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Submission + - Phone Patent Battle Hurts Millions of Consumers (pcmag.com)

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CorinneI
CorinneI writes: "The patent battle, brewing since May 2005 when Broadcom Corp. filed suit against Qualcomm for infringing upon 10 Broadcom patents related to wired and wireless communications, has resulted in a International Trade Commission's decision to ban the import of new models of cell phones containing Qualcomm 3G broadband chipsets. This strikes a serious blow to consumers hoping to buy any one of Verizon's and Sprint's high-speed models and many AT&T phones. Collateral damage from this legal dirty bomb will hit Motorola, Samsung, LG, and HTC, all of whom use some Qualcomm components."
Google

Submission + - Google DDoS'ed?

Submitted by
Dr.BackTrack
Dr.BackTrack writes: "Today, Google was offline for an Entire hour. The buzz quickly spread across IRC and Forums. Now Google have recovered from the Unexpected outage. The Rumour is that there was a DDoS on the Google Server. This has not been confirmed but expect news soon from Google or somewhere else."
The Internet

Submission + - iPredict a Cease-and-Desist letter.

Submitted by palewook
palewook writes: Last week, MSNBC debuted a new service on their news site. Rex Sorgatz, Executive Producer at MSNBC.com, calls the service, "answers visualized over time". The service, iPredict is aggregated news. Propelled by user's votes with annotated changes in the news story marked on a graph. IPredict resembles a Statistical Process Control graph compressed into a timeline covering topical news headlines. Presently, MSNBC has yet to ask the risky questions using the service. When should the USA leave Iraqi? Should Paris have been released? When will Apple send a Cease-and-Desist letter over the name?
Editorial

Submission + - Apple Making Money Internationally More So Than US

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kobe_2104
kobe_2104 writes: "Is Apple making more money through the international exchange markets than what many people are lead to believe? A recent example was used to see if Apple updated their prices in local countries based on the current exchange rates between those countries and the US. A MacBook Pro with the following additional extras was used a the example: 160Gb 7200RPM HDD, 17" High Res Glossy Widescreen Display. Pricing this on the US Apple Store shows the price as being $3049 US. Pricing this on the AUS Apple Store shows the price as being $4368.99 AU. Using the $0.8436 AU to US conversion rate at the time of writing this, one could buy the MacBook Pro in the US for $3614 AUS. Why is there a $750 difference in price between the two countries? One would think the prices can't be THAT far apart because of shipping costs, especially considering China is a closer relation of Australia than it is the US. Does Apple have a reason for this and are other countries experiencing the same discrepancy in prices compared to the US? This certainly looks like a money grab by Apple based on fluctuating exchange rates which would "advantage" Apple, especially in Australia."
Networking

Submission + - iPhone Won't Be Barred under Qualcomm Import Ban (tidbits.com)

Submitted by
Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman writes: "The US International Trade Commission issued an order this afternoon barring imports of cell phones containing third-generation (3G) networking chips from Qualcomm. They'll allow more shipments of any model imported before today, but new models are on hold. But not the iPhone! First, the iPhone doesn't use Qualcomm chips; second, it's only a 2.5G/Wi-Fi device — no 3G chips inside. The ruling comes after Broadcom (a cell and Wi-Fi chip maker) won a patent dispute in front of the commission last year. Qualcomm's 3G chips are used in handsets by all the major US cell operators, who are spitting mad right now. Apple might get the last laugh, though: they might have the most advanced smartphone on the market unless President Bush or his trade representative overturn the ruling (which they have the power to do)."
Announcements

Submission + - 25 Most Influential Techs for Mac Community (mactech.com)

Submitted by masumph
masumph writes: MacTech has released the results from their annual "MacTech 25". While there are some repeats from last year, there are a number of new folks and the list has more developers since last year. The list is derived from public voting, and MacTech internal staff and Apple employees are not eligible. The full list and article are published in the June issue and are also online as of today.
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Apple to use Sun's ZFS in Leopard

Submitted by
AustinJ
AustinJ writes: "Jonathan Schwartz says this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10. ZFS into Leopard could give Apple the benefit of having the same next-gen file system stretching from its base computers and notebooks all the way up to servers and storage boxes. ZFS' claim to fame comes from the way it protects large amounts of data spread across myriad low-cost storage systems."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Casts Doubt Over 'Playstation Home'

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Shane Kim, an executive over at Microsoft Game Studios, has casts his doubt over Sony's forthcoming Playstation Home service, stating he feels uncertain as to whether or not the company can successfully provide consumers with a compelling virtual hub. "I doubt [Sony's] ability to implement it [Playstation Home] and execute it in a really rich and compelling way", Kim said, during an interview with Shack News."

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