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Apple’s ITC complaint names HTC phones, 10 other patents

As we reported, Apple filed a federal lawsuit against HTC Tuesday claiming infringement of 10 of Apple’s patents related to smartphone technology. Apple said that HTC violated 20 of its patents, and the remaining 10 are covered under a parallel complaint with the ITC. That complaint also names essentially every current HTC product as infringing devices.

Tags: apple, entity, federal, federal-lawsuit, iphone, lawsuit, message-passing, microsoft, network, processing, programming, though-the-rest, windows

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 P2P News No Comments

DVRs – entertainment’s ‘new best friend’

p2pnet news view TV | P2P:- Digital Video Recorders, “once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend,” says Tim Jones in the EFFs Deep Links . It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s “constant warnings of the dangers of ‘piracy’ frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria,” he says, continuing »»» Remember 2001? Digital Video Recorders (”DVRs”) like TiVo and ReplayTV were poised to win mainstream adoption, allowing consumers to fast-forward past advertisements more easily than before.

Tags: digital-video, entertainment, industry, mahatma-gandhi, output-control, programming, recorders, the-industry, usa

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Top prices, old shows – the Beeb’s iPlayer goes global

Filesharing, yes we’ve heard of that The BBC’s ramping up efforts to launch an iPlayer-like internet video service outside the UK, but has rejected using ad-funded model to squeeze as much money as possible from its programming.…

Tags: ad-funded-model, bbc, internet-video, iplayer, money-as-possible, programming, protection-doesn, result, video, web

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 P2P News No Comments

Foxtel stole my time!

p2pnet news view TV | Advertising:- In January I suggested P2P pushback was no doubt partially caused by an over-abundance of adverts on Australian cable TV. To illustrate this I analysed “Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles” series, currently running on Foxtel. The first episode I examined had 22 ads.

Tags: advertising, australia, france, hedonic, kitchen, plaintiff, president, programming, ratings, sarah-connor, time, video, voice

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 P2P News No Comments

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Apple’s ITC complaint names HTC phones, 10 other patents

DVRs – entertainment’s ‘new best friend’

YouTube to broadcast Channel 4 shows

Top prices, old shows – the Beeb’s iPlayer goes global

Foxtel stole my time!

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