Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.

Software 132

Software IP South America Investment Bankers 132

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. How To Do It.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

There are two very disturbing bills making their way through Congress: Protect IP Act (PIPA - S.968 They include EFF , Free Software Foundation , Public Knowledge , Demand Progress , Fight For the Future , Participatory Politics Foundation , and Creative Commons who have organized American Censorship Day tomorrow (11/16/11).

Egypt 175

Egypt IP Architecture Internet 175

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

I’ve long been a John Carmack fanboy since I first played Doom and realized id Software was based in Mesquite, TX, near where I grew up. So I thought it was pretty awesome when he went to be CTO of Oculus Rift to pursue the next generation of virtual reality software. Amazing and congrats to everyone involved in Oculus Rift.

Intellectual Property 130

Intellectual Property Acquisition IP Open Source 130

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Howard was at Level 3 at the time – they had acquired his previous company Corporate Software (which I was an investor in) – and he knew Dan through that experience. Instead, we sought to provide raw fiber, wavelengths, ethernet, IP, and technical space to those entities that needed a whole lot of bandwidth.

Bandwidth 147

Bandwidth Colorado Startup IRR 147

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A great panel full of engineers titled Tech Tutorial Backdrop: An All IP Network and Its Policy Implications came next, followed by a talk from Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit) took a third perspective that I couldn’t quite parse.

Southern California 137

Southern California Colorado Washington Government 137

Feld Thoughts

JULY 4, 2010

It turns out that nothing really works except hard wiring its IP address into our printer setup. Um – yeah – that’s obvious – especially for someone who doesn’t know what an IP address is. If you already have a Pogoplug, t his will be a simple free software update coming later this summer.

IP 106

IP Cloud Internet Partner 106