Comment Re:Prior art (Score 1) 434
Windows Smartphone 2002 home screen had "call in progress" plugin. If you switched to home screen (by clicking or pressing a button) while call was in progress UI was modified to reflect that.
Submission + - Apple wins import ban against HTC (edibleapple.com)
An anonymous reader writes: After a few legal setbacks over the past couple weeks, the most glaring being Judge Lucy Koh’s rejection of Apple’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Samsuing, Apple today was finally on the receiving end of a significant legal decision.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled today that HTC’s Android-based smartphones infringe upon two claims in Apple’s #5,946,647 patent which relates to analyzing and lilnking data structures.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled today that HTC’s Android-based smartphones infringe upon two claims in Apple’s #5,946,647 patent which relates to analyzing and lilnking data structures.
Submission + - Apple Scores Small Patent Victory Against HTC (itworld.com)
LinuxScribe writes: According to Bloomberg, the International Trade Commission has formally ruled that Taiwan phone maker HTC has indeed violated two of Apple's patents. A formal import ban on HTC phones affected by the patent will go into effect April 19, pending appeal and a review by the White House. This is likely the first in a long line of such rulings to come, raising the question: when will this patent madness end?
Comment Due Diligence (Score 1) 332
"Cloud" is just another service provide your company or your are dealing with. They should and usually do spell out how they respond to subpoena for your data.
Amazon AWS, for example:
8.1 Your Content. As between you and us, you or your licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to Your Content. Except as provided in this Section 8, we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you or your licensors to Your Content, including any related intellectual property rights. You consent to our use of Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you and any End Users. We may disclose Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you or any End Users or to comply with any request of a governmental or regulatory body (including subpoenas or court orders).
Amazon AWS, for example:
8.1 Your Content. As between you and us, you or your licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to Your Content. Except as provided in this Section 8, we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you or your licensors to Your Content, including any related intellectual property rights. You consent to our use of Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you and any End Users. We may disclose Your Content to provide the Service Offerings to you or any End Users or to comply with any request of a governmental or regulatory body (including subpoenas or court orders).
Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 848
They live in crapware infested mess because over 50% of internet traffic is made of p2p and porn. People don't "get" crapware. They willingly install it because it gives them something they want. Gated communities are nice but the world is larger than that.
Comment Re:Purely out of curiosity (Score 1) 692
Second that. Microsoft Voice Command has been around for a while as well as voice command in windows. It is fine for dictation but I would not use it to control PC. It is much easier to point what needs to be done with mouse than to explain it.
Submission + - Security Vulnerability found on HTC Phones (xda-developers.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Threat Vulnerability: Android Security Elevation/Information Leak
Products Effected: Any device with HTCLogger.apk running htcloggerd binary
HTCLogger allows any app that has access to android.permission.INTERNET on devices such as the evo3d to obtain full access to query sensitive info such as network/appusagestats/meid/esn/phone#/past 10 location broadcasts and last known locations/and more. Root is not required, for this demo I will show completely stock cdma htc evo 3d running version 2.08.561.2, but it will also work on rooted phones and expose more info (wimax dumps, etc). This is available to any application ONLY having permission internet.
Products Effected: Any device with HTCLogger.apk running htcloggerd binary
HTCLogger allows any app that has access to android.permission.INTERNET on devices such as the evo3d to obtain full access to query sensitive info such as network/appusagestats/meid/esn/phone#/past 10 location broadcasts and last known locations/and more. Root is not required, for this demo I will show completely stock cdma htc evo 3d running version 2.08.561.2, but it will also work on rooted phones and expose more info (wimax dumps, etc). This is available to any application ONLY having permission internet.
Submission + - Hans Reiser's bizarre lawsuit (sfgate.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Computer guru Hans Reiser, convicted of murdering his estranged wife even before he led Oakland police to her body, has filed a federal lawsuit naming nearly everyone connected to his case — including his own children — and claiming that he was forced to take the stand in his own defense. Attached to the suit is a claim against state corrections officials and the California judiciary in the amount of “$3 trillion,” a trillion each for him and his two children.
Comment Re:nice, but still missing... (Score 1) 398
Yes, and back in those days 640k was enough for everyone.
Comment Re:Formula (Score 1) 376
Yes, on average. It is also possible that you buy 91,000 tickets and don't win anything.
Comment Re:I can haz (Score 0) 127
Don't know about that but somewhere a chair is being thrown.
Comment 100 years later... (Score 1) 68
"researchers are working to train the digital ants well enough that they can turn them loose" ...
100 years later:
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
100 years later:
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
Comment Re:Keyloggers need root (Score 1) 277
Scanning no, but to intercept keystrokes would require root access.
Common misconception. Local access present creative opportunities for phishing from code injection to creating facades to existing apps.
Comment Re:nothing ironic about it (Score 3, Insightful) 609
The Palestinians are paying for the trip and they get to set the conditions they pay for; that's the way all invited talks work. "No side trips" is a common condition for invited talks.
Nonsense. Are they requiring him to get on a plane and land in US? I don't know what kind of deal RMS got for himself but I am pretty sure it is quite uncommon that organizers require you to go back to country of origin after the engagement is over. He should have negotiated fee for giving talks like 1k/hour and pay for his trip himself and not be restricted in his movements.
Submission + - LinkedIn Is Linking People With Money (komonews.com)
The Installer writes: Linked in went public yesterday, and the craze for the stock offering is being likened to the boom of the dot com era of online businesses making many people very rich.
LinkedIn's stock opened at $45/share, peaked at over $122, and closed at $94.20/share.
From the article:
There was an unmistakable echo of the dot-com boom Thursday on Wall Street.
LinkedIn, a trailblazer in the online networking craze, went public with a roaring stock offering. Within minutes, shares were trading at twice the value set by the company.
Buyers crowded the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and financial news networks flashed LinkedIn's stock price urgently all day. By the closing bell, the company had a market value of $9 billion, the highest for any Internet company since Google had its initial public offering seven years ago. Millionaires and even one billionaire were made, at least on paper.
The stock, issued at $45, went as high as $122.70 just before noon and closed at $94.25 on a trading volume of 30 million shares. All this for a company that skeptics say amounts to an online Rolodex, a place on the Internet for professionals to post resumes and connect with one another and potential employers.
LinkedIn's stock opened at $45/share, peaked at over $122, and closed at $94.20/share.
From the article:
There was an unmistakable echo of the dot-com boom Thursday on Wall Street.
LinkedIn, a trailblazer in the online networking craze, went public with a roaring stock offering. Within minutes, shares were trading at twice the value set by the company.
Buyers crowded the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and financial news networks flashed LinkedIn's stock price urgently all day. By the closing bell, the company had a market value of $9 billion, the highest for any Internet company since Google had its initial public offering seven years ago. Millionaires and even one billionaire were made, at least on paper.
The stock, issued at $45, went as high as $122.70 just before noon and closed at $94.25 on a trading volume of 30 million shares. All this for a company that skeptics say amounts to an online Rolodex, a place on the Internet for professionals to post resumes and connect with one another and potential employers.
