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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
Even the NYT is on the FRAND and Google bashing bandwagon,
without understanding that those innovations are essentials,
and not free to use ones.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
This is one thing that really bugs me. Someone takes something that's been
around for a while and then suddenly it's an "invention" if it's done
on the Internet (or computer or smart phone or...). How many times can
something be invented? BTW, if something can be done over a corporate network
or even a single computer, how can doing it over the Internet or on a smart
phone possibly be an invention? It appears all you have to do is hang
"Internet" in the claim and you get a patent. Taking a general
solution and running it on a specific environment does not make it new!.
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The following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 11:36 PM EDT |
| Law 360:
Motorola loses bid to dismiss Microsoft royalty
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 02:26 AM EDT |
Microsoft has outlines its vision for the
future
- Developing new form factors that have
increasingly natural ways to use them including touch, gestures and
speech.
- Making technology more intuitive and able to act on our behalf
instead of at our command with machine learning.
- Building and running
cloud services in ways that unleash incredible new experiences and opportunities
for businesses and individuals.
- Firmly establishing one platform,
Windows, across the PC, tablet, phone, server and cloud to drive a thriving
ecosystem of developers, unify the cross-device user experience, and increase
agility when bringing new advancements to market.
- Delivering new
scenarios with life-changing improvements in how people learn, work, play and
interact with one another.
Points 1 and 2 are old
news. These have been in Microsoft's visionary statements since forever, and
they have still to deliver.
Wasn't XP supposed to have speech
recognition?
Didn't Microsoft bully netbook manufacturers to ONLY provide
display form factors Microsoft's software supported?
Didn't Microsoft lean
on on the philanthropic OLPC to accept Windows on the device (and a consequent
near-doubling of price)?
Double speak is a kind name for
this.
Points 3, 4, and 5 are pretty empty statements when parsed even
lightly; rich in smart phrases but severely lacking in substance.
More than anything, this letter exhibits the genuine lack of new
thinking at Microsoft, which has seen them slide towards irrelevance in terms of
setting the agenda for the industry - except, of course, in the one area this
snippet doesn't mention: IP litigation [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: symbolset on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
The rule for 9000 years of human husbandry has been that if you sell me a
live
goat capable of reproduction, its offspring are mine. And so with seeds.
The
licence for future generations is inseparable from the genetically viable
product. That contract is written in DNA.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 02:59 PM EDT |
| IDG:
Microsoft alleges Google,
Motorola's Android phones infringe its mapping
patent [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- in Germany - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 03:00 PM EDT |
| ZDNet (Bott):
Microsoft takes on Google directly in German
patent
lawsuit [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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