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yunju wang

Google mum on plans for Google.cn search engine | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg996-1225841924479

google china

shared by yunju wang on 18 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • No area of business in China is more politically sensitive than the internet, or more heavily regulated. China bars foreign companies from owning an “internet content provider” licence to deliver services in the country. For that, Google needed to partner with a Chinese company, which holds the ICP licence from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, to provide its services in China.
  • yunju wang on 18 Mar 10
     
    A GROUP of Google's partners in China have sent an impassioned plea to the internet giant, saying their businesses are in jeopardy if Google closes its Chinese search engine, and demanding to know how they will be compensated.
  • yunju wang on 18 Mar 10
     
    The deal has been done, it's only the matter of how Googld deal with those partners and its financial problem accordingly.
Stephanie Hawkins

continuing around the world - India looks to be doing away with PIRs - 0 views

www.business-standard.com/...396588

Internet governance #ARIN6902 copyright

shared by Stephanie Hawkins on 01 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Hawkins on 01 Jun 10
     
    PIR = parallel importation restriction. Basically, every country around the world (except a choice few like Hong Kong and New Zealand who did away with it) is a 'territory' so far as publishing is concerned. If you publish a book in Australia, you can't just ship it over to the US and sell it wholesale to the bookstores over there. No, you have to find a publisher over there who will by the licence to reproduce the book for that market. India looks to be thinking about doing away with that. On the plus side for consumers, they'll have access to the entire Amazon e-book range - Hooray! Publishers won't be so happy, as they will lose out on royalties from selling 'local' e-books (hardcopy books will also be affected, but that's not at issue here). Of course, it doesn't work both ways - India will still have to go through the usual channels to publish overseas. the US protects its own. Australia debated this last year, you may remember. Woolworths and Coles were all for PIR abolition, but not really anyone else was ...
Rachael Bolton

I-O Data Signs Linux Software Patent Agreement With Microsoft - 1 views

www.microsoft.com/...03-03IODataPR.mspx

intellectual property licencing open source Linux

shared by Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10
     
    Microsoft Corp and I-O Data Device have entered into an agreement that will provide I-O Data's customers with patent coverage for their use of I-O Data's products running Linux and other related open source software.
  • Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10
     
    Find the whole idea vaguely repulsive. See Slashdot: "The Japanese computer manuracturer IO Data is the latest in line to license Microsoft's so-called 'Linux patents,' following the likes of Novell, Samsung, and Amazon. Yes, even the press releases use the word 'Linux' to describe these patents. From the press release: 'Specifically, the patent covenants apply to I-O Data's network-attached storage devices and its routers, which run Linux. Although the details of the agreement have not been disclosed, the parties indicated that Microsoft is being compensated by I-O Data.'" http://bit.ly/bmxIO4
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