Apple Vs. Google: Oh, It's On!
-
Via EngadgetSome more fun phone facts from the folks at Pew: 83 percent of American adults own a cellphone, 35 percent have a smartphone, and 87 of percent smartphone owners use their handset to browse the internet and read email, apparently having decided that the things are good for more than just making phone calls and keeping papers from blowing away. Also of interest is the fact that 28 percent of the 2,277 people surveyed actually use their small screen devices as their primary method for accessing the internet. It's worth noting that it's not a huge sample size we're working with here, so maybe hold off on declaring the PC dead -- still, it may be a sign of lots of squinting to come.So... what are you doing on your blog to be ready?
-
Uh oh, something is up in Apple's land. Steve is NOT happy.
Wait until uncle Steve find out, every OLED related patents are against Apple. Anything AMOLED is basically owned by Samsung. ...things gonna be groovy for apple way into the future. On top of LTE and various other 4G patent outside US.
Now they are attacking HTC too? okayyy... I hope Steve has China's ministerial level espionage backing, cause he is going to need that more than getting in bed together with second rate thugs like microsoft and oracle. no amount of US litigation is going to save Apple's sorry supply chain situation.
Right now half of asia already know what steve manufacturing capability is, how many screws he gonna orders and what is the yield rate he can pull and what is the margin and how much time he has. He is naked as a baby in a knives fight. Better up the lawyering crew, cause apple fan boys won't be enough.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388374,00.aspReport: Apple Replaces Its Chief Patent Lawyer
"It's possible that Apple's leadership wants the patent department to
become more effective, especially in terms of litigation," said Florian
Mueller, intellectual property analyst. "They are probably disappointed
that the first ITC complaint against HTC didn't go too well," he added,
referring to Apple's attempts to win an injunction over HTC devices.
Mueller also told Reuters that Apple probably wanted to see more results
from its litigation against Google Android. After all, most of Apple's
litigation venom is aimed squarely at its biggest rival.
Apple is aggressively seeking an injunction on Samsung's flagship Galaxy
lineup, arguing that the South Korean manufacturer copied the look and
feel of Apple iPhones and iPads.
-
Samsung applications
By 2004 Samsung, South Korea's largest conglomerate, was the world's largest OLED manufacturer, producing 40% of the OLED displays made in the world,[83] and as of 2010 has a 98% share of the global AMOLED market.[84]
The company is leading the world OLED industry, generating $100.2
million out of the total $475 million revenues in the global OLED market
in 2006.[85] As of 2006, it held more than 600 American patents and more than 2800 international patents, making it the largest owner of AMOLED technology patents.[85]Samsung SDI announced in 2005 the world's largest OLED TV at the time, at 21 inches (53 cm).[86]
This OLED featured the highest resolution at the time, of 6.22 million
pixels. In addition, the company adopted active matrix based technology
for its low power consumption and high-resolution qualities. This was
exceeded in January 2008, when Samsung showcased the world's largest and
thinnest OLED TV at the time, at 31 inches and 4.3 mm.[87]In May 2008, Samsung unveiled an ultra-thin 12.1 inch laptop OLED
display concept, with a 1,280×768 resolution with infinite contrast
ratio.[88]
According to Woo Jong Lee, Vice President of the Mobile Display
Marketing Team at Samsung SDI, the company expected OLED displays to be
used in notebook PCs as soon as 2010.[89]In October 2008, Samsung showcased the world's thinnest OLED display, also the first to be 'flappable' and bendable.[90]
It measures just 0.05 mm (thinner than paper), yet a Samsung staff
member said that it is "technically possible to make the panel thinner".[90]
To achieve this thickness, Samsung etched an OLED panel that uses a
normal glass substrate. The drive circuit was formed by low-temperature
polysilicon TFTs. Also, low-molecular organic EL materials were
employed. The pixel count of the display is 480 × 272. The contrast
ratio is 100,000:1, and the luminance is 200 cd/m². The colour
reproduction range is 100% of the NTSC standard.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode
Apple better start burning those cash pronto and begin researching OLED. cause it's not easy and very expensive.
Notice how even Samsung is ahead of themselves and over promising on large panel OLED. (there is no OLED laptop screen) The defect rate is too high at current mass manufacturing technology. And I assure you no amount of chinese peasants is going to fix Apple not having OLED screen any time soon.
The technology is far more involved than Apple imagine. The problem is nobel level of complexity. My hunch, the reason Samsung can pull what Kodak and GE couldn't, they were pouring all their fab expertise on OLED manufacturing process. This is also I think why Apple's plan with CMI aren't looking too hot. (yield is crap)
-
HTC 'dismayed' by Apple's bizarre patent allegations
"HTC is dismayed that Apple has resorted to competition in the courts
rather than the market place," HTC general counsel Grace Lei said in a canned statement.The statement notes that HTC introduced a touch-screen smartphone in
June 2002 – a full five years before the iPhone made its debut. "As the
smart phone market matured," the statement asserts, "Apple initiated
litigation campaigns against many of its competitors, including HTC."Apple's latest complaint against HTC was filed last Friday with the
US International Trade Commission, and focuses on "Portable Electronic
Devices and Related Software". The patents involved, as listed on the USITC website
(account required), seem clearly aimed not only at HTC's smartphones,
but also its nascent tablet line, which currently consists of but one
product, the Flyer.One of the patents Apple cites, curiously, is entitled "Portable computers".
Though the patent describes a pen-shaped device with
accelerometer-sensed writing, its summary refers to "a portable computer
arranged to rest comfortably in the hand".----------------------
Apple's patented 'Portable computers' device is the spittin' image of an iPad, eh?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/12/htc_responds_to_apple_patent_attack/
Apple is getting desperate and simply shooting at all directions.
HTC Calls Apple an Uncompetitive Lawsuit Drama Queen
---------------------
When the table turns, Apple is going to fry, since a lot of current phone patents come from time of "iMac"/apple almost went bankrupt/didn't have anything worth money.
But most deadly are still OLED patents and apple's pathetic supply chain in the far east. And also, Apple only have ONE product. if iPhone is taken off the market, that's it for Apple. Game over. Everybody else has 2 dozens phones in the market.
-
iPhone market share plummets
OTOH: Worrying times for Apple in Europe
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/otoh/2011/07/10712-iphone-market-share-plummets-in-uk/?af
------------------------
so UK has now joined Korea, Japan, Taiwan number...
Wait until everybody see the result of $899 iPad at walmart .... now that is sad case of not in touch with market reality.
-
W3C Chastises Apple on HTML5 Patenting
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/235395/w3c_chastises_apple_on_html5_patenting.html
-
Judge is seriously contemplating a partial or complete stay of Oracle's lawsuit against GoogleI just discovered the latest order by Judge Alsup, the federal judge
presiding over Oracle's lawsuit against Google. It's a short order, but
its content is staggering: he appears to be giving at least serious
consideration to a partial or even complete stay of the case pending the
ongoing reexamination of Oracle's patents by the US Patent &
Trademark Office.Such a stay could be ordered before the end of
the month. Depending on its scope, even a partial stay could seriously
weaken Oracle's case, and depending on the extent to which the case
might be stayed, it's possible that even Oracle would at some point
prefer a complete stay and employ alternative litigation strategies,
such as ITC complaints against Android device makers refusing to pay the
$15-$20 per-unit royalty Oracle purportedly demands. -
uhhhh, court room judo...
I hope google win, then Oracle is next.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110712074100640
In another instance, the court's claim
construction opened up prior art that was not usable before (see Sec. A under Argument in the Motion). In
their obviously very thorough search for prior art, Google also found
references that it says demonstrate obviousness. (See Sections E, G and H under Argument in the Motion) In a fourth instance Google says
that Oracle's JavaOS itself is prior art, and JavaOS was publicly
available for more than a year prior to the asserted patent. (See Sec. C under Argument in the Motion)
Google has asked Oracle for JavaOS code, but Oracle has not been
forthcoming with the requested code, which Google calls discovery
abuse:
Google seeks to rely on Oracle's JavaOS product as anticipating the
claims of the '702
patent. Oracle stated in its infringement contentions that its "JavaOS"
product implements the
'702 patent, and it is undisputed that JavaOS was publicly released and
licensed more than a year
before the filing date of the '702 patent, invalidating the '702 patent
under 35 U.S.C. § 102 ("§ 102"). (See Exs. K and L.) However, Oracle did not produce
any JavaOS source code until May
2011, and has still not produced the JavaOS source code that
predates the '702 patent by a year.
In view of Google's persistence on this subject, Oracle just sent
Google a letter trying to amend
its infringement contentions without leave of the Court, and argue
that its identification of
JavaOS 1.0 as a product practicing the patent was "in error."
(See Ex. M.) Thus, Google's
difficulty in understanding and charting the relevant JavaOS
information is a direct result of
Oracle's own discovery abuse, as Oracle desperately tries to keep its
own invalidating product
out of the case.
Finally, one reference, while not
technically prior art, turned out to be significant in demonstrating
obviousness, due to an admission by the same inventor elsewhere:
Google seeks to add new charts F-7 and G-4 that disclose § 103
obviousness defenses for
the '447 and '476 patents. While Google had the Gong reference
when it served its Initial
Contentions, the materiality of Gong was not apparent because it
was published after the filing
date of the '447 and '476 patents. Thus, it is not technically
prior art. Upon further inspection,
however, Gong turns out to be highly material to the question of
these patents' validity. The
reference, which was authored by the named inventor on both the '447
and '476 patents,
essentially admits that the security methods claimed in the patents
would have been obvious
since they are just a collection of well-known security techniques.
(See Ex. O, Gong at
Introduction ("It is worth emphasizing that this work by itself does
not claim to break significant
new ground in terms of the theory of computer security. Instead, it
offers a real world example
where well-known security principles are put into engineering practice
to construct a practical
and widely deployed secure system.").)
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/12/2331212/Did-Google-Knowingly-Violate-Java-Patents
-
Oh, and those Oracle (Sun) inventors' documents that could not be
produced because they had been, according to Oracle, destroyed. Well,
according to Mr. Francis maybe not so much:
19. Attached to this declaration as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of
Oracle’s Supplemental Response to Google Interrogatory No. 13 (dated April 25, 2011),
stating that the inventors’ documents had been destroyed (“Oracle no longer has custodial
data for the following people because they left employment at Sun Microsystems some
time ago and their data was removed from Sun’s systems pursuant to Sun’s policies: Lars
Bak … Nedim Fresko, Robert Griesemer, … Li Gong, … Richard Tuck, …Frank
Yellin.”) (highlights added).
20. Attached to this declaration as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of an
excerpt from the transcript of the April 14, 2011 deposition of Lisa J. Ripley
acknowledging that the inventors’ documents had been destroyed (highlights added).
21. Attached to this declaration as Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of a
letter from Oracle to Google on June 22, 2011, stating that Oracle “recently identified”
documents associated with two of the named inventors.
Here are the
filings:
.
07/08/2011 - 208
- MOTION for Leave to File Supplement Invalidity Contentions filed by
Google Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Affidavit
Declaration of Mark Francis in support of Motion for Leave to Supplement
Invalidity Contentions, # 2 Proposed Order
Proposed Order Granting Google Inc's Motion for Leave to Supplement
Invalidity Contentions)(Sabnis, Cheryl) (Filed on 7/8/2011)
(Entered: 07/08/2011)
--------------------
I can't believe "dog ate my homework, is actually a legal argument in multi billion dollar suit.. lol
Show the code, bastard. -
Bring the patent litigation war to Taiwan? (Grind apple component supply to a halt, sue every single piece of components...Make samsung sue CMI/OLED. Grind TSMC to a halt, etc. etc. Global coordinated lawsuit.)
wow..... the possibility of Apple actually losing iPhone 5 production and miss holiday delivery is not trivial. Apple only has one product and one important market. So what if they win legal battle in the US. All their back end is in HTC and Samsung turf. Miss 2011 holiday season, there goes wall street sharks. I am not so sure what Apple is thinking. ....
Somebody should also launch a legal battle in Brazil. (apple alternate manufacturing facility.) ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Corporation
In March 2010, Apple Inc. filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission claiming infringement of 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone user interface and hardware.[10] HTC disagreed with Apple's actions and reiterated its commitment to creating innovative smartphones.[11]
HTC also filed a complaint against Apple for infringing on 5 of its
patents and sought to ban Apple products imported into the US from
manufacturing facilities in Asia.[12][13] Apple expanded its original complaint by adding two more patents.[14]
-
In the last days there are some rumors that Apple want to use OLEDs in their IPAD-3. Now we give you the hard facts why this rumor is NOT true.Samsungs
first production line from the 5.5G line starts the production in the
next two weeks.This first stage of production will turn out 24,000 substrates per month. Samsung Mobile display want to ramp up 3 lines of that 5.5G line, the monthly output of 4-inch panels can increase up to 8 million every month with these first 5.5G production line.
The market research company Isuppli thinks that could be possible in end of 2011.We know that the second line of the 5.5G production line this will be
ready in the second quarter of 2012 because of the japanese earthquacke
and the demand of panels. Another reason is that Samsung delay the investments for for the 6-9 inch size which are for the Tablet-Pc market to 2012.Samsung Mobile Display will concentrate on small-and medium sized panels with these two 5.5G lines. Samsung want to produce a 7 inch Galaxy Tab which using a OLED Display. Isuppli thinks that this can not be reached befor 2013. We think that this can be possible in 2012 for 7 inch panels.
http://www.oled-display.net/why-the-apple-ipad-3-will-have-no-oled-display
Samsung Mobile Displays first 5.5G production line is ready to produce AMOLED
panels. Samsung Mobile Displays said today 31.05.2011 it had started
production two months ahead of schedule. With that production line
Samsung Mobile Display will concentrate on small-and medium sized panels
for the smartphone, handheld market. The company plans two other 5.5G production lines. -
There are only about 20-40m unit per quarter. No way the key players are going to give it to Apple.
http://www.olednet.com/focus/focus_board/focus_view.asp?idx=397&mem_stat=0
To see the OLED shipments by country in 1st Quarter of 2010, Korea
recorded 9.1 million, Taiwan 7.42 million and Japan 5.8 million units
and Korea recorded and maintained steadily 1st position since Q3 2009.
Owing to Univision's quick development, Taiwan who has followed to Japan
in last Quarter became 2nd position in this Quarter just after Korea in
the shipments of OLED production. The OLED quarterly report for the 1st
Quarter 2010 covers the overall companies, product releases and
developments trends and by showing the OLED market trends in the last 3
years, it can make overview of the future OLED market.
----------------------
production plan 2010. Obviously didn't quite pan out because of global economic crisis and Japan earthquake.
http://www.olednet.com/focus/focus_board/focus_view.asp?idx=357&page=0&group=&field=&words=&mem_stat=&public_date=&list_chk=
-
CMI cuts 2011 expenditure by 20-30%, AMOLED development "still in progress"
http://www.oled-info.com/cmi-cuts-2011-expenditure-20-30-amoled-development-still-progress
again, and again. there is no way Apple can get OLED supply outside of Samsung...with LG and CMI at very distant.
-
I think it's IRICO.
http://www.cln-online.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1662:oled-in-china&catid=38:research&Itemid=100
At the end of 2010, small-sized OLED manufacturers in mainland China
included Visionox, Shanwei Truly, Sichuan CCO and IRICO. China’s first
AMOLED medium experimental line has been commissioned in Kunshan, which
acquired all the required production techniques at the end of 2010.
Shanghai Tianma and IRICO, respectively, are in process of constructing
G4.5 AMOLED production lines, with debut of mass production expected
within 2011, while BOE and Sichuan CCO are also actively engaged in
AMOLED R&D projects.
-
In other key areas like touchscreens and NAND flash
memory, it may be harder to break free of Samsung because of its
significant market share in sectors where supply shortages are often
seen. But other vendors will come into play, believe many observers.
"They have become more competitors and less partners and so I think
Apple will definitely not be looking to Samsung as its go-to partner of
choice for NAND flash," Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher &
Co, told the Reuters report. Samsung is the NAND flash market leader and
its nearest challenger is Toshiba, with Micron, Hynix and Intel making
up the rest of the top five, though with less than 10% share apiece.Apple
has already started diversifying its supply chain away from Samsung. It
recently added Taiwan's Chimei Innolux as a third supplier of mobile
displays, alongside Samsung and LG. The latter is important as the
designer of RetinaDisplay, the high resolution LCD technology used in
the iPhone 4, which itself enabled Apple to announce a very advanced
touchscreen without having to commit to Super AMOLED, which Samsung
controls. Hitachi is also likely to enter the Apple family on the
display side. It is planning to invest in Century Display, a partner of
Hon Hai Group (which also controls iPhone manufacturer Foxconn), in
order to bid for contracts such as 'iPad 3'. Sources report that Hitach
will transfer the IPS (in-plane switching, invented by Hitachi and used
in RetinaDisplay) to the Century plants.http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2011/07/12/apple-rift-5bn-windfall-samsung-rivals.htm
-
Samsung Foundry tapes out 20-nm ARM chip
LONDON – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has said that is foundry chip
making business has taped out an ARM processor test-chip intended for
manufacture in a 20-nm process with high-K metal-gate technology.
Samsung (Seoul, Korea) worked with IP licensor ARM Holdings plc
(Cambridge, England) and EDA companies Cadence Design Systems Inc. and
Synopsys Inc. to complete the design.
At 20-nm a different approach to chip design is required compared with
what has been used in the past, Samsung said. The company said its 20-nm
process includes new device structures, local interconnects, and
advanced routing rules. The company is switching to gate-last HKMG at
20-nm having used gate-first HKMG in its two previous HKMG generations
at 32- and 28-nm.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4217768/Samsung-Foundry-ARM-test-chip
Apple lost. Sorrry. I don't see how they can survive now by early next year.
-
Ice Cream Sandwich in 4:3 format
We got confirmation that Motorola is working on 4:3
format tablet for a while. It gets better, the prototypes are out and
our sources who have actually played with one of them claim that it’s a
4:3 format device with a 2048x1536 screen.
The sources continue
that the tablet is significantly thinner than Xoom and that it was
powered by Ice Cream Sandwich. We have confirmed that this version of OS
will finally unite the good things of Gingerbread Android 2.3 and
Honeycomb Android 3.0 and merge them both.
The tablet might be
out even this year and the source didn’t knew what kind of chip is
inside, but he had reminded us that Motorola works closely with Nvidia,
so this tablet might end up with Tegra 3, Kal-El inside.
http://www.fudzilla.com/notebooks/item/23418-motorola-working-on-10-inch-2048-x-1536-tablet -
How is it possible to hide gender if one is required to enter real name? Almost all real name is gender specific. This on top of data mining that name (see various friends, attribute, etc)
Once you enter real name, it's over google. So, either you expect fake names or allow full anonymity. ..
With that circle thing, it is not possible to compartmentalize information over time. belonging in 3-4 large circle, will pretty much means everything can be guessed.)
Just you wait until somebody harvest all those google names and match it with passwword/email address dictionary! Google, you just set yourself up as the weakest point in the entire internet link.
When people start dropping dead, then it's too late. Remember, you are basically building a unviersal ID system the size of 1 billion people with no ability to remove the interconnect afterward... Even social security number will look pathetically uninformative when it is done.
In the long term you are endangering everybody via your short sightedness. You are playing with people's life.
http://gizmodo.com/5820781/google%2B-now-lets-you-make-your-gender-private
-
squashed said:
How is it possible to hide gender if one is required to enter real name? Almost all real name is gender specific. This on top of data mining that name (see various friends, attribute, etc)
Once you enter real name, it's over google. So, either you expect fake names or allow full anonymity. ..
With that circle thing, it is not possible to compartmentalize information over time. belonging in 3-4 large circle, will pretty much means everything can be guessed.)
Just you wait until somebody harvest all those google names and match it with passwword/email address dictionary! Google, you just set yourself up as the weakest point in the entire internet link.
When people start dropping dead, then it's too late. Remember, you are basically building a unviersal ID system the size of 1 billion people with no ability to remove the interconnect afterward... Even social security number will look pathetically uninformative when it is done.
In the long term you are endangering everybody via your short sightedness. You are playing with people's life.
http://gizmodo.com/5820781/google%2B-now-lets-you-make-your-gender-private
not sure what the big deal. People (like me) have two types of facebooks, your real name and a pseudonym account. Just make a pseudonym account on google+ if you are that worried about it.Squashed P. Puffenballs, is it a boy? a girl? a hermaphrodite? the world may never know..... -
I am so making an account for a puffenballs clan. lol...
no what I mean, if google expects people to play by their rule, but at the same time not informing people about the significant lost of anonymity, I for one am ready to blame them for not having a foresight. Nobody else is building a system collecting this much data for that many people.
google is not just myspace/facebook clone. Cause it's going to be tied with gmail, android phone, e-stores, gps data...what have you. The size is also going to be much bigger.
Imagine a situation in the future, assuming android phone is still transmitting location, etc. ...one can overlay event map, calendar, and group list. You are not going to be able to ever organize a large event ever again without the internet taking note on each individual participant.
and this is not counting some yet to be discovered data mining techniques or unique social behavior never before observed until so many are recorded.
Bottom line. It seems google hasn't stop and think. What they are doing has much bigger impact than making cute web page and chat site. Facebook is nothing compared to what google going to be when it's finish. Facebook will be closer to a geocities page on last class summer trip from 1995 compared to google + data.
-
I hear ya, and yes you should go by Squashed P. Puffenballs.But.. at the same time, as more and more and ultimately nearly everyone gets on the whatever-social-network-wins system, announcing every fart from every location, it becomes one giant white noise (it's almost there as it is). True, anyone on the internet could find me & my fart, but when you are looking at a screen of white static noise, are you really trying to pinpoint the one pixel down and over there to the right? When everyone does something, nobody does anything, because it will only be the ones on the better than my network, louder than my voice, that anyone can possibly notice.That was fun to write!
-
There are more computing power available than data noise you can create from normal activity. I mean if you sit 20 years ago, you probably think a system than is big enough to record and index every written word ever produced by humanity is outlandish...but now, the biggest computer churn that much data each hour.
I think tracking 2-3billion individuals with tens of thousand data for each is not hard to imagine.
Imagine some mad poli-sci/carl rove type start data mining entire US population, a pharmaceutical company doing population genetic mapping,. or some war on terror zealots.. now glue them all together ...not pretty...
-
on a side note... lol @ ---> http://dvice.com/archives/2011/07/how-sad-13-of-a.php
-
Apple compensates iPhone user for collecting location data without consent
Apple Inc's Korean unit has paid compensation to an iPhone user
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8637781/Apple-compensates-iPhone-user-for-collecting-location-data-without-consent.html
after collecting location data without consent, lawyers and court
officials said, in the first such payout by the US company over these
complaints.
-
Google ready for war, plans to hire patent experts
In order to do so, the company is currently looking to hire
a team of patent lawyers and experts that will be responsible for
“patent-related protection, licensing, dispute resolution
(pre-litigation and litigation), acquisition, deals and policy work.”
Key word here being “acquisition.” This team of patent specialists will
also have to:- Determine strategic areas for patenting
- Negotiate patent related deals including licensing and acquisitions
- Respond to notice letters and assist with patent litigation
- Evaluate and reply to potential acquisitions and licensing opportunities
- Generally educate researchers and engineers on patent issues
In other words, Google is going to be patenting a whole lot of stuff
from now on, while acquiring a bunch of companies. Of course, this Super
Friends of lawyers will also help Google in its current fight with
Oracle and other patent trolls.-------------------
Fer fuck sake GOOGLE.....
SPRINT is bleeding badly. (you can buy or make patent deal with them cheaper than paying nortel crap) Sprint market chap is not that big either.
CISCO is bleeding badly. (who knows what networking patent they have related to voice, video, and telephony. make deal)
Raise half a trillion from open market and start buying those patents and companies. ...or even bigger number. Money is CHEAP. I mean REALLY CHEAP. half a trillion to .8 trillion is nothing with google brand name.
Taking down microsoft is easy, oracle is a lot harder. Apple is already dead. They don't know it yet. The economy is going to get worst. A LOT worst. So if Google can offer server spot and networking service at 1/10 the cost, on top of free software... The whole thing will implode before the litigation is done.
I still say, google best strategy would be start working with small "pay go" out fit and buy fiber optic companies and start covering ground in high density urban area. Make deal with small towns. Manucipalities are all bleeding money and can use cheap communication system. (low cost all in one phone/video/office/email service?) Easy money.
Quit playing small stuff and play big. REALLY BIG... Crush those fuckers already.
-
So what should you do on Google+?
Be interesting! Be personal! Take risks and chances and put yourself
out there! Talk about your failures, your heartaches, your hopes. Tell
me how shitty your boss or your lover or your life is. Tell me about the
plans for your new startup. Tell me about the thing you got away with.
Tell me your dirty secrets. Tell me you love me. Tell me you hate me.
Just fucking tell me.Post something that isn't yet another pointless rumination on
Google+, or a self-serving link back to your latest fucking post
(guilty), or picture of your kid (ditto), or any of those other things
that have made Facebook and Twitter so damn tiresome. I don't want to
hear about your fucking brand or your fucking column or your fucking
thoughts on what it all fucking means.If that's the kind of bullshit you're posting to Google+; you're
ruining it. Just like you ruined Twitter, you self-absorbed cowardly
asshole.What Twitter and Facebook and Foursquare and the rest failed to take
into account is that that we want to have secrets from our friends. We
want to share this piece of data—be it a party photo or status update or
ultrasound image or current location—selectively with a small
tight-knight group. We want to semi share it.Google+ finally lets you do that. Which has the capacity to make it
really, really interesting, and really really vital. So please. Stop
being so fucking boring.I know. It's scary. I'll go first.
http://gizmodo.com/5821335/so-what-the-hell-are-we-supposed-to-put-on-google%2B
-
Like the A81 tablet, the WitsTech A91 tablet PC also features a clear
and vibrant 7-inch capacitive screen, but with a better resolution of
1024x600. It has a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based CPU, allegedly supplied by
Texas Instruments' OMAP3730 processor. There’s 512MB RAM, 2GB flash
memory and 1.3MP camera.The A91 has a huge improvement in terms of looks when compared to the
A81 tablet PC. The tacky physical buttons on the front are bumped off
to give way for neat touch buttons. It also has a removable battery pack
to house a 3000mAh capacity battery. Plus, there’s GPS and Bluetooth
and optional support for 3G connectivity.Although the price and availability hasn’t been revealed by WitsTech
yet, it is expected to be reasonably priced. What’s more? It runs the
latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.http://shanzai.com/index.php/news-a-articles/tablets-a-gadgets/10/1159.html
The low cost chinese manufacturer start using more powerful chip. can't wait until nVidia start dishing out low cost dual processor. ..that will change computing forever if the whitebox maker putting it for $250-299 like Nook color.
-
A class-action lawsuit launched by an attorney in South Korea against
Apple has drawn more than 17,000 iPhone users, according to Korea JoongAng Daily.Plaintiffs are demanding that Apple pay damages for inflicting
emotional distress on them through the smartphone's controversial
location tracking feature.this gonna end in trans pacific firework for sure. Next thing you know Apple has to make their own iPhone in Arizona or some place like that.
-
..........hmmmm.......
senior R&D? after last tsmc 40nm shenanigans? interesssstiiinnggg..
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/company-focus/2011/07/07/309018/Former-TSMC.htm
Liang Meng-sung, a former senior
official at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), has
reportedly been hired by Samsung, which has shown great ambition to
expand its presence in the semiconductor contract manufacturing sector.The Korean firm has vowed to expand its foundry capacity over the next five years to compete with the world's leading foundry.
According to yesterday's United Evening News, Liang will assume the
position of R&D vice president of Samsung at the end of June. The
report also said that TSMC has issued an internal memo, asking employees
to cut off contacts with Liang or other officials hired by competing
firms. Liang's history with TSMC and Samsung goes back a long
time. He had been a senior R&D official at TSMC and had been the
heir-apparent to Chiang Peng-sung, TSMC's research and development
chief.
-
It will also raise the production of low-cost smartphones as
mid-range smartphones are replacing low-end cell phones that cannot surf
the Web or download applications. Shin forecast that mass-market
smartphones will become available for as low as US$150 and Samsung will
try to advance into that price bracket before December.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/n_interview/2011/07/18/39/4801000000AEN20110718000300320F.HTML
-
This phone has winning design. But it's Acer, they don't have experience/connection with carrier. (don't know who to bribe)
Make it thinner, $3-400, remove bottom buttons, Android 4.0, AMOLED And this phone will be The next super hot seller, if they can put it on carrier. I'll buy this phone for $500 unlocked if they keep OS update through android 4.0. Maybe Acer should hook up with NEC and divvy up the world market monopoly, they have the thinnest phone in the planet right now.
-
Nokia, the biggest maker of mobile phones by volume, may
sell as few as 90 million handsets this quarter, driven by a
slump in low-end feature phones, said Andy Perkins, a London-
based analyst at Societe Generale. Second-quarter shipments
probably declined 14 percent to 96 million phones, according to
the average estimate of 29 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.Except for a recession-related dip in early 2009, Nokia
hasn’t shipped fewer than 100 million phones in a quarter for
the past four years. The shrinkage means Nokia may start to use
part of its 6.4 billion euros ($9 billion) in net cash and
liquid assets while the company seeks to revive its unprofitable
Nokia Siemens Networks venture, said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst
at Greenwich, Connecticut-based MKM Partners.“The fear is that they’ll guide third-quarter shipments
below 90 million which means they could start burning cash at a
rapid clip,” Kuittinen said in a phone interview. “Nokia is
geared to maintaining its manufacturing and distribution
footprint at 100 million phones a quarter and it’s difficult to
scale that down rapidly.”Both RIM and Nokia are gone. They'll just be a minor players from now on. (Nokia-Siemens will be the true cause of Nokia death. No more gear leverage.)
-
Apple Crushes Earnings, As Usual Guides Below Expectations, 62% Of Sales Come From Abroad
Here is the summary of the beat:
- Revenues: $28.6 billion on Exp. of $25.02 billion
- EPS: $7.79 on Exp. of $5.87
- Q3 Gross Margin of 41.7% on exp. of 39.2%
- Sold 9.25 million iPads on expectations of 7.8 million
- Sold 3.95 million Macs on expectations of 4.2 million
- Sold 20.34 million iPhones
- Sold 7.54 million iPods
- International sales account for 62% of total revenue
And once again guides below expectations:
- Sees Q4 Revenues of $25 billion on Estimate of $27.73 billion
- Sees Q4 EPS of $5.50 on Estimate of $6.41
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/apple-crushes-earnings
-
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-deleting-accounts-en-masse-no-clear-answers/567
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers
------
I think Google is about to make one of the biggest mistake in computing history if they keep at it. They are trying to insist on something that is neither humanly possible, nor legal in a lot of countries. What's worst, I am willing to bet, they are trying to build a database where the assumption is handle equal to real life identity, who knows why they need it. But I can guess.
Assuming they can persuade enough people to join to achieve this, and not being hacked to pieces because what they gather is just too valuable. I for one envision massive litigation in the future, or some sort of unknown social hack that will cripple a nation. (eg. bank run, grid overloading, market crash, etc.)
sooner or later some clever fool will data mine the relationship, and think it's good enough to represent "real" life interaction and he tries to make money out of it. Except after a while, so much of it depends on this database, it start spewing nonsense data and it brings down everything.
Things start not making any sense. (eg. if anybody will randomly gets erased, of course somebody will want to create fake and back up account, whereby destroying what they try to do from the get go. If the account becomes so valuable, of course somebody will fake it, etc...etc...)
This not to mention people with same names...then what?
... yeah google. this is the part the entire world chuckle and roll eyes. You just don't get social. Running around killing net account? Not very social is it? Your bad karma will be so high, people will start blowing up your buildings all over the world when you are done with google +.
-
This is HIGHLY ILLEGAL in a lot of countries!
(you start asking for government ID/data, then you have legal obligation attached to it. US is sort of the backwater barbarian/corporate freeland, but not EU.)
It's called social responsibility google. Get to know it. You have no idea how evil you are about to become. Truly, very evil. You are going to be associated with most evil names in history, arbitrarily taking people's paper. Now its just a cute joke and spammy internet account, but it will get there. Once scheme like war on terror, n5@, people tracking, gps phone, bank transaction, political bickering, stuff like that.
tis can only be described as "DUMB". There is a reason why anonymity on the net has long and complex history.
-----------------They are asking the ex-employee for ID verification. Kirrily “Skud” Robert continues,
It then asks me for my name (uh, don’t you know
that already?), email (ditto), link to my profile (ditto), and asks me
to provide documentation. I can either give them a scan of my photo ID
(obscuring “personal information”, whatever that means), or links to
places on the web that demonstrate that this is my name.They suggest using Facebook (the site that allows Google
founder Sergey Brin to go under a pseudonym, and whose own founder has a
page for his dog) as evidence. I have something better, though, because
I expected this to happen and I had already collated my evidence. I linked to that page and submitted the form.
-
Well known nerdcore rapper Doctor Popular lost his account today - like Lady Ada, he’s also a personality in tech circles, and a Laughing Squid contributor. He tweeted,
It appears my Google+ profile has been suspended
because it lists my name as Doctor Popular instead of Brian Roberts.
Totally lamehole.Would they do the same to Lady Gaga? Currently there are multiple Lady Gaga accounts.
-
RE: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers
http://plusinclusive.blogspot.com/2011/07/if-we-cant-dance-dont-want-to-be-part.html
We're
organizing a "positive protest" in Boston, where we're creating
"paperdoll" cutouts of our banned friends, and going down to the Google
offices Friday afternoon to dance with them. They'll be labeled
"childhood abuse survivor" and "off duty cop" and "Second Life artist"
and all the various reasons people have to use handles and pseudonyms.
It's part of online culture, it's just part of CULTURE now.
If
you're in Boston, come join us. It's all good fun. Turn this around.
If you're not in Boston, if there's a Google office near you, bring a
cutout banned friend and dance there on Friday and every Friday until
they get it. Invite tech press. Invite students. Invite art press.
Bring cameras and cell phones and post to G+ and every kind of social
media. Have some fun. They're not being evil. They're being tech
executives over 50 (present company excluded, I just intimately know
whereof I speak). We'll dance until they get it. We'll make the
arguments socially, economically, and with our feet one way and another.
I'd rather fix it than kill it though. Let's dance before we walk. -
Morons. let me deactivate my account. (Score:5, Insightful)
by unity100 (970058) on Sunday July 24, @02:47AM (#36860934) Homepage Journal
its a good way to lose business. google should congratulate the morons running these policies. they killed google+ before it started for me.
and on another note, this situation basically drew my attention to the fact that relying on google is not a good thing.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/24/0441238/Google-Account-Suspensions-Over-ToS-Drawing-Fire -
yeah, I keep Aaron Driggers the day job me separate from Aaron Driggers of tsuru industries inc very separate for a reason. I don't need, a) the people I work with (or want to work with) or more importantly b) the people I actually do real business with all over the world being part of my tsuru life. I like the separation, it keeps me quite happy.A lot of people I work with in some form or fashion are online and have friended the Aaron Driggers facebook, they found me. If I'm forced to make my google+ account Aaron Driggers, well, what I share with "the public" will be greeeeeeatly reduced. Actually, I'll probably just not use it.
-
I think the basic idea is to have a system for persistence tracking. So google for eg. can track somebody smoothly and continuously by combining gps/phone, internet account, IP, sales log, etc.
Your android phone for eg. is sending hardware ID + email and location, so if they can combined with social networking account and addressbook, they pretty much have triplicate of your social activities and interaction pattern. You are not going to be able to get away just by erasing one account or another. You have to get rid of the entire triplicate, and that means, your phone number, IP, google accounts...and soon, entire money transactions.
Why google is so hell bent on creating this is the question. I mean if all they want is selling effective add, or knowing basic online interaction to sell ad.
my take.
separate your google account from google+ , and definitely do not link your android phone/purchases to everything else. Use multiple/disposable account.
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Categories
- All Discussions3,267
- General2,523
- Band Promotion217
- Blog Promotion259
- MP3 Blog Tips148
- MP3 Blog Tools120
- Private Messages0
And the patents (from http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/itc-judge-finds-htc-in-infringement-of.html [blogspot.com]) are:
U.S.
Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action
on a structure in computer-generated data" (in its complaint, Apple
provides examples such as the recognition of "phone numbers, post-office
addresses and dates" and the ability to perform "related actions with
that data"; one example is that "the system may receive data that
includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in response
to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the user the
choice of making a phone call to the number")
U.S. Patent No.
6,343,263 on a "real-time signal processing system for serially
transmitted data" (while this sounds like a pure hardware patent, there
are various references in it to logical connections, drivers, programs;
in its complaint, Apple said that this patent "relates generally to
providing programming abstraction layers for real-time processing
applications")
I think I violated these patents just reading this article.