The heavy GOOG joins the battle against Lodsys , the dying of webOS gimmick was just as surprising to manyinsideHP as outdoors , and one Australian pol wants Apple to lower its prices . The end for Friday , August 19 , 2011 are always a deal .
Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys(Groklaw )
The giant that is Google has stir and ill-use ponderously into the fight against patent troll Lodsys , lodge a request with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for reexamination of the two patents Lodsys put out developers over . consort to Groklaw , Google is contesting that the patents are n’t actually novel and is cite five firearm of prior artper patentas grounds . When reached for comment , note patent expert Scooby Doo said : “ Ruh roh . ”
An inside look at HP killing webOS hardware : Here ’s how it really went down.(The Next entanglement )
HP ’s webOS ironware apparently die out as it last — with a want of clarity . A report in The Next Web suggests that executive as extremely placed as HP ’s frailty president of webOS software come up out about the axing when HPput out its press releaseon Thursday . To be fair , though , they really should have seen the clues , such as the thousands of TouchPads just lie down around the officenot being sold .
HP tested webOS on an iPad . It ran over twice as tight as the TouchPad.(The Next Web )
talk of the TouchPad , The Next Web has a separate written report that the webOS software package may have in reality been test on an iPad — on which it ran doubly as fast . Daring Fireball ’s John Gruber is skeptical , but we buy it : I mean , everything is faster on an iPad . Seriously . You ever tried Flash web site in Mobile Safari ? They load so fast you ca n’t evensee them .
Labor MP want ACCC enquiry into Aussie tech tax(Delimiter )
You think Apple product are expensive here ? TryAustralia , married person . In fact , the markup on Cupertino ’s goods in the kingdom Down Under is so high that one penis of the country ’s fantan has been bugging Apple for an explanation . Unsurprisingly , the company has yet to reply , pass Federal Labor MP Ed Husic to threaten an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ( motto : That ’s not anticompetitive behavior — thisis anticompetitive behavior ) .
