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Submission + - ITC judge: Motorola Mobility infringed Microsoft p

Submitted by chrb
chrb writes: An International Trade Commission judge has issued a preliminary ruling that Motorola Mobility infringed one of Microsoft's patents. The disputed patent covers storing a meeting request on a mobile device, and was rejected by the European Patent Office as being "obvious". The judge also ruled that six other Microsoft patents were not being infringed. Experts say that this will strengthen Microsoft's hand in collecting patent fees on Android. Microsoft recently claimed that it now collects patent fees on over half of all Android devices sold.
China

Submission + - US Chamber of Commerce infiltrated by a group in C (wsj.com)

Submitted by SpzToid
SpzToid writes: The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that a group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The intrusion was quietly shut down in May 2010, while FBI investigations continue.

A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Geng Shuang, said cyberattacks are prohibited by Chinese law and China itself is a victim of attacks.

Still, the Chamber continues to see suspicious activity, they say. A thermostat at a town house the Chamber owns on Capitol Hill at one point was communicating with an Internet address in China, they say, and, in March, a printer used by Chamber executives spontaneously started printing pages with Chinese characters.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft and Nokia mulling to bid on RIM jointly (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by CSHARP123
CSHARP123 writes: WSJ's anonymous sources indicates that MS and Nokia casually considered to bid on Research in Motion Ltd (RIM). The talks outcome is not clear. The Journal suggests that this wasn't anything more than a simple idea that came up at one of the regular meetings between senior executives from all three companies — perhaps it could have even been just a casual talk—but one wonders how does Microsoft and Nokia executives think to profit on this take over. May be RIM provides a good backdoor entry for MS in the enterprise space for its Windows Phone 7. Recently, Amazon was also considering to bid on RIM. It is interesting to see who will gobble up RIM.
Censorship

Submission + - Coders Develop Ways to Defeat SOPA Censorship

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Atlantic reports that one developer who doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation has already built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered and called it DeSOPA. Since SOPA would block specific domain names (e.g. www.thepiratebay.com) of allegedly infringing sites, T Rizk's Firefox add-on allows you to revert to the bare internet protocol (IP) address (e.g. 194.71.107.15) which takes you to the same place. “It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and don’t understand that it is technically not going to work, at all," says T Rizk. "So here’s some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down." Another group called “MAFIAAFire” decided to respond when Homeland Security’s ICE unit started seizing domain names, by coding a browser add-on to redirect the affected websites to their new domains and more than 200,000 people have already installed the add-on. ICE wasn’t happy and asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site but Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet."
China

Submission + - Where are the Cyber Warriors? (securityweek.com)

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wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: "Oliver Rochford writes an interesting piece on how in the western world, there is an entire commercial class of security professionals, an underground of Black Hat hackers working for financial gain, but few Hackers serving as cyber warriors.

China has publicly announced the formation of a specialized cadre of cyberwar experts, although it was clear they already possessed such forces. At the same time, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia all seem to have developed cyberwar strategies as well, and are actively engaging in executing these.

Rochford argues there is a disjoint here. Why is a nation like China, that is seen as oppressive and controlling in the west, able to motivate, cultivate and harness their hacker types, whilst ours primarily seem occupied in hacking ourselves or for the highest bidder?

When a western government has to resort to a cheap media gimmick to attempt to find cybersecurity talent, and delivers a badly thought-out and executed fiasco, only to offer an even cheaper financial reward at the end of the farce, you sort of get a feeling that we’re in trouble.

So, Rochford asks, where are our cyberwarriors? Where will they be when we really need them? With us, or against us?"
Iphone

Submission + - Misguided protesters should occupy Apple (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: Protesters who are part of the Occupy Movement in San Francisco are misplacing their efforts according to former city mayor Willie Brown. In a column published over the weekend in the San Francisco Chronicle, Brown wrote that protesters who had assembled in Oakland were disrupting the work of the 99% rather than taking a stand against the 1%. Instead of hampering operations at the docks in Oakland, the former mayor suggested they head to Silicon Valley and target Apple, which exports jobs to the Far East and then has “the nerve” to seek federal tax breaks...
The Military

Submission + - Japan Buys 42 F-35 Stealth Jets (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The AP (12/20) reports, "Japan's government on Tuesday selected the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter to bolster its aging air force, announcing it will buy a total of 42 aircraft under a multiyear deal." The country has "wrestled for years over whether to buy the F-35, Boeing F-18 or the Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a consortium of European companies." The article notes that as part of the agreement, Japan will help assemble the plane and "Japanese officials said they took into account cost, performance and the inclusion of Japanese companies in the manufacturing process."
Android

Submission + - Apple patents using apps during calls (cbsnews.com) 1

Submitted by bizwriter
bizwriter writes: Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call. There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison.

Comment Cunning plan (Score 1) 302

by synackpshfin (#35218848) Attached to: Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe
Blackadder: Baldrick, I have a very, very, very cunning plan.
Baldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?
Blackadder: Yes, it is.


Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

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