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Eric Schmidt: Apple And Google Are Like Competing Countries, Not Kids With Guns
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Eric Schmidt was quizzed about the relationship between Apple and Google, among other things. His take? They’re like countries trying to get along politically — not teenagers brandishing guns at each other. Right.
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A Collective Response To Kim Williams: What About Availability?
Yesterday we posted a speech by News Limited’s CEO, Kim Williams, about the virtue of copyright protection and the need for new laws governing the theft of copyright protected material in Australia. It got a lot of you really mad, and that anger spread across social media too, with Reddit Australia and Facebook chiming in.…
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Samsung Exec Believes That ‘Fighting Over Rectangles’ Is Unreasonable
There are many, many accusations being tossed back and forth between Apple and Samsung. There have been for months, there will continue to be. But perhaps none of them has perfectly distilled the fight that the two mega-corporations are having quite like Samsung’s chief product officer Kevin Packingham did in an interview today with Wired.…
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Steve Ballmer: 500 Million People Will Have Windows 8 By End Of 2013
The man at Microsoft’s helm, Steve Ballmer, is an optimistic guy. So optimistic, in fact, that he plans for a significant proportion of the world’s population to be using Windows 8 by the end of 2013.