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Apple Pushes for Clarification on Licensing of FRAND Patents
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Dow Jones Newswires reports that Apple filed a letter with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) last November pushing for clarification on how standards-essential patents are intended to be licensed. These standards-essential patents are currently required to be licensed under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms in order to promote...
Enterprises to cloud: Ready or not, here we come
gigaom.com
The number of diehards who resist the notion of running business apps in the cloud is dwindling. More than a third of end users polled recently feel that the cloud is safe for mission-critical applications, according to new research. The 2012 Future of Cloud Survey, sponsored by North Bridge Venture...
Religious websites contain more malware than porn
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People who browse religious websites are more likely to have their computers infected with a virus than those who visit pornographic websites, according to Symantec’s annual “Internet Security Threat Report.” The firm found that websites with religious or ideological themes had triple the average number of threats than those...
Foxconn says CEO Gou absolutely did not confirm work on an Apple television
thenextweb.com
Following speculation that suggested its CEO Terry Gou had confirmed was gearing up to start work on Apple’s new television sets, Foxconn has moved to clarify its position by stating such reports are “not accurate.” In a written statement to The Next Web, Foxconn said that Gou had “neither [confirmed]...
DEAR PEOPLE WHO THINK APPLE IS GOING TO $1,000 A SHARE: Here's Why You Might Be Idiots... (AAPL)
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Yesterday, Apple broke the $500 billion barrier. This prompted many people, including me, to wonder whether it could get to $1 trillion. And the answer to this question seems the same as it was when Apple was $200 a share--yes, it can. A lot has to go right, of...
Released at last: Beatsurfing is one of the coolest music iPad apps, EVER
thenextweb.com
It was dubbed the music production interface of the future, the most app-y MIDI controller ever, and highlighted pre-launch by blogs like co.Design and The Verge, but now it is finally here: as of today, you can download the übercool Beatsurfing iPad app. It’s priced 10 euros (or $11.99) so...
Microsoft quandary: Can Windows-first policy still work in the iPad era?
gigaom.com
A report that Microsoft will hold back on Office for iPad and Android devices until it’s safely ensconced on Windows 8 tablets and Windows phones illustrates Microsoft’s quandary in the tablet age. On the one hand, Microsoft has a vested interest in making Office ubiquitous — it is by far the...
More question marks over Twitter, as developers found to be forbidden from monitoring its API
thenextweb.com
Twitter is already coming under intense scrutiny from the developer community, after outlawing the creation of new third party clients and, more recently, suggested that more restrictions are coming, and that’s not likely to be helped by Pingdom stumbling upon a clause within the microblogging service’s API Terms of Service which expressly forbids monitoring of its...
More Than Five Percent of Free Mobile Apps Include Adware
allthingsd.com
Overly aggressive ad networks — which can change users’ phone settings, send notifications and/or covertly access personally identifiable information — are present in five percent of free apps, according to new research by mobile security company Lookout. Lookout estimates that mobile apps with this kind of privacy-violating adware have been...
New-look integrator Appirio raises $60M
gigaom.com
Narinder Singh Appirio, the systems integrator that pioneered early software-as-a-service implementations, has netted $60 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic. That brings total investment in the company to $80 million. General Atlantic, a growth equity firm, joins current investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. The company built its business...
Apple gets support from Cisco on need to curb FRAND abuse
fosspatents.blogspot.com
This is my fourth blog post today on a FRAND statement by a major tech company. In the first one, I published an Apple letter (dated November 11, 2011, but discovered only yesterday) to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), proposing a framework that would give meaning to FRAND. Microsoft...
Noise Free Wireless alleges Apple is tone deaf over sound reduction patent, files lawsuit to match
www.engadget.com
Apple faces litigation claiming that it's using patented technology all the time, often from small patent holding companies with dollar signs in their eyes. Noise Free Wireless has just filed a patent lawsuit against Apple whose allegations are considerably, well, louder. The firm maintains that it had been pitching...
If it looks like a bubble, and it feels like a bubble…
gigaom.com
The debate over whether we are in a technology bubble — and if so, what kind of bubble it might be — flared up again over the weekend, sparked by a piece in the New York Times that said venture-capital investors are encouraging startups to forego revenue so they...
Tim Cook makes clear-cut distinction between standard-essential patents and other patents
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Tim Cook was the guest star at the opening session of the D10 conference yesterday. AllThingsD, which organizes D10, published this video of the part of the discussion that covered the ongoing wireless patent disputes.The first question was whether the patent wars are a problem for innovation. Tim Cook reiterated...
Ron Conway Makes It Clear That SV Angel Is David Lee’s Fund (And It Might Be Raising Another $400M)
techcrunch.com
Silicon Valley is full of unsung heroes: Mike Krieger, Arash Ferdowsi, interns, the TechCrunch sales team, Heather Harde and the countless engineers that keep the products we love from failing to be the products we love. One of these unsung heroes is SV Angel’s David Lee, who has served as a mentor and...
Data-driven publishing: How Hiptype hopes to be the Google Analytics for eBooks
thenextweb.com
If an online business wants to know the behaviour of (potential) customers, there are a plethora of tools out there to help them know. There’s Google Analytics, for starters. With such tools, they can glean crucial data, such as where customers decide to abandon the check-out process, or which sections...
Penvue turns any surface into an interactive display
venturebeat.com
Let’s face it, whatever revolution interactive displays and whiteboards were supposed to deliver hasn’t happened — and it likely never will. While great in theory, most interactive displays are expensive, difficult to maintain, and aren’t big enough for large groups. Electronics company Interphase today is launching something that could...
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Has Less Than 2% Global Smartphone Market Share (MSFT)
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The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. MSFT Up In Red Tech Tape Markets are up slightly in early trading on decent economic data including housing starts, initial jobless claims (last week) as well as Core PPI figures. Shares...
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Has Less Than 2% Global Smartphone Market Share (MSFT)
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The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. MSFT Up In Red Tech Tape Markets are up slightly in early trading on decent economic data including housing starts, initial jobless claims (last week) as well as Core PPI figures. Shares...
Amazon outages -- lessons learned
gigaom.com
Two recent Amazon outages over the past month certainly got everyone’s attention. One, in late June, was sparked by a violent thunderstorm which cut power, setting up a chain of events that put many Amazon customers offline for hours. That came just two weeks after another significant outage in the same...
Google Defends The DMCA's Safe Harbors Against The MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them In Hotfile Case
www.techdirt.com
We've noted that the MPAA's case against Hotfile is surprisingly weak, and seems to be arguing that usage alone is proof of Hotfile's complicity in any infringement done by users. This is a strange argument, which is more smoke and mirrors than anything legit. It's as if the MPAA believes...
Google Defends The DMCA's Safe Harbors Against The MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them In Hotfile Case
Facebook converts Stories from an app to a site, offering up justification for social obsession
thenextweb.com
As social networking has woven its way into the fabric of our existence, it has taken on a reputation for being a time suck that destroys our ability to be self sufficient. The highest profile of those networks, Facebook and Twitter, obviously have a vested interest in improving that opinion. That’s why...
The Stats Used To Support Cybercrime 'Threats' Just As Bogus As Hollywood's 'Loss' Claims
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While the latest attempt to pass a cybersecurity bill may be on ice for now, it'll be back... and with it there will be a lot more hyperbole about how urgent this is because of various massive "losses" already happening due to cybersecurity problems. Of course, nearly all of the...
Thunderbolt for PCs a reality as Ivy Bridge launch nears
www.extremetech.com
If you’re a PC user dreaming of Thunderbolt, today’s news will be music to your ears. According to reports, Intel has begun shipping its second-generation Thunderbolt controller, which means motherboards supporting the technology (like Intel’s DZ77GA) and the company’s next generation CPU will be able to ship. Cactus Ridge is Intel’s...
How startups can hack the PR machine
gigaom.com
Six months ago my company hadn’t even launched. Last week we found ourselves being talked about everywhere in Britain — a full page story in The Sun, the country’s biggest newspaper, columns in most of the other nationals (both online and offline) and pickup in literally hundreds of regional newspapers,...
Why Are People Resigning Before The Copyright Industries’ Will?
torrentfreak.com
In a discussion thread concerning a recent book from myself and Christian Engström, Member of European Parliament, people were concerned. The book is titled “The Case For Copyright Reform”, and is a collection of the most relevant essays over the past year, as well as reproducing contributions from Mike Masnick,...
27-Year-Old Kellee Khalil Is Taking On Pinterest, The Knot, And Federated Media With Her Startup, Loverly
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One week before Kellee Khalil launched her wedding photo startup, Loverly, she received a coffee invitation from a business strategist at The Knot. "We have $70 million to buy competitors just so we can shut them down," Khalil was told. Intimidated but not discouraged, the 27-year-old entrepreneur pursued Loverly....
27-Year-Old Kellee Khalil Is Taking On Pinterest, The Knot, And Federated Media With Her Startup, Loverly
Cash-strapped? How to pay for services with your startup’s equity
thenextweb.com
From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. It’s a logical solution. After all, cash may be in short supply, but there’s a virtually endless amount of work to...
Facebook champions mobile web app development
venturebeat.com
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and with the help of more than 30 device manufacturers, carriers, and developers, Facebook is willing the creation of more applications built expressly for the mobile web. The social network announced two mobile web initiatives Monday with the intent of fixing mobile...
Smallknot Helps Locals Raise Cash To Keep Their Favorite Small Biz Alive
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Three former Wall Streeters have come up with a way for consumers to lend to their favorite small biz and have a real stake in their community. Smallknot connects shoppers with local mom-and-pops in need of a smallish loan using a model that's part crowdfunding à la Kickstarter and microfinancing used on...
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