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How Poor Are Software Patents? Very Poor. Court Demands Scrutiny.

2008-02-18 09:40:05 by Roy Schestowitz in Gadgets giz
 
A court requests some changes and also raises need for reexamination of a poor patent
 
 
 
 
 
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Poor Customer Service is Killing Sprint

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2008-02-27 13:53:09 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...poor customer service didn't have an effect on the bottom linethe only justifiable claim they could make, since the quality of the customer service became a staple of casual kvetching and late night talk show monologuesit was clear to anyone with a vision that extended past the next quarter's earnings statement that unhappy customers would...
 
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft increases focus on Fone+ cellphone project for the poor

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2008-05-08 19:01:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...poor. This isn't a case of simply handing out as many barebones handsets as possible, however. Instead, Microsoft wants to use the cellphones (which are described as a "low-to-mid-end smartphone") as an alternative to computers like the OLPC, an idea the company has been tossing around since before the Fone+ project even had a name. To make...
 
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft increases focus on Fone+ cellphone project for the poor

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2008-05-09 04:05:41 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...poor. This isnt a case of simply handing out as many barebones handsets as possible, however. Instead, Microsoft wants to use the cellphones (which are described as a low-to-mid-end smartphone) as an alternative to computers like the OLPC, an idea the company has been tossing around since before the Fone+ project even had a name. To make...
 
 
 
 
 
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Slate: Giving laptops to poor schoolkids is pointless

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2008-06-12 13:35:57 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
...poor kids laptops doesn't improve their scholastic performance" is the cry, summarizing research from economists Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches. The conclusion? Kids just play games on them. The two researchers surveyed households that applied to Euro 200, a voucher distribution program in Romania designed to help poor households...
 
 
 
 
 
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HTC's response to poor video performance on HTC devices

2008-01-24 08:58:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...poor video performance on HTC devices based on the latest Qualcomm MSM7xxx chipsets, HTC is providing the following statement. HTC is committed to delivering a portfolio of devices that offer a wide variety of communication, connectivity and entertainment functionality. HTC does not offer dedicated or optimized multimedia devices and can confirm
 
 
 
 
 
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Alas Poor HD-DVDWe Barely Knew Ye

2008-02-19 17:41:56 by Christopher Spera in Gear Diary
 
...poor-hd-dvdwe-barely-knew-ye I saw this on ZDNet and was a bit surprised. Chris Gavula and I were talking about this just last night and saying that the final decision by Toshiba has been misreported around the internet as having been made already. While It may have been somewhat premature before today, it is none-the-less official today:...
 
 
 
 
 
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LifeStraw Family: Cheap Water Filtration for World's Poor

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2008-04-23 18:49:09 by Michael in Medgadget
Poor access to safe drinking water may be the biggest health issue for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Vestergaard Frandsen , the Swiss company that released everyone's favorite Lifestraw personal water filter , has developed a similar product for the home. Project H Design , a charitable organization, is collecting donations to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Solar-powered hearing aids help poor deaf folk

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2008-05-06 15:50:50 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...poor One man, Howard Weinstein, did such a thing . He helped develop a hearing aid thats powered by the sun, eliminating the battery problem altogether. He was even able to put the very same deaf people to work, since the skill it takes to master sign languageacute hand-eye coordinationperfectly translates to soldering and other...