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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
Article link.
I know the purchase price
includes a licensing cost for additional patents, but it is sad that 650 patents
are valued at $550 million.
That puts the average price $846,000
(rounded) each. If you include the licensing for the additional 275, that puts
the average* at $600,000 (rounded) each.
* Considering you own the
patent you have full control including initiating lawsuits. If you license a
patent, you generally don't get the equivalent of full control.
Now...
considering the average cost of defending against a patent starts at a cool
$2 million, it seems to me that the purchase price of the patents is not
valued on their actual technical value... but on their value as lawsuit risk
aversion (or lawsuit threat) material.
That's the sad part: in today's
market the value of a patent is not in it's actual technical value - but in the
perceived litigation value.
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Authored by: artp on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
On
Techdirt:
Popular cloud service provider Dropbox has
announced the
ability to share stuff in your Dropbox with a link. This is
not
a revolutionary offering. It's actually pretty common
and can be quite useful
for simple sharing of files. But, as
Mathew Ingram noted, this is exactly part
of the reason that
Megaupload was accused of criminal conspiracy.
The Dropbox
announcement:
Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once
you’ve
saved that video of your niece’s birthday party to Dropbox,
just make
a link to send to grandma and she can simply watch
online — no download
required! This saves you the hassle of
having to re-upload or attach it to an
email.
Now, I don't use Dropbox, or any other
"cloud" service if I
have absolutely ANY other choice (please don't look at my
gmail account), but I DO use torrents a LOT. I download
Linux distros and get
Humble Indie Bundles, for the most
part. But any time I see a torrent
available, I use it, then
leave the torrent up as long as I can. I'm no torrent
superstar, but I've gotten UL/DL ratios of 40 before. So
this is of great
interest to me. Things may get very
interesting here in the next
few.
--- Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
From the Article:
1.0 release does not allow
background calling
only allow users to Skype calls if
they have Skype open and are using the app
You really didn't think
MS was going to allow multi-tasking if they didn't have to... did ya?
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