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For It Before They Were Against It: Google Spent $400K On SOPA Lobbying

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Dutch Court Rules Stealing In Virtual World Is Theft In Real Life

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ACTA = Global Internet Censorship - Now Even Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Have Your Website Shut Down

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This week in Blipfoto 20/01/2012

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Emergency NY Rally to Stop SOPA/PIPA

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Stop Internet Piracy Act Dead on Arrival, Obama Succumbs to Pressure

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Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards

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Microsoft, LG Strike Android Patent Deal

New agreement means Redmond now gets revenue from 70% of all Google-based smartphones sold in the U.S.
By Paul McDougall InformationWeek
January 12, 2012 10:27 AM
Microsoft said Thursday that it has reached a deal with LG under which the South Korean electronics manufacturer will pay license fees in exchange for Microsoft’s pledge not to sue it for using Google’s Android and Chrome OS software in its products.Financial details of the agreement were not revealed. Microsoft has long maintained that certain components of Android and Chrome OS violate its patents, and has struck licensing deals with numerous vendors that use the Google mobile and desktop software in their gadgets.
“We are pleased to have built upon our longstanding relationship with LG to reach a mutually beneficial agreement,” said Microsoft deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, in a statement.
Microsoft said the deal with LG means that 70% of Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S. are now covered by its licensing program. “We are proud of the continued success of our program in resolving the IP issues surrounding Android and Chrome OS,” said Gutierrez.
Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in 2003, and to date has struck more than 1,100 deals. Other companies that are paying Microsoft for the right to use Android or Chrome in their products without fear of a lawsuit from Redmond include HTC, Samsung, and Acer.
Microsoft has also sought licensing deals from vendors whose products run Linux, which the software maker also claims violates its patents.
Critics have charged that the program stifles competition and innovation and raises prices by forcing companies to choose between a licensing deal or the possibility of an expensive, lengthy legal battle with one of the tech industry’s richest companies.
Microsoft does not disclose how much revenue it’s obtaining from Android, Chrome, and Linux licenses, but some analysts believe it may be substantial, to the point where the company is making significant profitsfrom the mobile revolution even though its own offering, Windows Phone, commands a market share of less than 2%, according to Gartner.
Google, for its part, isn’t standing still. The search giant in August said it would pay $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, which manufacturers Android-powered handsets, and which Microsoft has sued for patent violations. Beyond giving Google its own smartphone manufacturing capacity, the deal also gives it access to Motorola’s trove of more than 24,000 patents.
Some observers believe that if Microsoft ever sues Google directly, the latter will use those patents as the basis for a countersuit.
InformationWeek is conducting our third annual State of Enterprise Storage survey on data management technologies and strategies. Upon completion, you will be eligible to enter a drawing to receive an Apple iPad 2. Take our Enterprise Storage Survey now. Survey ends Jan. 13.New agreement means Redmond now gets revenue from 70% of all Google-based smartphones... more

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Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices

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Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook

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Hypocrite Alert: SOPA Supporters Encouraged People to Use File-Sharing Software for Pirating Copyrighted Material

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17 Funky USB-related Products Ever Designed

These funky USB-related products will amaze computer users.

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Top 10 Things Nobody Cared About in 2011

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CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC

Tomorrow, at 9am EST, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland are expected to announce, with fairly strong certainty, that they have observed the Higgs boson “God” particle at a mass-energy of 125 GeV.

For just over a week, rumors have been rife that observations with 2.5 to 3.5 sigma certainty (96% to 99.9%) have been made. For it to be declared an actual discovery, however, a sigma level of five has to be recorded. A score on the higher end of the range, towards 3.5, would definitely have particle physicists, engineers, scientists, and philosophers jumping around excitedly, though. Perhaps more importantly, LHC has two detectors at the end of its 17-mile-long particle acceleration tunnel, and both have reportedly seen the Higgs boson: the CMS detector with sigma 2.5, and ATLAS with sigma 3.5. Thanks to the matching observations, “we’re moving very close to a conclusion in the first few months of next year,” said Oliver Buchmeuller, a senior member of the CMS detector team.

If the Higgs boson has been observed, its mass of 125 GeV will probably prove to be the most interesting factor. As you probably know, the Higgs boson is odd in that our Standard Model of particle physics postulates that it exists — and if it didn’t exist, the whole Model would be faulty. This would be troublesome because, so far, the rest of the Model has stood up incredibly well to the onslaught of science. Finding the boson particle, then, is a relief, but not fundamentally world-changing — unless its physical properties are “odd,” and at 125 GeV, the boson could be very odd indeed. For details, hit up ViXra’s blog, which is written by scientists far more intelligent than I. In short, 125 GeV would be interesting enough to require some rewriting of the physics books, but not so much that it would completely throw us off — it would be perfect, as far as scientific discoveries go.

As for what the Higgs boson actually is, and more importantly what it does, you should read our very approachable explainer. While it’s unlikely, there’s also a possibility that tomorrow’s press conference will be a a 3.5 sigma certainty announcement that the Higgs boson hasn’t been found — which would probably be even more exciting.

Link http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhcTomorrow, at 9am EST, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in... more

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Pirate Party Rep. Becomes Youngest Ever Member Of European Parliament

In a few weeks Amelia Andersdotter will be the second Pirate Party member to take a... more

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Global Warming Promoters Ignore Damaging Climategate 2.0 E-mails

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Bombshell Climategate II E-mails Validate Climate Skeptics

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