Friday Evening Links

.... they wouldn't be in this predicament. It's the old reap what you sow, or what goes around comes around, or you could say Karma, etc etc

Careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

Apple even did a deal with the devil in order to damage its competitors. Apple truly is unscrupulous:
»techcrunch.com/2011/12/09/apple-···t-troll/

I hope the rise of this kind of patent abuse leads to significant reform which in effect voids these licenses and agreements, puts these type of companies out of business--- and hopefully--- costs the partners who helped them (Like Apple) lose millions or billions.

From where I stand, its Apple that has had its technologies copied without compensation for FAR too long. This is nothing but a small retaliatory investment in a company that will inflict upon its competitors a fraction of what it has continued to endure.

Xerox fanboy. Read about what Apple did to xerox and quit drinking the fanboy kool-aid.

Apple sucks other peoples ideas in makes them better and spits them back out. The company started by cheating/copying and over the history of the company its all theyve done. Poor fanboy cant open a history book.

Microsoft on the other hand, made its first fortune not from their own coding (their Basic interpreters were substantial, but NOT enough to make the company what it became, or even survive the late 80's)

... and the Microsoft sale to IBM was only consummated because the developer of competing CPM/86 (Digital Research) blew off the IBM brass that came to negotiate the final deal.

None of that matters a hill of beans. We're talking about Apple's abuse of the far-too-easily-abused patent system.
Jim

(CP/M-86, btw.)

by a study funded by google. Big surprise there. When microsoft funded a browser study a year or so ago, IE was the most secure. The study firm aims to please they who paid for the study. Also, chromes version of ABP does not truly block ads, it only hides them, which does not prevent them from running malicious scripts. Im sure, by 100% that this study was tilted in googles favor by twisting stats(as these companies usually do), or omiting stats(happens all the time).

Despite the potential for a conflict of interest, Accuvant is a well-respected firm, and its researchers have performed a thorough and fair study, even making the tools they used to test the browsers publicly available. It’s no shock that Google’s browser was found to be relatively secure: In the annual widely-watched Pwn2Own hacking competitions, Chrome emerged three consecutive years unscathed, even after posting an extra $20,000 bounty for anyone who could break its sandbox restrictions.

Nor are Accuvant’s findings entirely positive for Google. It points out that Chrome fails to effectively blacklist malicious URLs, though neither of the other browsers fared better on that front.

Lightsquare = failed.

LightSquared's planned 4G wireless network caused "harmful interference" to the majority of GPS receivers used in recent government testing of the network, according to reports citing a draft version of the test results.

National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems Engineering Forum said "a great majority" of the commercial and military GPS units tested suffered from interference.

And news service Bloomberg, which said it saw the draft, from testing conducted Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, reported that it showed that "millions of fielded GPS units are not compatible" with the planned network.

After that, the FCC is expected to decide if the system is good to go.

The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems Engineering Forum plans to offer its final report on this recent testing to the Commerce Department before the end of the year.

The Journal reported that LightSquared has called for a government investigation of the leaked draft and has said that the preliminary results are inaccurate because in practice the network would operate at a lower power level, thus lessening its effect on GPS receivers.

"By ignoring this commitment by LightSquared, this conclusion is erroneously based on estimated power levels that are up to 15 times the levels guaranteed by LightSquared," the Journal quoted Martin Harriman, LightSquared's executive vice president of ecosystem development and satellite business, as saying.

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Philip Falcone’s proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service caused interference to 75 percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test, according to a draft summary of results.

The results from testing conducted Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 show that “millions of fielded GPS units are not compatible” with the planned nationwide wholesale service, according to the draft seen by Bloomberg News.

“LightSquared signals caused harmful interference to majority of GPS receivers tested,” according to the draft prepared for a meeting next week of U.S. officials reviewing the LightSquared proposal. “No additional testing is required to confirm harmful interference exists.”

no one's mentioned about WebOS. It's not as dead as some people have touted it to be. Now that it's open source, hopefully there would be developers working on many more apps than what's out there.