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My Life. My Card. My Intellectual Property Battle.

Barely a day goes by when we don't hear of yet another story about some sort of intellectual property claim being asserted where it doesn't belong. It's a function of a current culture where people...

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The Case For And Against Software And Business Model Patents

Things have been busy, so I haven't been able to add to my ongoing series of posts on intellectual property until now. I've also been working on a post for the series that is a bit involved, which has...

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Finding Small Business Optimism Amid The Pessimism

Continuing from our earlier cases, American Express is sponsoring more conversations here in the Insight Community concerning how small businesses can handle the current economic environment....

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Improving Customer Service For Better Sales

Continuing from our earlier cases, American Express is sponsoring more conversations here in the Insight Community concerning how small businesses can handle the current economic environment....

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Store Payment Info In Your Online Store? Watch Out For Patent Infringement...

Bill Squier alerts us to the news that a bunch of companies have been sued for daring to store consumer payment information and allow either stored value payments or one-click payments on their site....

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Are You Happily Invoicing Your Customers?

Our entrepreneurship series - sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express - is compiling interesting resources, valuable tips and useful services that can help out small business owners.  One of the...

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If At First You Don't Succeed As A Patent Troll, Just Sue Again

The excellent new Patent Examiner blog has a post up about a company called SmartMetric, which claims to be in the business of making biometric technologies, but admits it hasn't actually made any...

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Find A Massive Security Hole At American Express? If You're Not A Cardholder,...

One of the general tenets of white hat security hackers is that when they find a vulnerability they alert the company first and allow them to fix things before they reveal the details. But what if...

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.Rip .Off: Highlights From The Top-Level Domain Scrum

The whole ICANN process for creating generic top level domains (gTLDs) has clearly been designed to allow certain groups to make a ton of money by basically pressuring individuals and companies to...

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Intellectual Ventures' Evil Knows No Bounds: Buys Patent AmEx Donated For...

Intellectual Ventures may be running out of cash, but that doesn't mean it's slowed down the pace of evildoing. If you look over its recent lawsuits, you'll notice that over the summer, Intellectual...

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