Nokia sues Apple

Nokia is suing apple over 10 patents violated. According to Nokia, Apple has been using the ideas since the first generation iPhone and Nokia are asking for sales numbers so they can account for damages. Some analysts expect somewhere near 204-408 million dollars asked for. Apple is going to try to invalidate the patents or settle this out of court. If neither can be done, the court case could last 2-3 years. Nokia is asking to stop selling to iPhone until this is worked out but it is not in spite of the fact they want it of the market. They just believe Apple should pay where money is due.
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Windows 7 Launched/Apple's new ad

Earlier this week Windows 7, Microsoft new operating system following the bug filled windows vista, launched. The new operation system launched October 22nd although it has been in a public beta since January 10th. This may not be big news to most people seeing as the full version has been available to download on the Internet since December 27th of last year of sites like Bit Torrent. The operating system is said to run quite smoothly and decreases shutdown and boot up times as well as decreasing application loading times. In spite of the new OS, apple has released a new ad featuring the traditional Mac vs. PC format. It shows PC telling Mac that the new OS will fix all the problems vista had. It then shows the duo through time with PC saying the same thing every time a new windows OS gets released with Mac then question, are you sure? The ad is pretty funny seeing as Microsoft has had so many problems in the past with windows.
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Z Corporation has recently released their latest printer. The ZPrinter 350 is a 3D printer that has a price point of $25,900 (which is a bit more than the average person spends on a printer. The printer can create any object of any color, the catch being that they all come out in white. It can create objects as big as 8 x 10 x 8 inches tall as well as it creating the objects faster than any other 3D printer on the current market. This is somewhat suprising because that speed it prints at is .8 inches and hour (vertically). The machine uses snap-in cartridges of the material the object is made out of and then recycles an waste made in the process of the creation of said object. This just proves how advanced and portable technology is becoming and much it has developed over the years.
Link to ZCorporation's page listing printer
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Side Kick data somewhat recovered

Most are familiar with the server failure that resulted all sidekick cellular device users to lose all of their memory. Microsoft now claims to have redeemed their mistake by recovering "most" of the data lost. Losing data on a cellular device is definatley a problem and just proves that there are some issues with using the "cloud" to save all your information. Since Microsoft claimed all of the data was impossible to retrive, you might be wondering how the majority of users data was recovered, Microsost had this to say, “We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up. We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data along the way. This careful process has taken a significant amount of time, but was necessary to preserve the integrity of the data.” The first data to be restored to the sidekicks will be the address book with the rest eventually to follow.
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Portable Wikipedia

A new device has been created with the sole purpose of having access to wikipedia as you are on the go. The WikiReader has a $99 price point and offers access to all of Wikipedia's articles (currently massing over 3 million.) This device runs off of two AAA batteries and has a small touchscreen with only three buttons. This offer the commands "search, history, and random". The WikiReader fits comfortably in the palm of your had is about the size of a "stack of post-it notes". No internet is required for reading articles. This is somewhat a downfall because it also menas articles don't update instantly as they do with the website. Updates are offered quarterly. They can be obtained for free via the WikiReader website or at a $29 annual cost through the use of microSD updates.

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