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Quote: Originally Posted by HawkBlade Send/Receive without encryption is 100%??? wait, what? Yeah, Facebook, Twitter, Path, LinkedIn are all free and they send data with encryption.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Apple is well-aware it has standards-essential IP, but chooses not to license it anyway. That's according to Boris Teksler, Apple's director of patent licensing. "According to his testim…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RichL It's interesting to see that Apple did offer licensing terms, rather than flat out refusing to license their technology. I don't think that ever been reported before. Two things stand out th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret This seems like a fun game people are playing. Samsung sold double the number of phones than the iPhone. Never mind the actual disparity in the number of models (3 iPhones vs. a s**t-load of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Since Google is claiming to sell the Nexus 7 without a profit margin I wouldn't put it past them to get away with not paying for FRAND licensing or even attempting to pay for it. Now if Nokia trie…
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I wonder just how much of this stuff/tech is actually from Google seeing as there is an awful lot of copyright and data copyright for people other than Google on almost EVERY section of that first video? I'm guessing, like Apple, most of it'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Filmantopia Yeah, if even just to take away the notion that Apple "invented" the tech, which so often is construed when Apple popularizes a feature. Understandable, as Google has put so much work into…
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Quote: Originally Posted by beckman I hope this update is for the WWDC announcement of Apple TV SDK! Not being funny, but something as BIG as an SDK would be something more than a MINOR point release.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I'm curious: what is the ratio of sold/shipped for Apple? And how do these numbers correlate with the number of devices in use? The sold/shipped ratio for Apple (iPads) is very close…
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Quote: Originally Posted by september11th Does Windows RT run regular windows programs? If not, this is going to be a mess. I'm fairly tech savy, but I don't really understand what RT stands for. Run Time. Ok, but what's tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mikeb85 How about: 1992 This came out in 2003, with a similar form to modern smartphones LG's Prada, which was announced before the iPhone. Apple didn't invent the touchscreen, and has no …
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Quote: Originally Posted by WardC They don't have a Life, they only have a Seoul. A Seoul of the "R" variety, and their head is jammed up there good!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber Nothing but good can come of this. iCloud needs competition. This looks closer to Dropbox, than iCloud. The mains benefit of iCloud, like MobileMe before it:Email To-Do Calendar Bookmarks Notes EVERYW…
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Quote: Originally Posted by elroth Not that it's a big surprise, but there could be many many companies using this hack. It seems they don't even think it's wrong to purposely circumvent another company's software settings. A pox on all of them! …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anthropic I don't think either the Apple contacts security failure or the Google cookie permission failures deserve the level of venom people spit at them. All corporations make bad decisions, they get told about them …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Absolutely correct. That's for a court to decide if it's put to the test. FWIW, the patent I mentioned, applied to searching within emails for specific text strings (fairly basic) is owned by Google. They've b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nmg72 Apple isn't that stupid to go against Google especially since their acquisition of Motorola. You know, the guys that hold the patents that Apple failed to license for cell phones to operate on a GSM network. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn You write code (at least I do), so it should be copyright protected. Patenting algorithms (ideas) is laughable and should never be allowed. So an algorithm isnt patentable but it's incarnation is. In a broade…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Just as a mention, Google may have already patented a competing unlock method, filed in 2009 and published last year. IMO, this one doesn't appear to be bothered even by a broad interpretation of Apple's paten…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lochias The technical term for hugs is FRAND -- Fair, Reasonable and NonDiscriminatory -- which is what Motorola agreed to and Apple is suing for. More than likely Moto is asking for MORE from Apple than they asked …