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BlackBerry disputes 'false and misleading' Z10 returns report
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 10:58 PM EDT

This post is a follow-up to a news pick from Friday, April 12 2013: BlackBerry disputes 'false and misleading' Z10 returns report. In the previous story:

BlackBerry will file a formal complaint with Canadian and U.S. authorities about a "false and misleading" analyst report that alleged consumers are returning the company's new Z10 touchscreen smartphones in large numbers....

In newer developments, BlackBerry Z10 returns normal for new phone: analyst another analyst who has followed Blackberry for years has looked at the data and says that:

The new BlackBerry touch-screen smartphones are not being returned at an unusually high rate, despite suggestions to the contrary, according to an industry observer who has completed his own checks.

Jefferies telecom analyst Peter Misek, who has watched the BlackBerry company for years, says he considers the number of new BlackBerry Z10 phones being returned by customers "normal" for a new phone launch.

The story adds that many of the (entirely normal) returns they are getting seem to be related to customers who thought the Z10 had a keyboard, and returned it because they really wanted the Q10 (which comes out at the end of the month).

The relevance this has to Groklaw is the the tech industry has a history of using "analysts for hire" to rubbish opponents, such as we saw in the SCO and Oracle/Google Android Java cases. In this case BlackBerry has said they intend to fight back. It will be interesting to see what crawls out from under the rocks of this case.

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Microsoft hits Foxconn for patent license
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:22 AM EDT
So Foxconn is a hardware maker. What MS hardware patents could
they be infringing? Because if Foxconn is preloading the OS for
the device vendors, didn't MS already prove that's allowed free,
under copyright law?

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Patent Lawyers Have High Hopes for PTO's Valley Branch
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:37 AM EDT
So is law.com a serious blog about law or about com or what? I can't be bothered signing on for an account just to complain the first comment on a serious techno-administrative article is sinophobe ...
The lively banter at arstechnica's comments mostly welcomes her as a battler, even if they're not sure what for.

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Authorization
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 10:59 AM EDT
editorial comment [... in the Microsoft world.]

Just a quick note. The problem in that XKCD isn't Microsoft specific. It's bad
behaved users and applications. I would have the same problem on Linux if I
stayed logged into everything all the time. I also have the problem that if I
log into gmail, I'm logged into everything google. (Fortunately I avoided
Facebook.)

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Gmail Suffers Widespread Outage
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:18 PM EDT

Article link.

Of course the obvious that shouldn't need to be said - but does anyway because many don't consider it - is:

    If I had a gmail account and/or my documents stored in the Cloud on Google Drive - I could still do what I need to because I choose to be smart enough to use Google Drive as a backup only with my documents stored locally!
On the other hand, those who only stored their documents on Google Drive - and not locally - are currently without.... And... depending what is currently happening, may very well permenantly loose some documents.

Remember when MS' Cloud services lost documents? Of course, I expect Google to have far superior backup and recovery processes in place then Microsoft did. But with technology, the more sources for recovery, the better your chances of recovering.

Sadly, many use the applications on their phones. Applications automatically installed by the service provider and/or phone manufacturer. Applications designed only to store documents in the Cloud. And so - even if they did have the sense of wanting to store documents locally - they may not have a choice.

RAS

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