This is an interesting lawsuit for a few different reasons. Firstly I am not sure if it was absolutely the first phone but it must have been pretty close to it but both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have had touch screen devices where you could move objects around and resize them etc using touch back before 2004. I believe that Nokias first touch screen was the 7710. Any sony had the p Series around the same time. On the Sony Ericsson side there was the P800 which was revolutionary at the time. In fact if you actually look at many of the elements of the P800/UIQ interface you can see that there is a major similarity between those of 2002 and the iphone of 2007. So I take it from that what apple actually has patents on is the thumb? I'm pretty sure there is prior art to that too.. depending if your a creationist or a evolutionist maybe the chimpanzee has some patents..

If we outline the patents what's explained in this patent 7,469,381 is something that you could do on the UIQ's back in 2002...

It's interesting that there are some more points relating to the Windows Mobile phones that they create as well...

Hi,

Many users who have come from Windows find KDE not to hard to learn. I have moved my mum and relatives over to KDE based systems and they are very happy with it. So far they are only on 3.5 but they find it nice and easy to use. I need to push one of them to 4.x at some point to see how well they handle it. Since moving them to Linux/KDE (on Kubuntu) they have called me for support only once.. rather than every few weeks with windows.

One of the key arguments that people like to taunt regarding software security and specifically open source security is the fact that they compare say redhat enterprise 4 to Windows 2003. If you look at the Redhat Errata you may start to be alarmed. The question then comes around... 'who actually installs EVERY single redhat package when they install the whole system?'.. the answer from my experience is very few. However that is where many of the comparisons come from. If you segregate the overall number of comparable systems between linux and windows you will often find that the number of security vulnerabilities to be not wildly different. However if you compare the whole distribution's release to a windows install then your going to think.. 'dang windows is secure'. There are several other points in the argument that I tend to enjoy asking people who use these types of numbers.
1. if you have so few vulnerabilities what is your exposure footprint? e.g. how many people are trying to trojan you on windows vs linux?
2. how many of the vulnerabilities have been reported by the community that develop the software? If we look at Firefox for example most of their vulnerabilities are not actually reported by hackers or security experts but by their core developers who realise someone else in their team wrote some crap code or didn't properly do something. Here are some URL's to give some further evidence http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-63.html (although after actually going to find evidence I found that in 3.0 and 3.5 most vulnerabilities came from researchers and not the community like many earlier releases)

Its great to see some hardware companies coming out with open source drivers for their technology. Even if the driver is so far incomplete its at least a good starting point which will hopefully be improved on. I feel that by providing this sort of information AMD may have a repreive which will help it have a fighting chance in the future. Its such a shame that Via have not been doing more with their graphics drivers in Linux. I really wish that openchrome had more support given that so many cheap nettop/netbook style systems have via chipsets (at least in asia).

I find that the latest round of 'browser wars' are an interesting choice. At the end of the day the consumer will end up forcing the market into moving with the times. There are several key points to raise specifically about firefox. While I do use firefox as my primary browser in windows, I also have chrome installed and I use konqueror on KDE when I use Linux. I have been using Firefox since I gave up netscape (i've never liked IE), It started off as a great browser that was fast and efficient. I have to agree with many users that it just does not have the pace that it once had, they really need to sit back and focus some real effort on closing off the bugs in existing featuers and focus on stability before they start to work on '4.0' or whatever the next major release is. I know its not going to be the most interesting work for developers to do but the reality is, happy customers use the browser to earn more money through google etc.. Unhappy customers use IE, Chrome, Opera etc.. I really feel that Mozilla/Firefox have lost sight of what made them so popular in the begining.. yes they have great market share now, but how many of those users are actually loyal to the brand? I doubt that the number is very high. Please don't make the same mistakes that netscape made..

There are several known benefits to the electric bike which are pretty obvious. However there are some points which I find a little dangerous. The primary point being that you can often not actually hear these electrical bikes coming up behind you. Often its nothing but the risk of being hit is increased and it does happen. The second issue is where do we charge up these bikes? is there any environmental impact to charging the bikes or is it just going to be moving the carbon from cars in the city to coal fired plants in the rural areas?. I also wonder who is going to get heart disease and other health problems from no longer exercising on a daily basis by riding. Are we all going to have to buy gym memberships to keep fit rather than simple lifestyle changes like walking or cycling?

I have to agree with you. IBM have opened up many of the systems that I have been working with over the last 3 years or so. Some of their "open" products are not really as open but overall the company is much more transparent.

Hello,

Zimbra is a good platform that we use for a company with just over 3000 users. The open source edition may do what you need. We currently use the fully loaded version with paid for support because it has "active-sync" support etc. however you maybe able to get the most from the FOSS edition.

Hi,

I have done some large deployments with the same challenges you mention. The software we have used is the Linux Management suite from Novell. Here is the direct URL : http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/

It works well with Redhat and SuSe but does not support many other distributions. In fact as you would expect its by far the best integrated with SuSe however it works well with Redhat.

Hi There,

I have been using a network appliance storevault in our environment that has similar requirements to what you seem to have. The device is a little more expensive when compared to the other netgear etc products you mention but for large sequential file transfers we will almost always get line-rate gigabit performance. It is great because it also gives you a gateway to experience the data ontap software from the netapp range. We paid just under £5000 for the particular setup we have but I have never looked back. Everyone in the organization is extremely happy with the products performance and reliability and at the end of the day isn't that what it is all about?