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HTC & Apple settle
Authored by: BobinAlaska on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 02:01 PM EST
One article I read said that the main reason Cook decided to settle is the
strength of HTC's LTE patents. Since Samsung's LTE patents seem to be stronger
than HTC's I wonder what Apple will do when Samsungs sues because of the LTE in
the iPhone 5. Hope Samsung really hammers them.

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Bob Helm, North Las Vegas, NV

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Off Topic Thread (Penalty) - Authorial Model
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 03:47 PM EST

Please advise as to whether or not I may use either Faulkner or Joyce as authorial models for the penalty paragraph.

"William Faulkner"  (Wikipedia article)

"James Joyce"  (Wikipedia article)

P.S. The above was triggered in part by the teapot tempest in the news picks ( "Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly"  [CNN.com article, 11 Nov. 2012]).

P.P.S. "Brevity is the sole of wit" may seem rather fishy to some. :-)

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Samsung vs Apple: Samsung puts the boot in hard
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 05:08 PM EST
SemiAccurate

Missed this when it was posted. The logic is solid, to which I'll add a comment. I've dealt with Korean companies. They have a solid sense of honor, which being sued would offend.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Handbags drawn in dawn war in the Linux world Read more: http://news.techeye.net/software/handb
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 07:38 PM EST
Good old TechEye :)

It's a real Red Top.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Software patents in Europe
Authored by: squib on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:23 AM EST
I've noticed a lot of uncertainty about software patents in Europe.
For those that would like a couple of 'authoritative' bookmarks for
future reference, please see below:

Patents for software? Law and practice at the European Patent Office. PDF (2.11 MB)
For those short of time, page 21 puts it all in a nut-shell.

For more information, one can enter search terms here at the top
of the European Patent Office website

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Bell vs Blizzard, the next stupid lawsuit, even more so than SCO!
Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:45 AM EST
BBC

A class action suit over the need to use an authenticator costing £8.99 in order to play a game has to be just plain stupid, regardless of whether you think that you should be able to play games freely or not. Even supposing he gets 10,000 users to join his suit, and gets the £8.99 refunded, which is about all that he could reasonably expect, he will come nowhere near to covering the legal fees.

Small fry suing an entity bigger than himself, and potentially risking being countersued for false accusations, which is where I see a resemblance to the SCO cases.

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Samsung bumps up the price of Apple’s processors by 20%, Apple can’t say no
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 12:16 PM EST
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.
Stefan Constantinescu, Android Authority

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Off Topic Thread - Apples Swiss Clock
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 01:12 PM EST
The price of Apple's clock knock-off has emerged - href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/apple_payout_swiss_railways/">21M<
/a>

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  • Clicky - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 05:38 PM EST
BBC Crumbling?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 03:37 PM EST
These two stories may seem to come from unlikely sources, just the first showing online, but the authors are well respected, and both appeared in my morning print edition. First via the Philadelphia Inquirer a suggestion the Beeb has got just too big for its own good, Cassandra Vinograd
Some observers say the BBC's massive size and rapid growth have resulted in a decentralized structure without clear lines of responsibility, leaving the door open for shoddy journalism. But while today the BBC is a global brand, it started out with a simple mission in November 1922: to inform, educate and entertain.


and second via the Kashmir Times a suggestion that a thick (read that how you like) layer of middle management has got in the way of common sense, Gwynne Dyer
The BBC “suits”, who do think that they are at the centre of everything, weren’t having any of that. If there are aliens out there, and they find out we are here, their first reaction will probably be to come here and eat our children. And then the BBC will get blamed for it. Sorry, Brian. Drop the radio telescope and step away from it slowly.


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BlackBerry 10 will launch Jan. 30th - first look
Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:07 PM EST

The new BlackBerry 10 will launch sooner than expected, and now we have our first look courtesy of PCMag. In spite of problems, RIM is still hanging in there with 9.5% US market share - well ahead of the WinPhones. Their new OS is based on the venerable real time OS QNX, and should be pretty snappy. I just hope they don't do something stupid and blow it, like by making Bing the default search, like they did with the failed PlayBook.

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Oracle pirates RHEL update service ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:31 PM EST
"Oracle has set up a new service that allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers to more easily browse the source code of changes Red Hat has made to its version of the Linux kernel".

"Red Hat itself used to distribute its patches in a similar fashion, but in early 2011 it changed its policy. It now distributes all of its modifications for each new version of its kernel as a single, giant patch file, making it harder for RHEL users to identify specific changes". link

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Windows 8 sales less than modest?
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 09:33 PM EST
Steven Sinofsky no longer at MS.


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UK's plan to landgrab US copyrighted works?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 09:43 PM EST
Is there any unbiased and sufficiently knowledgeable individual here who can tell what this is really about?

ref: "The UK faces a "firestorm" of international litigation if the government's copyright land-grab goes ahead, American artists and photographers have warned".

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What would you do, if you knew?
Authored by: UncleVom on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 10:23 PM EST
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/12/apples-top-
attorney-sells-28m-in-stock-board-member-cashes-in-on-42m

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Sinofsky to leave Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 10:31 PM EST
The president of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live operations is leaving.

http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-says-windows-head-sinofsky-leaving-020337266--fi
nance.html

Sinofsky has several times been mentioned as the heir to Ballmer and it was he,
not Ballmer, that did the Windows 8 unveiling IIRC.

Any connection with the "modest" Win8 numbers...?

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Gmail unreliable
Authored by: jbb on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 11:01 PM EST
A while back I switched all my email over to Gmail. Now I have problems sending a small attachment. I was trying to send a 17K tarball but it kept bouncing with the message:
Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message. Please [sic]
I'm not the first person to run into this problem. This is not acceptable to me. I don't want to play Russian Roulette with my attachments. I was trying to send Linux distro development stuff from one Linux system to another. If a 17K tarball triggers their virus filter then the situation seems hopeless to me. My guess is the problem was due to executable scripts in the tarball although I've been sending tarballs like this for years without problem. My sentiments to Google about this would grossly violate the Groklaw posting rules.

I think I need to switch email providers yet again.
***sigh***

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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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AUSTRALIAN business owners have accused Facebook of holding them to ransom
Authored by: Tim on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 01:37 AM EST
"AUSTRALIAN business owners have accused Facebook of holding them to ransom by effectively forcing them to pay to communicate with their followers."
Businesses have reported a dramatic decline in the number of people viewing their posts since the US social media giant last month began pushing its paid promoted posts service, in which users pay up to $400 to have each status update appear prominently in their audience's newsfeed.

Chris Cassella, managing director of Science Alert, said Facebook informed him recently that unless he signed up for the service, there was only a very small chance his posts would reach all of his two million fans.

"Facebook said in their marketing press release that there was a 15 per cent chance my audience would see my posts show up in their newsfeed,'' Mr Cassella said. "It's ugly. It is an ugly business tactic.''

Link - News.com.au

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Where are all the iPhone 5 app updates?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 03:33 AM EST
Arstechnica asks the question , since it seems a lot of their popular apps are not taking advantage of the extra screen area. Or maybe the devs are simply waiting for the iPhone 5S.

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Steven Sinofsky: Windows division head leaves Microsoft
Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 04:53 AM EST
BBC

Not surprising, I think, with Windoze 8 doomed to complete failure, in the workplace at least. I do know that a few less knowledgeable people are actually buying systems for home use.

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How to join this site?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 10:03 AM EST
How do you register on this site? It seems to have been shut off
temporarily. I even sent an email in. Not sure how else one
would register. Ideas?

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Draconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect... Music Sales Drop
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:37 AM EST
The article actually posits that the government has made some people so fearful of being arrested that they won't do any downloading from legitimate sources any more -- just in case it's tainted. So even if they can cut out piracy (doubtful) there's little evidence to suggest much increase in commerce as a result.
Mike Masnick, Techdirt

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Packed courthouse for the Microsoft-Motorola trial
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 03:01 PM EST
The judge commented on it.


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