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Red sues Sony over patents, wants disputed F-series cameras ‘destroyed’ HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent We reported that Sony was going “Red hunting” with it’s new F-series pro camcorders, but it looks like Red has flipped that scenario. It’s suing Sony for allegedly violating two of its patents — asking for an injunction to stop sales plus an award for damages, and even that that the F5, F55 and F65 models in question be “delivered up and destroyed.” The Hobbit camera-maker claims the video cams have “resulted in lost sales, reduced…

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Apple Business

Apple Doesn’t Care, That’s Why It’s Winning

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Apple doesn’t care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn’t care if its next big thing cannibalizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think it should deal out stock. Today at Goldman Sach’s conference, Tim Cook played the defiant king of an empire too powerful to be distracted by the present or the past. All he sees is Apple’s future. The…

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CEO Marissa Mayer Says Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Is Underperforming

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Yahoo’s search deal with Microsoft is underperforming, CEO Marissa Mayer saidduring an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The deal has not delivered the market share gains or revenue boost that was expected, Mayer said. Yahoo and Microsoft inked the 10-year search partnership in 2010 as part of an effort to challenge Google. But Google retained a 66.7 percent share of the U.S. market as…

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Apple Business

Bloomberg: 100 people are working on the Apple watch

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As reported on Engadget .By Daniel Cooper Apple’s wearable computing project might not just be the fever-dream of analysts, ifBloomberg is to be believed. The news agency is claiming that Apple’s watch project is commanding considerable resources within Cupertino’s shadowy prototype labs. Two people who claim to be familiar with the company’s plans are saying that engineering chief James Foster and program manager Achim Pantfoerder are heading up a team of around 100 designers, programmers and engineers. Bloomberg goes on to say that…

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Apple Business

Why would Apple want to make an iWatch?

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Ziegler Signs point to wearables becoming the Next Big Thing One year ago — almost to the day — the Wall Street Journal broke the news thatApple was testing an 8-inch iPad. In July, just days after Google’s announcement of the Nexus 7, it reiterated that a “smaller” iPad was coming. Those rumors, of course, foretold the launch of the iPad mini late last year. WITH THESE REPORTS, APPLE IS SENDING A…

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Google To Pay Apple $1 Billion Next Year To Be Default Search Engine On iOS

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ROMAIN DILLET Apple and Google are enemies and partners at the same time due to asymmetric competition. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default search engine on iOS. In 2009, Google paid only $82 million for the privilege. Analyst Scott Devitt believes that it is a per-device deal growing every year. For every dollar of revenue Google makes…

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Application Business

Adobe preemptively cuts prices to avoid wrath of Australian lawmakers

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Adobe has suddenly knocked 20 percent off its prices in Australia just one day after it was summoned to publicly defend those prices in front of a parliamentary committee. The monthly fee for a subscription to Adobe’s full Creative Cloud has dropped from AU$63 to AU$50, so it’s now only $1 more than the US price when you factor in currency. The no-contract monthly cost has also fallen to match how much Americans pay —…

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Business Cloud

Using Antonyms To Understand The Difference Between The Cloud And Everything Else

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS The difference between new and not-so-new technology has a way of revealing what is elastic and dynamic compared to what is rigid and static. It’s not a measure of which technology is considered good or bad. It simply represents the progression from client/server technology to the Internet-scale, data-driven services that are gaining such momentum. Using antonyms helps better correlate what is considered a cloud service and what is not,…

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Business

Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Called By Lawmakers To Defend Higher Prices In Australia

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Three American companies-Apple, Microsoft and Adobe-have been summoned by the Australian Parliament to explain why they charge higher prices Down Under than in other countries. The three companies were called by the House Committee On Infrastructure And Communications to appear as part ofan ongoing probe regarding the disparity in tech pricing. The inquiry started in May 2012 to examine “whether a difference in prices exists between IT hardware and software products, including computer…

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Business Culture

The Valley Needs A Valleywag — Or Something

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS Here’s an unpopular opinion, especially on TechCrunch: The Valley needs a new Valleywag. On any given day, beneath the hype cycle of startups threatening to launch, then getting their VCs to blog/tweet about their launch threats, then pre-launching, then fueling PR/hype about their pre-launches, then putting up a special access code on select blogs, then their official launches,* some darker aspects surface. Sometimes it’s one startup stealing another’s idea, sometimes it’s a…

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