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quarterbuck writes:
The online group Anonymous, through its arm AnonAnalytics has accused a Hong Kong listed company Choada of fraud.
Financial times (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3434c82a-e8c5-11e0-902c-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1ZGZXijFZ) has a story regarding recent allegations of fraud against this company and mentions another fraud at an unrelated agricultural company called Sino Forest.
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quarterbuck writes:
Janet Guyon writing on "How I got there" has an interview with John Sculley. Those who remember Apple Lore would remember Sculley as the guy who Steve Jobs hired by saying "You can stay at Pepsi and sell sugar water or come with me and change the world" but then ended up firing Steve Jobs. He explains that one thing he probably did wrong was to run Apple like Pepsi, ie fighting a computer war with IBM like the Cola wars.
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quarterbuck writes:
HTC has sued Apple in Delaware accusing Apple of patent infringement. The twist is that it is using patents it received from Google, which in turn were brought from Palm and Motorola
23501152
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quarterbuck writes:
US has moved to Block T-Mobile — ATT merger, finding that it will substantially reduce competition
23329746
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quarterbuck writes:
Google has reached a $500 Mn settlement with US government. This is about the case where unlawful drug vendors advertised on Google and not the possible anti-trust case.
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quarterbuck writes:
Bloomberg has a story on Google's acquisition of Motorola and quotes IP lawyers who claim that 18 patents dating to 1994 are probably what Google is after. These patents cover technology essential to the mobile-device industry, including location services, antenna designs, e-mail transmission, touch- screen motions, software-application management and third- generation wireless.
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quarterbuck writes:
When copyright law was revised in the mid-1970s, musicians, like creators of other works of art, were granted “termination rights,” which allow them to regain control of their work after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two years in advance. Recordings from 1978 are the first to fall under the purview of the law, but in a matter of months, hits from 1979, like “The Long Run” by the Eagles and “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer, will be in the same situation
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quarterbuck writes:
Fortune magazine recently ran a story (pay walled) regarding Apple University, Apple's internal education program. They seem to have hired an ex-Yale Dean to write case studies on how Jobs runs Apple . The aim is to devolve authority down from Jobs while ensuring that everyone at Apple can make decisions like Steve Jobs
Other publications have the same story too.
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quarterbuck writes:
Journal has a review of the Telikin, an all-in-one desktop, with a touch screen, that starts at $699 and comes from a small Philadelphia-area start-up called Venture 3 Systems.
It is much simplified (no powerpoint editing for eg.) and the hardware is thought through (two microphones), but the review is claiming that the software is still buggy.
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quarterbuck writes:
The Massachusetts Election Division has approved the Massachusetts Pirate Party as a political designation, allowing voters in the state to register as a "Pirate."
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quarterbuck writes:
India's biggest opposition party (BJP) has announced its plan to promote Free/Open Software in all parts of the government if it comes to power. With the left and extreme left already pro-FOSS, it appears that FOSS has pretty reasonable odds in India.
Background on Indian politics. Indian elections are set in May and India has three main groups of parties. The Indian Congress led UPA (currently in power), the BJP led NDA and the third-front of which the Communist parties are a part of. We only have to hear from UPA on software policy so far.
