Rumors of an iPad 3 this year are apparently greatly overstated , Amazon re - reconsider its licensing posture , and it ’s the letters patent troll that found 1000 suits . The residual for Tuesday , April 12 , 2011 are on the suit .
Rumors about new iPad specifications not taken seriously by component part makers(DigiTimes )
The , er , ever - reputableDigiTimes says that there will be no novel iPad 3 in 2011 , based on word from constituent manufacturers . The reasoning ? Those companies have not yet received order for the part that would go into a supposed next - contemporaries iPad . jolly upstanding , I ’d say , except what if the new iPadhas no parts . Did you think of that , cat ? Huh ? Did ya ?
Amazon Letter To Labels : Cloud Drive Locker Has Boosted MP3 Sales(Billboard )
cyberspace retail giant Amazon has flopped back , telling medicine labelsonce againthat it do n’t need no steenkin ’ permit for the music that user upload to the fellowship ’s Cloud Player service . But , maybe — just maybe — Amazon allows , it might sort of kind of possibly require to do stuff in the futurity thatcouldconceivably maybe ask licenses , so , uh , delay in touch . And do n’t sue . Yeah . That .
Priceline founding father take aim at Apple , more than 100 others in patent suit(AppleInsider )
Walker Digital , possessor of Priceline.com , has filed suit against Apple and more than 100 other company for — anybody ? anybody?—ding ding ding : patent infringement . Walker apparently holds more than 400 patents filed in the ’ 90s on a variety of inventions . “ Unfortunately , ” said Walker Digital CEO Jon Ellenthal , “ many of these companies have refused to engage in meaningful negotiations that acknowledge the food market time value they deduce from the use of our property . ” Only one valet can settle this dispute ; perhaps it ’s fourth dimension to call in … the Priceline treater .
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