Remember, it is not the tablet Microsoft wants you to use with Windows 8.
Windows 8 on Fujitsu convertible tablet.
I just finished installing Windows 8 Developer Preview on a Fujitsu convertible tablet. Well, none of the tablet button is working yet, and I might need a new stylus.
Fujitsu LifeBook T4215
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66GHz
- 4 GB of RAM
The Metro interface is so frustrating to use without a capacitive screen.
Stray Thought: Google to buy Motorola Mobility.
One of the big news in the Month of August 2011: Google to buy Motorola Mobility. Google licenses Android OS to handset makers such as HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Would Google be competing with its Android licensees by buying Motorola?
Imagine if Microsoft bought HP Personal Systems Group and started making its own branded computers?
Patent Cold War is turning for the worse as Google acquired Motorola.
I might have been watching too much of Star Trek: Enterprise on Netflix. The “Temporal Cold War” arc might have been a ridiculous plot but it was actually enjoyable to watch.
Google just announced its upcoming acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.
Who would’ve thunk that Google would have to categorize Apple and Microsoft as common enemies? Motorolans and Googlers are combining forces against the Apples, Microsofties and Oracles. Don’t forget Samsungers and the HTCees. Android is under attack and Googlers are not going to take it anymore.
Patent Cold War is going strong.
Battle of the Fans: Patent Wars
The short story:
There’s Google with Android OS and there’s everybody else with everything else. Google’s Legal Counsel said that companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Apple are trying strangle Android over bogus patents. Microsoft’s Legal Counsel said that they asked Google to jointly bid for Novell patents, and Google said no. Google responded that it’s a trap.
The most interesting part of this Tech Soap Opera are the fans (for lack of better terms). For example, a post by John Gruber (a perceived Apple fanboy and an accused Google hater) was submitted to Hacker News. The post draws anti-Gruber comments regardless of the content. It shouldn’t be about Gruber; it should have been about Google, its competitors and patents.
There is an immediate need of Patent Law Reform.
In the meantime, fans of each faction are reposting the articles and tweets.
The Android in Peril.
There are a lot of people cursing Apple’s name for suing HTC over Android. The ITC sides with Apple and concludes that HTC violates 2 of Apple’s patent. Sean Ludwig of VentureBeat dares to scream the headline: “Why Apple’s ITC patent victory over HTC Android phones is scary“.
It is pretty apparent that Apple-hating is so trendy these days in lights of the Apple v. HTC lawsuit. Unfortunately a lot of people seems to forget that HTC has waived the white flag when Microsoft came knocking. HTC is paying royalties to Microsoft for every Android phone it sold. Hating Microsoft is apparently so 1998. Does anyone remember that Microsoft recently demands Samsung to pay $15 for each Android phone it makes.
Microsoft is asserting some ownership to Android, that’s a bigger threat. HTC is not the only company to pay Android royalties to Microsoft.
Blame it on how easy anyone can abuse software patent.
Microsoft demands royalties from Samsung over Android phones.
Microsoft is sure to make profit on mobile phone business, not from Windows Phone 7 but from Android phones. Reuters reported that Microsoft wants Samsung to pay smartphone license, specifically for the Android phones.
Microsoft Corp has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc’s Android operating system as the software giant has a wide range of patents used in the mobile platform, local media reported on Wednesday.
Microsoft has been asserting that Android operating system is violating Microsoft’s patents. Previously Microsoft went after HTC to sign patent deal over Android phones. Microsoft also sued Motorola over Android phones.
Recently Microsoft also claims that Google’s Chrome OS is violating its patents.
This is not the first time Microsoft going after Open Source Software. Microsoft was asserting patent ownership on Linux operating system and signed a deal with Novell.
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editor’s note post now, fix later – busy.
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