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Apple And HTC Settle Remaining Lawsuits
Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 12:53 PM EST
Apple And HTC Settle Remaining Lawsuits

Wonder who paid what. Was HTC winning or losing?

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Newspicks Thread
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 01:45 PM EST
faulkner quote used in woody allen's midnight in paris fair use lawsuit

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  • Newspicks Thread - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 03:01 PM EST
Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly
Authored by: cricketjeff on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 05:03 PM EST
This intrigues me, as well as horrifying me, the line isn't even quoted, it is
misquoted at what point did copyright get extended to cover ideas?

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With HTC Patent Deal, Apple Is Going For Android’s Jugular
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 06:28 PM EST
Techcrunch

I fear there may be something in this, Apple and Microsoft are effectively targeting the viability of Android. Free open source software cannot bear patent licensing costs. Beware of Apples bearing contracts.

Stevos

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There's That Working Model Again
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 02:37 AM EST
From PJ's footnote to the NYT article on the HTC-Apple coziness,
the ITC requires that the plaintiff actually be producing something
that uses the patent in suit. No product, no plaint. Now, the question
is to get that rule transferred across to the district court system...
It wouldn't stop the war, but it would be a mighty potent troll slayer.

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Samsung hits Apple with 20% price hike: report
Authored by: JimDiGriz on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 06:50 AM EST
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-hits-apple-with-20-price-hike-report-20 12-11-11

http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-processor-price-bump-130419/

Every iPhone or iPad or iPod touch that you see in the wild, they all have processors inside that were manufactured by Samsung. Samsung, knowing that Apple simply can’t call another company and ask them to make their chips, raised the prices of said chips by 20% according to MarketWatch. There’s not much Apple can do, and the report confirms that, saying Apple accepted the price bump. It also goes on to say that Samsung made roughly 130 million processors for Apple in 2011. This year that number is expected to surpass 200 million. And the contract that Apple and Samsung have, it doesn’t expire until 2014.

So let’s break this news item down. Why did Samsung bump up the prices of their chips? To screw Apple, obviously, but more importantly to make sure that Samsung can keep a greater share of what their factories spit out. The fewer processors Samsung makes for Apple, the more they can make for themselves. What’s Apple going to do? There have been rumores floating around the internet for months that Apple is going to transition to using another fab, TSMC, for their chips. We fully believe the rumor to be true, now it’s just a question of when. The MarketWatch piece says the contract between Apple and Samsung expires in 2014, so there’s a strong chance you’re going to see some Apple devices with TSMC chips inside hit the market within 24 months.

What impact, if any, does this have on the Android ecosystem? Like we said earlier, the fewer components Samsung supplies to Apple, the more they get to keep for themselves. Samsung is now the number one handset maker in terms of volume. They’d like to keep that title, and that means throwing one of their biggest customers under the bus.

Do we feel any sympathy towards Apple? Not in the slightest.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/12/3634500/samsung-iphone-ipad-processor-price-r ise

Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it provides a number of the key components inside Apple's flagship iPhone and iPad devices, even while actively competing against them with its own Galaxy line of Android competitors. A major change in that relationship has now been reported out of Korea, however, where the Chosun Ilbo says Samsung has increased the price of manufacturing Apple's application processor by nearly 20 percent. The Korean daily notes that this is the first time Samsung has sought to increase pricing on the processors that go inside Apple's mobile devices, and that Apple, faced with a lack of alternatives, has accepted Samsung's demands.

Although custom-designed by Apple itself, the A-series of mobile processors are built by Samsung — an uncomfortable relationship of closeness between two increasingly bitter rivals. While Apple has sought to diversify away from Samsung in recent times, by procuring its RAM and flash storage from other suppliers, it appears nobody else is able to match the production volume that Samsung can offer. Unfortunately, the Chosun report fails to identify the reasons for Samsung's raised pricing, though it may have something to do with a significant recent investment the company made in retooling its plant in Austin, Texas, the very same that builds Apple's processors.

JdG

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Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 12:02 PM EST

Looks like Microsoft is doing their best to monetize Windows. Unfortunately
the vast majority of Windows users will have no choice but to use Windows
8 anyway, because they can't buy anything else in most stores.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Samsung charges Apple 20% extra for processors
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 12:55 PM EST
Marketwatch

Apple first objected, but then it had to accept as nobody else could supply them. Could this be the beginning of a new phase in the relationship between the two companies?

Stevos

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Analyst claims HTC may pay Apple $6-$8 per Android device
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 03:03 PM EST
BusinessInsi der

Analysts claim all sorts of things, but it's possible. Pure FUDsters would be claiming $20 or so I reckon.

I remain convinced that this settlement is not good for android.

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Chromebook
Authored by: symbolset on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 10:54 PM EST
Chromebook

Th is is a sweet little unit for $200. Acer must be really angry about that Surface thing. 2GB RAM, dual core 64 bit CPU with VT-x. And all those ports... They must be losing money on every one.

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Samsung Chromebook Series 3
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 12:29 AM EST

I want one. I don't need one, but I want one.

The only problem is that they don't seem to br available in Canada.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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China: we don't have a copyright problem
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 12:56 AM EST
Tian Lipu, head of China's State Intellectual Property Office:

"if companies like Apple were so worried by piracy they would never choose
China for their production bases"


All from
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/29426-china-slams-western-ideas-of-copyright-p
roblems


Slam dunk, swoosh.




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Apple and Microsoft may make up to 600% more from Android than Google in 2013
Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 09:45 AM EST

Link

PJ asks in her footnote if this does not implicate the (un)fairness of the US patent system. However the better comparison and basis for judging fairness is to compare how much the telecoms and handset manufacturers in the Android alliance make. After all Google is giving Android away for free, profiting only indirectly from expanded advertising and support contracts.

regards, hm

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Google pledges 1 million euros to Berlin startut hub The Factory
Authored by: squib on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 01:49 PM EST
Brilliant timing.

Tuesday 13 November 2012...

The increased political appetite for tackling unfairness in the tax system last week lead the U.K. to join with Germany to call for an international crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble called on the Group of 20 leading and industrialized countries to back efforts by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to identify loopholes in global tax rules and develop ways of preventing companies cutting their tax bill by shifting tax liabilities to low-tax countries.

U K lawmakers grill Google, Amazon, execs over tax avoidance

Germany has the largest EU economy – thus they are the top people to keep sweet – with 1 million euros over three years .

Decades ago, when it was found out that Toyota was dumping their cars 'at cost' in Europe and decimating the home manufacturing capacity, they suddenly said (sony did done this as well) “Oh! But we want to build factories in Europe.. and can we please have some tax-concessions and other grants to securer European Jobs" .
Then, after they made their subsidized profit at tax-payers expense – they B.O.

Sorry. I don't want this to become a habit but I can't translate B.O. into Americana.

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