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7 Retailers Settle with FTC, Agree to Stop Spying on Up to 400,000 Computer Rental Customers
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 05:56 AM EDT
They sure got away too easily with this one. Wonder how much lobbying was
involved.

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EU regulators set to charge Microsoft over breached deal
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 08:01 AM EDT
Good! This was not just a momentary error, but went on for a long time. I had to purchase two laptops almost 18 months apart, and both defaulted to IE. The second one was very difficult to deal with, as it forced the Bing toolbar to be installed, as I grumbled about previously.

I think that companies who behave like this, repetitively, should face the maximum penalty that can be imposed under EU law, 10% of worldwide annual turnover. The money could usefully be used to assist somewhere like Greece or Portugal to gettheir economies sorted out.

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  • Apple too? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 05:42 PM EDT
BlueStacks and AMD Bring 500,000 Android Apps to Windows 8
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 12:36 PM EDT
BlueStacks and AMD Bring 500,000 Android Apps to Windows 8
"The two companies have teamed up to bring 500,000 mobile Android apps to Windows PCs through the AMD AppZone Player starting Thursday. The software is powered by BlueStacks, a company that makes it possible to download and run Android apps on PCs and Macs.

The partnership between BlueStacks and AMD, which has invested in the software company, focuses on optimizing Android apps for AMD-powered Windows devices. While Intel-powered PCs can access Android apps through BlueStacks’ original Windows software, the AppZone Player is optimized for AMD’s GPU and APU technology."
While touted as beneficial for Microsoft I cannot yet judge the effect for Linux and free software.

Is it really only knee-jerk bad?

The one thing I think of is that Android is nothing but a layer above an(y) OS.



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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
Authored by: Charles888 on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT
I keep trying to convince myself that the USPTO may have some
positive role to serve. Maybe? Maybe?
Then, they keep granting stupid patents like these. Sane
people have to question whether they serve ANY constructive
role. Where they intended to be such a big rubber stamp for
any stupid idea somebody attempts to patent? What purpose to
promoting innovation do they serve when they keep granting
monopolies on such a broad ideas? It is lunacy!

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'Innocence of Muslims' Actress Files Bigger Lawsuit in Federal Court
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 02:37 PM EDT
Is this really new? I thought it was always work for hire contracts that gave
studios the rights. Or is this suggesting that even the contracts don't cover
this? If this is true, animation and voice synthesis will look more and more
attractive to studios, specially the big ones, if every actor start making a
fuss about copyright licensing. I suppose in this particular case the contracts
may not have been proper...

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LG Display Files Patent Suit Against Samsung
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 06:14 PM EDT
Pestilence is a word that comes to mind to describe the evil
that is spreading across the globe. Now we have Korean companies
suing in a Korean court over Korean patents for a component that
has become desirable in appliances made worldwide by many others.

Newspick WSJ

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