt: In [...]
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People pursuing a new business concept on their own should quickly consider forming an LLC (Limited Liability Corporation) to prepare for that business and limit their liability. And even before that, it’s important to protect your proprietary information using Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), also called Confidentiality Agreements (CDAs). These are agreements in which the other party [...]
Review of Engineering with Mathcad Jeff Lindsay Senior Scientist Kimberly-Clark Corporation 2100 Winchester Road Neenah, WI 54956 Title: Engineering with Mathcad: Using Mathcad to Create and Organize your Engineering Calculations Author: Brent Maxfield, P.E. Publisher: Elsevier, © 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6702-9 ISBN-10: 0-7506-6702-8 Number of Pages: 494 Brent Maxfield’s Engineering with Mathcad is a valuable contribution [...]
I tried getting one of the new iPod Shuffles on Ebay, thinking I might find some good deals. I bid on a couple and got outbid by frenzied shoppers. Then I checked the Apple Store and found out that I could get a new iPod Shuffle for less than the going bid at Ebay, and [...]
