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Love 'em or hate 'em. NetBooks are here to stay. You may have heard about the trademark controversy that erupted last December over the term "netbook". Psion Teklogix, a Canadian manufacturer of industrial grade POS and mobile terminals filed a trademark application way back in 1996! They were granted the exclusive ...

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On March 23, 2007, Dell decided that it deserved to own the trademark for "cloud computing". This week, The US Patent and Trademark Office is likely to reject that claim (according to the Register ). It seems an odd play on the part of Dell - its name isn't exactly synonymous with cloud ...

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Worse than highjacking... but actually naming a new tax after you! That's right... it could have been the new "Mitel Tax" or "Entrust Tax" or "iotum Tax". In this case, it's The Green Shift Tax. Green Shift happens to be a Toronto based consultancy specializing in corporate environmentalism. ...

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It took Nadine and I about 20 minutes to create this Scrabulous masterpiece. Its combined worth is a mere 57... but really it's priceless! Since the Facebook Goldrush began last year, Scrabulous has become one of the top ten apps. No wonder. Nobody wants to play scrabble with you! Especially if you're ...

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The SpiceWorks site and product are a dream Web 2.0 implementation. It's a cool product that helps you better manage your IT network. They're now giving existing customers a sneak peak at version 2.0. It's all good, although I fear their new logo will get the wheels of trademark lawyers running "Hot"!! ...

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According to Wired, NASA is looking for a new catchier slogan to promote itself. Recently it's had the bland "Explore, Discover, Understand". It almost launched a new campaign with the twisted "NASA explores for answers that power our future." On one site it boasts the math-challenged "Inspiration + Innovation + Discovery = ...

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We stumbled upon this eBay store (strangely because this blog was getting referred traffic from it...) It's a simple new age store selling the usual magic crystals that guarantee you money, love and well-being. No sane individual should go out the door without their crystals on... They also sell variants of hieronymous ...

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All this small talk about programming languages drove me to the US Patent & Trademark office... Of course Sun owns the trademarks for Java, and JavaScript. Linus Torvalds used to own Linux - but this has been transfered to a dude named William Croce. David Hansson (another Fin) owns Ruby on Rails. Appropriately the non-profit ...

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