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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 04:57 AM EDT |
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 05:44 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 05:18 PM EDT |
| System Software: u-boot 2010.12, Kernel 3.0.15, Android4.0.x(ICS).
* 6 x High
speed USB2.0 Host port
* 10/100Mbps Ethernet with RJ-45 LAN Jack
* Audio
codec with headphone jack and microphone jack
http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php%3fg_code=G1339993289
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Das U-Boot -- the Universal Boot Loader
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| Authored by: sproggit on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 03:49 AM EDT |
I see in the news that Red Hat and other members off the FOSS
community are now working out ways around the Windows Secure Boot
initiative.
I have a couple of questions on this and I would be grateful for the opinions
of our Groklaw Community...
1. Bearing in mind that it is customary for board manufacturers to ship
updates to BIOS code during the life of a board, how easy would it be for a
pirate to take a software image, patch it to overwrite the check for signed
code, and thus allow any versions of Windows (including pirated copies) to
run? I am trying to understand how effective it would be to defeat the
protection...
2. Thinking about the attack vector that the Secure Boot is designed to
protect against, how many other Operating Systems supported by the
same hardware as Windows are vulnerable to the threat vector?
I am trying to understand just how reasonable this "solution" really
is. I am
curious to know if it actually represents just another anti-competitive
measure rather than a security measure? If so, what are the facts?
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 08:33 AM EDT |
Anybody want to buy a Lumia cheap? Now's your chance.
Nokia just slashed the
price in half, according to Reuters.
The price cut on its Lumia 900 Windows
smartphone in the United States came barely three months
after its launch. The
company reduced the cost of the phone
to $49.99 from $99 with a
two-year agreement at AT&T Inc
stores.
"They are stuck between a
rock and a hard place - to drive
sales of their devices they are going to have
to spend money
on marketing and promotions, but at the same time the stock
market is demanding they do anything other than spend
money," said Ovum
analyst Nick Dillon.
Nokia is expected to report a net loss roughly
doubling to
706 million euros ($864.4 million) and burn through more
than
a billion of cash in just three months, according to a
Reuters poll of 38
analysts.
"I don't think that the company will have anything positive
to say on Thursday," said Mikael Rautanen, analyst at equity
research firm
Inderes in Helsinki. "The third quarter will
be very difficult ... The fight to
survival will continue."
Nokia has said the price cut was part of its
"ongoing
lifecycle management" but analysts said it was earlier than
usual.
The likely reason was Microsoft's recent announcement
that its new Windows
Phone 8 software will not run on
current Lumia phones, rendering them
obsolete.
"The announcement of Windows Phone 8 was a kick in the teeth
for Nokia and its high end Lumia handsets which forces it to
be more
aggressive with the pricing of these devices from
now on," said Canalys analyst
Pete Cunningham.
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| Authored by: DCFusor on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 08:59 AM EDT |
| Of course, it was with good cause for the trial balloon, but look out...I think
we can assume all the social network kind of places do
too.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2191599/facebook-scans-private-ch
ats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity
clicky
We already know that for things
it's not legal for the government to collect without a warrant, they can simply
buy the info from those who do collect it - bank/credit records come to mind
here. Land of the free, rule of law? Not the US. ---
Why guess, when you
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 12:38 PM EDT |
The Register has an article on Nokia's Lumia sales: I
t costs $450 in marketing to make someone buy a $49 Nokia Lumia. The
article was subtitled: "Smell of death emanating from mobe maybe puts people
off"". The article presents the interesting estimates:
Every
Windows phone Nokia sold in the US has been backed by a $450 slice of
AT&T marketing cash, it's
estimated.
However,
Back-of-the-envelope
numbers by blogger Horace Dediu suggest the mobe has made a negligible impact so
far on the market, however. Dediu uses the latest monthly figures from ComScore,
which give all Windows devices (phone and mobile) a market share of 4 per cent,
to extrapolate a figure of 330,000 Lumias sold in the United
States
The article concludes that Windows Phone will become
the "OS/2" of smartphone OSes, loved by a few fanatics, but forgotten by the
public in general.
Nokia has pinned their future on Windows Phone
smart phones. When the press starts saying that their flagship product has the
"smell of death" about it, it's probably past time for them to start
re-considering their strategy. I won't be surprised if Elop's head rolls over
this before too long. Whether that will be soon enough to rescue Nokia as an
independent company is a good question however. Unless someone in Nokia has had
a secret project going to put Android on some of their existing hardware so they
could get a sell-able product out on the market soon (it normally takes 18
months to put out a completely new phone) it could be too late.
As for
Balmer, I suspect he will be downplaying mobile and focusing on tablets. That
will be the fallback strategy for Microsoft if their push in mobile fails.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 01:28 PM EDT |
| Now U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz has ruled that, as a matter of law,
Novell cannot continue to pursue the case.
Novell seems likely to appeal the
ruling.
Judge tosses Novell antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 03:29 PM EDT |
I especially liked the "enjoy" part of the post... speaks volumes,
doesn't
it? Like I'm supposed to "ooh" and "ahh" at this kind of
foolishness?
What is there to "enjoy" in this?
Like the parent, I have to wonder why the post was even made here...
The OP needs to take this somewhere where people would actually be
impressed. Maybe s/he can set up a homepage and whoever is actually
interested can follow him there...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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