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A Smartphone Patent Pool: A Way Out of the Litigation Thicket
Gene Quinn
One major misconception arising from Apple’s legal victory over Samsung is that Apple now has some sort of monopoly over critical components of smartphone touch screen interfaces. Patent lawyer Gene Quinn of IP Watchdog explains the problem with this …
Windows RT Grows More Mysterious as Launch Nears
Microsoft’s Surface Windows RT Tablet
I expected we would be seeing more clarity on the distinctions between Windows 8 and its Windows RT sibling (for ARM processor devices) as the expected late October launch grows closer. But the picture seems …
A Cautionary Tale About Market Share
via spaziodigitale.net
My colleague John Kirk’s series of posts about Android, iPhone, and the importance–or lack thereof–of market share brought back memories of some fights over share in the PC business. The moral of all the stories is that companies …
What if Samsung Was a Band?
I’ve been reading a lot of articles the last few days all on the degree in which Apple’s success in a US court over Samsung is good or bad for the industry. In the midst of all of …
Patents: Who Has a Portfolio With Clout
One thing that put Samsung at a serious disadvantage in its patent fight with Apple was the weakness of its own portfolio of relevant patents. Conflicts between companies with roughly comparable portfolios almost always end in a cross-licensing agreement. A …
What Does Microsoft Have Against Email?
Email in Windows 8 is a catastrophe.
I know the cool kids think email is last decade’s technology, but the fact is that it remains a vitally important communications tool for both businesses and consumers. But it gets no respect from …
The Twitter Kerfluffle: You Gets No Bread With One Meatball
The world of Twitter has been a-twitter for the last few days over changes the microblogging service is making in the third-party access to Twitter APIs. In general, the rules restrict or outright block the access of many third parties. …
Why We Hate Carriers (AT&T Edition)
Watching folks try to untangle themselves from messes of their own making is often painful. No, I’m not talking about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, but AT&T and the trouble it has made for itself by restricting the use of …
The Windows 8 UI: Microsoft Makes a Tough Marketing Problem Worse
Over at ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley, master of all things Microsoft, reports sources tell her that having lost the name Metro in an apparent trademark dispute, Microsoft will call the new tile-based user interface for Windows 8 the Windows 8 UI. …
Boingo+Cloud Nine=Free Wi-Fi+Ads
Wi-Fi service provider and aggregator Boingo announced today is was acquiring privately held Cloud Nine Media, a Wi-Fi add network. The result is likely to be growth Wi-Fi services that are free- but supported by ads.
Free Wi-Fi is understandably popular …
Is There No One At Google Who Knows How To Say “No”?
Google, in an email to those that pre-ordered a Nexus Q:
We also heard initial feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today. In response, we have decided to postpone the consumer launch …
The New Mac Ads: If Tech Companies Were Cruise Lines
There has been a real kerfuffle caused by the new Mac Ads.
Some people dislike them. Others hate, hate, hate them.
On the other hand, some people like them…or, at least, they tolerate them.
MAC OWNERS AND MAC HATERS ARE NOT THE …
The Swedish Surface and the Pathetic State of Online Journalism
Yesterday, an obscure–outside Sweden, at least–web retailer, webhallen.com, published a page that purported to give the still unannounced pricing for Microsoft’s Surface tablets. The surface was quoted at a ranged from $1,000 for a minimal ARM version to $2,100 for …
WSJ’s Internet History Is Way Off
The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page seems to have dedicated itself to showing that every single thing uttered
Robert E. Kahn (Wikipedia)
by President Obama is at best a misstatement. Today, Gordon Crovitz takes on the President’s statement that the government helped …
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