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The Telecom Digest for December 28, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 332 : "text" Format
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:01:41 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: High stakes fueling patent wars
Message-ID: <1cetDB.A._XF.Oue-OB@telecom>
High stakes fueling patent wars
No clear victor as firms fight it out in court
By Hiawatha Bray
Globe Staff / December 26, 2011
A patent lawsuit won last week by iPhone maker Apple Inc. represented
a single victory in a global legal war, with giant corporations
fighting for control of the technologies behind smartphones and
computers, potentially resulting in less appealing devices or higher
prices for consumers.
Technology firms like Google Inc., Samsung Corp., Microsoft Corp.,
and especially Apple - which is one of the most active combatants -
are embroiled in about 100 patent lawsuits in at least 10 countries.
The stakes are high: potential domination of the multibillion-dollar
market for smartphones, tablet computers, and the software that runs
them. One successful lawsuit could generate millions in patent
licensing fees for the victor, or it could force a rival firm to
modify the way its devices work - even removing features users
treasure.
So far, no company has landed a knockout blow. But Apple, creator of
the popular iPhone, has scored a number of victories over the makers
of phones using Google's competing Android software. The result: a
series of small, but significant limitations on the functions of
Android phones.
Last Monday, the US International Trade Commission said Taiwanese
phone maker HTC violated an Apple patent covering a relatively minor
feature: the ability of a user to add an e-mailed phone number to his
list of contacts with one touch.
The ruling applies only to phones made by HTC, but because the
feature is built into many Android phones from other manufacturers,
it could ultimately cause all of them to eliminate the feature.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/12/26/high_stakes_fueling_patent_wars/
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:19:20 -0500
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: misc: spies, spies, everywhere there are spies...
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1112271215270.243@panix5.panix.com>
Story about the Perkin-Elmer spymasters talking about their
contribution to making the world safe for democracy...
- while the KH spy satellite program was a kind-of open secret, the
workers were only released from their secrecy oaths a few months
ago. (modulo certain aspects, of course).
So they're now blabbing to their bartenders:
http://www.kfoxtv.com/ap/ap/aerospace/decades-later-a-cold-war-secret-is-revealed/nF7DM/
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
***** Moderator's Note *****
Ice Station Zebra was published in 1963, so it was a very open
secret to judge from that and other novels that described super-
capable spy satellites. One of the central elements of Alistair
MacLean's plot hinged on the inability of the Soviets to recover film
canisters in mid-air the way the U.S. did, so neither the satellites
nor the recovery method were all that "secret".
The only real secret that the satellites revealed was that the
Soviet Union's terrifying "Red Menace" war machine was, as almost
every defector told them for nothing, "painted rust". The CIA chose to
keep that secret very well, since it endangered the incredible
profits that Bush 42 and his friends were making from armaments, from
aircraft, and from incredibly expensive spy satellites.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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