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Minecraft sued for patent infrigement
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 07:36 AM EDT
"Step 1: Wake up. Step 2: Check email. Step 3: See we're being sued for patent infringement. Step 4: Smile," Notch wrote at Twitter. "Unfortunately for them, they're suing us over a software patent. If needed, I will throw piles of money at making sure they don't get a cent."

Popcorn on order

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/21/patent-troll-targets-minecraft.h tml

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Samsung Says Apple Refused to Take 3G License
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 04:38 PM EDT

Source: Samsung Says Apple Refuses to Take 3G License

If this is true, I think it totally blows Apple FRAND defense out of the water... you're supposed to at least ask for a license. One would think that Apple should know this, given how aggressively its pursuing its own cases.

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Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:08 AM EDT
Analyst firm Gartner has chosen just one word to describe Windows 8 for desktop users: “Bad”.
...
“We recently did a large field research study and specifically asked all of our interviewees if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed. The fact is most enterprises are still trying to get to Windows 7 and few enterprises are ready for Windows 8.”
The Register . Several other blogs repeat this meme, but that one word summary seems to have already been edited out of Gartner's original . It evidently got up Mr Bott's nose, which provoked a further retort from Dan Eran's roughlydrafted .

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Virtual networking: Why didn't I think of that?
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:37 AM EDT

Martin Casado started Nicira less than a year ago - the world’s first network virtualization company. Now VMware has agreed to pay $1.26 billion in cash and equity to acquire Nicira, less than six months after the startup officially announced its existence.

Virtual networking: Using dumb switches, software can configure them how you want it. Combine that with VMs, and you have a software-defined data center. Think Ethernet data inside Internet Protocol packets - a $1.26 billion idea. Why didn't I think of that?

In starting the company, the trio sought to create a new breed of network that could be readily programmed in much the same way we program individual computers. Traditionally, when you bought a piece of networking hardware, such as a router or a switch, you couldn’t really change the software that shipped with it, and this made it extremely difficult to set up a company network — or make changes once it was up and running.

Working alongside various outside researchers, Nicira built something called OpenFlow, a standard way of remotely managing network switches and routers. "Think of it as a general language or an instruction set that lets me write a control program for the network rather than having to rewrite all of code on each individual router."

In short, it let companies build extremely complex networks that exist only as software.

This made it easier to set up and configure a network, but it also meant that companies weren’t dependent on traditional networking giants such as Cisco and Juniper. They could build these virtual networks atop commodity network hardware from any seller they chose. The hardware was reduced to merely forwarding packets to and fro. All the complex logic was moved to software.

Goodbye Cisco, and I hope that investment helps VMWare stay ahead of Microsoft, who last I read became a vexatious competitor. It is a long time since I read about the state of competition between the two companies, and I would appreciate it if somebody in the know could bring me up to date.

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