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Creative pushed Steve Jobs to armor up for the smartphone patent war

The current smartphone patent wars are an economic and philosophic minefield, with many of the top tech companies suing each other, and tech aficionados sounding the call to reform or banish patents altogether. But...

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Monday, October 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Stereomood: The New App that Chooses Music Based on your Emotions

Online streaming service suggests playlists based on your current mood or activity. The online radio music streaming market is competitive, with big players like Last.fm, Pandora and Spotify all providing fairly similar, free...

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Friday, July 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Teacher’s Patent Chokes Textbook Sharing (On and Offline)

The academic space when met with the issue of file-sharing has raised a lot of questions regarding both moral aspects and particular circumstances sprung in a special context Students share textbooks, and all...

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Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 Net News No Comments

$422,000 to stream a movie? The continued "success" of phone cramming

If you were watching Mulholland Drive on your phone, it probably wasn't through Streaming Flix. Aurich Lawson From July 2009 until December 2010, a Minneapolis-based company called Streaming Flix allegedly hit on a...

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Monday, June 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Yahoo accuses Facebook of dealing with dirty patent trolls

When Yahoo sued Facebook for allegedly infringing 10 patents on social networking and related technologies, it was obvious Facebook would strike back. And Facebook did so quickly, accusing Yahoo of infringing 10 patents...

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Friday, April 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments