This is excellent victory to the honest. Also, it is nice to see that big companies are fighting for them instead of just accepting the defeat due to the upfront legal lawsuit cost which is high. Many times it is less costly (non-lawsuit route) to pay these patent trolls just to go away.
"So the real question isn’t whether the law is going too far, but whether it will be enough to save the 2,500 independent bookstores in France"
IMO this law itself needs to be revised. This sounds like union law that we see in some companies. They are good in certain cases but not in this case. We're in internet world where technology is shaping our lives daily. Govt. is going opposite direction.
It seems to be the only fully operational Tesla Model "X" yet in existence as we don't have any other media source who has spotted or covered this model before. Also, I personally think other car Mfg. need to support as Tesla cannot be the only manufacturer lobbying for side cameras instead of mirrors. The camera with sensors, and a rock solid software will ultimately do a superior job with blind spots than the mirrors.
Does anyone know when this will be released? It says Prototype Model and then there is a developer kit. I am not a big fan of Developer Kit as they tend to be far from ready to be a consumer product. Also add the price factor. Ditto goes to Google Glass which has a developer edition for $1500 (of course only for selected/invited ones) but if it ever becomes a reality i.e. meaning a real consumer product and drops the price to $300 then I will not be happy since it cost me $1200 more and the latest model may have better h/w components.
They are likely to release a consumer product late this year or early next year, with an updated dev kit coming some time before that. Always subject to change of course since this is bleeding edge tech, but they can't delay too much or they risk Microsoft or Sony beating them to the punch.
I personally just can't imagine Microsoft or Sony beating them in this space... at least not for a very long time. One of the key advantages Oculus has is their staff, besides being made up of some of the most amazing programmers of our time (Carmack) they're also devoted gamers. Palmer literally created the oculus because he REALLY wanted it. There's a drive towards perfection that I just can't imagine a large company replicating as well.
It’s taken a while but SnapChat has finally said sorry for their infamous data breach. But the question still remains is what would you do if your were one of the victim of the 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers that were leaked. Would you just accept an apology? I don;t thinks so.
My username and phone number were leaked. I have felt no negative impact from this happening. I am mildly annoyed that someone went through the process of making a full database, but I willfully gave my phone number to snapchat for the express purpose of letting people identify it with my username.
This is very interesting. How can you sue an unknown person? Beats me. Also, as GigaOM points out, it’s unclear really if LinkedIn has a solid leg to stand on since it isn't exactly illegal to copy information from a website. In addition to the aforementioned laws, the company also says the unknown users are violating their own terms of service. Read GigaOM article here: http://gigaom.com/2014/01/07/linkedin-sues-to-stop-bots-that...
Neither company is exactly playing nice here. The legal battle over smartphone patents across many countries for supremacy in the mobile device market is far stretched. Let's wait and see what happens this time.
I would also recommend the WISP: A homoiconic JavaScript dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros. More details at: https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
My guess price is $599. Would it offer a tough competition to Apple's iMac? Yes and No. It depends but If I could get the same experience of iMac on a similar device for $500 or less, I probably would buy this device.
How is this different from "Google Now"? The basic premise appear to be just the same as Google now apart from the launcher grid layout. Is this Yahoo's answer to Google Now?
