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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 02:21 PM EST |
NewsPick
Ignoring the lapse in
discretion on extra curricular affairs,
ignoring this is Information Weak, I
followed some links, and
was intrigued that the Secretary of Homeland
Security has no email;
a Federal case starts because one of the fighting
cats was cozy with a Fed;
the FBI clings to J Edgar Hoover's mid-century
morality standards;
it is unclear whether the FBI had proper warrants to
search Petraus' email;
Google's two factor authentication relies on the
luser locking their phone.
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| Authored by: TJ on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 03:43 PM EST |
According to 'Memory' board game trademark
threatens several iOS games [gamasutra.com] the German board-games
manufacturer Ravensburger is demanding
that Apple remove applications from its app-store whose name or keywords use the
word "Memory".
Apple is sending notices to several developers
asking them to remove or rename Apps that have 'Memory' in their titles.
The
notices are coming at the request of German company Ravensburger, which claims
to hold trademark for the word in several European countries, where it sells a
very popular board game simply titled "Memory."
gamasutra goes on
to quote one developer:
Darren Murtha, half of the duo behind the
popular Preschool Memory Match, tells us that he was forced to remove it from
all 42 countries...
According to geek.com:
...that specializes in
jigsaw puzzles, but has also expanded into other areas such as children’s books
and games. The company owns the trademark to a board game called Memory and has
demanded Apple stop offering apps that have the word ‘memory’ in their title or
as a keyword associated with an app.
It goes on to
say:
Ravensburger owns the trademark in 42 different countries, but
not in the US.
I'm unable to find a registration in the U.K.
Trademarks database either. The countries affected all appear to be
non-English speaking:
Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Equador,
Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy,
Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and
Venezuela.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 04:36 PM EST |
Research In Motion Ltd. announced Wednesday that it's adding the
feature to BBM. Users will be able to switch back and forth from a text chat to
a voice call. A split-screen option will let them talk and text at the same
time. The new feature is a free update for existing customers and comes
months before RIM introduces its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are seen
critical to RIM's survival.
Emphasis added.
Why would
you need a split screen to talk and text at the same time? I usually don't use
the screen on my Android phone for anything while I'm talking on the phone, but
I do on occasion have the need to look something up while I'm talking, and when
I do I have the full screen available to look up anything I wish to look up on
the internet, all while I'm still talking on the phone and not needing anything
related to the voice call to be displayed on the screen.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 14 2012 @ 05:21 PM EST |
I've been suspicious of several of the Microsoft patent deals. In at least one
case it looked to me as if Microsoft should have been the one to pay. In fact
in the Barnes & Noble case we do know that Microsoft paid.
Read Microsoft's SEC filings. Look at "Licensing Revenue" and let me
know what you think. I'd like to get some feedback on this.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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