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Apple actually lost in Dutch court, not the opposite
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
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Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264
Why not drop H.264 support from Android and YouTube, too?
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Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad
You can’t make something conceptually lightweight if it’s carrying 25 years of Windows baggage.
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High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright
Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case about whether Congress has the power to "restore" copyright protection to works that already exist in the public domain. To be clear, for more than 200 years the law has been settled – once a work was in the public domain, there it remained,...
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MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight
Solar cell bonded to recently developed catalyst can harness the sun, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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How to Become a Must-Have
Most real startups don’t grow like this: Instead, most successful startups grow like this: Those initial loops are unsuccessful attempts to create a product people want to use. The problem is those…
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Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
On Malcolm Gladwell’s argument that Jobs was a “tweaker” and not a “large-scale innovator”.
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Why I Sold My Startup to Google
Shortly after the sale closed, John Cook interviewed me about the experience. He did a great job of transcribing all of my verbal gems, like “Maybe that is an economic way of looking at it, or something that I am unfamiliar with.” I’m not even sure what that means. It was the best I could muster in the middle of a…
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My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years
In the summer of 2003 while still working for my first startup I’ve got a “big idea”: social news reader. Imagine something like Google Reader with Priority Inbox and social recommendations. I was thinking about it day and night. I couldn’t sleep and was working through it in my head while lying awake in bed. I’ve got…
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How Apple Works
Who takes over for Steve Jobs? 1 John Gruber recently posted his argument for thinking it will be COO Tim Cook. The biggest point in Cook’s favor is simple: “He’s already run the company while Jobs has been on leave.” That’s true, but it’s less meaningful than it sounds. But to understand why, you need to understand…
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Steve Jobs
And now the frenzy begins. Running this story in reverse it's suddenly clear why Apple didn't introduce the iPhone 5 this week. It would have been lost in the news of Jobs's death, killing the marketing value he would have loved. I'm sure the phone will appear in a week or two with that appearance
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Apple and the Kindle
The Amazon Kindle is full of all sorts of amazing, delightful touches — the sort of thing you’d expect from an Apple product. For example, when you first take your Kindle out of its (gorgeous!) box, it boots right up knowing your name and logged into your account. This is actually out-Apple-ing Apple: it’s possible…
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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this ...
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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ElastiCache
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Google acquires ITA Software
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How Spotify Works
Synthpop and sci-fi