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EU charges Microsoft for ignoring browser choice mandate
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT
Engadget article

Reports suggest a potential fine could be up to 10% of turnover. I wonder if this may make them rethink their peculiar choice to hobble alternative browsers on Windows RT.

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Google Defeats Trademark Challenge to Its AdWords Service
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 07:25 AM EDT

I didn't really understand what the article was about, so followed some links it gave, and now I am informed...

Competitive keyword advertising—buying ads triggered by a keyword search for a competitor’s trademarks at venues like Google AdWords, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing— has generated enormous legal angst over the past decade, including hundreds of law review articles, occasional legislative proposals and countless lawsuits. Despite this, many commentators (including me) have questioned how competitive keyword advertising harms consumers.

Giving brand owners the legal power to control search results isn’t in the consumers’ best interests. Instead, brand owners’ efforts to suppress competitive keyword advertising raise anti-competitive concerns. Many consumers want to see competitive options in their search results

Brand owners usually are wasting money–often, a LOT of money–bringing lawsuits over purportedly lost business attributable to competitive keyword advertising. In fact, there’s good reason to believe that brand owners lose little, if any, profits from the practice; and even if they do, the costs of the law vastly exceed those lost profits, making the litigation unprofitable.

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Microsoft Surface review
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 07:59 AM EDT
Really, the article in the NewsPicks was a fairly positive review. I was very impressed with this review from ArsTechnica. It is very detailed, and points out the flaws every step of the way.

Last night I came across a video reviewing Microsoft's new Surface on one of the top, mainstream news outlets. I wish I could remember which. They totally panned it. I am so surprised Microsoft hasn't bought more press up this close to launch. All along for quite awhile I have seen brief reviews praising the Surface which were likely sponsor by Microsoft, but now the reviews in depth are coming out, and their overwhelming conclusion is: don't buy it. I guess Microsoft's budget ran out, or they simply can't buy everyone off.

Anyhow, it is clear to me, the Surface isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. I'm sure Microsoft knows that. Many companies will create a "show piece product" without much expectation of sales. Instead, it is supposed to draw attention to the product line in general. I'm sure the Surface will do at least that for Microsoft. Unfortunately for them the attention they will gain will be mostly negative.

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Raspberry Pi News... http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 08:05 AM EDT


http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

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Value of one FB account: $.000005
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 08:09 AM EDT
Given the basic laws of supply and demand, $5 for a million accounts must mean
they aren't that hard to come by.

With the value per account coming in at $ .000005 and Facebook reporting 901
million members*, the current market value of all Facebook's accounts should be
around $ 4,505.

Business Insider estimates Facebook earnings to be ca. $ 1.8 billion (2012) and
ca. 2.5 billion (2013) and sets the value of the company at 20-30 times
earnings**.
So call the estimated paper value a round 500 billion (25x2 billion).

Estimated Value (accounts and inventory): $30,004,505
Estimated Value (Wall Street): $ 500,000,000,000

Now you know why we are in a crisis...

* http://www.howmanyarethere.org/how-many-facebook-users-are-there-2012/

**
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-facebook-worth-2012-5?comments=all#commen
t-4fbb11a56bb3f7e42c000002

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Seismologists Convicted of Not Predicting Earthquake
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 08:41 AM EDT
Italy has some strange laws. For example, aircraft crashes are considered
criminal acts, with police controlling the investigation, rather than competent
aviation experts. There was one case of two planes colliding in fog on the
ground. One of the pilots had made a mistake, but the big problem was the
airport, with no ground control radar and other deficiencies. In this case, the
controller was found to be criminally responsible, even though without ground
radar, he had no way of knowing where the aircraft were, beyond reports by the
pilots and one of those pilots was mistaken about his position. So, the
controller was punished for things beyond his control.


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Woz & Fusion IO
Authored by: odysseus on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 08:58 AM EDT
Hey, we're just about to install Fusion IO drives here at work in the hope it
will improve the dog of a database we run, nice to know the Woz was involved in
making the kit :-) Of course, if we were to actually archive some data we might
not have these problems, but...

In related new, Apple have a new feature in the new iMac called a Fusion drive,
where a standard SSD and a standard HDD are seen by the OS as a single drive, I
wonder how Fusion IO will respond to that???

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facebook purchase
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 09:15 AM EDT
i feel secure you know why?
when i signed up many years back i used a fake name , address
and et all. ITS so prevalently thought i am that person that i
started getting emails like it was real .....FUNNY i r anonymous and i r
succeeded in playing lets pretend.

my bad on punctuation but just wanted to say i am the lesson
you all need to learn....

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Dutch court says Samsung does not infringe "pinch to zoom" Apple patent
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 09:59 AM EDT
Reuters

It's the same one they couldn't get a preliminary injunction on

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NR response to Mann's lawsuit threat
Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 10:28 AM EDT
NR's published response to Mann's lawsuit threat: Get Lost
I think Lowry may have a point about discovery.

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U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT
"United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of
"internationally agreed framework for retention of data" is a problem,
as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries."

What about phone booths? They are also used by criminals. All they have to do
it record all phone calls from phone booths. Then again, it's a simple matter
to tap into someone else's phone, so better record all those too...

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Google being sued in Delaware
Authored by: squib on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT
Leonid Kravets writes in Techcruch that Google is
being sued in Delaware over its Google Wallet app.
He can't say at present, if it is by the original filer
or a patent troll.

Google Sued For Patent Infringement Over Google Wallet

He also adds:

Whether this case goes anywhere right now or not —
and the timing appears to be odd,
with the technology still struggling to take hold in the U.S.,

As this app is (I think) partly built into the
hardware of Android phones, might this be
another attempt to obtain a Android wide injunction?
I know, I know... I'm just finding conspiracy theories
hidden in every thing I read.

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ITC sides with Apple against Samsung
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 05:20 PM EDT
ITC sides with Apple against samsung Here's a direct link to the PDF version of the ruling: PDF

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