A host shows off the side of Apple's iPad. Photograph: Kimberly White/ReutersA quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
"Apple Inc, Nokia and Qualcomm Inc are among several technology companies pondering bids for InterDigital Inc, sources familiar with the situation said."
Google is not out of the picture, either, according to these sources.
"Sources said Miller -- who sold Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company he co-founded in 2006, to Apple in early 2010 for $275 million -- will become a general partner at Highland Capital, the Boston-based venture firm that had funded Quattro."
Very slightly smaller, at least in terms of circumscribing circles (or circumscribed circles).
Patents in the mobile industry go for a basement price of around $500,000 each. Rising somewhat when you get to the Nortel ones bought by Apple, Microsoft, RIM et al.
Steve Sinofsky, head of the Windows division, explains how you size your Windows team: "When folks do the math and come up with the number of developers on the team, we usually hear one of two reactions: "wow, that is a lot, and there is no way that can work," or "wow, you build a product for a billion people with a pretty small number folks." It is to our benefit to have the smallest number of people on the team possible, but it is to your benefit to have the largest number of people adding all the things that folks might want. So, we find a place in the middle. We want the team to be manageable and able to produce high quality, full-featured code."
Though he doesn't say how many that actually is in practice.
"Each and every Chinese IPO failed investors in 2011 so far. This doesn't mean Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) will fail as well, but it raises a red flag."
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