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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Still Lives
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| Even when everyone knows what M$ did with
| non-interoperability over the last decade,
| M$ is still at it. They have apparently
| obtained a patent on battery-compartment
| contacts that do the right thing whichever
| end of a dry cell is inserted. If this
| becomes widespread, consumers will demand
| everyone use the technology and M$ will rake
| in the cash from yet another monopoly. Well,
| they do need to diversify but they donât
| need a monopoly to do it. They could earn
| money the old-fashioned way, by earning it.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/07/05/embrace-extend-extinguish-still-lives/
Dead 'Courier' walking: Microsoft gets dual-screen design patent
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/06/microsoft_courier_gets_design_patent.html
Has Microsoft Courier come back to life?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63103
Microsoft's Courier Is Officially a Zombie
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/games_consumer/microsofts_courier_is_officially_a_zombie.html
Patent for Courier
http://www.mobilitysite.com/2010/06/patent-for-courier/
Microsoft Patents Courierâs Dual Display Design
http://gorumors.com/microsoft-courier-dual-display-patent/2752976
Microsoft Courier Still a Possibility
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/microsoft-courier-possibility-07011054/
Is There Still Hope For Courier?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/is-there-still-hope-for-courier/
Microsoft Awarded Patent for Dual-Screen Tablet
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| Microsoft received the patent this week and
| TechFlash reports that this kind of patent
| is good for 14 years, so Microsoft has until
| 2024 to do something with this design.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Courier-Dual-Screen-Tablet-Tablets-iPad-MSFT,10780.html
Microsoft's Health-y Patent Appetite
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| theodp writes "This week's USPTO patent
| application disclosures included a trifecta
| of scary health-related 'inventions' from
| Microsoft. For starters, Microsoft envisions
| seeing Kids' Personal Health Records Fed
| Into Video Games, where they can be used to
| 'regulate and/or prescribe an individual's
| behavior while playing electronic games.'
| Next up is Centralized Healthcare Data
| Management, which describes how employees'
| health habits can be 'monitored, tracked or
| otherwise discovered' so employers can
| 'incentivize a user for an act or penalize
| for an omission to act.' Finally, there's
| Wearing Health on Your Sleeve, which
| describes a sort of high-tech Scarlet Letter
| designed to tip off 'doctors, potential
| dates, etc.' about your unhealthy behavior
| by converting information â 'number of
| visits to the gym, workout activities,
| frequency of workouts, heart rate readings,
| blood pressure statistics, food consumption,
| vitamin intake, etc.' â into a visual form
| so that others can see the data 'on
| mechanisms such as a mood ring, watch,
| badge, on a website etc.'"
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/03/1432250/Microsofts-Health-y-Patent-Appetite
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