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  • Goodbye stupid software patents?

    If you haven't been following this story it may (hopefully) turn out to be a milestone in the history of software patents: The story concerns a US financial institution, CLS Bank, and an Australian software company that holds a patent on software used to mediate escrow for financial transactions. CLS argued that the process of escrow is centuries old and therefore not patentable while Alice argued that computerizing the process met the criteria for patentability.

    Written by Mark Gibbs22 June 14 00:18
  • New rules for employees' mobile device privacy

    The recent Supreme Court decision in the case City of Ontario v. Quon provides guidance on how CIOs must approach data privacy when managing company-provided mobile devices.

    Written by Matt Karlyn and Peter McLaughlin20 Oct. 10 04:34
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