I was browsing the Web over the weekend and I noticed an advertisement for outsourced project on Elance. A person in China likes what Bizcloud has to offer and wants to reproduce it.I am just curious, our site is free and copyright laws and patents clearly do not apply to China. How can we protect our intellectual property?
What do you suggest I should do to protect Bizcloud and the investment we have made? What would you do?Should I just take it as a complement and not worry about it?
Should the IP’s from China be blocked or should I work on launching a Chinese version of Bizcloud? Bizcloud censorship? lol
I am open to your ideas.
The sad reality is that we do provide a hosted private labeled version of Bizcloud and this business could have contacted Bizcloud to license our technology.
I have included a screen capture of the Elance project. We have contacted Elance and they clearly do not have a policy against copy cats on the Elance site and have not removed this project. From what I can tell they still have 3 days remaining to accept bids on this project.
The good news is Bizcloud is free to use today and our developers continue to keep ahead of the technology curve. If you find the information in our bizcloud blog or on our site useful please help spread the word about our site.
Thank you in advance.
Vahid Razavi
Originally posted 2009-07-29 09:08:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
$1,115 – that’s the average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage per month in 2009. Annually, that amounts to $13,375 – or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. (Source)
And if nothing is done to reform our broken health care system, a recent survey found that over the next ten years, out-of-pocket expenses for Americans with health insurance could increase 35 percent in every state in the country. (Source)
Yesterday, Leslie Banks, one of the many Americans burdened by skyrocketing health insurance costs, introduced President Obama at a reform event in Philadelphia. Here’s her story: Read more »
The raising health care costs are causing more and more pressure to the small business owners cornering them to choose between providing the insurance coverage for their employees or laying some of them off. A news from the health industry is that insurance policies will be more available for individuals,even those having pre-existing medical conditions, what should be a big step forward in achieving legislators’ goal of making health coverage accessible to many of close to 50 million individuals currently without one. Read more »
Originally posted 2009-06-08 01:55:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
How many times have you heard, “it’s the economy” or “it’s a bad economy,” or even “the economy is crumbling” over the last year or two? What was an absolute line of nonsense has actually become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to its repetition and lack of challenge. When things started blowing up in the banking sector, everyone started playing “Chicken Little,” running around crying that the sky was falling. This illogical exaggeration has created an environment of panic and fear, and this is what is killing a once robust economy. We can absolutely turn this around, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s back up a for a moment and look logically at a close corollary. When a given sector of the economy inflates a non-sustainable bubble, it inevitably pops. We saw this with the “Tech Bubble.” When the Tech Bubble popped in March of 2000, people lost jobs and money, and everyone appropriately pinned it on the “pump and dump,” IPO Lottery mentality of the Tech Sector. The downturn was appropriately compartmentalized, and effectively “quarantined.” Nobody called it a recession or The Economy.
When the banking/credit/lending bubble popped in 2008, rather than appropriately pinning it on the irresponsible practices of ONE Sector of the economy, the banks and the media painted this sector as The Economy, and everyone’s problem. That was actually a lie. (BTW, can you imagine being able to claim bankruptcy because you only made few billion dollars, or a 45% increased profit over the year before?) Of course not; you’re not a bank. At least Standard Oil didn’t file when they broke the Guinness Book of Records for profits in a single quarter.
The attention of public has been concentrated for a while now on the ongoing debates on what the health care reform will bring. By now we are all familiar with the horrifying facts about the number of Americans without coverage, and the fact that almost 50% of 47 million currently uninsured are employed or dependent on small companies.
Small business, being the major job creator in the States, has a critical place in the health care reform debate. The utterly poor state the small businesses find themselves in when it comes to health care coverage is what’s causing them to constantly re-question the proposed reform. The main issue for all companies, and especially the small ones are raising health care costs which repeatedly lead to job losses in many industries. The fact that health care premiums have doubled in past nine years speaks for itself. Small businesses pay 18% more per employee than large companies for the same health insurance policies. The reason being they have a smaller risk pool and have to pay higher broker fees and administrative costs per employee. That is the main reason why only 49% of firms with less than 10 workers offer health coverage. The money spent on health care coverage could be spent on much needed investments, research and development, but instead the innovation that small business brings is standing frozen. The small percentage of small firms that do provide coverage are cornered to cut costs elsewhere which at the end keeps them from growing. Read more »
Originally posted 2009-09-03 17:18:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
San Francisco, CA, February 16, 2010—BizCloud, the small business cloud computing company, today announced that it will provide a wide range of web-based applications and services to small and midsize businesses via the BizCloud Platform Application Marketplace. BizCloud will source the applications from the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN), which will provide the back-end provisioning, delivery, support, and billing.
The popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions with companies of all sizes is increasing rapidly due to the business value that they provide. More and more business owners are realizing that SaaS can improve their business productivity and increase revenue. BizCloud has expanded its offerings with hosted on-demand software services that can help small businesses reduce their IT costs and be more productive as they free up their time to focus on their core business operations. Read more »
Two weeks ago President Barack Obama traveled to Tampa, Florida to announce the investment of $8 billion in high-speed rail projects in 13 major corridors, which he said would provide a down payment for the most significant advance in transportation since the Interstate highway system was built more than a half-century ago.
Nokia and Intel are having a joint press conference at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. As it was speculated since last years annoucements, Nokia, which holds around 40% of the world mobile market, and Intel, the leading chip manufacturer, are merging their Maemo and Moblin open source softwares into MeeGo, a new Linux-based system, facing increasing pressure from the mobile industry – especially Apple and Google.
Many intrigues have already been surrounding Samsung’s Bada OS and it’s features, since its announcement in November 2009, even before it’s official presentation at MWC 2010 in Barcelona on Sunday evening. Questions that most frequently rise are – does the world need another Smartphone OS, and how is it different from the existing ones, especially Android and Windows Mobile? Even so, it seems as the new phone and OS are especially targeted towards bringing the already known functions to all the users at an affordable price, especially ones outside of the US, since it is aimed at users regardless of their geographic location and the app store will initially support 50 countries. Social networking aspect seems very important, too (now there’s a surprise!), although the phone protoype itself wasn’t used in the presentation, which was a bit disappointing to some of the attendees.
Other features of the phone include the ones we have seen before, like 3G and WiFi connectivity, GPS sensor, a motion sensor, WQVGA/WVGA display and multitouch-support running a new TouchWiz 3.0 UI.
It seems that Samsung Wave is just the beggining of the Bada (meaning “ocean” in Korean) story. We are looking forward to seeing (and touching) it live in the first part of the year.
BOSTON – Wednesday, February 10, 2010 – Building on his continued efforts to foster job creation and economic growth in the Commonwealth, Governor Deval Patrick today filed legislation to help small businesses hire new workers and reduce the cost of doing business.
The Governor’s legislation provides tax credits for businesses that create new jobs, eases healthcare and unemployment insurance costs for employers and creates a new organization dedicated to providing businesses with the financial capital and resources they need to grow. Read more »
Dear friends of Bizcloud,
San Francisco, CA, February 16, 2010—BizCloud, the small business cloud computing company, today announced that it will provide a wide range of web-based applications and services to small and midsize businesses via the BizCloud Platform Application Marketplace. BizCloud will source the applications from the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN), which will provide the back-end provisioning, delivery, support, and billing.
