‘Uncool’ Samsung muscles ahead of Apple (via AFP) Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as “cool” as bitter rival Apple’s, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market. The South Korean giant first took Apple’s smartphone top spot in [...]
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iPhone 5 Lands
THE ANTICIPATED announcement comes with questions, because Apple is no longer making the phone on tech earth. From CNET: Apple made the case today that its newly unveiled iPhone 5 should take its rightful spot atop the smartphone food chain. But for seemingly the first time, it’s not exactly a slam dunk that Apple’s device [...]
Amazon Gets Major E-book Victory in Court
APPLE GOT STUNG and so did HaperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster when late last week U.S. District Judge Denise Cote approved a settlement with the three publishers accused of conspiring with Apple to fix prices against Amazon’s “agency model.” From Politico: With her ruling, Cote set in motion the termination of contracts between Apple [...]
News Desk: Apple Wins Big in Samsung Suit
In all counts but the claims about iPad design, the jury ruled overwhelmingly in Apple’s favor. [Wired] THE JURY SLAPS Samsung with six patent violations and hands down $1.05 billion in damages as one of the largest intellectual-property awards in history. From the Wall Street Journal: Nine jurors delivered a sweeping victory to Apple Inc. [...]
Lies and Artistic License, of Mike Daisey, and Our Politics
The truth isn’t good enough any more, if you can even find it amid the rubble of American rhetoric. Deception, lies, and artistic license in artistry, we see the tension every day in politics. Obama reelect called out for massaging the message on his mother’s illness. Joe Scarborough applying the false equivalency to Obama’s contraceptive [...]
A Word from Amb. Joseph Wilson about The Hillary Effect
“During the primary elections that pitted Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama, Taylor was the leading analyst of, and most articulate critic of the campaign to smear Ms. Clinton and ultimately to demean her as ‘just a girl’ with a brush off the shoulder. Her book “The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of [...]
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Apple’s Siri, Obama’s ‘Present,’ Mitt’s Flips
Petition to Apple: Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics in California? Apple: Stop promoting anti-choice extremists. If a user asks for family planning services, they should be directed to a group that offers full services, like Planned Parenthood–not to a hard-right clinic with an extremist agenda. Siri, iPhone’s new voice assistant, won’t tell you where you [...]
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