Boot up: Police 'assisted' Apple in lost iPhone hunt, and no US launch for Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 or Galaxy note

Ho Kak-yin in Hong Kong ... not the man whose house was searched by police in San Francisco Photograph: AP/Kin Cheung

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"...Anyway, I totally understand why Google did this list. It just isn't a well curated list and so I don't want my name associated with it."

For those who doubted the original report was correct: "The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that "three or four" SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man's home."

Police don't get involved in publicity stunts.

An intriguing stack chart of the ever-growing number; the lifespans are interesting to compare.

"For example, you're doing TDD, you write a test, do some coding and hit run test but have to wait 30 seconds+ for it to run. This takes long enough to break your flow, you have a quick think about something else and then you realise the test has run and you need to switch you attention back. You might have a quick chat about something else with your pair.
"We know it's hurting our velocity but without numbers it's difficult to convince management of the true costs.
"So what did we do?
"We took a stop watch, kept it with us all day and recorded all the time that where we were waiting for the computer to do something - from opening apps, running builds and tests, searches and refactorings in visual studio - any time at all where the developer had to wait for the machine to work, be it 5 seconds or 5 minutes the stop watch was running. It took quite a lot of discipline. The results were startling."

Worth buying the fastest possible if the project lasts more than a month.

"The Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Note are two devices that are generating quite a bit of buzz here at IFA 2011 in Berlin. There's a lot to like about these devices, but unfortunately you might not be able to buy one stateside. According to Samsung, there are currently no plans to ship either of the devices in the U.S."

Simplifies the questions of whether to stock or not for retailers.

MG Siegler, visiting Seattle, doesn't have pictures but has been trying it out - a 7in tablet with multi-touch.

The 16GB version is $450 (save $50!), the 64GB is $550 (save $150!) and the 32GB version is... $550 (save $50!).

Explanations for this pricing regime where 32GB of Flash memory costs nothing welcomed.

Martin Belam, writing in a purely personal capacity (you understand): "[if you're moderated] ask yourself, "Was I being a bit of a dick?".
"I'd define dick-ish behaviour on a news site as including, but not restricted to: personal attacks, using 'amusing' clichés like EUSSR and Tony Bliar, making the same off-topic point day after day, being rude and grumpy and unwelcoming to newcomers, mocking other people's spelling, bullying and hectoring staff and journalists appearing in the comment threads, asking 'is this news?' on a story you are not interested in and which nobody forced you to read, hate speech, 'ironic' hate speech, anything that might now or in the future potentially land the publisher in legal hot water, and any comment which includes the phrase 'I don't suppose the moderators will publish this but...'"

Three strikes filesharing rule comes into play in New Zealand: "The three-strikes regime is not expected to be widely used by rights holders, however, because of the high $25 fee they must pay to internet providers to forward those warnings to internet users and a $200 fee for bringing cases in front of the tribunal."

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Boot up: Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nokia pulls Symbian from US, and more

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 was launched at the company's headquarters in Seoul. Photograph: Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

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"The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 20 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. There were three notable inventions presented today. The first relates to Apple's "Integrated Touch Screen". The invention allows the touch display to be manufactured with fewer parts and/or processing steps as well as ensuring that the display itself may be thinner, brighter and require less power."

"Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha now says he'd be interested in shipping Windows Phones if Motorola could get the same kind of deal that Nokia got from Microsoft."

Good luck with that.

Not looking good for Dropbox: "I've spent a bunch of time talking to entrepreneurs who are building companies in and around the cloud storage space. It's not a space I like very much because I don't think we'll be using files in the cloud. Now Dropbox is a brilliant company and an amazing service and they are doing very well, but will we need a service like Dropbox when everything is in the cloud? I don't think so."

'Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to "kill Facebook," the "medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore."'

"Today, Facebook released their Messenger app and seconds later, we see that there is a video component to the application"

"Nokia plans to stop selling both feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the United States and Canada as it tries to put all of its muscle behind the company's huge bet on Windows Phone."

Samsung: "Samsung is disappointed with the court's decision and we intend to act immediately to defend our intellectual property rights through the ongoing legal proceedings in Germany and will continue to actively defend these rights throughout the world.

"The request for injunction was filed with no notice to Samsung, and the order was issued without any hearing or presentation of evidence from Samsung.

"We will take all necessary measures to ensure Samsung's innovative mobile communications devices are available to customers in Europe and around the world."

"There are differences in competition law between Germany and the Netherlands, which is why Apple filed separate lawsuits. In Germany, Apple asserts not only an infringement of the said Community design but also cites unfair competition grounds, denouncing the Galaxy Tab as an iPad imitation."

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Boot-up: Google buys Dealmap, Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy tab down under, and much more

Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1. blocked a turf war down under photography: Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

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Question: what took it so long?

Plus the title text, of course.

Tomi Ahonen, ex-Nokia EXEC, always with the happy: "Nokia handset unit generated EUR 8.5 billion (b $) sales in the fourth quarter by around 1 billion euros profit." So if we don't ignore Nokia's network unit of NokiaSiemens networks - was initially a group that Nokia has tried, for six months now nobody willing sell, but, if the price of the loss-making unit to pay - business phones from Nokia, smartphones, and 'Featurephones' the size of 44 billion dollars at the annual level six months ago.
Now where are they? The handset unit reported total revenues to €5.5 billion (US$ 7.5 billion) and a loss of 247 million euros ($321 million). ..'Leadership under Stephen Elop called' and his foot-in-mouth disease... Nokia has already shrunk - 32%! In five months! When was the malaise only in one of the three great departments of a company, the other two can tolerate it. "But right now, Nokia disappears before our eyes!"

"" [RFL] spoke by e-Mail with Oxblood Ruffin, a Canadian hacker (just), joined the cult of the dead cow a hacker group, the the word "Hacktivism."He coined is also founder and Director of Hacktivismo. I asked him about anonymous of recent operations and the ethics and the rules for the use of hacktivism.
RFE/RL: How would you define "Hacktivism"?
Ruffin: "Hacktivism uses technology to improve human rights." Also employed nonviolent tactics and leans on the original intent of the Internet, which is to keep things and run.
"Things like DDoS attacks, Web happened, malware and network are violations of restricted area relating to tactics." "These generally limit speech and are a violation of first amendment went out and contrary to article 19 of the ICCPR [International Covenant on Civil and political rights] and UNDHR [Universal Declaration of human rights]."

Oxblood Ruffin. Make room, game of Thrones.

"Adobe today a new tool called Adobe edge of creative professionals, animated Web content with Web standards like HTML5, starts to design CSS, and JavaScript." Does not Flash.
"Is aimed with Adobe Flash can be used, but not replaced, the Web design software is Adobe's big bet on how it will continue to consolidate its position as a top player in the infrastructure of the modern Web, especially as increasingly mobile going on the Web." "In this new mobile context in the Web has become a more hostile environment for Flash, which is no place on Apple mobile devices, and probably never has."

"I have technology products for 20 years was review." I've seen everything from products, which were those astonishing of the get-go (the first Palm pilot mind comes), were the downright dangerous (a mouse, the fire caught on). But it has never been a time, when I look so much of the new stuff, so much is long not ready for mass consumption. Sometimes it is a bit quirky; Sometimes I can get it work. "And when I call the manufacturer for help, they are often aware the problems I experienced."

You imagine new released products for which this could be true?

"Apple Inc. won an agreement from Samsung Electronics Co., that the South Korean company is not the latest version of their Tablet PC in Australia sell, until a patent infringement lawsuit of the country has been resolved."

"The Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 violates 10 Apple patents, including the"Look And Feel"and touch screen technology the iPad, Steven Burley, a lawyer for Apple, Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett in Sydney said yesterday." "One in Cupertino, California-based company Australian injunction and also wants to stop the sale of the tablets in other countries Samsung searched, said Burley without."

It is an interesting way to keep the market share. Apple is Samsung damage numbers, if the patent suit fails.

Paul Carr skewers the issue with the promise. "And therein lies the real problem of Web 2.0-whether it related accommodation takes form of SEO-driven"news"or amount." To money-real money-attract millions or millions of users have in this game. And if you have to do with this kind of numbers, it is literally impossible to treat not the user as part of the data. "It is but depressing not surprising that Web 2.0 is faux socialization and democratization create a world in which everyone to a number in a spreadsheet is reduced ironic."

Ed Bott provides for bad times: "even if Apple Adds a definition for this piece of malware, I suspect that the next iteration of Mac malware authoring Kit contains a feature parity with its Windows counterparts to put on it." These days, malware on Windows side use usually polymorphic code that makes each sample unique. The technique makes detection systems, such as Apple's XProtect, essentially useless it signature-based malware.
"" The bad guys have many options to the distribution of malware: booby trapped porn sites, counterfeit audio and video codecs, pirated copies of the software, with "a little something extra", coming also fake security updates. "The increasing success of the Mac platform and its relatively weak security ecosystem easy prey for means enterprising crooks."

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