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Comment Re:Some perspective (Score 1) 131

by zcold (#31691742) Attached to: Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz
I think you are also missing the point as well.. GMail ToS: 2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services. (a) would be the one to focus on..

Submission + - Apple sues HTC over patents (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by gandhi_2
gandhi_2 writes: From Business Insider:

Apple today filed a lawsuit against mobile devices maker HTC. The suit claims infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.

It looks like the Nexus One, and other HTC phones, may have hit too close to home for Steve Jobs. Maybe adding multitouch to the Nexus One pushed Apple over the edge?
Cellphones

Submission + - Apple Sues HTC for 20 Patent Violations in Phones (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Taiwanese HTC is being sued by Apple for 20 patents regarding the many phones HTC manufactures. Jobs was quoted as saying, 'We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.' Apple has similar patent litigation with Nokia and may be trying to scare the rest of the industry into licensing patents similar to the Microsoft-Novell and Microsoft-Amazon deals regarding patents covering Linux functionality.

Comment ANTI P2P?? (Score 1) 180

by zcold (#31287950) Attached to: US Lawmakers Set Sights On P2P Programs
Shouldn't they really consider ANTI-Internet legislation? I have a hard time believing p2p is the cause of the leaks... More like the internet is the cause...even then.. without the internet, I would still burn discs and pass them to friends and family, who also pass it on... Its going to happen..
Hardware

Submission + - Make your own open source retro arcade syle clock (ladyada.net)

Submitted by
ptorrone
ptorrone writes: "Hardware hacker "Ladyada" has released an open source retro arcade style table tennis for two clock called the MONOCHRON. According to MONCHRON project page they "wanted to make a clock that was ultra-hackable, from adding a separate battery-backed RTC to designing the enclosure so you could program the clock once its assembled." It includes a ATmega328 processor (with'Arduino' stk500 bootloader for easy hacking). It's completely open source hardware, all firmware, layout and CAD files are yours to mess with."

Comment Ipad = Original Dev Iphone (Score 1) 1010

by zcold (#31274942) Attached to: iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic"
Sometimes I wonder if the Ipad was the original design for the Iphone....They were just like, we have to make this thing smaller... No one would want to carry this around... And now someone pulled it off the shelf and was like... HEY! Great idea! lets repackage this dev phone into some kind of tablet...

Comment Convo with SSID (Score 2, Interesting) 263

by zcold (#31272356) Attached to: Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots
This is funny only because I once had a conversation with someone using SSID. It was back and forth quips everyday about how my house is better than theirs and so on and so forth.. I realized how incredibly interesting it was to have a "conversation" with SSIDs and how incredibly geeky it was..

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