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HTC Dodges Major Lawsuits But Collapses Over Most Ridiculous One
http://www.ozcarguide.com/business-money/business-technology/2883-htc-lawsuit-list
Klausner sues HTC over visual voicemail
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| Inventor Judah Klausner added HTC Corp to
| the list of big phone makers against which
| he has filed lawsuits alleging infringement
| of technology patents related to visual
| voicemail.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63P4VA20100426
Klausner Adds Another Visual Voicemail Patent Lawsuit
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100426/1246319171.shtml
What is in those Microsoft Linux patent agreements?
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| There are three ways to speculate about
| Microsoftâs latest Linux patent cross-
| license, this time with HTC:
|
| 1. Microsoft is pushing its weight around
| (again).
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6378
Microsoft Suggests Android Violates Its Patents... But Gets HTC To Buy A License
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| Seems a bit strange, right? Why should
| Microsoft have any say in whether or not HTC
| can put Google's Android operating system on
| its phones. The whole thing seems even odder
| when you realize that HTC was, for a long
| time, one of the major makers of smartphones
| running Windows Mobile operating system.
| But, the complicating factor here might be
| Apple. Apple, of course, famously went on
| the patent offensive and sued HTC over its
| Android phones a couple months ago. So now,
| with Microsoft doing this deal, it seems to
| very publicly be entering the patent fight
| between Apple and Google, which for bizarre
| reasons is playing out with HTC as the pawn
| getting bounced around between them all.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100428/0150309209.shtml
HTC to Pay Microsoft Royalties on Android Phones
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/28/htc-pay-microsoft-royalties-android-phones/
HTC Android slider makes it through the FCC with AT&T 3G bands
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| Why, hello there, little HTC Android phone with a nice, fat keyboard.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-android-slider-makes-it-through-fcc-att-bands
Andy Rubin Reacts to Steve Jobs, Likens Apple to North Korea
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| The NY Times has a great little interview
| with Google VP Andy Rubin where he talks
| about Android's future among other things.
| When asked his thoughts on the recent Steve
| Jobs comments about Android offering porn,
| Andy says he doesn't quite get where Jobs
| was coming from. âI donât really have a
| rationale for that,â he said. âItâs a
| different style of interacting with the
| public and the media.â
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http://www.androidguys.com/2010/04/27/andy-rubin-reacts-steve-jobs-likens-apple-north-korea/
Prosecutors defend Gizmodo search in iPhone probe
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| Stephen Wagstaffe, chief deputy district
| attorney, told CNET on Tuesday evening that
| prosecutors had considered whether reporter
| shield laws applied to the search and
| seizure aimed at the gadget blog--and
| decided to proceed after carefully reviewing
| the rules.
|
| "My prosecutor who is handling it considered
| this issue right off the bat when it was
| being brought into him and had some good
| reasons why he and the judge felt the
| warrant was properly issued," Wagstaffe
| said.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003615-37.html
Journalist shield law may not halt iPhone probe
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003539-37.html
The Gizmodo Raid: A Preview of Hollywood's Dystopian Plan for Copyright Enforcement
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| Last weekâs police raid on Gizmodo blogger
| Jason Chenâs house, in response to a request
| from Apple Inc., has led many to wonder why
| government resources are being spent on a
| spat between Apple and Gizmodo.
|
| But here at EFF, we are also wondering if
| weâve just seen the future of copyright
| enforcement. Although the Gizmodo seizure
| doesnât appear to be rooted in copyright,
| having cops kicking in doors over what seems
| like a private dispute reminded us of recent
| efforts by the big content industries to get
| law enforcement to go after âcopyright
| thieves.â
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/gizmodo-raid-preview-hollywoods-dystopian-plan
Apple: Worse for open source than Microsoft?
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| Things need to change and Apple needs to be
| seen for what it really is: a threat to
| innovation and freedom.
|
| For as long as anyone can remember Microsoft
| has been seen as the primary enemy of free
| and open source software (FOSS). Free
| software advocates over the years have held
| Microsoft up as the pre-eminent example of
| how software should not be produced and
| distributed; an example of how they did not
| want it to be.
|
| It wasn't without good reason that Microsoft
| was seen as enemy number 1. The company has
| done everything in its power over the years
| to undermine Linux and free software. CEO
| Steve Ballmer has even gone so far as to
| label free software anti-American and he
| never misses an opportunity to take a swipe
| at Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| There was a time when Microsoft was seen as
| the enemy of software freedom and Apple, by
| virtue of being seen as the "underdog", was
| given far more leniency. Things need to
| change and Apple needs to be seen for what
| it really is: a threat to innovation and
| freedom.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/columns/12191-Apple-Worse-for-open-source-than-Microsoft.html
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