@Darren Forster
Your wrong, all the patents needed for 3G are under FRAND. Anything that could be worked around may or may not be under a FRAND licence but the stuff to make a 3G phone is.
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Samsung plots 3G iPhone, iPad bans in the Netherlands
Gartner: Apple rivals can't touch iPad
HP may NOT spin off PC biz
Samsung may try to block next iPhone in Europe too
Wednesday 21st September 2011 14:48 GMT
@L.B
Stop making up history. Apple never claimed to have invented the WIMP which was demoed in the 60's and not by Xerox. Apple licenced Xeroxs design. When the Lisa and Mac proved more popular than the Xerox star, Xerox threatened to sue Apple but didn't.
Apple sued Microsoft over copying it's UI. The case went to court and Microsoft claimed they could copy Apples UI due to a their contract with Apple. The court agreed with Microsoft.
Google Android Market fee favours big brands
Prosecutor calls poker site 'global Ponzi scheme'
RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers
Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS
Why Android houses should give Google the 'fork you'
Asia Pac app-gasm to hit five billion this year
Monday 12th September 2011 10:29 GMT 
Anyone else smell that?
So Ios and Android will together account for $1.2 billion in 2016, meaning everyone else accounts for $1 billion. Thats around 13.5 cents per Ios app, 11.5 cents per Android app and 22 cents for the apps from everyone else. That smells like BS to me. The "everyone else" compared to Android just looks totaly out, a 30% larger combined download market yet 2.5 times bigger by revenue! Do these guys sell bridges in their spare time?
Shareholder demands RIM sell itself or spin off patents
Thursday 8th September 2011 09:06 GMT
NO just fail
The vast majority of shares are held by pension and insurace companies. They want the best return on their buck, so that they can provide the best return to their policy holders. If a company can't give them that they will go to someone who can. Why should they invest in a compay that is clealy failing? That has incompetent managmeant and no plan for the future beyond saying "we will do the same"?
RIM are in a position that Nokia was 3 years ago and are like Nokia in denial. RIM need to adapt or they are history and only a fool would bet on them changing. As for shareholders not caring about the long term, how the hell did Google, Apple or Microsoft get to be $100 billion dollar companies? In each case people took a risk betting on the future.
Thursday 8th September 2011 08:22 GMT
It's not Wall Street it's RIM
"Nonsense, RIM has a unique product that works very well in the business world."
should be:
"Nonsense, RIM HAD a unique product that works very well in the business world."
The problem for RIM is that Apple and Google are offering "good enough" alternatives to it's USP and "much better" to everything else. RIM may still be the world champion in messaging and mobile keyboards but if you want someone to run to the shops to get some bread, anyone who can get into the Olympics is "good enough".
This has been shown in their finance reports. RIM are still growing but way below the overall smartphone market. Now that's not a problem but it is a warning. The real problem is how they have got that growth ie how they have answered the challenge from Google and Apple. They have done that by producing cheaper phones, they have cut their prices! This has led to lower margins and lower profits. A couple of quarters while you adapt is fine but this has been going on for 2+ years now and thats not fine as Nokia will tell you (still got a Nokia phone, their problem was stupidity at the top).
RIM are now in the position where Apple are pushing them out of the high margin high end and Andoid has rapidly commoditize the mid-range. Their USP is about to be destroyed by imessage and the Google equivalent and they suddenly decided to be a CE company! WOT why the hell did RIM spend 15 months of managerial time and money producing the Playbook? Because of Apples iPad! If Ford started producing baked beens would Heinz respond by setting up a car factory or just say "bring it on, we know what we are doing and can do it better than you". Thats why RIM are fucked. They don't know what they are producing or why they they are making the stuff they make (can anyone tell me why RIM NEEDED to make the Playbook) or who their customers are.
RIM are dead in the water unless they answer what, why, who. That is "what do we make", "why do we make it" and "who do we sell it to". Untill they can ask those questions they can not ask "how do we move forward" and if RIM can't move forward they are dead. Since the people running RIM refuse to even concider asking these questions, I see little hope for RIM. Wall Street may be filled with wankers but they can smell a loser. RIM needs a clear out at the top, it's a "one trick pony" that is smartphones. It needs to rapidly sort it self out and focus on making the best phones it can or "so long and thanks for all the fish".
Notably this took around 2 years for IBM and Apple to do, the 2 greatest corporate turnarounds in history. IBM took at the time the greatest corporate losses in history to do the turn around. Apple had Steve Jobs plus 2+ billion in the bank which was more than it stock market price, hence Michael Dell (Apple had around $1 billion in the bank, plus Microsofts $150 million investment plus a multi-year settlement over Quicktime that got Apple another $1 billion) comment about selling off Apple. RIM dosn't have the money or the leadership and I dont think they have the time.
Twitter users charged with terrorism for false tweets
Korean antitrust agency raids Google over Android
Thursday 8th September 2011 08:17 GMT
Those arn't the Androids you are looking for
Those arn't Android phones. Android is a trademark owned by Google. The Chinese phones arn't called Android. If you want to use the Android trademark you explain to Google why you need Yahoo for instance as the default serch. In the case of AT&T that's simple, you say that AT&T wont subsidies the phone otherwise and Google backs down since it still has a whole load of other Google apps on the phone.
Judge may order Page and Ellison into mediation
Wednesday 7th September 2011 11:53 GMT
Google fucked up badly
Remember Google went into the smartphone biz not to take on Apple or RIM or even Symbia but to stop Microsoft. This Android v Apple stuff is fanboi jerk off stuff. Google makes more money from the serch deal with Apple than Android where they, assuming the moto deal gets done, are in the hole for $18-20 billion. The best case for google is "we are fucked but not wiped out". OK the best case for google is they win but that will take a minor miracle and a couple of saints.
The more you look at Oracle v Google the nastier it looks for Google's partners and everyone involved in disttributian of Android devices. If Oracle win's on the licence, which is the important part, then they can do a RIAA on every one who has sold an Android phone, hell they could do it on everyone who owns one. If Oracle wins and get's an injunction, this will turn the current patent wars into a cluster fuck of biblical proportions.
This is the popcorn and coke case. I suspect this will go down in the study books for how to win or how to lose. The stupid thing is Google could have bought Sun for much less than moto, sold of the hardware devison to Fujitsu, cross licenced Java with Oracle (they needed Java for there middlewere) and what are we talking about? 1 billion maybe 2, cheeper than HP's Palm play. Hell the only reason Oracle bought Sun was for Java, that's how much they needed it, if Google had jumped in first, they could have probably sold and licened the parts for more than they paid!
Anyway, for us people who dont care as long as the tech does what we wont, Damm you popcorn makers, how did you set this up :)
Wednesday 7th September 2011 08:25 GMT
Google didn't have Suns approval
Google are really in a bad place. Anyone who wasn't a #1 fandroid or just plain retarded knew that you need a licence for Java on mobile devices, after all Sun was selling a lot of those licences, and that Android was "Java on Linux". If this get's to trial, Oracle will show the e-mail from Andy Rubin, the guy in charge of Android to Larry & Sergey:
"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"
As well as this one, 5 years later, from the head of the team asked to look for alternatives to java :
"What we've actually been asked to do (by Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin]) is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome. We've been over a bunch of these, and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need."
I don't see Oracle setteling this out of court, because if they win that's maybe $8 billion in the bank and more importantly an injunction against distribution of the code. NIANAL but the way it looks, if Oracle gets an injuction, wouldn't that make all those US Android phones infringing items. If so, whats to stop Oracle going after the US carriers and saying something like "pay us $XX billions or we will get an injunction against those phone accessing your networks and you can deal with the class action suits"? It would be interesting to hear from someone who is a US lawyer because this looks like Oracles end game to me.
This is also why i think Google wouldn't/couldn't give any guarantee over Android use.
Apple Store newspaper headlock may be slipping
Friday 2nd September 2011 00:54 GMT
30% is a good deal but that wasn't the problem
The FT will give you a 30% discout and delive the paper version to your door. So it works out cheeper for them to do an app version than a paper one. But that was never an issue anyway, as the FT made clear, the big problem is Apple insisting on an opt-in for subscriber information. The real money for newspapers is in advertising and the more you know about your readers the more you can charge you advertisers. The FT, probably rightly, felt most subscribers wouldn't bother to opt-in.
@Andrew Orlowski,
Stop being a dick with this 30% subscription crap, you know if Apple charged less for subscriptions then every paid for app would become free with with a request that you purchace a lifetime subcription if you wanted to use the app for more than 1 second.
Paris cos, well i'd opt-in
Sharp shows off 8K4K hi-res prototype telly
Samsung outs 5in Galaxy Note as new smartphone concept
Seven lessons from the HP Touchpad fire sale
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet goes on sale
Tuesday 23rd August 2011 22:30 GMT
Yawn
So there USP is "we have a couple more ports than an ipad and a whole load of bloatware". Well im sure a lot of Businesses will be thinking "hmm, we can save $50 a go on a dongal, thats almost $17 a year over 3 years, bargin and Lenovo unlike HP are a big company so we can be sure of updates fixes and support".
HP to 'spinoff PC biz'
Apple ups iPhone production 'by 12%'
Tuesday 16th August 2011 19:46 GMT
So Apple will be keeping iPhone 5 availability tight at first!
Dosn't seem that way. One month of sales in Q3, 3 months in Q4 would be a 6mill vs 18mill. Q4 has always been the best quarter by miles for CE sales so a 33% ramp up for xmas is business as normal. Of course if Apple releases the Iphone5 on the ninth (they will release it on the friday so 2nd or 9th are the likly dates) then it it 3 weeks vs 13 weeks and a 5% ramp up!
Samsung's lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know
Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU
Tuesday 9th August 2011 21:51 GMT
Samsung is starting to get a clue
"The South Korean manufacturer has apparently agreed to modify the tablet before it comes on sales Down Under."
This is what the Japanese did untill the 70's, copy western tech and produce a lower priced and usualy crappy imitation. Then they got a clue that developing your own tech had higher margins, it's also about that time that they started giving a damm about IP. I see an out of court deal between samsung and Apple (thats samsung gives apple money) and then Samsung buying some design studios. All they need is some balls and faith in themselves because they do produce some good tech.
Apple top of the tablet totem pole through 2015
Apple eyeing Hulu acquisition, insiders say
X-COM UFO: Enemy Unknown
Amazon's anti-iPad arises 'in October'
WTO: China being naughty over rare-earth exports
Thursday 7th July 2011 14:56 GMT
WTO=WTF
WTF, so the WTO is now saying you must allow exports of the stuff you produce, what you have a famine, well fuck you! Of course this will be droped the moment the Chinese *cougth* and mention "F-22", "Nimitz class" and "since we have over a trillion $, how much do you pay for one of each, with source code".
Paris cos, well since I mentioned "Nimitz class" and in the interest of full disclosure, I have some semen I'd be willing to trade with her.
Apple site hacked 'by LulzSec' - report
Tuesday 5th July 2011 13:49 GMT
more info from the WSJ
" "AntiSec," a hacking campaign that includes hackers from both the online vigilante group Anonymous and hackers from the now-defunct Lulz Security, posted a document containing a link to a supposed Apple server along with a list of 26 administrative usernames and passwords. AntiSec is Internet shorthand for "anti-security." "
DRM-free music dream haunts Apple's app-store lock-in
Friday 24th June 2011 11:00 GMT
Advanced Audio Coding
When did Apple buy Sony, Nintendo and Google? I ask because the Wii, Sony's walkman series of mp3 players and Android phones can all play AAC music. They can do this because "AAC was developed with the cooperation and contributions of companies including AT&T Bell Laboratories, Fraunhofer IIS, Dolby Laboratories, Sony Corporation and Nokia".
Still facts are so 1997, making shit up to blame on Apple is clearly the way ahead. Did you know Apple have sent mercenaries to Libya and are planing on invading Belgium! Fuck You steve Jobs!
Just a heads up in case you aren't aware of this kind of Apple double-talk.
Apple pulls 'intifada' app
FT sticks it to Apple
Wednesday 8th June 2011 08:39 GMT
Yawn
The Ft isn't treating "almost a billion (with a B)" possible users as "secondary class citizen", it's just not wasting money on consumers it thinks it wont make money from.
As to your "an error occured", you got the wrong phone. Deal with that, it is clear that Android/Iphone are the ones getting support, Symbia, Rim and MS "whatever" are dead. Here's a clue, 100 million users is a "cost" unless you can get those users to pay you.
Nokia: When pigeons fly home to roast
Apple nears online streaming deal with Big Four, says report
Apple defends iOS devs from patent holder
Tuesday 24th May 2011 00:39 GMT
We havn't seen the license
I assume Apple paid enougth cash so that they could allow 3rd party software developers to be covered by the license when creating software for Apple products and only Apple products . This I think is the important part of Apples claim : "Under its license, Apple is entitled to offer these licensed products and services to its customers and business partners, who, in turn, have the right to use them.".
Pretty much "Game over" if thats the case.
Intel drives up flash drive warranty
Apple seeks anti-snoop display patent
Tuesday 24th May 2011 04:53 GMT
Yep
That's what i was thinking but I think that was a fixed angle display. Also i think this is more about 3D, imagine you have a front facing camera that can detect where you are looking (fighter jets already have that tech) then by controlling the viewing angle of each pixel you should be able to fake 3D without the eye and brain strain.
Tuesday 24th May 2011 04:52 GMT
Wot?
You may not understand this but in many cases it is required that you actually come up with an idea as to how to do something before you make something. This is what is generally know as R&D or research and development. Contrary to your belife the patent system is not about products but ideas, that is the sharing of ideas. People are given a limited time monopoly on new ideas (hence prior art) as long as they share the idea with others.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
