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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 02:03 PM EDT |
We already noted that the New Zealand judicial system apparently
isn't as willing as the US expected to rubber
stamp approval of the extradition of Kim Dotcom. Part of that ruling was a
requirement that the US turn over the evidence they're using against Dotcom, so
that he can counter it in fighting against the extradition. However, it appears
that the US is still fighting this, having the New Zealand prosecutor (who is
fighting on their behalf) argue that Dotcom should only be allowed to see a single document out of
the 22 million emails the FBI collected and that this really isn't a matter
for the New Zealand courts to concern themselves with, as they should just let
the Americans handle it.
Crown lawyer John Pike argued that
there was no need for Dotcom to have access because he was not being tried in
New Zealand.
The judge in the extradition case needed only to decide if
there was a case for him to answer in the US, Mr Pike said, and that question
was answered by the record of case.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
Nokia has slipped under the two dollar threshold - all
the way down to
$1.92. See Nokia
Corporation Can't Find a
Bottom
The latest hit came from China where phone
vendors said they
didn't want to sell domestic models running the Windows
Phone, because they just struggle against the cheaper
Android
phones.
Previously, Nokia tried to deny the negative effect of the
fact that users of current Lumia models won't be able to
upgrade to Windows
Phone 8 and said this shouldn't stop
people from buying the line-up, but the
fact of the matter
is, in the world of smartphones, buying products that will
be outdated in a so short a time just doesn't make much
sense.
Wasn't Nokia trying to imply things were booming
in China
just a couple of months ago?
Their own government has given
up on them. Moody's has
written them off. See
Nokia's Junk Status Is Spot On
Moody's decision shows
that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's
turnaround efforts have been a dismal failure.
Not even such
drastic moves as announcing a plan to eliminate 10,000 jobs
at
Nokia have helped the company. Elop's alliance with his
old employer, Microsoft
(MSFT), has actually hurt Nokia and
left it more vulnerable to Android-using
competition.
The situation is likely to get worse because it is clear
that Nokia no longer has the cash to enter the Tablet
market. Nor does it seem
to have the ability to successfully
market new smartphones no matter how
well-designed they are.
That means its days as an industry leader are probably
numbered.
The only real hope the company has is that Windows 8 will be
a success. The problem with that line of thinking is that
Windows 8 hasn't
even been shipped yet. Even if Windows 8 is
a success it will take several
months for it to give a boost
to Nokia. It doesn't seem possible that Nokia
will be able
to stay in operation long enough to see if Windows 8 will
work
with its current losses.
Even if Windows 8 works it might not help
Nokia because
Windows 8 is primarily a business operating system. It is
hard
to see a new PC operating system is going to help a
phone manufacturer increase
its sales. Even if it can be
easily integrated with phones so can existing
systems such
as Android. So Mr. Elsop's line of reasoning is actually
rather
hard to swallow.
It is also hard to see Windows 8 giving any sort of
boost to
Nokia's stock. After all phone buyers are not familiar with
it yet.
That means there will be no boost in Nokia sales and
cash flow from Windows 8.
Instead the optimism about Windows
8 is probably going to drive down Nokia
stock values because
it is hard to see how the Microsoft operating system will
translate into any additional cash flow.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
the
Register
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 11:00 PM EDT |
Wrong solution
undoubtedly but still [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 06:54 AM EDT |
Samsung Is
In It To Win It --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
Oh My!
Somewhere between appalling and funny.
Patently Silly
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 02:50 PM EDT |
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/def-leppard-cuts-off-universal.html
Def Leppard got screwed over by Universal Music on compensation
for its digital downloads and refuses to have anything to do with them until
they pay the band a fair share of the money from iTunes, the Amazon MP3 store,
and other digital distribution systems. In order to cut the label out of its
earnings, the band has gone back to the studio to re-record its most popular
tunes, producing what it calls "forgeries" -- note for note reproductions of the
original studio cuts. The band can do this because of "compulsory licensing,"
which allows anyone to record and sell any song, on payment of a set royalty.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 02:57 PM EDT |
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/rand-and-ron-paul-denounce-net.html
Rand and Ron Paul have penned
an Internet Freedom manifesto that is pretty terrible. It pans the idea of
net neutrality, arguing that the phone companies who receive gigantic government
handouts in the form of cheap (or free) rights of ways and hold natural
monopolies over our connectivity should be able to use that government largesse
to run a protection racket in which any website that doesn't pay for "premium
carriage" will be slowed down when you or I try to visit them. They also
denounce the public domain as a collectivist plot, and argue that government
monopolies over knowledge should be extended, and that tax-dollars should be
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Authored by: jesse on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT |
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/07/07/2140231/apple-exits-green-hardware-cert
ification-program
So the Apple closed hardware starts to run into recycling problems...
So what happens when the MS UEFI boot limitations prevent recycling of entire
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 08:05 PM EDT |
Will licensing licentiousness rile Free Softies?
One of
the principal authors of version 3 of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) has
spun off his own version of the license without the participation of the Free
Software Foundation (FSF), in a move that could ruffle feathers in the
often-cantankerous free software community.
The new license has been dubbed
GPL.next, and it's the brainchild of Robert Fontana, who along with Eben Moglen
and Richard Stallman helped to draft the GPLv3, which debuted in
2007.
Fontana's free software credentials are solid. He currently serves as
the open source and patent licensing counsel for Red Hat, though he says the
Linux vendor is not involved or affiliated with the GPL.next effort in any way.
Previously, he was legal counsel to the Software Freedom Law
Center.
Neil
McAllister, The Register[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 11:34 PM EDT |
Link
UEFI Forum Releases UEFI 2.3.1 Specification
Update and Schedules UEFI Summer Summit Interoperability & Education
Event
Specification Update Benefits Windows 8 & Open Source OS
Implementations
Microsoft to Host UEFI Summer Summit, July 16-20, 2012 in
Redmond, WA
The UEFI Testing Work Group (UTWG) and the UEFI Industry
Communications Work Group (ICWG) from the Unified EFI (UEFI) Forum invite you to
register for the upcoming UEFI Summer Summit: An Interoperability and Education
Workshop being held this July at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA.
Hosted by Microsoft, the event is sponsored by AMD, AMI, HP, Insyde, Intel,
Microsoft & Phoenix.
Online registration for the UEFI Summer Summit
can be found at: http://www.uefi.org/events/ and
http://event.insydesw.com/insyde.swf?sid=13&op=enroll. Please note
registration is scheduled to close on July 9th.
The organizers specifically
wish to encourage add-in card vendors to attend the Summit. This is the last
planned Forum-sponsored opportunity to test Secure Boot functionality and the
interoperability of cards with UEFI-compliant systems for 2012. With the serious
industry interest in Secure Boot functionality, this Summit is an excellent
opportunity to test interoperability, as well as discuss the technology with
other industry members.
It sure would be helpful if
someone could go.
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 04:06 AM EDT |
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/07/05/slide-wars-uk-high-cou
rt-rules-against-apple-on-slide-to-unlock/
"HTC, meanwhile, found imports of their HTC One X superphone under threat
in the vital US market after the International Trade Commission ruled that its
operating system infringed a patent on “data tapping” – the ability to tap on a
phone number in a document, web page or email and have it open in a phone dialer
– and has undertaken to change its approach."
I have tapped web addresses for years in pdf:s and Word-documents. How can a
telephone number be that different?
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IMANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 12:58 AM EDT |
Peter "Brokep" Sunde was convicted in Sweden's notorious Pirate Bay
trial, and now faces prison time and a multimillion-euro fine.
As his imprisonment looms, he describes, in detail, the bizarre circumstances of
his conviction, which started with an illegal raid ordered by the US trade
representative, continued with an investigation led by a prosecutor who'd
already accepted a job with Warner Brothers as a copyright enforcer and was just
working through his notice period as he pursued Peter; and then a trial that
included a judge and multiple jurors who were literally getting paychecks from
the large copyright industry associations.
Peter was convicted on the thinnest of circumstantial evidence of having
configured a load-balancer in a data-centre used by The Pirate Bay (this
load-balancer was not plugged in at the time of the raid, and there's no
evidence it was ever plugged in).
On the basis of this corrupt, ugly, kangaroo court, the Swedish justice system
is ready to put him in jail for an "economic debt to some of the world’s
richest corporations," offshore bullies who have perverted the course of
justice in Sweden.
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Authored by: sproggit on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 03:43 AM EDT |
There is an interesting article over at geek.com, which basically asserts
that crowd-sourced backlash against companies for using their patent arsenals
may well be a bit misplaced.
I can't bring myself to agree 100% with
the author's conclusions (because there me be a little selectivity going on with
the facts) but I can support the sentiment that the USPTO and that
organisation's willingness to grant a patent for just about anything might be a
major source of trouble.
While we're on the lookout for constructive
steps we can take to bring this hydra under control, how
about instigating a policy at the USPTO that requires a very detailed and
fast-track review of every patent exerted in a court case?
That might
solve some of the problem, though perhaps it won't solve the type of
behind-the-scenes coercion that we've witnessed between say Microsoft and the
Android Handset manufacturers, or MS and Barnes&Noble.
If you do
decide to follow the link and read that geek.com argument, take a little extra
time and have a look at the comments being posted. They are a good example of
highly polarized user communities. Never mind the tension between the companies
themselves, this is just consumers who buy products from those companies...
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Authored by: matth on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 08:13 AM EDT |
<waylonjennings>Now if I didn't know better, I'd say someone had it in for
the whole Android ecosystem</waylonjennings>
'The energy source responsible for generating the
heat has been
determined as external to the device... the device was not
responsible for the
cause of the fire,' FIUK said in a statement. 'The only way it
was possible to
produce damage similar to the damage recorded within the
owner's damaged device
was to place the devices or component parts within a
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Authored by: odysseus on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 09:33 AM EDT |
Statement from the KDE eV on recent developments around Qt and Nokia:
http://dot.kde.org/2012/07/09/kde-rely-qt-protect-qts-freedom-contribute-it
In short, KDE does not want to see a fork in the Qt community and will continue
to work within the Qt Open Governance project, but will stand by to enforce the
Free Qt agreement if really pushed.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 11:13 AM EDT |
Apple declined to comment on the ruling, but reiterated its claims
about the similarities between its products and Samsung's lineup.
"This kind
of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to
protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas," said an
Apple representative.
Today's ruling affects three versions of the Samsung
tablet: the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, and Galaxy Tab
7.7.
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