One fiscal guru says Microsoft ’s problems halt from the very top , Apple file a lawsuit and gets murder with one in getting even , and we unwrap how the industrial design field is a lot likeHighlander . When it come to the remainders for Thursday , May 26 , 2011 , there can be only … well , like six , apparently .
large hedge fund managing director calls for Microsoft ’s Ballmer to ill-treat down(AppleInsider )
What ’s wrong with Microsoft these solar day ? According to Greenlight Capital manager David Einhorn , two discussion : Steve Ballmer . The fellowship ’s explosive chief executive officer is on the face of it doing more trauma than good , presiding over a 50 - per centum stock drop since he took over from beginner Bill Gates in 2000 . Naturally , we ’ll lurch our own replacement : grapheme actor John Di Maggio . Why ? Because not only did he play Ballmer in the 1999 TV moviePirates of Silicon Valley , but he has alsovoiced an alcoholic robot . Which , when you consider about , really is n’t that dissimilar fromClippy .
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Teenager Who Sold White iPhone 4 Conversion Kits , Settlement Reached?(MacRumors )
Apple has at the same time launched a trademark lawsuit against Fei Lik Lam — the New York City stripling who was selling White iPhone 4 Conversion Kits last declivity — and voluntarily dismissed said courting , which suggests that a settlement may have been make . Rumor has it all Apple desire to know was how Lam induce his ashen iPhonesso darn white .
Videophone patent of invention troll sues Apple , AT&T and US Cellular(FOSS Patents )
mouth of the long weapon system of the law , Apple has found itself on the receiving end of an intellectual holding lawsuit from Visual Interactive Phone Concepts , say violation of its videophone patent , filed in the mid ’ 90s . Visual Interactive Phone Concepts , on the other hand , has found its patents challenged by a anterior art claim fromHanna - Barbera .
Apple , Samsung in talk over displays for iPad3(Asia News internet )
Apple is apparently in talk of the town with Samsung over AMOLED concealment engineering for use in the iPad 3 . This , despite the fact that Apple has establish an extensive lawsuit against Samsung ’s smartphone segmentation . I mean , I ’d be a little worried that all the screens Apple buys might “ spontaneously ” match on fire .
Our Interview With Dieter Rams , The Greatest Designer Alive(Fast Company )
Dieter Rams , the design flair behind many of Braun ’s consumer products , talk of the town in an consultation about being invited by Jonathan I ve to bring down Apple — alone . Because , as we all know , the only way to unfeignedly earn the title of Greatest Designer Alive is by one - on - one designto the pain in the neck .
