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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
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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,
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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
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 08:05 AM EDT |
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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
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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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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???[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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....[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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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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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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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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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