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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 10:07 AM EDT |
Link here
and here
"Abuse a man unjustly,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 02:28 PM EDT |
[www.thestreet.com]
I found a Microsoft
store on a recent trip to the US. It was a deeply depressing place. You could
almost hear a pin drop. So very unlike the nearby Apple outlet. In the apple
store people were using the devices without pressure to buy. There are staff a
plenty to help. Those staff want (from my own experience) to make a sale but the
right sale. If you only want an adapter they will do everything to ensure that
you leave the store with one in hand and happy with your purchase. Say what you
like about Apple, they have got the retail experience down to a 'T'. MS would do
well to emulate them but sadly, I don't think they have the heart.
Frankly
if MS want to emulate the Apple retail experience they have one huge mountain to
climb. I was not allowed to explore the 'delights' of the X-box without
supervision. Eh? Really.
If Microsoft want to sell their Surface devices
directly then they are going to have to open up and let potential users explore
their delights and even its warts.
Their decision not to let journalists
have real 'hands-on' experiences with their 'new' devices has left them open to
all sorts of speculation. Are they for real? Do they work? and a whole host of
other issues are 'surfacing' (pun intended) simply because they've seen fit to
announce something their classic 'FUD' style.
If you really want to put the
fear of God into your partners then give the journalists days if not weeks (not
minutes) of experience with the devices. IF you don't then many prople are going
to continue to treat your announcement with a good deal of doubt and even
derision.
You really should start taking lessons from Ford, GM and others on
how to launch a product. You had it once with Windows 95 but now? We all
remember 'Plays for sure' and that oh so wonderful 'The Wow starts Now!' with
Vista.
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Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 06:19 PM EDT |
Application of the “Capable of” Test when a Controller with Associated
Programming is Claimed
Now we move to automotive power plants where
patent protection is dependent the presence or absence of software providing
'capability' to emulate a block heater coil in colder climes.
This appears
to be a slippery slope leading to use infringement for other products, when the
software 'capability' is added in.
Will we see roving bands of company
representatives accusing people of violating patents as aftermarket
activities?
On the other hand you could wonder if adding the capability
wouldn't be obvious to someone having ordinary skill in the art.
The
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Authored by: globularity on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 07:17 AM EDT |
The notion of stealing music is absurd, I have visions of somebody running down
the street with a bag full of sheet music they stole from somewhere.
On face value the record labels had no problem giving away millions of free
listening hours in the form of radio airplay in the hope people would buy some
of it. Many people listen to far more radio music than what they buy and play.
What has changed, people download stream or otherwise find music to listen to
then buy a small portion of that.
I can think of an example, the albums by a famous artist Mayumi Itsuwa were only
distributed in Japan, yet for whatever reason her manager arranged a tour of
Hong Kong, when she got off the plane there were loads of fans waiting for her.
The Hong Kong pirate industry had picked up her music and filled the gap her
record company failed to. The fans were willing to pay to see her concerts.
Music sells itself but you have to give away quite a lot to sell it, the record
labels know this, they just can't handle the loss of control.
In the Chinese music industry piracy is widespread, I could buy a famous
classical artist's pirate CD's for around a dollar but the genuine ones at 5 to
20 dollars still sell and the concerts are popular. The Chinese music industry
has innovative packing, and all sorts of "audiophile" features the
pirate discs do not.
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- "stealing music" - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT
- "stealing music" - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 05:55 PM EDT
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Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 08:55 AM EDT |
Link
Microsoft's Surface
is vaporware, being aimed at its own
partners on the hardware side of the
enterprise, "companies
like Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba, and
Sony."
Unnamed sources at Microsoft are cited for the proposition
that
"[i]f Microsoft had seen compelling enough plans from
[PC makers], they
wouldn't have needed to do this,"
referring to the Surface launch.
But stop
and reflect on the fiasco that was the "netbook".
Microsoft Vista was
incapable of running on these, until
they were loaded up with expensive, high
capacity solid-
state disks. Microsoft leaned on these same manufacturers
to
release only the tiniest, least capable models running
Linux until something
could be worked out (a cut down
version of WinXP) that would fill out the shelf
space on
more attractive hardware.
Having hammered the PC manufacturers to
move slowly into the
market with Windows desktop replacements (new terms,
"ultrabook" or "tablet"), Microsoft now wants to let it be
known how
reluctantly they have taken the step of putting
forward the Surface (itself a
repurposing of the table top
touch-enabled home media center platform of the
same name).
It's tough times for the junior collaborators in the Wintel
monopoly. Lest we forget, it's been less than a year since
HP's Léo Apotheker
advised they were dumping tablets
altogether and possibly moving out of consumer
PCs.
Although the HP's board of directors moved swiftly to
replace Léo
Apotheker with Meg Whitman, who then denied that
HP would drop their #1 PC
manufacturing business, the
evidence seems pretty clear that Microsoft has such
leverage
in the relationship that even the mightiest of hardware
partners are
reluctant
to show much innovation for fear
of M$ licensing retaliation.
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Authored by: complex_number on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
<a
href="http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/64285-microsoft-conf
irms-yammer-acquisition">[www.tgdaily.com]</a><P>
If MS thinks that Yammer is 'World Class' then they are in even worse state that
I'd thought.<P>
My old employer used Yammer. Quite a lot of people signed up for it but within a
few weeks, the traffic was down to noise level i.e. 2-3 messages a day if you
were lucky.<P>
It wasn't cheap either.<P>
It might look like an alternative to Twitter but if you get your service hosted
by Yammer then all those 'yams' about what it happening in your business are
stored god knows where and could easily be hacked just like voicemail. Now that
MS is taking over, I'd be very careful about services like this.
<P>
IMHO, 'The Cloud' is also a disaster waiting to happen. Before very long a
company will go bust in a very publis way because their cloud supplier messes up
big time.
<P>
Looking on the brightside, another wannabe gets sold to MS never to be seen
again. Par for the course really.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 10:51 AM EDT |
If you are in Arizona you now need to carry either a Arizona Drivers Lic. , and
Social Security Card.
Or a Birth Certificate, Out of state Drivers Lic. ,
Social security Card and whar ever else The local law enforcement requires.
Your papers please !
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 11:37 AM EDT |
It seems to me that if Google looses this correctly it will benefit them
greatly. If the Trade Commission concludes that patents of core technologies
should not be used as weapons, this will affect many other cases -- and
potentially prevent similar cases trying to exclude Android phone from entering
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