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Facebook Wants To Own Idea Of Crowdsourced Translations
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| Facebook is the biggest social network in the world, so it may come as a
| surprise to some that up until early 2008, it didnât offer any localized
| versions of the site at all. The company managed to jumpstart its
| international presence with an application fittingly called Translations,
| which took the time-consuming and costly task of translating the site and
| crowd-sourced it, asking the networkâs millions of users to lend a hand.
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| [...]
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| In laymanâs terms, Facebookâs Translation app presents users with words that
| need to be translated, and they submit their entries. The system then invites
| other users to vote using Reddit-style up/down arrows to vote on which
| translations are best. This helps generate translations that are not just
| technically accurate, but also helps eliminate awkward or overly formal
| wording.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/facebook-files-for-patent-on-crowdsourced-translations/
TiVo CEO: Must Stop Unauthorized Use Of Intellectual Property
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| TiVo Inc. (TIVO) needs to move quickly to stop the unauthorized use of its
| intellectual property, according to Chief Executive Tom Rogers.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200908261806DOWJONESDJONLINE000602_FORTUNE5.htm
Amazon.com wins ironic patent lawsuit against Cordance
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| Last month, we wrote about how Amazon was defending itself against a patent
| on one-click ordering (click here once â oh no are we infringing too? ââ to
| read the story). It was funny because ten years ago Amazon had threatened the
| world with its own patent on one-click ordering.
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http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/amazoncom-wins-ironic-patent-lawsuit-against-cordance.html
Recent:
TiVo sues AT&T, Verizon over DVR patents
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| TiVo said Wednesday that it is suing AT&T and Verizon over three DVR patents.
| The complaints seek damages and a permanent injunction.
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| Simply put, TiVo is pursuing the same legal playbook it followed against
| Dish/EchoStar. The patents in question include 6,233,389, 7,529,465 and
| 7,493,015.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10318899-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
TiVo's rebound
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| Off and on for the past six years I've been an armchair quarterback for TiVo
| telling them they should do anything and everything to become profitable,
| among other things: they should offer pay-per-view downloads (I asked for
| this in 2002), they should broker deals with cable companies, that they
| should release software for PCs, that they should move to international
| markets, and that while I'm not a fan of software patents in general I feel
| the TiVo patents are original and worth fighting.
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| What I realized this week is that TiVo has spent the past couple years
| starting battles on all these fronts, and it looks like (at least to this
| outside observer) like TiVo is winning on all fronts. Even as their CEO
| admits more people are using DVRs and skipping lots of ads, I'd say TiVo is
| doing well.
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http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2008/10/tivos-rebound.html
DirecTV Strikes Deal to Offer TiVo Recorder
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| Another change is that TiVo won a key lawsuit against Dish Networks. In that
| lawsuit, a federal court ruled that Dishâs recording devices infringe TiVo
| software patents. In fact, a hearing begins Thursday in federal district
| court in the Eastern District of Texas on how the penalties against Dish will
| be enforced.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/directtv-strikes-deal-to-offer-tivo-recorder/
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