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NYPD, Microsoft launch crime-tracking system
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 07:08 PM EDT
...as well as provide the city with a new revenue source.
So now they officially admit they gain revenue from crime?

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[BBC] GooglevsOracle, FossPatents highlighted
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT
Actually informative description of FossPatents relationship with Oracle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/t echnology-19181172

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Re: IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 = Citrix Go-To-Meeting = HAS NO LINUX CLIENT... Cisco does for theirs...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 06:23 AM EDT
Citrix Go-to-Meeting has no "LINUX app" to download to watch
or participate in any meeting that uses their stuff.
Cisco's webinar, meeting software does. Boycott Citrix
until they do the right thing (remember, that Citrix was
started with cash from Microsoft, you have to wonder how
much of Citrix is still owned by either Microsoft, or pro-
Microsoft financial people)?

Re: IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Preview Webinar Aug. 9
Join us for a Webinar on August 9. Space is limited. Reserve
your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/ register/893200306
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Bob Frankston, IEEE Fellow, will outline the Internet as a
New Paradigm tutorial and the Grand Debate Forum. - IEEE

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Oshwa logo
Authored by: jvillain on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 03:46 PM EDT
The Oshwa logo also looks a lot like the KDE logo. Actually more accurately a combination of the KDE logo and the OSI logo.

Link to news pick story.

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Is emulating a product the same as stealing?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 03:55 PM EDT
If Samsung had not taken a hard look at the iPhone and asked why it was successful (...) Where is the line between learning from the success of a competitor and stealing?

I used to work for an automotive parts manufacturer. We would be audited by our customers (the major auto manufacturers) for a number of quality indicators. If you don't pass the audit, you can't bid on contracts.

One of the factors the auto manufacturers would audit you on was whether you did tear down analyses of competitor's products (we designed our own products, which were incorporated into most American and European automobiles). You had to do this, and prove you did it and that you are incorporating their better (un-patented) ideas in your own products, or you would fail the audit. We even put up display boards outside the R&D labs showing the product tear-downs (the boards were for the benefit of the auditors, they were useless to the R&D staff).

This is normal practice in product design and manufacturing. Anyone who tells you that companies don't routinely and systematically look at competitors' products has no clue as to what they are talking about.

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The mobile moment
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 07:36 PM EDT
Somebody out there must have two... 'cause I haven't joined yet.

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where are all the cell phones?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 10:46 PM EDT
I have a kindle, tablet, personal phone, work phone.

So that counts as four.

I'd also be surprised if they were really counting "active" devices
and weren't also counting some devices that are no longer being used (old
kindles for example still have their cell radios, and there is no ongoing cost
for them, so no reason for anyone to take any action to remove them from the
count when they are replaced by a newer device)

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Digia to acquire Nokia patents
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 10:47 PM EDT
Who's Digia...?
Well, Microsoft has been a key partner for more than 10 years, according to the
corporate website's 'partner' section
http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/Technology-Partners/

Oracle and IBM are also partners, but not with key status and Microsoft gets top
billing


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