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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 01:21 PM EDT |
Can this be considered a sign that Sanity can prevail
at Apple?
"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by
downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use
Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your
home screen to their web app," Cook wrote.
Here's hoping the sanity
continues and they start seriously considering backing away from the Patent
Nuclear War they had previously committed themselves to.
That's gotta
hurt though, one reasonable interpretation of the situation could
be:
Wait.... Apple is suing Android for patent infringement but..... they
suggest using Android because Google produces better technology?
That
potential has got to hurt the old ego when offering up the apology.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-28/samsung-can-seek-to-lift-galaxy-tab-
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 01:54 PM EDT |
Justice Department report shows real-time surveillance targeting
social networks and e-mail providers jumped 80 percent from 2010 to 2011. The
ACLU says current law doesn't protect Americans'
privacy.
[...]
Documents the ACLU released today show police are using a
1986 law intended to tell police what phone numbers were dialed for far more
invasive surveillance: monitoring of whom specific social-network users
communicate with, what Internet addresses they're connecting from, and perhaps
even "likes" and "+1"'s.
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT |
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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: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:35 PM EDT |
Huge effort on the transcript. Great job pj and co. Many
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
Looks like the galaxy tab injuction should be removed fairly soon, appeals
court has kicked it back to judge koh to reconsider.
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120928/11201620542/appeals-co
urt-realizes-samsung-injunction-is-patent-it-didnt-infringe-sends-case-back.shtm
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| Authored by: squib on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 03:34 PM EDT |
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I have only had time to quickly scan though this PDF document but is reads like
microsoft all over. As always there is lots of FUD but won't it end up leaving
the US in the backwaters of world commerce?
A national strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic
growth
Professor Jim Norton, recently published a paper on Open Source
and pointed out that it promises more flexibility and quicker ways to adopt
solutions.
Open for
Business
The paper itself is
here:
http://new.amadeusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Open_for_Busines
s_17092012.pdf
Microsoft's plan appears to leave America with a workforce
that has to wast time and loose competitive advantage by being locked in to
jumping though the hoops of its proprietary software. Another microsoft Genuine
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
| News is that Microsoft needs more evil. Per Fast Company Microsoft'
s Bing Gets Klout
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SF author Charlie Stross has a
succinct review of Klout in his blog post Evil social networks wherein
Klout is described "if you sign up for Klout you are coming down with the
internet equivalent of herpes. Worse, you risk infecting all your
friends."
Sounds like two fitting partners. I feel sorry for all the people
M$ is about to infect.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 04:33 PM EDT |
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