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| Authored by: kawabago on Thursday, September 20 2012 @ 07:43 PM EDT |
Switzerland and Italy have joined Canada on the Congressional
Copyright Watch List. Why Congress lavishes attention on
this specific industry they don't say. I have news for
Congress, The United States has been put on our watch list of
countries that have adopted draconian copyright laws that rob
the public domain and lock culture away where the people who
breathed life into it can't use to it. Take that![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 20 2012 @ 10:59 PM EDT |
Magnus Rehle, a senior partner at telecom advising firm Greenwich
Consulting, tells Reuters in an interview, "Elop has not been able to attract
customers and that is what counts. You can say that he has not had enough time,
but he has been there for two years. Time is up."
People were
expecting this moment. Microsoft needs a partner to rescue their failing phone
strategy. Nokia however needed a partner who could rescue them. Picking the
weakest of all possible partners is seldom a winning strategy.
Nokia's
next quarter's financial figure will probably not please investors. If Nokia was
selling lots of phones, we'd be hearing about it. Instead, we're still getting
obfuscated numbers that don't tell use much. Apple probably sold about as many
iPhone 5 phones in 24 hours as Nokia has sold Lumia phones all year.
The question is what should Nokia do? Some like Mr. Rehle
believe Nokia should ditch Windows Phone and use Android. A switch to Android
would certainly lower costs, but at a price. First, Nokia would lose its
payments from Microsoft. Second, abandoning Microsoft for Google Inc.'s (GOOG)
open source OS could lead to some big legal risks, given Apple and Microsoft's
aggressive litigation history (Nokia does have a cross-licensing deal with
Apple, but its exact scope is unclear).
Or, Nokia could stick
with a phone that nobody wants.
On the other hand, with
Samsung and HTC on the verge of fleeing to Windows Phone, if Nokia stays, it
could find itself being shown up in a market it was groomed by Microsoft to be
the star of.
Samsung "on the verge of fleeing to Windows
Phone"? What is this guy smoking? Samsung ditch a huge success and a major part
of their global sales in favour of a strategy that has flopped for the company
that used to be their main competitor? Samsung is selling tens of millions of
Android phones. They're not going to give that up.
Being sued by Apple
is simply part of the cost of doing business in the mobile field. Apple will
continue to sue Samsung so long as Samsung is successful regardless of what
software Samsung has on their phones. Apple isn't suing Nokia because Nokia
isn't seen as a threat. The only way to not be sued by Apple is to not have a
successful phone.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 03:08 AM EDT |
PJ commented on this news pick with : "Dude, I could tell. Vinje has
flipped. And so has Oracle. Holding hands with Microsoft, Nokia and the rest of
Microsoft's running dogs"
It is so obvious that Oracle have joined this purely because they're upset
because of losing the Android case. The old adage "the enemy of my enemy is
my friend" comes to mind but you would have thought that people would have
learned that taking that route is very dangerous. I'm not saying Microsoft are
the Taliban but the situation on Afghanistan is a prime example of where the old
adage has been proved to be a disastrous move[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PolR on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 08:25 AM EDT |
| I have posted this in the correction thread, but I think it should be posted
here as well
I believe the correct
cartoon is this one. The link in the news pick point to the most current
cartoon and this changes.
By the way, the cartoon is hilarious. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
| stackoverflow + patents [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: squib on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 12:35 PM EDT |
| Enjoy:
Pasenger Information Board, Seen in London,
England, UK [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 02:55 PM EDT |
http://mobile.macworld.co.uk/apple-business/news/?
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
| Phony Facebook application
security tests? Say it ain't so, Zuckerberg ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: squib on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 05:53 PM EDT |
If he was that clever --- he would have become a banker!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 04:07 AM EDT |
| OpenStack
Job
Board
Not really the Groklaw way to post jobs, but this - it's not
everyday there's a chance to get in near the start of
something that can
'change everything' the way OpenStack has
the potential to do. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT |
It will never be ready ...why? Because go ahead and take a
800mhz or 1 ghz or 2ghz and try and use it
OH MY GOD what dummy decided on that as a webstandard is an
idiot....
and go on tell the poor people to upgrade LOL....sounds to
me like the link says ITS ABOUT CUSTOMERS not people using
the web, ya know idiot ( referring to that link ) there is a
ton more to the internet then me being a customer of
yours....[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Language please! - Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT
- HTML5 - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT
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