Authored by: designerfx on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 09:17 AM EDT |
Rovio (angry
birds developer) submits to lodsys. From the article
(which
is really short): Yesterday, in an unexpected turn of
events, Lodsys published
an eighteen-word blog post simply
titled "Rovio," which said the
following.
Rovio has taken a license to the Lodsys Group portfolio for
all of
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 09:56 AM EDT |
An article in the
Financial Times about the ruling by the
International
Trade Commission banning Apple from selling certain iPhones
and
iPads in the US. (Speculation and background.)
“Samsung has
been on a bit of a losing
streak. The importance of this case to Samsung cannot
be
understated,” says Michael Carrier, a professor at Rutgers
School of Law in
New Jersey which specialises in
intellectual property.
In April, Google’s
Motorola unit lost two big cases
involving the same kind of “standards
essential patents”
that Samsung alleged Apple infringed. SEPs apply to a
technology deemed essential to the functioning of any device
of its kind and
must be licensed at a “fair and reasonable”
rate.
Google first lost to
Apple at the ITC over a standard patent
for touchscreens and then again to
Microsoft, when a Seattle
judge said the rate Motorola could charge to license
its
video and WiFi SEPs was far lower than it had
hoped.
I congratulate the Financial Times on a well
balanced
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 10:35 AM EDT |
The Ontario government is finally clamping down
on nuisance lawsuits filed to silence critics by tying them up in
court. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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- The truth will set you free! - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 12:35 PM EDT
- Costs - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 12:38 PM EDT
- They are here UK - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 05:49 PM EDT
- Costs - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 06:45 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 06:07 PM EDT |
Last Friday SemiAccurate got a call from Intel and they said
something the author thought would never happen,
they fixed management problems
surrounding Linux drivers. There are now compiled drivers on the net at
01.org.
More shocking is that Intel both acknowledges that they
exist on the main driver page and, *BLINK*, links them. This has been a
battle
SemiAccurate has been fighting for literally years and it is now over, Intel is
doing all the right things for the right reasons
in almost all the right ways.
Who would have believe this day would ever come? semiaccurate.com
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- Money talks - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 06:48 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 08:34 PM EDT |
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone
records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest
telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.The
order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon
on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls
in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other
countries. The document shows for the first time that under the Obama
administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being
collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are
suspected of any wrongdoing.
Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 11:08 PM EDT |
Ernest Hemmingway, in his journalist days, is supposed to have bet his fellow
newshounds he could write a really short short story.
So he wrote the following and won the bet.
For sale.
Baby shoes.
Never used.
Now go read a(nother) Hemmingway story... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 08:57 AM EDT |
How do you know if you're in too deep water beforehand?
As an analogy.
Here is an Indian fellow trying to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic
volcano which erupted from 2010.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw711B
3UMpU
While I know I can't pronounce it, I know he can't
either.
What kind of legal analysis is normally done beforehand a case
is started? What kind of simple betting statistics do lawyers use as an argument
before admitting they're in too deep water? Is 1 in 10 a good enough chance if
there is a large enough bonus to be had?
--- ______
IMANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
Today's ad from Staples. The Slate is prominent with a
mention that it runs Android for 179.95. The desktop and
notebooks have no mention that they come with windows 8. I
wonder if they have removed the windows key and stickers? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: DannyB on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 12:46 PM EDT |
Microsoft Reorganizes Itself--Crafty or
Confusing?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to be planning a
major reorganization. His apparent objective is to help the company move toward
becoming a “devices and services company,” as presented in the company’s annual
shareholder letter last October.
But the question for investors is
whether this is a crafty move that will help Microsoft launch renewed profitable
growth or it’s leadership further confusing customers and analysts while leaving
Microsoft languishing in stalled markets. With shares up some 31% in the last
six months, it is a good time to decide if an investor should buy, hold or
sell.
There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right
now.
Everyone knows PC sales have started dropping. IDC recently
lowered its forecast for 2013 from a decline of 1.3% to negative 7.8%. The
mobile market is already larger than PC sales, and IDC now expects tablet sales
(excluding smartphones) to surpass PCs in 2015. Because the PC is Microsoft’s
“core” market, producing almost all the company’s profitability, declining sales
are not a good thing.
Microsoft hoped Windows 8 would reverse the
trend. That has not happened. Unfortunately, ever since its launch Windows 8 has
underperformed the horrific sales of Vista. Eight months into the new product
it is selling at about half the rate Vista did back in 2007, and that was the
worst launch in company history. Win8 still has fewer users than Vista, and at
4% share a tenth that of market leaders Windows 7 and XP.
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 02:34 PM EDT |
Technique may already be practical for commercial use,
researchers say --- The following program contains immature subject
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 02:37 PM EDT |
Citadel malware infects millions in 90
countries --- The following program contains immature subject
matter.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 04:01 PM EDT |
Many shareholders at the annual general meeting in Helsinki
said Elop should reconsider his 2011 decision to switch to
the phone operating
software made by his former employer
Microsoft.
The transition to
Windows Phone from Nokia's own Symbian
system was meant to take two years. That
period is now over,
and while recent results have shown growth in sales of
Lumia
smartphones using Windows Phone 8 software, the volumes pale
in
comparison with the top Samsung and Apple models, and
sales of its regular
mobile phones have plunged in the
meantime.
"Maybe they could go back
to Google and say we also want
to go with Android. Even if it hurts. Microsoft,
they've had
their chances, and are not managing to take off," he
said.
In fact, we know from a previous article that
Nokia's
"sales" were not to the end user, but just channel stuffing
to the
carriers, who are overstocked to critical levels with
Nokia phones. Watch for
drastic price drops later on as
these same channels become anxious to unload
these phones to
make room for the new fall releases from all
suppliers.
Below the
article, there is a panel
that features "Microsoft gadgets that failed" and
reviews
the Kin phones and other failures. Below that there is an
image of
Nokia Lumia 720, which I first thought was just
another part of the failed
devices panel, but which in fact,
was an Engadget review. The metaphor speaks
clearly. It is
only a few pixels away from being included in the failed
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
ok, I just read this - Apple announces a trade-in program
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-
apple-
iphone-trade-in-20130606,0,4390874.story
so my question
is.. if there is an injunction against the
iphone 4 how can this trade-in
program take place and not
violate it?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/060513-apple-iphone4s
-
injunction-270508.html?hpg1=bn [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 08:13 PM EDT |
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained
emergency court order to
freeze assets of Thailand trader
Badin Rungruangnavarat
•
Rungruangnavarat was tipped off by a friend on Facebook
about the possible
acquisition of Smithfield and purchased
thousands of Smithfield call
option
link
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