The robo-call season has started again for the upcoming election. It appears that many candidates think that it will be beneficial to their cause to have a machine autodial everyone in sight and make the attempt to play a prerecorded message.
Software patents are increasingly a challenging subject. Red Hat and Novell recently won a court battle over alleged patent infringement over user interface patents.
It appears that CA has come to the rescue and has acquired the intellectual property and some of the staff of Cassatt (see CA's statement on this acquisition). I spoke with a number of people, including my good friend and fellow IDC alumni, Bill Peterson, and have come to the following conclusions.
As I mentioned in the post Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us, Comcast has revised its residential customer services agreement and imposed those revisions on subscribers. Here's a pointer to the revised customer services agreement for those of the legal persuasion.
As I've mentioned earlier this week, I'm in San Francisco working on a project for a Kusnetzky Group subscriber. This has kept me rather busy from 7 AM or earlier until late in the evening.
Airlines are blaming passengers for problems the airlines have created.