Motorola Sues TiVo over D.V.R. Patents

This week’s blog is entitled “Motorola Mobility Sues TiVo over D.V.R. Patents.” The lawsuit stems from TiVo manufacturing and distributing set top boxes patented by Motorola. General Instruments, a subsidiary of Motorola. Has claimed the patent since 1995 or at least two years before TiVo began producing them. TiVo on the other hand has filed similar lawsuits against Verizon and AT&T. EchoStar, a formal subsidiary of Dish Network has already awarded TiVo 100 million dollars in damages. The 100 million dollars was half of a 200 million dollar lawsuit. That lawsuit of course was also for stealing property rights. Motorola is currently being sued by a company known as Xoom Corp. Xoom Corp is suing Motorola for its version a tablet set to compete with Apple. The tablet resembles the Xoom tablet and is meant to compete with Apple’s iPod and iPad.

Survey of Online Access Finds Digital Divide

This week’s blog is a Washington Post article entitled “Survey of Online Access Finds Digital Divide.” The article speaks about the “National Broadband Map” formulated by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The findings state that people in urban and rural areas were receiving weak broadband connections. In the District of Columbia only 12% of the residents get connections 25 megabit per second. In neighboring affluent Montgomery County a whopping 98% receive 25 megabits per second. Baltimore was considered the exception with 1/5 of all households below the poverty line, but had 99% of residents with 25 megabits.  One of President Obama’s platforms is to compete with advanced internet ready countries. South Korea and Germany were two of the counties mentioned. The most important factor that the article mentioned was that “speed matters,” and that faster connections lead to greater productivity, and no one rich or poor should be left behind.

BMGT 301 Blog #1: With IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy,' How Trivial is Tr...

BMGT 301 Blog #1: With IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy,' How Trivial is Tr...: "An article in Sunday’s Washington Post entitled “With IBM’s Watson on ‘Jeopardy,’ How Trivial is Trivia?” was based on super computer named ..."

With IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy,' How Trivial is Trivia?

An article in Sunday’s Washington Post entitled “With IBM’s Watson on ‘Jeopardy,’ How Trivial is Trivia?” was based on super computer named Watson. Watson is supposedly taking Alex Trebek’s place as the shows. Trebek stated that “the machine would require infinite patience, great wisdom, a sense of humor, which is hard to build in a computer, and tenderness dealing with contestants. As a test run “Watson” will compete against two of Jeopardy’s tournament of champion’s contestants. What was fascinating about the article was the question of “will Watson or technology in general take more away from humanity?” Ken Jennings stated that “cell phones have made it possible for people to no longer remember phone numbers.” Researching at the library has become obsolete. Sure technology does make the world of business more reliable and efficient, but will there be a time when accessibility takes the place human retention?