I think the answer is to focus the Windows Phone as a serious mobile computing device for business. A lot of supermarkets for example use Windows Mobile for their handheld stocktaking computers. I'm pretty sure the Apple Shop uses them too. They certainly don't use iPhones to bill your credit card for purchases anyway. In that regard, Windows Mobile 7 is a step in the wrong direction, because the custom built corporate mobile app isn't compatible with the idea of a centralised app store run by which ever Steve is in charge of the company in question.
Advertising revenue looks like it is about £1.08 per reader per year.
With the paywall, he will get £105.08 per reader per year - £ per week in subscription fees + presumably the same advertising revenue as before.
He needs to convert a little over 2.7% of the current readership to paying customers just to break even. Or maybe a bit more than that. Advertisers might be interested in a site that reaches 1.2m viewers, but not one that only reaches 32,500 viewers.
Yes, it is the website in both cases. The paper version of the Guardian has 283k readers, and the paper version of the Times has 502k readers. So you can see that the Guardian has made a much better transition to the online world than the Times.
The Guardian has 37m readers, the Times has 1.2m readers. When the Times goes behind the paywall, most people will read another paper like the Guardian or the Telegraph instead. The other papers probably won't gain that many extra new readers, because I expect most people are like me and already read the Telegraph and the Guardian in addition to the Times.
People generally only visit these academic sites if they can claim the cost on expenses from their employer. There isn't anything in the Times that people need in order to do their job in the way that there is for the Financial Times, the Economist or the Wall Street Journal. I read somewhere that they need to get about 10% of their current readers to subscribe to replace the lost ad revenue. I don't think subscription numbers will be anything like that high.
For prior art, you can claim the likes of Automatic Train Protection - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_protection . In such a system, if a train passes a signal at danger (red light), it applies the brakes and stops the train. It has been around since at least the 1980s. You may well have seen reports about this when you were doing your elementary school paper.
He mostly buys rather than copies products, so I guess Microsoft is a software trader rather than a software developer. There is nothing wrong with that of course.
Microsoft didn't write DOS. Seattle Computer Products wrote DOS and Microsoft bought the company so they could use it in their IBM contract. I believe Visual Studio is the only major product that Microsoft has developed in house.
A bendy bus is something you find in in places like France, where the roads are much wider and can cope with them. In England they might work in places like Milton Keynes or Swindon, but not London.
Or even just a separate HSDPA modem. In the UK anyway, a teathering plan for your cell phone generally costs the same per month as a separate modem plan - about £15 per month
There is a concern because there aren't any major video sites that provide anything other than h.264 or flash, and the fragmentation of the market with firefox and opera supporting ogg theora, safari supporting h.264, chrome supporting both, and the currently shipping version of ie supporting neither means that people are less likely to adopt html 5.
HTML 5 doesn't specifify any codecs. You could use.wmv on your html 5 page if you really wanted to, and it would be valid html 5. Nobody has a browser that could watch such a video, but that is another issue.
That depends entirerly on which part of Europe you live in, even down to county level. For example, there is streaming in Buckinghamshire, but not next door in Oxfordshire.
This is the one where your bank sends someone an email saying they need to update their security details or something. They are directed to a fake bank website were they are asked to enter their login details.
The phisher then logs in to the bank using these details, and wires some money to the money mule. The money mule then sends it by Western Union to the phisher.
The phishing victim notices that all his money has disappeared and complains to the bank. The bank then reverses the transfer leaving the money mule's account overdrawn. Or maybe if you are very lucky, the phishing victim doesn't notice, and the transfer doesn't get reversed.
A slightly different version of it uses stolen credit card details. They order high value equipment using the phishing victim's credit card and have it shipped to the mule. The mule then forwards it to the phisher, or probably another mule in a different country.
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They will use the plans as evidence they got the right person.
I think the answer is to focus the Windows Phone as a serious mobile computing device for business. A lot of supermarkets for example use Windows Mobile for their handheld stocktaking computers. I'm pretty sure the Apple Shop uses them too. They certainly don't use iPhones to bill your credit card for purchases anyway. In that regard, Windows Mobile 7 is a step in the wrong direction, because the custom built corporate mobile app isn't compatible with the idea of a centralised app store run by which ever Steve is in charge of the company in question.
Advertising revenue looks like it is about £1.08 per reader per year.
With the paywall, he will get £105.08 per reader per year - £ per week in subscription fees + presumably the same advertising revenue as before.
He needs to convert a little over 2.7% of the current readership to paying customers just to break even. Or maybe a bit more than that. Advertisers might be interested in a site that reaches 1.2m viewers, but not one that only reaches 32,500 viewers.
Will he manage it? Personally I don't think so.
Yes, it is the website in both cases. The paper version of the Guardian has 283k readers, and the paper version of the Times has 502k readers. So you can see that the Guardian has made a much better transition to the online world than the Times.
The Guardian has 37m readers, the Times has 1.2m readers. When the Times goes behind the paywall, most people will read another paper like the Guardian or the Telegraph instead. The other papers probably won't gain that many extra new readers, because I expect most people are like me and already read the Telegraph and the Guardian in addition to the Times.
People generally only visit these academic sites if they can claim the cost on expenses from their employer. There isn't anything in the Times that people need in order to do their job in the way that there is for the Financial Times, the Economist or the Wall Street Journal. I read somewhere that they need to get about 10% of their current readers to subscribe to replace the lost ad revenue. I don't think subscription numbers will be anything like that high.
In a lot of busy roundabouts you still need traffic lights, otherwise you can have one flow of traffic blocking everyone else out.
For prior art, you can claim the likes of Automatic Train Protection - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_protection . In such a system, if a train passes a signal at danger (red light), it applies the brakes and stops the train. It has been around since at least the 1980s. You may well have seen reports about this when you were doing your elementary school paper.
It is probably cheaper to buy an OEM copy of XP than pay someone to try and get it working in Wine.
Which is based on VMS and OS/2.
He mostly buys rather than copies products, so I guess Microsoft is a software trader rather than a software developer. There is nothing wrong with that of course.
Microsoft didn't write DOS. Seattle Computer Products wrote DOS and Microsoft bought the company so they could use it in their IBM contract.
I believe Visual Studio is the only major product that Microsoft has developed in house.
A bendy bus is something you find in in places like France, where the roads are much wider and can cope with them. In England they might work in places like Milton Keynes or Swindon, but not London.
Firefox - yes, Safari and Chrome - maybe, Opera - probably not.
If you are driving around in the countryside, you will drop signal from time to time, and it could well be for more than 5 minutes.
You are hacking the Pentagon because you want to find out what secret info they have about Aliens.
You are hacking the Pentagon because the voices in your head told you that Allah wants it destroyed.
In England, if someone walks through an unopened door, has a look round and leaves, that is just trespass which attracts a very nominal punishment.
It certainly does happen to the US. Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer or http://www.youtube.com/user/4oD from outside the UK. Probably most of it isn't of much interest to people in the US, unless they are expats, or Top Gear fans.
Or even just a separate HSDPA modem. In the UK anyway, a teathering plan for your cell phone generally costs the same per month as a separate modem plan - about £15 per month
There is a concern because there aren't any major video sites that provide anything other than h.264 or flash, and the fragmentation of the market with firefox and opera supporting ogg theora, safari supporting h.264, chrome supporting both, and the currently shipping version of ie supporting neither means that people are less likely to adopt html 5.
HTML 5 doesn't specifify any codecs. You could use .wmv on your html 5 page if you really wanted to, and it would be valid html 5. Nobody has a browser that could watch such a video, but that is another issue.
If Bilski goes the right way, it will help, but without a further case, it will only cover "business method as software" patents.
GStreamer doesn't ship by default on Windows, so you can't just tell someone to visit getfirefox.com to replace their browser.
That depends entirerly on which part of Europe you live in, even down to county level. For example, there is streaming in Buckinghamshire, but not next door in Oxfordshire.
No, because that is a different type of fraud.
This is the one where your bank sends someone an email saying they need to update their security details or something. They are directed to a fake bank website were they are asked to enter their login details.
The phisher then logs in to the bank using these details, and wires some money to the money mule. The money mule then sends it by Western Union to the phisher.
The phishing victim notices that all his money has disappeared and complains to the bank. The bank then reverses the transfer leaving the money mule's account overdrawn. Or maybe if you are very lucky, the phishing victim doesn't notice, and the transfer doesn't get reversed.
A slightly different version of it uses stolen credit card details. They order high value equipment using the phishing victim's credit card and have it shipped to the mule. The mule then forwards it to the phisher, or probably another mule in a different country.