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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/france-says-skype-could-face-prosecution-for-failure-to-register-as-a-telecom/" target="_blank">France says Skype could face prosecution for failure to register as a telecom</a></h1>
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French regulators have said Skype could face prosecution for failing to register as an “electronic communications operator” with France’s telecom regulator. The agency, known by its French acronym ARCEP, wrote in an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://arcep.fr/index.php?id=8571&tx_gsactualite_pi1[uid]=1593&tx_gsactualite_pi1[annee]=&tx_gsactualite_pi1[theme]=&tx_gsactualite_pi1[motscle]=&tx_gsactualite_pi1[backID]=26&cHash=baebcd8ef257d3194065360ecec41a90&L=1" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">English-language statement</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Tuesday that “failure to comply with this obligation does, however, constitute a criminal offense.”</div>
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Being an operator that provides telecom services to the public “also implies compliance with certain obligations, which include the routing of emergency calls and implementing the means required to perform legally ordered [wiretap] interceptions," according to ARCEP.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-85200238030785394522013-03-12T08:33:00.002-07:002013-03-12T08:33:58.265-07:00Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23%<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/major-glitch-in-bitcoin-network-sparks-sell-off-price-temporarily-falls-23/" target="_blank">Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23%</a><br />
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A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off. The currency's value briefly fell 23 percent to $37 before regaining much of its value later in the evening.</div>
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The core of the Bitcoin network is a shared transaction register known as the blockchain. Approximately every 10 minutes, a new block is created containing a record of all Bitcoin transactions that occurred since the previous block. Nodes in the network, known as miners, race to "discover" this next block by solving a cryptographic puzzle. The winner of this race announces the new block to the other nodes. The other nodes verify that it complies with all the rules of the Bitcoin protocol and then accepts it as the next official entry in the block chain, starting the race anew.</div>
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It's essential for all miners to enforce exactly the same rules about what counts as a valid block. If a client announces a block that half the network accepts and the other half rejects, the result could be a fork in the network. Different nodes could disagree about which transactions have occurred, potentially producing chaos.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-56656812530272467072013-03-11T07:51:00.002-07:002013-03-11T07:51:13.398-07:00Somali Pirates Convicted for Attack of the USS Ashland $vrng only logical reason so far for delay on Vring decision RT @abubnic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2013/somali-pirates-convicted-for-attack-of-the-uss-ashland" target="_blank">Somali Pirates Convicted for Attack of the USS Ashland $vrng only logical reason so far for delay on Vring decision RT @abubnic</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-4629766804208953292013-03-11T05:57:00.003-07:002013-03-11T05:57:57.704-07:00Google to settle Wi-Fi data collection U.S case for $7M: Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/google-to-settle-wi-fi-data-collection-u-s-case-for-7m-report-7000012398/" target="_blank">Google to settle Wi-Fi data collection U.S case for $7M: Report</a><br />
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Google will reportedly settle its case with U.S. authorities this week, after the company collected data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars.</div>
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First <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130308/google-to-pay-7m-to-settle-wispy-case-with-more-than-30-u-s-attorneys-general/" sab="164">reported by AllThingsD</a>, the search giant will settle for around $7 million, which will be distributed among the <span sab="165" style="line-height: 1.5em;">attorneys general representing who more than 30 U.S. states. </span><span sab="166" style="line-height: 1.5em;">The agreement could be signed off on as soon as early this week, following a probe by state attorneys general in 2010.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/google-surprised-by-new-street-view-probe-denies-data-cover-up/5320" sab="173">Google "surprised" by new Street View probe; denies data cover-up</a></div>
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<span sab="178" style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2010, Google admitted that it had collected fragments of personal and sensitive data from home wireless broadband networks in the U.S. and Europe while its Street View cars were on the road. It was part of wider efforts to determine the location of Wi-Fi networks to help build up a list of assisted location services for mobile users.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-58797883895298507792013-03-11T05:51:00.002-07:002013-03-11T05:51:45.613-07:00Sell Google, buy Apple? $AAPL $GOOG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/11/sell-google-buy-apple/" target="_blank">Sell Google, buy Apple?</a> $AAPL $GOOG<br />
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<li sab="160"><span sab="161" style="line-height: 13px;">From a P/E perspective, GOOG is the 10th most expensive in the S&P 100 at 24.6x</span></li>
<li sab="162">At 3.8x P/Book, it's the 31st most expensive</li>
<li sab="163">With a PEG ratio of 1.20, it's trading at a premium of its growth rate, whereas Apple's PEG ratio is just 0.55x (the 5th lowest in the entire S&P 500)</li>
<li sab="164">Over the past 5 years, GOOG has been compounding retained earnings at only 6.74%, whereas Apple has been nearly double that at 11.88%</li>
<li sab="165">GOOG's return on Assets has been declining at -6.47%/yr compounded rate, whereas Apple has been increasing by 11.7%/yr</li>
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For the record, by <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/12/05/aapl-oracle-research-ups-to-strong-buy-on-ten-year-valuation-low/" rel="external nofollow" sab="167" target="new">Dec. 5 last year</a> Balter had changed his "hold" on Apple to a "buy" and then a "strong buy." The stock, however, continued to fall, from $570 to below $420.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-80537373928477345192013-03-11T05:27:00.002-07:002013-03-11T05:27:39.574-07:00The Missed Airbnb Investment, Now Worth $250 Million<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2013-03-10-the-missed-airbnb-investment-now-worth-250-million/" target="_blank">The Missed Airbnb Investment, Now Worth $250 Million</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-15333727236163573692013-03-11T03:48:00.002-07:002013-03-11T03:48:17.958-07:00Google working on talking shoes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/sxsw-2013-a-tour-of-googles-playground/2013/03/09/6f1c5822-88f1-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_blog.html?wprss=rss_national" target="_blank">Google working on talking shoes</a><br />
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Google has a talking shoe — and it has an attitude.</div>
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The shoe is still in prototype, and Google has provided no estimate as to when it will reach store shelves.</div>
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<a href="http://instagram.com/p/WpfWdnBm5o/" target="_blank">Shoe Prototype</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-62798225529096829052013-03-11T02:01:00.002-07:002013-03-11T02:01:54.918-07:00Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324096404578352532206088970.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank">Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes</a><br />
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Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny.</div>
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Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are objecting to the online retailer's request for ownership of new top-level domain names that are part of a long-awaited expansion of the Web's addressing scheme. They argue that giving Amazon control over such addresses—which include ".book," ".author" and ".read"—would be a threat to competition and shouldn't be allowed.</div>
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"Placing such generic domains in private hands is plainly anticompetitive," wrote Scott Turow</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-58164511408800836982013-03-10T17:47:00.000-07:002013-03-10T17:47:22.152-07:00Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it#r=nav-r-story" target="_blank">Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It</a><br />
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Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype’s role in China’s online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque doesn’t speak Chinese, let alone follow Chinese politics. “I don’t really keep up with news in China that much,” he says. But he loves solving puzzles. So when a professor pulled Knockel aside after class two years ago and suggested a long-shot project—to figure out how the Chinese version of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ticker_wrap" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft’s (<a class="ticker" data-symbol="MSFT" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=MSFT" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0); color: #007cd5; text-decoration: none;">MSFT</a>)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Skype secretly monitors users—he hunkered down in his bedroom with his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ticker_wrap" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dell (<a class="ticker" data-symbol="DELL" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=DELL" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0); color: #007cd5; text-decoration: none;">DELL</a>)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>laptop and did it.</div>
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Since then, Knockel, a bearded, yoga-practicing son of a retired U.S. Air Force officer, has repeatedly beaten the ever-changing encryption that cloaks Skype’s Chinese service. This has allowed him to compile for the first time the thousands of terms—such as “Amnesty International” and “Tiananmen”—that prompt Skype in China to intercept typed messages and send copies to its computer servers in the country. Some messages are blocked altogether.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-54921814287085956052013-03-09T13:20:00.002-08:002013-03-09T13:20:57.688-08:00Samsung and Apple Going to Include Wireless Charging Technology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Following the steps of Nokia, LG Electronics and HTC, Samsung Electronics and Apple are expected to add wireless charging capability to their flagship models in 2013, according to industry sources.</div>
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Samsung is expected to adopt Qi wireless charging technology run by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) for its next flagship model, the Galaxy S IV, the sources indicated.</div>
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However, the Galaxy S IV may not come with embedded wireless charging capability. Instead, users are required to buy replacement back covers for their smartphone for access to a charging pad, the sources indicated.</div>
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Apple is likely to adopt the wireless charging technology developed internally, but it remains unknown if the next-generation iPhone will come with built-in wireless charging capability or with other attached accessories, said the sources.</div>
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However, Samsung's adoption of the Qi standards may drive the technology to become mainstream for smartphones, outperforming those promoted by the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA).</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-49731050298632414602013-03-09T03:14:00.001-08:002013-03-09T03:14:39.618-08:00MegaUpload's closure boosts movie rentals and sales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57573195-93/megauploads-closure-boosts-movie-rentals-and-sales/" target="_blank">MegaUpload's closure boosts movie rentals and sales</a><br />
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A new study by Carnegie Mellon's Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics shows that after MegaUpload's closure online movie revenue increased by between 6 percent and 10 percent, according to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324034804578344551047272218.html" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wall Street Journal</a>. The study researched two major movie studios and the results were measured in 12 different countries, including the U.S.</div>
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"We conclude that shutting down MegaUpload and Megavideo caused some customers to shift from cyberlocker-based piracy to purchasing or renting through legal digital channels," the study's researchers told the Wall Street Journal.</div>
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The U.S. government conducted a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57362515-83/mystery-and-mayhem-surrounding-megaupload-roundup/" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">major takedown of the cloud-storage service</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in January 2012, charging its founder Kim DotCom with racketeering, copyright infringement, money laundering, and more. Federal authorities claim that DotCom pocketed millions of dollars in illegal profits from illegal file sharing and downloading, which has reportedly cost the film industry more than $600 million in damages.</div>
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MegaUpload was one of the most popular video destinations on the Web, with reportedly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57367178-93/megaupload-substitutes-show-spikes-in-traffic-since-shutdown/" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">50 million users per day</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that shared and streamed files.</div>
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Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller has been a semi-regular<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pschiller" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter user</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>since 2008, though mostly tweets about things like music, movies and sports.</div>
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But that changed earlier today with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pschiller/statuses/309701667375415297" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a post<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>linking to F-Secure Labs' latest quarterly Mobile Threat report, with a casual mention to "be safe out there."</div>
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The 29-page report's (<a href="http://www.f-secure.com/static/doc/labs_global/Research/Mobile%20Threat%20Report%20Q4%202012.pdf" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PDF</a>) key finding is that malware on Google's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/" section="luke_topic" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is getting worse, in part because of the platform's brisk growth and a new variant of malware that spread using SMS.</div>
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"Android malware has been strengthening its position in the mobile threat scene," the report's executive summary said. "In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter."</div>
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"It's been a weird week for investors with a yen for patent-based business models.</div>
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First, video ringtone vendor and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/10/08/maybe-mark-cuban-was-right-about-vringo.aspx" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">occasional search patent wrangler</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vringo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NYSEMKT:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/VRNG.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">VRNG</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=VRNG&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add VRNG to My Watchlist"> </a>) scored a patent infringement victory against<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AOL<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NYSE:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AOL.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">AOL</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=AOL&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add AOL to My Watchlist"> </a>) and<strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nasdaq:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GOOG.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">GOOG</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=GOOG&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add GOOG to My Watchlist"> </a>) . But share prices<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fell<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>on the verdict because the $30 million up-front damages were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/01/will-vringo-bounce-back.aspx" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">far smaller</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>than the $493 million the company originally sought. Vringo shares are still down 19% from pre-verdict highs as investors fret over the judge's final say on damages, licensing, and potential injunctions. But the early enthusiasm changes the picture a good deal -- the stock is up 27% from last Friday's closing prices.</div>
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Then mobile security expert<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VirnetX<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NYSEMKT:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/VHC.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">VHC</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=VHC&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add VHC to My Watchlist"> </a>) landed a much larger win against<strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Apple<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nasdaq:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AAPL.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">AAPL</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=AAPL&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add AAPL to My Watchlist"> </a>) .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/07/apples-370-million-video-call.aspx" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Cupertino was ordered to pay VirnetX $370 million</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to make up for misuse of the company's patents in the FaceTime video chat app. Sure, investors were hoping for more, but this is still a potential lifesaver for a company with less than $40,000 in trailing revenue. The company recorded a $200 million payment from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Microsoft<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(<span class="ticker" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nasdaq:<a class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/MSFT.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">MSFT</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=MSFT&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="background-image: url("http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px currentColor; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Add MSFT to My Watchlist"> </a>) two years ago in a case based on many of the same communication patents, but that windfall never led to any significant license royalties."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-32182242946720180552013-03-08T01:27:00.001-08:002013-03-08T01:27:12.589-08:00Anders Bylund author of hitpieces for $GOOG on 'Motley Fool'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://twitter.com/TMFZahrim" target="_blank">Anders Bylund author of hitpieces for $GOOG on 'Motley Fool'</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-64391221469031070742013-03-08T01:23:00.000-08:002013-03-08T01:23:26.237-08:00Ray Wood #ZTE $VRNG Chief Patent Officer - Former $NOK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/raywood/" target="_blank">Ray Wood #ZTE $VRNG Chief Patent Officer - Former $NOK</a><br />
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Connect the dots.<br />
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&title=Chief+Patent+Officer&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&currentTitle=CP&trk=prof-exp-title" name="title" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Find others with this title">Chief Patent Officer</a></h4>
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<span class="miniprofile-container /companies/5804?miniprofile=" data-li-url="/companies/5804?miniprofile=" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" id="yui-gen11" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/5804?trk=prof-exp-company-name" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ZTE USA</a></strong></span></h5>
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<span class="miniprofile-container /companies/1070?miniprofile=" data-li-url="/companies/1070?miniprofile=" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Nokia" src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/media/p/3/000/1ab/0b7/08df8b7.png" style="border: currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></strong></span></h5>
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<span class="miniprofile-container /companies/1070?miniprofile=" data-li-url="/companies/1070?miniprofile=" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.44px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/1070?trk=prof-exp-company-name" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nokia</a></strong></span></h5>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-14960210712587260612013-03-08T01:20:00.002-08:002013-03-08T01:20:28.640-08:00Jim Wang #zte $vrng Chief Legal Rep. at ZTE (USA) INC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-wang/15/1ba/199" target="_blank">Jim Wang #zte $vrng Chief Legal Rep. at ZTE (USA) INC</a><br />
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This guy has a lot of work on his hands, defending the case in Germany.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-54263733605991948232013-03-08T01:09:00.000-08:002013-03-08T01:09:01.969-08:00Cliff Weinstein Executive Vice President at $VRNG Linkedin Profile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cliff-weinstein/4/a13/696/" target="_blank">Cliff Weinstein Executive Vice President at $VRNG Linkedin Profile</a><br />
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Maxim Group is a leading investment banking, securities and investment management firm. The Firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products, and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales & trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals.<br /><br />Maxim Group is registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB); Securities Insurance Protection Corporation (SIPC); NASDAQ Stock Market; and NYSE Arca, Inc.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-70074314630078130582013-03-08T01:02:00.003-08:002013-03-08T01:02:56.422-08:00David Cohen: Head of Litigation and Licensing at $VRNG Linkedin Profile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlevycohen/" target="_blank">David Cohen: Head of Litigation and Licensing at $VRNG</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-39263737253677404902013-03-08T00:51:00.000-08:002013-03-08T00:51:57.117-08:00Ellen Cohl $VRNG CFO Linkedin Profile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://il.linkedin.com/pub/ellen-cohl/0/623/95a" target="_blank">Ellen Cohl $VRNG CFO</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-74992505192551241522013-03-07T03:07:00.002-08:002013-03-07T03:07:20.794-08:00Apple’s Growth Outpaces Samsung’s In Most Recent comScore U.S. Smartphone Share Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/06/apples-growth-outpaces-samsungs-in-most-recent-comscore-u-s-smartphone-share-report/" target="_blank">Apple’s Growth Outpaces Samsung’s In Most Recent comScore U.S. Smartphone Share Report</a> $aapl #samsung</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691359469112508323.post-84209620022654591562013-03-06T15:28:00.002-08:002013-03-06T15:28:27.744-08:00Andrew Perlman Linkedin Profile $VRNG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-perlman/0/95/767" target="_blank">Andrew Perlman Linkedin Profile $VRNG</a></div>
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