Posted by Greg Mills
The auction to sell 6000 Nortel patents is over and Google, make that Android, lost. Google offered US$900,000,000 early on, but was out bid by Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson, Sony and EMC which joined a consortium to buy the patents. Each of the members of the group contributed to the winning pot for rights to certain patents or a paid up license to use certain patent.
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The US House of Representatives on Wednesday took up” the most far-reaching overhaul of the patent system in 60 years, a bill that leaders in both parties said would make it easier for inventors to get their innovations to market and help put people back to work,” reports “The Mercury News” (http://macte.ch/9wxs8).
Read MoreU.S. antitrust enforcers have given Google the green light to pursue its US$900 million opening bid for high-tech patents being sold next week by Canadian telecommunications-equipment maker Nortel Networks, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://macte.ch/4UvrH), quoting “people familiar with the matter.” Apple has also shown interest in the patents.
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Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) has released a letter calling for the institution of mandatory privacy policies from all apps offered via the official software marketplaces of Apple and Google.
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Bloop (Bloop: http://bloop.it/) has released Fresh Feed and Fresh Feed Pro 1.5.2, updates to its lightweight news notifiers for Mac OS X. The new versions add Google Reader support, a quick preview, Speech and more.
With the apps, you can select some of your RSS or Atom feeds, and each time new information arrives, Fresh Feed will inform you with an alert sound. You can read the title and the source of the news. If you want to read more, it’s possible to delve into the subject matter by viewing a preview from a pop-up menu.
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