Who? Shahnaz Husain, an Indian entrepreneur in Mumbai. What? She plans to start a string of 25 glamourous coffee shops in India, decorated with posters of (presumably Bollywood, and not Hollywood) movie stars. When?God knows. Where?India. An excerpt from Reuters’ report (Source: The Brunei Times): Starbucks, the latest in a line of foreign companies facing […]
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Hard Disk Loading and IP Enforcement
What’s “hard disk loading”? A very hard way of loading up a disk?! Well, unfortunately it’s a little closer to home than that. Notice every time you purchase a new (and sometimes shiny) computer, it comes with Windows? Well, not just Windows but also lots of nice software. Like DreamWeaver, Microsoft Office, etc. You just […]
BitTorrent Goes Legit!
BitTorrent is restyling its business to sell downloads of movies and TV shows licensed from studios. This development is a bit of a surprise because BitTorrent was the bane of Hollywood, making it a regular event for people to share video based media easily over broadband Internet. BitTorrent is betting that one third of current […]
iPhone Trade Mark Dispute Ends
Talk about how an intellectual property dispute can be amicably resolved! Today’s news covered one such incident: Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. agreed that both parties could use the “iPhone” trade mark for their respective products and that all prevailing lawsuits would be dropped. I anticipate that the iPhone will prove to be another […]
Online Transactions in Malaysia and the Law
In 2006, IDC Malaysia reported that “six million unique buyer identities” conducted online transactions, or e-commerce in ordinary language. Here are some statistics from the report: Malaysia’s population: 26.6 million Growth of e-commerce spending: 70% Malaysian business funds spent online in 2006: RM47.6 billion Percentage of Internet access by mobile devices: 45% Today, the amount of […]