Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 06:03 PM EST |
Summary: According to a Goldman Sachs' private report , Microsoft's share of the
computing device operating system market has declined to a mere 29%. Above it?
Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Windows could make a comeback but faces "an
uphill battle."
Clicky [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 11:47 PM EST |
News Pick link
Since
when is music trademarkable?
Even RIAA says Music is all about
copyright.
I sure smell a sensory mark in this USPTO
'action'.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 12:27 AM EST |
News
Picks link
Recall how Bill Gates tried to argue that IE and
Windows
could not be separated?
Perhaps this just proves that Windows machines
are
really just spying machines.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 07:26 AM EST |
link:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57558910-38/u.n-summit-derailed-over-human-rig
hts-controversy/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw
Personally, I find it amusing that the USA is pushing for "human
rights" language in treaties. Considering that certain ex-presidents would
probably be executed for war crimes if anyone actually got them in front of the
appropriate court.
No major country on the planet (except possibly Switzerland) has a leg to stand
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 08:33 AM EST |
"The threat is that if every country were allowed to manage their own
Internet address books, sites seen as troublesome by the governments could be
easily — and silently — eliminated by removing them from the index and making
them permanently inaccessible to the outside world."
How does this compare with the U.S. practice of blocking domain names of sites
it claims are violating U.S. law? It has even done this to sites entirely
outside of the U.S.. Why is that different from China, Iran etc., blocking what
their citizens are allowed to access.
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 01:24 PM EST |
http://www.itu.
int/ibs/sg/wcit/2012/links/p/a-now-en.smil
I keep getting an error
43 file not found error when I try to play that .smil file, which is attempting
to open with quicktime.
Anybody having better luck?--- I voted
for Groklaw (Legal Technology Category) in the 2012 ABA Journal Blawg 100. Did
you? http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100. Voting ends Dec 21. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 02:30 PM EST |
http://bgr.com/2012/12/13/apple-guilty-patent-infringement-iphone/
11:08 AM
What goes around, comes around. Apple (AAPL) on Thursday was found guilty of
infringing three patents held by patent troll Mobilemedia, which is owned
jointly by Nokia (NOK), Sony (SNY) and Denver-based patent licensing firm MPEG
LA. The patents cover screen rotation and other features, and a United States
jury determined that Apple’s iPhone is using the protected technologies
unlawfully. Bloomberg was the first to report the news on its Twitter feed.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 03:02 PM EST |
Newspick
As might be expected stories
from the other side
of the Atlantic are slightly different colored.
datanews.levif.be (fr)
Le Monde
(fr)
zdnet.be (nl)
Copiepresse themselves have a press release,
but
Warning: PDF, and selfsigned certificate for https :(
English
French
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 03:20 PM EST |
The reality is that other than ITU radio spectrum management work,
the rest is a worthless institution that
does nothing more than flush money
into the Geneva economy.
--Anthony Rutkowski
And here's me
thinking that the US would shelter behind the ITRs to prevent Mr Dotcom's
proposed new Pacific cable from
landing on their shores. The ITU provides an
excellent screen for xenophobia.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 13 2012 @ 05:59 PM EST |
"We all agreed that content was not intended to be part of the
[treaty], but content issues keep coming up," the U.K.'s delegate said, adding
that
the ITU, a U.N. agency, is not the "proper place" to address
Internet-related issues.
link
So what have
Human Rights
Obligations (capitalised) got to
do with cables and satellite dishes? Surely if
guns don't kill people, then the internet doesn't either. We don't want to
discuss the internet here (WCIT) but if
you do then you must include
these limitations. Aarrgh, politics.
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