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Apple challenges Reg to patent duel
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| Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and
| iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests.
| There's just one problem: Much of Apple's "invention" was dreamed up by Reg
| readers several years ago - and one embodiment is already on the market.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/08/apple_orbish_patent/
Facebook Wanted To Buy German Site Before Suing
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| Before Facebook sued the German social networking site StudiVZ last month for
| copying its "look and feel," it had been in talks to purchase the site.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/08/facebook-wanted-to-buy-german-site-before-suing
http://tinyurl.com/5bsfwb
Apple too contributes to harming Linux with its junk patents.
Related:
Apple seeks patent for compactable disc adaptor
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| That seems pretty obvious to me. Doesn't prior art in a variety of industries
| (including flat-pack furniture and telescopes) have these concepts covered?
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| I have no fundamental problem with the idea of patents, but to my mind the
| degree of innovation behind this application is too trivial to deserve
| protection.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15474/1054/
KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop
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| Apple doesn't get the open source development model and has a very control
| oriented corporate culture and that doesn't mesh very well with an open,
| collaborative environment. Apple is getting better at it, or at least parts
| of Apple are getting it. I hope to look at it in five years and say this was
| growing pains for Apple to get where it is.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;885892575;pp;1
Facebook sues German competitor
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| FACEBOOK FILED an intellectual property lawsuit against StudiVZ, a German
| company accused of operating a virtual replica of the social networking site.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/21/facebook-sues-german-competitor
Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor
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| After you check boxes on a form to indicate that 'Everyone from San
| Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard' can see your profile,
| Zuckerberg's 'invention' will miraculously display: 'People from San
| Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard can see your profile.'
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/20/1420229
The Delusions Of Nathan Myhrvold
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| And here Myhrvold is either outright lying or he's ignorant (he can let us
| know which one). First of all no one has ever said that patent litigation is
| threatening to stop all innovation. They've just said that it is slowing the
| pace of innovation. And there's plenty of evidence to support that, despite
| Myhrvold's claim that there's none. James Bessen and Michael Meurer just came
| out with a whole book detailing much of the evidence, and David Levine and
| Michele Boldrin also have a book with even more evidence. Did Myhrvold simply
| not know about these? Or is he lying to PC World?
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| [...]
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| I'm sure Myhrvold is a smart guy -- and he may truly believe that he's
| helping inventors and changing the world -- but he's either being purposely
| misleading or he's ignorant when it comes to patents and how they interact
| with the economy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080511/1529011081.shtml
Related:
What does the Microsoft "partnership" with Facebook mean for users?
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| First, Microsoft had a very instructive failure with Passport, and
| the "Hailstorm" effort of which it was a part.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1002828
Facebook teams with Amazon
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| In a collaboration with Redmond-based Microsoft Inc.'s Popfly,
| Facebook users can create applications and add them to their
| profiles with no programming.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070525/1468844.html?.v=1
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Facebook: Buyout Frenzy Builds Around Rumored IPO
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| Ashkan Karbasfrooshan outlines the current agreement with Microsoft and makes
| the case for a Facebook IPO in 2008 in great detail. Great post, Ashkan!
|
| My personal feeling is that Facebook would NEVER sell out to Microsoft and
| risk pissing off it employees and user base but we shall see.b
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070717/41269_id.html?.v=1
Facebook users give thumbs down to Microsoft
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| The Facebook community, populated as it is by a large core of university
| students, is one of the strongest bastions of anti-Microsoft sentiment on the
| web, and frequently points out what it sees as the flaws in many of the
| software giant's products.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3893228.ece
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