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Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you’ll go (Erik Sherman/CBS News)

SecureTech — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:41:27 +0000

Erik Sherman / CBS News:Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you’ll go — Location tracking has become a hot privacy issue. Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft (MSFT) have all stepped into massive PR messes over the question. Now there’s a new entry: Amazon (AMZN). — A patent, made public last week … Read the [...]

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Amazon reveals its patent lawsuits are on the rise (BBC)

SecureTech — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:41:11 +0000

BBC:Amazon reveals its patent lawsuits are on the rise — Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is subject to a lawsuit filed by SmartPhone Technologies — Amazon has revealed that 11 companies have filed patent lawsuits against it since the start of the year – more than three times as many as in all of 2010. [...]

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Beyond Windows 8: Patent Hints To A Future Streaming OS (Wolfgang Gruener/ConceivablyTech)

SecureTech — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:42:04 +0000

Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:Beyond Windows 8: Patent Hints To A Future Streaming OS — Microsoft already has an idea how the Windows operating system may evolve after Windows 8. A patent filing entitled “Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage” describes a chain of storage devices with different priorities … Read the original post on Computer [...]

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Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms (Alastair Sharp/Reuters)

SecureTech — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:41:26 +0000

Alastair Sharp / Reuters:Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms — (Reuters) – Google should not be able to buy thousands of patents belonging to bankrupt Nortel Networks under current sale terms, Microsoft said on Monday, the deadline for bids in an closely watched auction. Read the original post on Computer – Techmeme Search Posted [...]

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Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 (Katie Marsal/AppleInsider)

SecureTech — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:42:14 +0000

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 — A new lawsuit takes aim at the accelerometer- and gyroscope-powered abilities of Apple’s iPhone 4, alleging that the interactive, three-dimensional input methods are in violation of a U.S. patent. Read the original post on Computer – Techmeme Search Posted from: SpinSafe.com

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Sharp, Samsung settle all outstanding LCD patent cases (Martyn Williams/Computerworld)

SecureTech — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:34:43 +0000

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:Sharp, Samsung settle all outstanding LCD patent cases — IDG News Service – Sharp and Samsung have put nearly three years of battling over LCD panel and module patents behind them with a deal that ends all ongoing patent infringement disputes, they said Monday. — Both companies declined to disclose details of [...]

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