Last week, Freedom Scientific, Inc. filed suit against Serotek Corporation for trademark infringement with respect to the FreedomBox range of products. Since then, the matter has been discussed at length on some blindness-related blogs and e-mail lists. I'd like by way of this message to clarify what I view as some of the objectives of… Finish Reading Jonathan Mosen’s Thoughts on Freedom Scientific V Serotek
Blind Confidential (Weblog)Friday, May 18, 2007 Innovate Don't Litigate! By Chris Hofstader Critics of my writing in Blind Confidential and elsewhere and various public statements I've made over the years often complain that I treat Microsoft too softly. Often, these people fall into those with religious obsessions with either Apple Computer or the GNU/Linux platform… Finish Reading Innovate Don’t Litigate!
We have received a comment from a reader stating essentially that we shouldn’t make a big deal about this case, as Freedom Scientific is only asking that Serotek stop using the word FreedomBox as a product name. Unfortunately, this assertion just does not match with the facts of the complaint as spelled out in paragraphs… Finish Reading Freedom Scientific V. Serotek Case Not Just About a Trademark
Karen presents all of us with a KDD (Karen's Daily Dose) poem asking youall to visit http://money4all.info and sign the Accessible Currencypetition if you have not yet done so. If you want to independently Identify cash,Please, do dash,On over, to ACB Radio,Money4all.info, is the site to go,Sign your name,if you do, life, will not be… Finish Reading Accessible Currency for All
Skype version 3.2.0.148 is now available and one place where you candownload it from is at www.skype.com. Here are the changes in this version: bugfix: Options has compatibility issues with screen readersbugfix: Upgrading from Skype did not workbugfix: No voice heard on some services
This week on Main Menu, Rick Harmon from the Blind Geek Zone web site reviews the use of gadgets and Ready Boost on Windows Vista with JAWS for Windows Public Beta 2. Darrell and Karen Shandrow from the Blind Access Journal demonstrate the use of Serotek’s Remote Incident Manager, a potentially revolutionary new technology that… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of May 16
Shortly after we posted the initial article pointing to Wafra’s press release on the Freedom Scientific acquisition, it disappeared. Fortunately, we were able to locate the text of the release, which you may read below. Wafra Partners Announces Acquisition of Freedom Scientific, Inc. April 25, 2007 Wafra Partners LLC and Wafra Investment Advisory Group,… Finish Reading Wafra Pulls Press Release on Freedom Scientific Acquisition
Winamp version 5.35 is now available and one place where you candownload it from is at www.majorgeeks.com/Winamp_5_Full_d2490.html. Here are the changes in this version: * Improved: Current translation support of core strings and dialogs* Improved: Correct theming of tabbed dialogs on WinXP+* Improved: Various misc tweaks/improvements* Fixed: More tabbing fixes in UI and Preferences* Fixed:… Finish Reading Winamp Version 5.35 is now Available
We have been hearing rumors for quite some time about the impending acquisition of Freedom Scientific. In the past week, we have been hearing that Freedom Scientific would be acquired by Wafra Investment Advisory Group, Inc. It turns out these rumors are true according to this press release directly from Wafra. There is one question… Finish Reading Freedom Scientific Acquired
Reagan reports that there is an effort underway to devise and implement techniques for making AJAX based technologies work with screen readers. See this interesting article for details.