RIM-NTP Lawsuit - The Timeline - Updated February 3, 2006
Back on December 15th, I posted a timeline image of various facts and happenings around the RIM/NTP patent dispute/lawsuit.
With the announcement earlier this week that the USPTO had rejected the fifth and final patent under dispute, I thought it would be worth updating the timeline. If you click on the image below, you’ll get the full version - you’ll have better success with it if you save it to a local disk and use your image viewing application of choice to zoom in on it, however!
Two Ben’s and An Ant…
While I finish getting things ready for the next batch of “real” posts here, I thought I’d take a moment to draw the attention of the three or four readers I have (;)) that don’t work with me to, well, the blogs of three guys who do. All three are techies of various flavors, and I recommend both their work, and their writing.
The first of the Ben’s, is Ben Stokes, over in the UK, and he writes “Open Source Heaven (Mainly Linux)” - you can probably take a wild guess at what his focus is! Here’s his last five posts:
b2evolution e-mail notifications
b2evolution
Qube LCD Panel RPM’s
Why the Linux security model works
Make your own Linux live CD
Next up, we have Ben Christian, this time from Australia, with a self-titled site at www.benchristian.com. Needless to say, I approve of the naming scheme! Ben’s most recent posts are:
PowerToys for XP
Commonwealth Games Daylight Savings hotfix
Compiling study notes using Mind Manager
How reliable is email?
SOHO Backups with Ghost 10
And finally, we have my good friend and colleague Ant Drewery, again out of the UK, also with a self-titled site, tagged “Technical Musings…”. You can find him here. Here’s his five most recent items:
File level AV scanning on an Exchange server
Exchange POP3 mailbox access in a front-end/ back-end topology
Alternative firmware for Linksys WRT54G router
To DMZ or not to DMZ?
MWSnap - screen capture utility
And there you go - three of the guys I work with, and three sites I read regularly. Go check them out, say “hi” in their comments, and if you like what you see, add them to your RSS feeds.
‘course, you could always ask them questions, as well…. 
