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Submission + - Oracle might only receive $150,000 in damages from Google (zdnet.com)

Submitted by bobwrit on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:25PM

bobwrit writes: Now, it looks like Oracle could end up with just $150,000 — if anything at all given that the threat of a mistrial looms and we’re still in the middle of the second phase of the trial covering patent infringement.

Judge William Alsup warned Oracle at the U.S. District Court of Northern California on Thursday morning that the “most” the plaintiff might end up with is statutory damages over the nine lines of code in the rangeCheck method — the only item on the verdict form during phase one of the trial in which the jury found Google’s conceded use was copyright infringement.

“The fact that they have nine lines out of many millions, you have no damage study tied in,” Alsup exclaimed to Oracle.

Although it is up to the jury to determine damages, the maximum limit for statutory damages is $150,000.

Submission + - Boeing preparing an ultra-secure smartphone (examiner.com)

Submitted by bobwrit on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:25AM

bobwrit writes: Earlier this week, it was revealed that aerospace firm Boeing was working on a high security mobile device for the various intelligence departments. This device will most likely be released later this year, and at a lower price point than other mobile phones targeted at the same communities. Typically, phones in this range cost about 15,000-20,000 per phone, and use custom hardware and software to get the job done. This phone will most likely use Android as it's main operating system of choice, which lowers the cost per phone, since Boeing's developers don't have to write their own operating system from scratch.

Submission + - Santorum suspends campaign, clearing Romney's path (cnn.com) 1

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bobwrit

on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @04:21PM

bobwrit writes: "From the Article:
"
Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of "prayer and thought," effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney.

Santorum made his announcement after the weekend hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter Isabella, and in the face of tightening poll numbers in Pennsylvania — the state he represented as a U.S. senator — ahead of the April 24 primary.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision to get into this race around our kitchen table, against all the odds," Santorum told a news conference, flanked by emotional family members. "We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting."
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Submission + - Google acquires Agnilux (pcmag.com)

Submitted by bobwrit on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @11:20AM

bobwrit writes: From Story

"Google has purchased Agnilux, a secretive chip house made up of engineers who architected the heart of the iPad, then left the company.
Reuters' PEHub reported the story Tuesday night. A Google spokesman also confirmed the acquisition to PCMag.com.
"We're pleased to welcome the Agnilux team to Google, but we don't have any additional information to share right now," a Google spokesman said Tuesday night via email."

Submission + - HyperCard: What Could Have Been (wired.com) 1

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bobwrit

on Saturday May 24, 2008 @04:21PM

bobwrit writes: "Quoted from article: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking "cards" arranged into "stacks." Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk. The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. But Atkinson feels that if only he'd realized separate cards and stacks could be linked on different people's machines through the Net — instead of cards and stacks on a particular machine — he would have created the first Internet browser. " The article is here"

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