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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility both appeal Judge Posner's ruling — When Judge Posner dismissed an Apple v. Motorola Mobility patent infringement lawsuit in Chicago about a month ago, I analyzed his decision in detail and agreed with him in many ways, though I also predicted …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared — Patent wars, Apple CEO Tim Cook once said, are “a pain in the ass.” Few more so than the one the company is waging against Google's new Motorola Mobility division and the new argument the defendants are making around standards-essential patents (SEPs).
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| Rian van der Merwe / Elezea: |
The real reason we're upset about Sparrow's acquisition — When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client. Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice …
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| Harry McCracken / Techland: |
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It's Probably Toast — When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn't need to read the startup's announcement to know the upshot.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Kodak Loses Patent Case Against Apple, RIM — Eastman Kodak Co. has lost a patent case against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., dealing a blow to the onetime film giant's efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual property. — Kodak filed a complaint …
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| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything — The Bushmaster M4 is a 3-foot rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It's a serious weapon. But in the Internet's darkest black market, it's all yours.
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @carnage4life and @pkedrosky
| Tom Simonite / Technology Review: |
Microsoft Mulls a Stylus for Any Screen — Adding a camera to a stylus could let it interact with any device—even one without a touch screen. — Microsoft is considering whether to release a stylus that could, after a software upgrade, interact with almost any existing display or device.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Darpa Funds Hack Machine You'd Never Notice — PwnieExpress' all-new Power Pwn. All Images: PwnieExpress — If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything? — It may look like a surge protector, but it's really a remote access machine that corporations can use to test security and log into branch offices.
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| Craig Platt / Canberra Times: |
Qantas to provide passengers with iPads — Qantas will provide iPads to both business and economy class passengers for inflight entertainment on its Boeing 767s. — Qantas passengers on the airline's 767 planes will be provided with iPads for their inflight entertainment …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
‘Sparrow for Windows’ was never an official Sparrow client, not even close to ‘weeks away’ — We've just heard from sources close to Sparrow that the man behind “Sparrow for Windows,” Panos Tsimpoglou, was never hired by Sparrow CEO Dom Leca, and was never officially associated with the company's brand.
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| Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab: |
That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening — A little more than two years ago, the Library of Congress announced it would preserve every public tweet, ever, for future generations. … Fifty million tweets a day. How cute.
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