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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 04:46 PM EDT |
With such a helpful blog pointing out Apples new Patents perhaps someone should
start looking for prior art.
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"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 06:03 PM EDT |
Another piece of the "software is math"...
So are networks:
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| Authored by: albert on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
| Link
Article by Cadie
Thompson. The blurbs single source is Eric Jackson, founder and manager of
Ironfire Capitol (ironfirecapital.com). Except for Jackson, all the other
members of the team are Chinese. I'd love to see a list of their investors.
I'll bet there's lots of Chinese money there. Jackson does LOTS of
'contributions' to financial magazines and news shows. He's also big on Apple.
So keep that salt box ready.
This illustrates the problem with
'financial news'. It's not news, it's opinion, from folks who have a lot to
gain by speaking out. There are few real analysts left, in any field. It's so
much trouble to research these people (FM is a case in point), that I just
ignore anything they say.
BTW, I almost wrote to Thompson suggesting
she share the byline with Jackson.
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 10:21 PM EDT |
Apple has a new patent on something this news article calls "Cover
Flow", 8,296,656. Whatever that is. I can tell you what it patented. An
application that has been on the Internet since at least 2002. A viewing scheme
for photos that's almost a decade old or more, and this is a patent application
from 2009, which is a continuation of a patent from 2006.
A patent on an application I use called Gallery. It creates a "media
browser" within a screen (like a browser). here's a link to Gallery.
Version 1 was out in 2005 or earlier.
Man someone needs to fire everyone in the patent office and hire some qualified
people.
Here's a link to a closed bug from 2002 talking about the slideshow feature
being broken in the 1.3RC version. The feature Apple claims to have invented.
The first bug reported is in July of 2000, around the time the project moved to
SourceForge at the time version 1.3 was in development. I just can't comprehend
how Apple can honestly claim to have invented this feature.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 02:42 AM EDT |
Consumer protection law doesn't always apply to free
services? I bet Google
is wondering if this judge has any
opinions on antitrust law
Court
house
news
Sony did not violate consumer-protection laws "because
none
of the named plaintiffs subscribed to premium PSN services,
and thus
received the PSN services free of cost," Battaglia
wrote.
Though the class says Sony misrepresented the quality
of its protections, the
judge found that all users signed a
Sony Privacy Policy that included "clear
admonitory language
that Sony's security was not 'perfect,'" therefore "no
reasonable consumer could have been deceived."
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