OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount. News of the acquisition comes one day after a lawsuit filed by OtterBox against LifeProof for patent infringement was dismissed.
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OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent Lawsuit
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on May 23, 2013
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German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court
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on May 16, 2013
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Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday.
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Google loses case in Germany over autocomplete search suggestions
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on May 14, 2013
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The company will not have to remove autocomplete in Germany, but it must evaluate potential defamation claims when they are brought to its attention. [Read more]
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Clearwire lays out its case for a Sprint buyout
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on May 6, 2013
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Sprint Nextel's network partner Clearwire hasn't been able to find any other big wholesale customers nor sell any of its spectrum, so selling out to Sprint is the only real option for its shareholders, the company said Monday.
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Crave giveaway: OtterBox Realtree Camo case for HTC One
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on May 3, 2013
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Do you own HTC’s new flagship smartphone? With this case from a top maker of tough mobile accessories you can dress it up in sturdy style. For free. [Read more]
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Hedge fund manager sentenced in Dell insider trading case
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on May 3, 2013
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A former portfolio manager at the now defunct Diamondback Capital Management has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for crimes related to a multimillion dollar insider trading scheme involving computer maker Dell and hardware maker Nvidia.
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AU Optronics exec sentenced in LCD price-fixing case
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on April 29, 2013
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A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a $ 50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case
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on April 28, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “TorrentFreak reports on an internet piracy case from Finland, which saw four men found guilty and fined €45,000. During the trial, the defense attorney took note of inconsistencies in log files used as evidence against the men. An investigator for international recording industry organization IFPI revealed after questioning that the files had been tampered with. He said an MPAA executive was present when the evidence gathering took place, and altered the files to hide the identity of ‘one of their spies.’ ‘No one from the MPAA informed the defense that the edits had been made and the tampering was revealed at the worst possible time – during the trial. This resulted in the prosecutor ordering a police investigation into the changes that had been made. “Police then proceeded by comparing the ‘work copy’ that the IFPI investigator produced with the material that police and the defending counsels had received. Police found out that the material had differences in over 10 files,” Hietanen reveals.’”
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Motorola Loses ITC Case Against Against Apple for Proximity Sensor Patents
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on April 23, 2013
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New submitter Rideak writes with this excerpt from CNet about an ITC ruling against Motorola in their case against Apple for violating a few of their proximity sensor patents: “The U.S. International Trade Commission today ended Motorola’s case against Apple, which accused the iPhone and Mac maker of patent infringement. In a ruling (PDF), the ITC said that Apple was not violating Motorola’s U.S. patent covering proximity sensors, which the commission called ‘obvious.’ It was the last of six patents Motorola aimed at Apple as part of an October 2010 complaint.”
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Penguin to terminate Apple e-book deal to settle EU antitrust case
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on April 22, 2013
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Penguin, the last of five publishers, including Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan, has offered to terminate its e-book deal with Apple in order to settle with EU antitrust regulators. The e-book agreements forbade other retailers from selling the e-books from these publishers at lower prices than Apple’s iBookstore. This settlement, while terminating Penguin’s
Google clears another step in EU antitrust case, submits remedy proposals to EU antitrust body
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on April 15, 2013
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Napster.fm Is An Open Source Social Music Player That Can Be Hosted By Anyone In Case Of Shutdown
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on April 15, 2013
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Anyone who has had a computer and a connection to the Internet in 1999 quickly knew what it felt like to find any song that you wanted, and then listen to it almost immediately. Well, the immediate part wasn’t true, since you had to download the MP3s, which usually took quite a bit of time on a dialup connection. Since Napster, and it getting sued into oblivion (and then acquired for bits and pieces by Best Buy), streaming music has become the technology du-jour. Napster co-founder Sean Parker is now heavily involved with Spotify, which realized the “any song, any time” dream that Napster introduced us to. Today, a service called Napster.fm popped up, and it’s a web-based music player that has some interesting social features. The best part about it is that it’s open source and can be set up by anyone, in case it ever gets shut down. Its creator, Ryan Lester, is a student at Carnegie Mellon who is “taking a few years off to work at SpaceX and do other stuff.” A part of the “other stuff” is clearly Napster.fm. How does it work? Well, after going through the quite FAQ (Lester obviously has a sense of humor), he explains that the service is dependent on “minor inefficiencies in YouTube’s piracy-detection system.” Regardless of where the tracks are coming from, the service actually works. As soon as you visit the site, the song that’s queued up for you is “Never Gonna Give You Up,” which is long-forgotten-once-hated “RickRoll.” The search interface is pretty basic, but once you start adding songs to your playlist, you can share them with friends who have also signed up for the service. Once you’ve done that, you can sync up and listen to exactly what they’re listening to. The “Discovery” tab shows you what everyone has listened to, if you’re in the mood to find something new. You can even create a group of friends that are using the service and someone can play DJ and decide on which tracks will come up next. Sure, these are some of the things that you can do on other services, like Turntable.fm, but the Napster.fm interface is stripped down and basic, not sucking up a lot of resources. The other nice part is that there isn’t a desktop client to worry about, as is the case with Spotify. What you’re listening to will
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Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case Gives Logitech A Competitor For The Best iPad Keyboard Crown
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on April 8, 2013
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Keyboard cases for iPad are many and multiplying, but at this point it’s a question of refining the best concepts, not creating dramatically different devices. The Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad is a great example, taking a lot of cues from the massively popular Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad and folio style designs to create a solution that might be as near as perfect as tablet typers can get.
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Ipan Ipan unveils Qi wireless charging case for Xperia Z
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A company called Ipan Ipan has been producing cases that allow for wireless charging for various smartphones for a while. The company has just unveiled a new wireless charging case using Qi Wireless charging technology. This new case is specifically for the Sony Xperia Z. The case is a flip style with a flap that
DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case
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on March 31, 2013
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theodp writes “Responding to an earlier request by the estate of Aaron Swartz to disclose the names of those involved in the events leading to Aaron’s suicide, counsel for MIT snippily told the Court, “The Swartz Estate was not a party to the criminal case, and therefore it is unclear how it has standing, or any legally cognizable interest, to petition for the modification of the Protective Order concerning others’ documents.” In motions filed on slow-news-day Good Friday (MIT’s on spring break), the DOJ, MIT, and JSTOR all insisted on anonymity for those involved in the Swartz case, arguing that redacting of names was a must, citing threats posed by Anonymous and LulzSec, a badly-photoshopped postcard sent to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann and another sent to his Harvard Prof father, cake frosting, a gun hoax, and e-mail sent to MIT. From the DOJ filing: ‘I also informed him [Swartz estate lawyer] that whatever additional public benefit might exist by disclosing certain names was, in this case, outweighed by the risk to those individuals of becoming targets of threats, harassment and abuse.’ From the MIT filing: ‘The publication of MIT’s documents in unredacted form could lead to further, more targeted, and more dangerous threats and attacks…The death of Mr. Swartz has created a very volatile atmosphere.’ From the JSTOR filing: ‘The supercharged nature of the public debate about this case, including hacking incidents, gun hoaxes and threatening messages, gives JSTOR and its employees legitimate concern for their safety and privacy.’”
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Uniloc Patent Case Against Rackspace Tossed for Bogus Patents
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on March 28, 2013
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netbuzz writes “A federal judge in Texas, presiding over a district notorious for favoring patent trolls, has summarily dismissed all claims relating to a case brought by Uniloc USA against Rackspace for [Linux] allegedly infringing upon [Uniloc's] patents. Red Hat defended Rackspace in the matter and issued a press release saying: ‘In dismissing the case, Chief Judge Leonard Davis found that Uniloc’s claim was unpatentable under Supreme Court case law that prohibits the patenting of mathematical algorithms. This is the first reported instance in which the Eastern District of Texas has granted an early motion to dismiss finding a patent invalid because it claimed unpatentable subject matter.’” You can’t patent floating point math after all.
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Second act for the unorthodox Steve Case
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on March 24, 2013
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His AOL heyday now well behind him, Case has major interests in some 20 companies, including LivingSocial and Hello Wallet, and has become an Internet elder statesman. [Read more]
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EC pressed to charge Google in antitrust case
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on March 21, 2013
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Eleven complainants sent an open letter to European Union's Competition Commissioner JoaquAn Almunia urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law.
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Apple warranty case sparks EU on consumer protection
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on March 19, 2013
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The European Commission is frustrated that its member states have on the most part failed to take action against Apple for flouting EU law, and warns that enforcement must be actioned in order to protect the rights of ordinary citizens. [Read more]
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HP eyes $4B damages claim in Itanium case against Oracle
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on March 19, 2013
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$ 4 billion to $ 4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture.
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Crave giveaway: iKit NuCharge iPhone 5 case and battery
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on March 15, 2013
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Get a fashionable and functional 2-in-1 accessory for your iPhone with this portable power and case solution now making a run on Kickstarter. [Read more]
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Apple asks to appeal patent-infringement case against Google
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on March 10, 2013
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It looks like Apple is looking to stir up some old issues with Google. Apple has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington to reinstate the patent-infringement claims it had filed against Google’s Motorola Mobility unit. Apple stated that Google, and several companies, infringed on its touch-screen patents. Apple said
Judge says Apple’s Siri case against Samsung can proceed
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on March 9, 2013
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U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh had said last month that a second patent case pitting Apple against Samsung in Northern California might be put on hold. Now she says otherwise. [Read more]
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Attorney General Claims Aaron Swartz Case Was “A Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion”
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on March 7, 2013
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Attorney General Eric Holder claims critics are wrong to blame prosecutors for misconduct in the handling of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
Swartz committed suicide after allegedly facing 50+ years in prison for releasing millions of pay-walled academic articles. During a congressional Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Holder claimed that the media overhyped the assumption of an overzealous prosecutor, saying that a plea deal of a few months in prison was offered and rejected by Swartz.
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US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case
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on March 7, 2013
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TrueSatan writes in with the latest in the ongoing Aaron Swartz tragedy. “Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a ‘tragedy,’ but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was ‘a good use of prosecutorial discretion.’ The attorney general was testifying at a Justice Department oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee and was facing terse questioning from Sen. John Cornyn (D-Texas). …Holder stated: ‘I think that’s a good use of prosecutorial discretion to look at the conduct, regardless of what the statutory maximums were and to fashion a sentence that was consistent with what the nature of the conduct was. And I think what those prosecutors did in offering 3, 4, zero to 6 was consistent with that conduct.’ Notwithstanding Holder’s testimony, Massachusetts federal prosecutors twice indicted Swartz for the alleged hacking, once in 2011 on four felonies and again last year on 13 felonies. The case included hacking charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was passed in 1984 to enhance the government’s ability to prosecute hackers who accessed computers to steal information or to disrupt or destroy computer functionality.”
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Texas Rangers Use Internet To Breathe New Life Into Cold Case Homicides
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on March 4, 2013
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Hugh Pickens writes writes “Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases. DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says continual strides in technology make focusing on cold cases more important than ever because there are more opportunities to solve them with each emerging process or device. The web site was created because the more readily available information is the more people may be apt to pick up the phone and report what they know. ‘It helps to refresh these cases in the public’s mind and hopefully we’ll shed new light on it. In some cases, we can also re-examine evidence if there’s an opportunity or need there as well,’ says Cesinger. One featured case from 1993 is Kathleen Suckley who was 29 when her throat was slashed and she was stabbed about 40 times inside her rented duplex, while her two sons, ages 4 and 1, were home. Officials said they interviewed numerous witnesses but never got enough information for an arrest. Capt. Tim Wilson maintains that in any homicide case there always is someone who knows something. At some point, he believes, the murderer will tell someone out of guilt or pride, or simply the pressure of holding it in. Cesinger points out that over time as relationships change, if prompted by something like the website or a news article, that confidant finally may come forward. ‘I think we owe it to Kathleen to be this tenacious. It drives me nuts that somebody can do this and get away with it,’ says Kathleen’s mother-in-law Luann Suckley. ‘I think the website is great … maybe someone will finally speak up because I’m tired of sitting back and waiting.’”
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Texas Rangers Use Internet To Breath New Life Into Cold Case Homicides
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on March 3, 2013
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Hugh Pickens writes writes “Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases. DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says continual strides in technology make focusing on cold cases more important than ever because there are more opportunities to solve them with each emerging process or device. The web site was created because the more readily available information is the more people may be apt to pick up the phone and report what they know. ‘It helps to refresh these cases in the public’s mind and hopefully we’ll shed new light on it. In some cases, we can also re-examine evidence if there’s an opportunity or need there as well,’ says Cesinger. One featured case from 1993 is Kathleen Suckley who was 29 when her throat was slashed and she was stabbed about 40 times inside her rented duplex, while her two sons, ages 4 and 1, were home. Officials said they interviewed numerous witnesses but never got enough information for an arrest. Capt. Tim Wilson maintains that in any homicide case there always is someone who knows something. At some point, he believes, the murderer will tell someone out of guilt or pride, or simply the pressure of holding it in. Cesinger points out that over time as relationships change, if prompted by something like the website or a news article, that confidant finally may come forward. ‘I think we owe it to Kathleen to be this tenacious. It drives me nuts that somebody can do this and get away with it,’ says Kathleen’s mother-in-law Luann Suckley. ‘I think the website is great … maybe someone will finally speak up because I’m tired of sitting back and waiting.’”
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MIT Says Gunman Hoax Call Mentioned Swartz Case
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on February 28, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “MIT has posted a letter to campus newspaper The Tech providing a timeline of last weekend’s ‘gunman’ hoax. On Saturday morning, Cambridge, MA police were contacted via Internet relay by a tipster who claimed that a someone wearing armor and carrying a ‘really big gun’ was in Building 7 at MIT (the Massachusetts Ave. entrance to the Infinite Corridor) and was heading towards the office of MIT President Rafael Reif. The call continued for 18 minutes, with the caller eventually claiming that the gunman was seeking to avenge the suicide of Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuting for alleged illegal downloads of millions of journal articles using MIT’s computer network. The caller also identified the gunman an MIT staff member, who has since been questioned by police and cleared. MIT has been criticized for waiting 1.5 hours before sending a campus-wide alert after the call was received.”
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ITC to review Apple victory in Motorola patent case
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on February 20, 2013
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Federal agency will take a second look at a judge’s decision to invalidate a Motorola patent, a ruling that cleared Apple of infringement claims. [Read more]
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Mophie Outride review: action-cam case for iPhone can’t replace dedicated shooters
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on February 17, 2013
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Over the years, Mophie has become synonymous with extending the iPhone’s battery life. The outfit’s range of battery-filled iPhone cases has garnered rave reviews across the industry, and even I religiously used one on an iPhone 3G. In more recent days, the company has cautiously expanded into a few new areas — namely, building battery cases for non-Apple phones, and creating the contraption shown above. The Mophie Outride is an action-cam case that’s designed to be strapped onto helmets, automobile hoods and any other place where your average X Games wannabe would look to capture extreme sports footage.
But, unlike the myriad rivals on the market today, the Outride doesn’t actually include a camera. Instead, you’re supposed to strap your iPhone 4 or 4S into it (an iPhone 5 model has yet to be announced), allowing the smartphone you already own to handle the bulk of the work. At first blush, it sounded like an ideal solution to me. After all, I’m generally in favor of convergence and consolidation, and as an avid traveler, having one less thing to carry (in this case, a dedicated camera) is a godsend. In practice, however, the Outride did little outside of convincing me that GoPro exists for a reason.
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Facebook wins first IPO shareholder case
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on February 15, 2013
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Facebook scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company.
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Judge wants second Apple-Samsung case put on hold
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on February 14, 2013
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The judge overseeing Apple's two lawsuits against Samsung in California has indicated she would like to put the second case on hold pending resolution of the first case, the trial for which ended last summer with a big win for Apple.
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Nexus 4 teardown: Easy-open case hides LTE hardware surprise
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on February 12, 2013
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Bill Detwiler shows you how to crack open the LG-built Google Nexus 4 and uncovers a hardware surprise inside. [Read more]
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The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Case For iPad Mini Successfully Balances Size And Performance
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on February 8, 2013
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Logitech had a definite winner on its hands with the Ultrathin Keyboard Case for iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard that attaches via magnets built into the iPad, protecting the screen and adding only minimal thickness. Now, there’s a successor designed for the iPad mini that comes in an appropriately shrunken down package. Of course, making a keyboard smaller doesn’t always produce the best results, but in this case, Logitech strikes a good balance.
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Macmillan settles up with DoJ, Apple now stands alone in e-book price fixing case
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on February 8, 2013
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It took awhile to read the writing on the wall, but Macmillan has finally settled the antitrust lawsuit brought by the US Justice Department for the publisher’s alleged e-book price fixing. In doing so, Macmillan joins Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Penguin in choosing not to go to trial against the DoJ’s lawyers. It’s an about-face from Macmillan’s initial stance in settlement negotiations, when it claimed that the DoJ’s terms were far too onerous.
Why settle now? Company CEO John Sargent told the Wall Street Journal that the company changed its tune not because it was guilty, but “because the potential penalties became too high to risk even the possibility of an unfavorable outcome.” Should the settlement terms be approved by the court, retailers will be able to discount Macmillan titles, regardless of existing contracts, for 23 months starting from December 18, 2012. With Macmillan bowing out, Apple remains as Uncle Sam’s lone legal opponent at the trial scheduled in June. Given Apple’s staunch denial of wrongdoing and general willingness to litigate, it seems we may be in for some more legal fireworks this summer.
Via: Electronista
Source: Wall Street Journal
The Scientific Case for Outlawing Guns
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on February 8, 2013
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A new study suggests that U.S. laws should go further to limit gun ownership and improve enforcement.
Efforts to pass new federal gun control laws in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre are making progress, while the NRA has argued that arming more citizens, even teachers in schools, is the answer to stopping gun deaths.
Two researchers, an evolutionary biologist and a mathematician at University of California, Irvine, have now stepped back from the emotional debate and taken a dispassionate look at which kind of gun policies would save more lives, both in a one-on-one attack (as in a homicide) and in a shooting in a crowd (as in a movie theater or mall).
Their findings suggest that President Obama, who has said he supports the right for private individuals to own a gun, is not going far enough if he wants to prevent the greatest number of gun-related deaths.
The study starts by showing that the optimal survival strategies could be either of the extreme approaches: a total ban on private gun ownership, or a policy allowing anyone in the general population to get a gun.
Which of the two save the most lives in practice depends on a few key parameters that are at the center of the gun debate: how effectively illegal gun purchases are stopped; the fraction of people who purchase guns legally and also carry them around; and, finally, the extent to which a gun is effective at stopping an attacker. In mass shooting scenario, this also depends on the “efficiency” of the shooter’s weapon compared to any weapons in the crowd.
Judge invalidates 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims in Microsoft case
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on February 7, 2013
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A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft.
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Google cleared by Australia's High Court in deceptive AdWords case
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on February 6, 2013
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Australia's High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade law by allowing companies to purchase keywords containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator.
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Google proposes settlement in European antitrust case
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on February 1, 2013
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The European Commission has received a proposal from Google to settle an antitrust investigation into the compny’s search engine practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. At the same time, an industry organization said it has filed another antitrust complaint against Google with the Commission.
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Google submits settlement proposal in EU antitrust case, report says
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on February 1, 2013
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Google has declined to confirm a report that it narrowly met its deadline for submitting a response to the European Commission over its antitrust concerns about the company.
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Microsoft waived hearing in EU browser ballot antitrust case
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on January 27, 2013
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Microsoft waived its right to a hearing before European antitrust regulators to further answer charges that it failed to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to documents filed with the SEC. Insider (registration required)
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Dancing baby vs. YouTube-Prince case set to go to trial
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on January 25, 2013
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A judge rules that a jury will decide on the legal battle between Universal Music and a mother who posted a YouTube video of her children dancing to a Prince song. [Read more]
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Andrew Auernheimer Case Uncomfortably Similar To Aaron Swartz Case
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on January 23, 2013
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TrueSatan writes “Andrew Auernheimer doesn’t appear suicidal, no thanks to U.S. prosecutors, yet he has been under attack for his act of altering an API URL that revealed a set of user data and posting details of same. ‘In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet. There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address. I thought it was egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a complete target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker.’ Auernheimer has been under investigation from that point onward, with restrictions on his freedom and ability to earn a living that are grossly disproportionate to any perceived crime. This is just as much a case of legislative overreach and the unfettered power of prosecutors as was Swartz’s case.”
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Obama Still Needs to Make the Case for Dealing with Climate Change
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on January 22, 2013
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Let’s stop pretending that clean energy innovation will completely offset the economic costs of abandoning fossil fuels.
President Obama highlighted climate change in his inauguration speech, raising the profile of an issue that had faded into the background during the second half of his first term. But he’s still making an argument that’s disingenuous, linking the challenge of climate change and shifting from fossil fuels to economic development (see “Dear Mr. President: Time to Deal with Climate Change”).
Larry Lessig blasts prosecutor’s defense in Swartz case
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on January 20, 2013
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Internet scholar faults Justice Department prosecution “in part at least” for driving Aaron Swartz to his death. [Read more]
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Nokia releases 3D case printing files for Lumia 820
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on January 18, 2013
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Nokia has released the 3D printing files for its Lumia 820 interchangeable casings, allowing owners to create their own custom shells for the Windows Phone. The free 3D-printing Development Kit (or 3DK, as Nokia is calling it) comes with not only the raw files for 3D printers, but guidance on what materials could be used, tips
U.S. Attorney defends office’s conduct in Aaron Swartz case
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on January 17, 2013
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Challenging the notion her office’s actions led to the Internet activist’s suicide, Carmen Ortiz said her prosecutors’ conduct was appropriate. [Read more]
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U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement About Her Office’s Handling Of Case Against Aaron Swartz
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on January 17, 2013
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After accusations of overzealous prosecution and a whitehouse.gov petition with nearly 40,000 signatures calling for her removal, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz has issued a statement about the suicide of Aaron Swartz. In it, Ortiz defended her office’s handling of the case, saying its conduct was “appropriate” and that it would not have sought a decades-long prison sentence.
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Prosecutor in Aaron Swartz ‘hacking’ case comes under fire
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on January 16, 2013
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Carmen Ortiz was being talked about last month as the next Massachusetts governor. Now she’s being investigated for threatening the late Aaron Swartz with decades in prison. [Read more]
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Miveu intros updated X case that turns your iPhone 5 into a rugged POV camera, we go straps-on
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on January 12, 2013
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We’ve seen rugged cases for iPhones before, even those that claim to give it action-cam credentials. Miveu rolled up to CES and revealed its latest offering that incorporates a wide-angle FOV lens (much like the Mophie) along with a chest mount strap, updated to fit the latest phone from Apple (they launched one to fit point-and-shoots, too). The idea is pretty simple, of course. Snap your iPhone / camera into the snug protective case, fix it to the chest-strap and then get your action on. Miveu is also keen to point out that its solution means you can capture that sports footage, without having to bring another device along. Of course, you’re then relying on the video capabilities of the phone itself, which might not be comparable to dedicated solutions, but it’s definitely convenient, and at $ 80 (or $ 60 for the point and shoot version), a whole bunch cheaper.
Obviously, without too many moving parts, our impressions are based largely on the quality and feel. The case itself seems plenty tough, and we’d have no reservations about putting our own phone in it while out on the slopes / track. The strap part seemed well built, and the guys at the booth had to wear them all throughout the show, so if nothing else, that’s testament to how comfortable they are. The lens component, however, is likely the main attraction, as this is what turns it from a regular phone case, into an action cam facsimile. The wider angle certainly makes the footage look more like what you might be accustomed to from a GoPro or similar, and serves the dual purpose of protecting the one on your phone at the same time. The mount also has a tilt-and-pivot mechanism meaning you can flip the camera through 360 degrees, or angle it more directly towards the action. If you fancy getting your phone in on the action, you should be able to do so starting April 1st.
Gallery: Miveu camera mount hands-on
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