News tagged with public domain

Sharing patents with competitors may encourage innovation as probability for market success increases, study suggests

(PhysOrg.com) -- Firms that make a previously patented innovation accessible to competitors increase overall likelihood of improving upon that breakthrough while also raising profits for the original innovator and market ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research finds open-source software is actually more secure for health care IT

Globally the sale of health care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs, frequent failed systems, and inability of systems to talk to each other regularly attract media comment. However policy ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WikiLeaks subpoenas spill out into public realm

(AP) -- Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration's determination to assemble a criminal case no matter ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 330

Sony eBook Store Announces Access to More than 1 Million Public Domain Books from Google

The eBook Store from Sony, together with Google, today announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free public domain books - from classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island to biographies, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Obama's CIO: Gov't data can drive innovation

(AP) -- The White House's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, wants Americans to have access to more government data to drive innovation and help stimulate the economy.

Technology / Business

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0