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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 02:37 PM EST |
"The not-for-profit organisation behind the Firefox web
browser has
announced handsets based on its operating system
for mobile
phones."
"In a press conference ahead of Mobile World Congress,
Mozilla said that 18 operators including Deutsche Telekom
and Telefonica, were
signed up." link
Have
they fractured in the undisclosed balance-sheet
liability they will be paying
for using Microsoft patented
technology?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: eric76 on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 04:04 PM EST |
From Three
Software Firms Chosen for Lucrative Business in CA
Courts:
Rising out of the ashes of a failed IT system for
California's trial courts, three private companies have been chosen as premier
providers in the lucrative business of selling software to the far-flung courts
of the biggest state in the nation.
I'm confused.
Are
they talking about three private companies selling software to Alaska?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 10:59 PM EST |
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57571007-93/b-n-reportedly-to-move-away-from-ma
king-nook-hardware/
The Nook hasn't worked out as Barnes
& Noble had hoped, reportedly leading executives at the bookseller to
rethink its hardware strategy.
The bookseller, which acknowledged last month
that Nook segment sales for the holidays were much lower than expected, will
"move away" from building its own hardware to a strategy that focuses on
licensing content to third-part developers, sources tell The New York
Times.
"They are not completely getting out of the hardware business, but they
are going to lean a lot more on the comprehensive digital catalog of content,"
said an unidentified person familiar with the company's plans.
A B&N
representative denied that it was getting out of the hardware business but
declined to comment further, citing pre-earnings quiet period rules.
"We have
no plans to discontinue our award-winning line of NOOK products," B&N
spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating told CNET.
B&N had expected its Nook
business to generate greater demand in the face of lower sales from its retail
chains, but rising product development and marketing costs have reportedly cut
into Nook's contributions. However, B&N announced earlier this month that it
expected to record a higher loss from its Nook business for fiscal 2013, which
ends in April.
For the nine weeks ended December 29, Nook business revenue fell
to $311 million, a 12.6 percent drop from the same period a year earlier.
Though sales of digital content rose, sales of Nook devices declines.
The
company will hold a conference call at 1 p.m. PT on February 28 to discuss its
third-quarter results. But many of the questions will undoubtedly focus on the
future of its Nook business.
Maybe if they can't make money
off of tablets they won't feel pressured to stop using Android. Too bad they
couldn't have gotten more money first ... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 03:00 AM EST |
Content doesn't have to come from the so called existing "content
providers". Neither will technology always be provided by the current set
of companies who develop and produce it. I don't see how anything he does here
is really needed. There's no sides to pick. It was never about content versus
technology. Only obsolete and over-exploiting monopolistic business models
supported by unfair and absurd laws, making most human activity that produce new
content illegal or mostly infeasible.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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