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Comment Re:Hmmm.... (Score 1) 120

2.25% is an enormous sum of money, when you consider that a device might use patented techs from hundreds of companies. If each of these hundreds of companies asked for 2.25%, you're gonna be in trouble.

It would be impossible at even 0.1% since there are 2987 patents in 1729 families. 2.25% will never fly, especially for a single patent (probably a patent family actually). An average licensing cost of 0.01% per family would be 17.29% of the cost of the device. There is no way 2.25% can be considered FRAND.

Comment Re:Numbers (Score 3, Insightful) 120

I'll take some number from my butt (definitions of my butt may vary, but in this context it is random site on internet).

1.186 billion mobile broadband subscribers.
Let's say that half of these are on a 3G chip that somehow requires the Motorola 3G license: 593 million.
If these devices sell for an average of $20 we would have 11,86 billion in sales for these devices.
If Motorola wants 2.25% of the sales of these devices that would mean $297 million, a very significant number considering it is a single patent of a large portfolio of 1729 patents (yes, one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine).

Imagine if each of these patents would warrant an average licensing cost of 0.1% rather than the 2.25% that Motorola wants, then we would look at a licensing cost of more than the sales price to license 3G technology for the device. 2.25% does not smell FRAND to me, but I am no patent lawyer, I only pretend I know stuff on the internet.

Android

LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android 359

PerlJedi writes "InformationWeek reports that LG is the latest in a string of companies who have been bullied into paying 'license fees' to Microsoft for the use of Android on their products. 'Microsoft said the deal with LG means that 70% of Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S. are now covered by its licensing program. ... Microsoft does not disclose how much revenue it's obtaining from Android, Chrome, and Linux licenses, but some analysts believe it may be substantial, to the point where the company is making significant profits from the mobile revolution even though its own offering, Windows Phone, commands a market share of less than 2%, according to Gartner.'"

Comment Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score 3, Informative) 195

The results of the research, performed by the government agency for fisheries (not the nuclear industry) actually indicates that, on balance, fish growth is actually promoted, as are many other species of birds etc.

In fact that very report says that in the short term opportunistic species will rise at the cost of the more vulnerable species and in the long run all species (biomass) will decrease

Firefox

Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330

MrSeb writes "Firefox 9 is now available — but unlike its previous rapid release forebears where not a lot changed, a huge feature has landed with the new version: the JavaScript engine now has type inference enabled. This simple switch has resulted in a 20-30% JS execution speed increase (PDF), putting JaegerMonkey back in line with Chrome's V8 engine, and even pulling ahead in some cases. If you switched away from Firefox to IE or Chrome for improved JS performance, now is probably the time to give Firefox another shot."

Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422

You do of course realise my point was not that Apple should help you for free, not at all. My point was that your statement that Apple's technical support is equivalent to them helping upgrade your apps to their latest mandate is completely false, and your followup post proved my point most spectacularly. And by the way, having experienced DTS, it's not all it's cracked up to be. A quite frequent response is "It shouldn't be doing that. Our engineers have asked if you can please log a bug" (and I've reported stuff three years ago that still hasn't even been acknowledged). At work, we have an off-the-shelf product and some customisations done to it by a third party. Somewhere, buried deep in the contract, is a rider clause saying that if we ever upgrade that off-the-shelf product, the third party must upgrade all of our customisations for free. And I'm told this is fairly common.

O'rly? You wrote "You get two DTS calls. That's it. After that, it's incredibly expensive. I don't call that "help"." I realize not that I was trolled /. instead of trying to have an intelligent conversation, sorry I misunderstood, now I know your true colors.

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