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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Nokia asks ITC to ban iPhone, iPod, and MacBook imports

Looks like Nokia is going all-out in its patent fight with Apple: in addition to the lawsuit it's filed over GSM standards and last week's International Trade Commission complaint, Espoo just filed a second complaint with the federal court, alleging that Apple's infringing several "implementation patents" that cover everything from camera sensors to touchscreens. That's three fronts in the same war, if you're counting -- the original regarding GSM patents, and these two latest over specific device technologies. The biggest bombshell so far is the ITC complaint, in which Nokia's asking the commission to ban imports of basically every Apple mobile product from the MacBook to the iPhone for infringing its device patents -- a strategy we've seen in other high-profile cases. Since the ITC has the ability to move quite quickly, we'd expect that case to be the primary battleground for the moment -- but remember that Apple has plenty of its own incredibly broad patents of its own to fight back with here, so don't expect a quick resolution. Looks like 2010 is going to be awfully good for these attorneys, don't you think?

Source: Engadget

Posted by LOLWUT @ HWZ

Lady Manager beaten up in KFC Outlet in China

Rough summary of the story:

Apparently a lady called KFC delivery and ordered a food item to be delievered to a lan shop, however the item is not under the delivery menu and hence declined, next, the guy called and demanded the item be delivered (guess the initial lady told him abt it )but was rejected again, pissed off, the guy went to the KFC outlet to find the manager (who is pregnant btw)

Personally, i dun give a shit on wat's the story, i'm more interested in WHY all those guys in the outlet NEVER helped the manager?