So now, if you want the latest Angry Birds then you must get the Amazon app store, and if you are an Android user outside the U.S. then you can't get it at all.
And people wonder why Android is getting a reputation for pirated apps....
See the details from station IBR013 near the Ibaraki Chiba border. In earlier versions of this map, there was a red dot around here, with areas further North only making it to Orange. As the data has been reviewed later, the map has changed, but there is still a local peak in intensity around here if you compare the neighbouring stations data with those further out. And the Shido scale (basically peak ground acceleration) has a strong correlation with Instrumental Intensity (which factors in other instrumental readings - but the main reason I chose that is that the map shows color coded intensities, not just triangles of where the stations are).
RealNetworks always could put its music onto iPods - the one thing that Apple stopped them from doing was adding Apple's "Fairplay" DRM to their music. They could have just lived without DRM; their customers would have loved it.
You are forgetting the reason that Fairplay existed in the first place. At that time, record companies were not willing to license their music for DRM free distribution. So effectively, by blocking third party implementations of Fairplay from their devices, Apple was leveraging the dominant market position of iPods to eliminate competition in the online music store business.
How did Apple ever have a monopoly on MP3 players? They weren't the first Mp3 player, they weren't the first DRM encumbered digital music player (Sony & ATRAC3, either in Minidisc or netwoek walkman guise), Slashdotters ave always seemed eager to point our better spec players that are cheaper than iPod's,
Being a monopoly has nothing to do with being first to market.
HTC included a number of their own components for interfacing to Microsoft desktop and server software in their Android devices. These components were implementing features that were present in HTC's older Windows Mobile devices. It is likely that Microsoft's patents were related to these, though because they settled we will never get to see the list of actual patents. With Barnes and Noble, they have gone after a tablet which has features that are quite likely not generic to Android. If Microsoft had any patents relating to Android itself, and it was acting in good faith, then it would be going after Google to get the problem sorted out quickly, not picking off targets at the periphery and using them for FUD value.
Leveraging a monopoly in one market (MP3 players) to gain a monopoly in another (online music stores) is a violation of antitrust law. The problem no longer exists, so damages will be limited, but if Real want to continue to pursue this based on the situation 5 years ago, then that is between them and the lawyers on both sides, who will likely be the only winners here.
Yes it's theoretically possible and allowed for in the UMTS specifications, and the ITU has allocated those bands for "mobile telephony use" without limiting which technology, so eventually they may be used when the GSM networks are switched off - though by then the networks will more likely be looking for bandwidth to deploy LTE. But the statement I was responding to was specifically about the current usage in UK.
Except they don't always get cut off. Sometimes someone cuts into the conversation and warns them to change the subject. And it isn't a new thing, its been going on for years, at least for people overseas calling their families back home in the "troublesome" provinces like Tibet and Xinjiang.
I'm basing this on the Instrumental Intensity and Peak Ground Acceleration maps published by USGS, which show areas in Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Fukushima and Miyagi that would rate a 7 on the Shindo scale, and areas in all of the above prefectures that would rate a 5.
What do we get from Microsoft? That WP 7 lets you get done with Twitter and Facebook faster so you can get on with life?
And right there, with that marketing, they have killed the only market they could have carried over - the corporate Windows Mobile users who have been slow to make the jump to iPhone, Android or Blackberry.
...it turned out to be a great buy. I bought the Samsung Focus so I can't speak to the other phones...
I can't imagine what sort of person would consider a phone that can't speak to other phones to be a "great buy". But if that is the market Microsoft have chosen, then good luck to them.
As far as the quakes go, the worst shaking was in Chiba, in the Kanto region, where a gas storage facility caught fire immediately after the quake. In the press conference when the quake was upgraded to 9.0 by Japanese seismologists, they explained there were two secondary epicentres to the south of the main one, with the southernmost one closer to the mainland just off northern Chiba. Most of the destruction further north has been caused by the tsunami rather than the earthquake directly.
Sounds like an opportunity for modding the TCP stack to present random characteristics when analysed in this way. When the complaints flood in from some percentage of their users about being billed for having a million devices behind their router, the ISP might think twice about such a scheme.
Very often, when they put a hold on this amount on a debit card, it pushed the underlying checking account into overdraft, or at least locked up enough funds that the card holder couldn't use the card for anything else.
Another reason I've heard is that it can take weeks for the bank to release funds after the merchant has released the hold. On a debit card, this is very visible, as your available funds are less than the balance in your account by the amount of the deposit. On a credit card you don't notice, because you are never billed for the amount.
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And people wonder why Android is getting a reputation for pirated apps....
See the details from station IBR013 near the Ibaraki Chiba border. In earlier versions of this map, there was a red dot around here, with areas further North only making it to Orange. As the data has been reviewed later, the map has changed, but there is still a local peak in intensity around here if you compare the neighbouring stations data with those further out. And the Shido scale (basically peak ground acceleration) has a strong correlation with Instrumental Intensity (which factors in other instrumental readings - but the main reason I chose that is that the map shows color coded intensities, not just triangles of where the stations are).
You are forgetting the reason that Fairplay existed in the first place. At that time, record companies were not willing to license their music for DRM free distribution. So effectively, by blocking third party implementations of Fairplay from their devices, Apple was leveraging the dominant market position of iPods to eliminate competition in the online music store business.
Being a monopoly has nothing to do with being first to market.
HTC included a number of their own components for interfacing to Microsoft desktop and server software in their Android devices. These components were implementing features that were present in HTC's older Windows Mobile devices. It is likely that Microsoft's patents were related to these, though because they settled we will never get to see the list of actual patents. With Barnes and Noble, they have gone after a tablet which has features that are quite likely not generic to Android. If Microsoft had any patents relating to Android itself, and it was acting in good faith, then it would be going after Google to get the problem sorted out quickly, not picking off targets at the periphery and using them for FUD value.
Or put into music industry terms, a kilo of coke a day for every music industry employee.
Leveraging a monopoly in one market (MP3 players) to gain a monopoly in another (online music stores) is a violation of antitrust law. The problem no longer exists, so damages will be limited, but if Real want to continue to pursue this based on the situation 5 years ago, then that is between them and the lawyers on both sides, who will likely be the only winners here.
If you use Windows. If you use anything else, you're on your own.
OK so I missed last week's announcement by O2 that they have already started moving their 900MHz allocations to UMTS.
Yes it's theoretically possible and allowed for in the UMTS specifications, and the ITU has allocated those bands for "mobile telephony use" without limiting which technology, so eventually they may be used when the GSM networks are switched off - though by then the networks will more likely be looking for bandwidth to deploy LTE. But the statement I was responding to was specifically about the current usage in UK.
Except they don't always get cut off. Sometimes someone cuts into the conversation and warns them to change the subject. And it isn't a new thing, its been going on for years, at least for people overseas calling their families back home in the "troublesome" provinces like Tibet and Xinjiang.
UK uses 2100MHz for 3G data. 900 and 1800MHz are the GSM bands.
I'm basing this on the Instrumental Intensity and Peak Ground Acceleration maps published by USGS, which show areas in Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Fukushima and Miyagi that would rate a 7 on the Shindo scale, and areas in all of the above prefectures that would rate a 5.
Trade marks aren't awarded. They are claimed, and sometimes registered to strengthen that claim.
This justification does not work, as iOS devices use the extension ipa for their bundles.
"Those terms" in the case of Microsoft are carefully chosen to explicitly exclude Free software.
And right there, with that marketing, they have killed the only market they could have carried over - the corporate Windows Mobile users who have been slow to make the jump to iPhone, Android or Blackberry.
It feels like I've been reading that for at least 3 months. Is cut and paste on Windows Phone 7 going to be the next Duke Nukem Forever?
Shilling is one thing - outright lying is another. Changing other people's facebook profiles is not something that is in Microsoft's power to do.
iPhone and Android have historical baggage?
I can't imagine what sort of person would consider a phone that can't speak to other phones to be a "great buy". But if that is the market Microsoft have chosen, then good luck to them.
I don't know how anyone could be expected to use their time usefully riding the train at rush hour in Tokyo.
As far as the quakes go, the worst shaking was in Chiba, in the Kanto region, where a gas storage facility caught fire immediately after the quake. In the press conference when the quake was upgraded to 9.0 by Japanese seismologists, they explained there were two secondary epicentres to the south of the main one, with the southernmost one closer to the mainland just off northern Chiba. Most of the destruction further north has been caused by the tsunami rather than the earthquake directly.
Sounds like an opportunity for modding the TCP stack to present random characteristics when analysed in this way. When the complaints flood in from some percentage of their users about being billed for having a million devices behind their router, the ISP might think twice about such a scheme.
Another reason I've heard is that it can take weeks for the bank to release funds after the merchant has released the hold. On a debit card, this is very visible, as your available funds are less than the balance in your account by the amount of the deposit. On a credit card you don't notice, because you are never billed for the amount.