Maxamine Identifies Eolas Patent Violations for Internet Explorer; Don't be caught in a holding pattern while the courts sort out issues affecting you.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The recent court ruling against Microsoft for patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. leaves many unanswered questions, and may mean hours of locating and recoding Noun 1. recoding - converting from one code to another coding, steganography, cryptography, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher embedded objects for large websites. No matter what the outcome, large websites and their users will be affected. Web business intelligence solutions from Maxamine enable companies to keep this imminent visitor experience annoyance from turning into a site management crisis. "When you combine the dominance of Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. with the pervasive use of embedded objects such as flash, shockwave, applets, scriptlets or ActiveX controls, many sites will be affected," said Dr. Stephen Kirkby, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Maxamine. "Popular news outlets and portals that consumers use every day, which contain many 'embedded object' ads, will feel the greatest impact." The patent violations involve the technology that allows Web developers to embed interactive programs in Web pages. Today, Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
What does this mean to site owners? Once Microsoft releases the patent-compliant Internet Explorer (IE), visitors coming to a site with one or more of the embedded objects will be prompted to decide whether to allow the specialized program to run. The annoyance factor for visitors can blow up like wildfire for sites with multiple banner ads. Microsoft is planning a January 2004 release of IE that complies with the ruling. Eolas has filed for an injunction to stop Microsoft from shipping IE until it is in compliance with the ruling. Eolas is pressing Microsoft to settle and pay the license fee, enabling IE to operate as it currently does. The outcome remains unclear for now. While the inevitable appeals move through the courts, Microsoft has already issued instructions to its development community for remediation. For site owners, remediation efforts will mean identifying the impacted objects and where they are being used within the Website, then altering the code that calls those objects. "Maxamine's comprehensive site inventory reporting capabilities will take the pain out of the identification process, enabling the site owner to be ready for the release of a patent-compliant IE," said Dr. Kirkby. Contact Maxamine at www.maxamine.com for more information about this or other web business intelligence needs. Maxamine produces web business intelligence solutions enabling companies to perform web site structure and quality management with log file traffic analysis into one product. Founded in 1997 in Adelaide, South Australia South Australia, state (1991 pop. 1,236,623), 380,070 sq mi (984,381 sq km), S central Australia. It is bounded on the S by the Indian Ocean. Kangaroo Island and many smaller islands off the south coast are included in the state. , Maxamine established its U.S. headquarters in 2000. Partners include EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Intel, Sun Microsystems, Keynote and Omniture. |
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