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Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive webA decision to strike down patents to the "Interactive Web" is an important victory for the networked commons.
A Texas jury has struck down a company's claim to ownership of the interactive web. Eolas, which has been suing technology companies for more than a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patents.
Developer Week in Review: Brother, can you spare $100 billion?Wall Street "Likes" Facebook, Wikimedia has a Lua, and AT&T tried to copyright thin air.
If you haven't heard that Facebook is going public, I hope you live under a comfortable rock. While you wait for the IPO, brush up your Lua if you run a wiki, just don't leave any empty files lying around.
With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platformThe U.K. moves from alpha.gov.uk to beta.
A new beta .gov website in Britain is scalable mobile-friendly, platform agnostic, uses HTML5, open source, hosted in the cloud and open for feedback. Those criteria collectively embody the default for how governments should approach their online efforts in the 21st century.
Moneyball for software engineering, part 2What if Billy Beane managed a software team?
A look at the "Moneyball"-style metrics and techniques managers can employ to get the most out of their software teams.
Developer Week in Review: Sometimes, form does need to follow functionWhy remotes need buttons, lawmakers need a clue, and life-critical software needs many eyes.
The latest rumors have Apple eyeing the remote control market, but does minimalistic design work for remotes? Australia wants to impose requirements on ISPs, but at what infrastructure cost? And would you let closed-source software keep you alive?
AI will eventually drive healthcare, but not anytime soonA merging of artificial intelligence and healthcare is tougher than many realize.
People will eventually get better care from artificial intelligence, but for now, we should keep the algorithms focused on the data that we know is good and keep the doctors focused on the patients.
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