* Posts by Shagbag

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Sony: Our Xperia S tab COPIED Samsung's slab ... on price

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Re: Sony the brand

Couldn't agree more. Their reputation is still in tatters.

The 2005 Sony BMG CD Rootkit.

The 2010 PS3 Linux Shutdown.

....etc.

The Sony F**K-YOU-CUSTOMER! bandwagon continues.

Acer to launch Windows Phone 8 smartphone in 2013

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The handsets will be Android-based, with the exception of the one Windows Phone 8 model

Apple's anti-Android FUD hasn't got through to Acer yet.

On a separate note, I'm glad to see Acer is offering a solitary WinPho8 in its line-up. At least it gives consumers choice - something Apple is not too happy about.

Samsung: We can't find any child labour at our Chinese contractor

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For real?

Take the blindfold off then.

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

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Re: Oh my here we go.

Agreed.

Is there no end to Apple's quest for self-destruction? Despite their 'win', the feedback from the Apple v Samsung case has been negative towards them with many (finally) waking up to the realisation that patents in the software industry retard innovation.

This latest attempt will come back to haunt them.

Huawei picks Android for new tablets and smartphones

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But I keep hearing Android is 'Dead' after Apple v Samsung

Why are Huawei making this decision? Hasn't anyone told them Android is dead now that the Jury favoured - sorry, favored - Apple? They must be really, really stupid at Huawei. They must all be idiots who don't read newspapers.

Apple and Google in talks to end patent war?

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Apple vs Samsung

The BBC has published a jawdropping interview with the Jury Foreman.

"Not that there's anything [wrong] with older prior art - but the key was that the hardware was different, the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error.... the key was you could not replace one for the other."

This confirms what he said in the Bloomberg interview. LMFAO. Despite this 'test' being completely inappropriate, its clear he never attempted to run Samsung's TouchWiz on Apple's iOS.

What an A1, top-of-the-wazza, complete and unadulterated f**kup.

There is no way the current verdict will stand on appeal.

P.S. the reason why I'm publishing this here is because El Reg hasn't published the Bloomberg interview nor the BBC interview. Go figure.

Sony unwraps James Bond's new Droidphone

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Re: XPeria S a 20" tablet? - According to the BBC, it is...

Typical BBC tech report.

If you can't take the Samsung, get out of the kitchen

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Make that -10

She was near flat-chested.

Samsung readies handheld releases for Windows 8

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Nice hardware but I'll pass on the software

Sure, I'll use Windows at work and on my home laptop, but after 6 months with a WinPho7 I'm yet to be convinced of the merits of Metro on anything larger.

Customers dumping Samsung phones in wake of Apple suit

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Link to that article

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/08/28/did-apple-just-help-samsung-sell-a-ton-of-smartphones/

touche El Reg. Stick that up your pro-Apple editorial bias.

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Just read an article saying Samsung Phones in the US were selling out

I amazed (said with a sarcastic tone) El Reg didn't publish that one.

Ho ho ho! Apple's Samsung ban bid pushed back to Christmas

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More "Pro-Apple" Copy Published by El Reg

Let's get this straight:

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was found not to infringe any patents and is due to be overturned on 20 Sept (I fail to see how it could be extended given the Jury clearly exhonourated it).

Save for the Galaxy SII (which is coming close to the end of it's retail shelf life) all of the other phones are no longer selling in any meaningful quantities to the 'ban' won't affect Samsung's P&L in any meaningful sense.

A pyric victory for Apple. Given the now-widely-reported-but-not-by-The-Register interview to Bloomber by the Jury Foreman it is almost a 'lay down misere' for a dismissal of verdict.

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

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Re: Gizmodo? Groklaw

For the record, I don't think any web site editor is without bias. Even El Reg.

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Gizmodo? Groklaw

Credit where credit is due. A lot of Gizmodo's material comes from Groklaw (and is acknowledged by Gizmodo as such).

Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban

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Anyone actually read this far?

I'm bored with the pointless arguments being raised. The Jury have given their decision, whether you agree with it or not.

We'll all have to just wait for the US Supreme Court to decide ultimately (which is where this is going given the $ sums involved).

Microsoft's new retro-flavoured logo channels Channel 4

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Re: Absolutely AMAZING!

They signed a cross licensing deal with Apple.

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Re: Yellow.

You guys are way off. Don't over-analyze it. It's simple:

Yellow = piss

Red = menstrual cycle

Green =faeces

Blue = fart (+ match)

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circle jerk

Lol

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whalesong brigade

Lol

Samsung Galaxy Beam Android projector phone review

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Re: A solution in search of a problem

That was my initial thought as well, but after some consideration, I can see this evolving into something quite useful.

Looking back, remember how crap the iPhone 1 was? Okay, it's still overpriced but the functionality and design has moved on leaps and bounds.

I can see the same thing happening with this. Aside from obvious business applications (ie. "oh, the projector doesn't work, ring IT Support....Wait. No. We'll use my Samsung Electronics Galaxy Beam GT-i8520 instead") its personal use could be to watch a movie anytime, anywhere with your mates. Or girlfriend if she's into that sort of thing.

Apple, Samsung blast away in patent case closing arguments

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Sony?

Who's the one smoking crack?

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Re: was all about? [icon]

At last, El Reg finally has a TIMELY article on Apple v Samsung instead of its usual "day after the day after it happened" response time.

Creepy skull find proves Man penetrated Asia 60,000 years ago

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was he was doing some 'penetration testing' with his joystick?

Apple, Samsung brass hats' patent spat chitchat falls flat

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Re: or maybe

Actually, the whoring Apple copycats copied everything under the sun and simply rebranded it and said "hey, I'm a slut now try and fuck me".

News Ltd's Australian chief demands copyright overhaul

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Tell him to go fuck himself.

I've put up with loads of shit TV for 40+ years - all masquerading under the nom-de-plume of 'local content' to satisfy the local regulators. Big Brother. X-Factor. And many more.

And now this guy wants to copyright that crap?

Is HE smoking crack?

Apple now most valuable company OF ALL TIME

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It was pretty clear at the time that Microsoft was hugely overvalued.

lol. Comments from the Super-investor.

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Typical journo rubbish

While they all hailed the large market cap, I had to Google to find out the more important info:

The company's ``price-to-earnings ratio'' is 15.6, compared to 16.1 for the S&P 500 overall. That suggests investors, unlike analysts, don't believe the company can grow its profits much from current levels.

There you have it. Unless the Board of Apple can pull another rabbit out of the hat like they did with the iPod, iPhone and iPad, then the stock is fully valued. With the TV industry in the doldrums and Steve Jobs no longer with them, it's difficult to see how any rumoured new Apple consumer appliance will maintain their momentum.

Like many others, I'm old enough to remember what happened to Apple Computer Inc the last time Steve Jobs departed from the company he co-founded.

Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power

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Google sticking it to Apple?

I had to giggle at this:

http:= http://www.informationweek.com/internet/google/google-enhances-patent-search-service/240005483

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Apple determined to look like the good guy to the Jury

It seems to me that this was the strategy all along. Apple's technical arguments seem weak, so it appears their lawyers felt their best shot was to paint Samsung as the bad guy. I really hope the Jury doesn't get swayed by this and decides the case on the strength of the arguments presented - irrespective of who they decide for/against.

That said, the fact that they didn't get to see all of the evidence (both Apple and Samsung wanted to show more) will mean an Appeal will be made. If an appeal goes ahead, then "what was the point in having the trial"?

Judge begs Apple, Samsung to get a room, or trial will end in tears

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Re: Judge Lucy

I suppose she had to ask even though she probably feels there's FA chance of it happening.

The dispute isn't going to stop at the Jury's verdict though. Both sides have already created the necessary records for Appeal and Samsung has come out and said Apple violates some of its 3G patents.

The lawyers don't want it to end either. They're probably thinking to themselves "this is going to be just like SCO - a f***ing gravy train!!!"

Samsung's Wang was up 22 hours a day, had no time to copy Apple

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iPhone and iPad infringing Samsung's Patents

Another Samsung expert, Dr. Tim Williams, walked the jury through two patents key to doing "high speed data transfer" on a 3G network. Those two patents, No. 7,447,516 and No. 7,675,941, are infringed by the iPhone and iPad, and mean that it's Apple—not Samsung—who needs to pay up.

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Apple's bounce-back patent ('381) is invalid.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3244581/samsung-expert-apple-bounce-back-patent-invalid

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/despite-judges-entreaty-apple-v-samsung-charges-towards-finish-line/

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Re: Samsung workflow

The trial is still going. Not all of the evidence has been presented to the Jury yet (let alone TechCrunch).

I also saw this at TechCrunch:

"Apple has the right to defend what it feels it developed and patented"

I've emailed the Ed with the correction:

"Apple has to prove that (a) what it has patented is enforceable, and (b) what it has patented has been infringed."

The onus is on Apple to prove its case, not the other way around.

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Exactly. They're a Copycat.

Witness for Samsung, Adam Bogue, a former business executive with Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, discussed a multi-touch, touchscreen table-based system called DiamondTouch that he showed to Apple hardware engineers in 2003.

ie. Apple copied Bogue's work.

Benjamin Bederson, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, testified about a zoomable user interface his team developed called LaunchTile in the summer of 2004.

ie. Apple copied Bederson's work.

Itay Sherman, chief executive of the multi-touch company DoubleTouch and an inventor with 20 patents to his name said that features like big screens, rounded corners, and "lozenge" speaker holes predated what Apple brought out with the iPhone.

ie Apple copied DoubleTouch's work.

Roger Fidler demonstrated his 1990s 'Fidler' tablet prototype he designed as part of the labs group for news conglomerate Knight-Ridder, explaining that he had actually shown the device to Apple in 1994, the same year the company would apply for the '889 patent, which covers the look of the iPad.

ie. Apple copied Fidler's work.

Apple infringes three Samsung patent phone features: photo attachments to email, bookmarking digital photos and background music during other functions.

ie. Apple copied Samsung's work.

With so much copying going on, you have to ask who's the Slave and who's the Thief?

Samsung to fight iPad with stylus, windows

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The stylus is optional

The screen is still multi-touch and responds to all the same gestures as previous products.

The disappointment for me is the screen resolution.

Office 2013 to eat own file-format dog food

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Re: "Office Open XML"

I, like many others, remember exactly how MS achieved its ISO standard so I expect it'll be anything but 'free'. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

'$199' Surface tablets: So crazy it might work, or just crazy?

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It's about time prices came down

These devices need to be more affordable is they're to achieve mass market acceptance. £500+ for a enlarged smartphone without a phone suggests a HUGE gross margin.

Storming quarter sees Apple reassert tablet dominance

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Re: Rebuild?

Agreed. The author is confused.

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Is the article's author a Fanboy?

"boomed"

"crushing"

There's no need for such hyperbolae save where a hidden agenda is being pushed. Everyone knows the iPad sells in greater amounts that its rivals.

Android spanks Apple iOS in sales as fanbois hold out for iPhone 5

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the iPhone has definitely lost the "must-have" factor it used to have

Agreed. The 4S was seen as money for old rope. Hell, it even looked like the iPhone 4. iPad3? iPad3 = iPad2 + better screen res and a 'massive' 5MP camera (like the one in my £30 HTC Wildfire S). These days Apple seems more concerned with litigating past glories than with innovating for the future.

Apple granted patent for in-cell touchscreen display tech

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Re: If I were Samsung......

Yeah, but you're not.

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Re: Samsung v Apple & 2001

Yes and I expect the Jury in the Appeal case will finally get to see it.

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Patents can be used to bully smart people into giving you their launch money

Yes. It's called trolling. SCO tried it and failed. Oracle tried it and failed. Apple is trying it on currently. Microsoft is still doing it.

Google may face grilling by MPs over 'immoral' tax avoidance

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Re: @Shagbag

I didn't realise I had to spell it out for some people, but I guess I have to:

It's hypocritical to moan about other's tax avoidance when all they are doing is legitimately planning their tax affairs. The 'morality' of tax avoidance is not limited to large corporations.

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Re: Taxfeeders in revolt!

Agreed. The hypocrisy of a UK Politician saying others are 'immoral' while those same Politicians have just been caught in snout-filled feeding frenzy over their expense claims.

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Re: A way to put the blame on someone else

Absolutely. Those with little appreciation of the taxation system forget that it is the Government that makes the tax laws. If they don't like what Google, et. al. is doing then they should change the law. The fact of the matter is that successive governments (Conservative and Labor) have failed to pass adequate legislation. If they don't like what Google, Lewis Hamilton, Jimmy Carr, et. al. are doing then they should legislate against it. Only they can do it. No one else can make laws. To try and 'shame' corporations into paying more tax that they legally have to is, put simply, an admission that the Government is powerless (or gutless) to do anything about it.

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Re: I think it is about time

So the tax payer, not the employer, should pay for a contractor's sick leave, holiday pay and gym membership? I don't think that'll fly in the Commons (maybe the Lords, but not the Commons).

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Re: I think it is about time

I agree. And thank goodness for IR35. Avoiding PAYE on personal earnings under the sham of a 'contract' has finally been nipped in the bud. Only legitimate contractors can now get those tax breaks.

Or maybe tax avoidance isn't such a bad thing as long as it doesn't affect my taxes?

Tax proposal could change Aus hardware lifecycles

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What's the point?

"the Company Tax rate can be cut, but only if other assistance to business is also reduced"

LOL.

Microsoft reveals Windows RT OEMs

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Slavish Copy

They've slavishly copied the iPad.

There. It's been said. And I beat Apple to it.

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