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Microsoft wins 'emotiflag' patent, despite Lotus Notes precedent
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| A few years ago, Microsoft made headlines for seeking a patent on the
| email "emotiflag" -- an emoticon, chosen by the sender, that appears along
| with the subject line in the recipient's inbox. The application was
| controversial because the idea was actually introduced years earlier as "Mood
| Stamps" in Ray Ozzie's Lotus Notes.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_wins_emotiflag_patent_despite_Lotus_Notes_precedent_51417437.html
The Fact That A Credit Card Is Patented Is A Selling Point?
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| In the (snail) mail this week I happened to get an ad for the Visa Black
| Card, which Visa is pitching as "exclusive," though I'm guessing that
| exclusivity is mostly based on finding enough suckers to pay a $500 annual
| fee for the card.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090722/0111115617.shtml
Recent:
A Day to Remember: 23 April, 2009
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| And there's another reason why yesterday was significant: Microsoft announced
| what are probably its worst quarter results ever:
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| Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.65 billion for the third
| quarter ended March 31, 2009, a 6% decline from the same period of the prior
| year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the
| quarter were $4.44 billion, $2.98 billion and $0.33 per share, which
| represented an increase of 3% and declines of 32% and 30%, respectively, when
| compared with the prior year period.
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| Now, the global financial crisis certainly contributed to those figures, but
| I think there's a bigger underlying trend here, which is that the Microsoft
| money machine is faltering.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2136
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