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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Samsung Received The Most Mobile Patents In 2012, Now Leads ...
Samsung lost out big to Apple last year in a mobile patent blowout in the U.S., but it?s been slowly building up an arsenal of patents that potentially will keep it from falling into the same situation again. Samsung, also currently the world?s biggest mobile company, received the most mobile patents in 2012, and it now holds the most mobile patents of any company worldwide, according to the latest patent report out from mobile analyst Chetan Sharma, which lays out a thicket of companies scrambling to put a legal seal on their intellectual property in the fast-moving world of wireless communications.
For his study, Sharma looked at more than 7 million mobile patents awarded in the U.S. and Europe, the two biggest markets for patents globally at the moment. He found that the U.S. has stolen a march over its old world counterpart since 1996. The U.S. accounts for nearly three-quarters (72%) of all mobile patents across the two regions.
Within the wider world of technology patents, mobile in particular is on the rise. In the U.S., Sharma believes that by the end of this year mobile patents will account for 25% of all patents granted, compared to just 5% in 2001. In Europe, mobile patents will be 10% of the whole patent pool.
There are a couple of reasons for this. Not only is mobile in a rapid period of development at the moment ? the growth of smartphone and tablet usage is fuelling a massive market for services, hardware features, networking innovations and more. But in addition to that, mobile patent litigation has, for better or worse, proven to be lucrative for those who win ? either by way of licensing fees (one example: the cut that Microsoft gets on Android devices) or court victories (the $1 billion Apple/Samsung case perhaps being the most notable example, even if it is still getting contested).
On the European side, the fact that the proportion is lower could be due to fewer companies in the region putting as much emphasis on R&D as in the U.S., but also it is a comment about the wider shifts in gravity that we see in the tech world. On that note, it?s also interesting to note that 2011 was the first year that China outstripped the U.S. in patent growth ? 22% that year compared to 3.3% for the U.S. and 3.8% worldwide ? although it is still far behind the U.S., Europe and Japan in terms of actual patents. ?The numbers of foreign filings are now in the majority for both the applications filed as well as the patents granted,? Sharma notes.
Sharma notes that Samsung?s rise to the top has bumped Nokia from its traditional position as biggest mobile patent holder. Others that are still making the top-10 include Sony, Microsoft, RIM, LG, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Panasonic, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia. The full ranking for mobile patents granted in 2012 is as follows:
Among mobile operators AT&T, NTT Docomo and Sprint took the top-three slots ? but their numbers were too low to get them to compete against vendors.
Part of Samsung?s prominence in patents, meanwhile, is down to fact that it covers a wide range of business pieces, similar to Nokia in its heyday. It led not only in device patents, but also infrastructure and platform ? the one category where Apple also made it into the top 10:
For a look at what may be coming on the horizon, Sharma also looks at patent applications. He notes that patent applications grew by some 61% in 2012 compared to the same period 10 years ago. Taking into account granted and pending patents, IBM stands out ahead of the group, with Microsoft and Samsung closing in.
Samsung is one of the largest super-multinational companies in the world. It?s possibly best known for it?s subsidiary, Samsung Electronics, the largest electronics company in the world.
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Girls accused of threatening Steubenville rape victim released, ordered to halt social media posts
By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News
Two teenage girls accused of threatening the 16-year-old victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case were released on house arrest Wednesday and ordered not to use social media.
Just days after two teenage boys from Steubenville, Ohio, were convicted of rape, two teen girls were arrested and charged with threatening the victim over Twitter. NBC's Ron Allen reports.
The girls were arrested in the aftermath of the guilty verdicts of two high school football player, Trent Mays, 17, and Ma?lik Richmond, 16, who a judge found raped the West Virginia girl during a night of heavy drinking.
The case drew national notoriety to the small Ohio town where the successful ?Big Red? high school football team is a source of community pride.
Social media postings of images, video and text messages played a unique role in the prosecution?s case. A 12-minute video shocked many for the callous and profane way the boys discussed raping the victim.
In Wednesday's juvenile court hearing, defense attorneys for the two accused girls entered a denial to the charges, equivalent to a not guilty plea, NBC station WTOV reported.
The judge and prosecution also discussed releasing information from the girls? twitter accounts and cell phones.
In addition releasing the girls to their homes, the judge ordered them not to contact the victim, a West Virginia resident. The accused girls had been held at a juvenile detention center.
The original rape trial verdict was announced on Sunday, March 18, and by the next day State Attorney Mike DeWine had charged a 16-year-old girl with aggravated menacing for threatening the victim?s live on Twitter, and a charged? a 15-year-old girl with menacing and threatening bodily harm to the victim on Facebook.
According to NBC station WPXI, which cited an investigator, one of the threats on Twitter said, ?You ripped my family apart. You made my cousin cry. So when I see you it?s going to be homicide.?
A wide-ranging investigation is also under way that could lead to more charges in the case, DeWine said after the verdict.
Related:
Two teen girls charged for online threats against Steubenville rape victim
Verdicts in Steubenville high school rape trial
Steubenville high school rape trial zeroes in on texts, photos, video
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Twitterrific 5.2 brings push notifications, one handful of testers at a time
More than a few iOS-based Twitter users were happy to see Twitterrific 5 appear late last year with a fresh design, but were less than thrilled to go without the push notifications that many take for granted in other apps. Equality has come through Twitterrific 5.2 -- for some, at least. The upgrade at last pops up interactions as they happen, with a symbol to indicate whether it's a conversation, favorite or retweet. Push delivery isn't guaranteed at this point, however. Iconfactory is currently rolling out the beta-level feature to users in batches of 1,000 to avoid oversaturating its servers; you may have to wait awhile. The impatient still get some upgrades to sate their appetite, though, including user banners on profiles, discussion sharing through email and Droplr content thumbnails. If you're willing to pay $6 ($3 on sale) for more than what Twitter gives away for free, the new version may be a good excuse to try something new.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Via: iMore
Source: App Store, Twitterrific
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/27/twitterrific-5-2-brings-push-notifications/
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
BitTorrent 's Bram Cohen Patents Revolutionary Live Streaming ...
BitTorrent ?s Bram Cohen Patents Revolutionary Live Streaming Protocol
Hoping to revolutionize live broadcasting on the Internet, Bram Cohen has filed a patent application for the new BitTorrent Live streaming protocol. BitTorrent?s inventor has worked on the new technology for several years and believes his new protocol can be world-changing. ?We plan to shape the future of live broadcasts and want to work with broadcasters to accomplish that,? Cohen says.
The new protocol allows the public to send a video stream to millions of people, without having to invest in expensive bandwidth.
Around the same time as BitTorrent Live was launched the underlying patent application was published online. In it, Cohen describes what makes the technology so unique and TorrentFreak caught up with BitTorrent?s creator to find out more.
It took nearly half a decade before BitTorrent?s live stream service was released to the public. One of the main reasons is that it has been quite a challenge to make it work seamlessly. BitTorrent?s inventor is known for his passion for puzzles, and the streaming challenge is probably one of the most difficult puzzles he has solved to date.
?Doing live streaming well on the Internet has long been a problem. Peer to peer live-streaming has always suffered from high latency, meaning there is typically a lot of delay between when a broadcast happens and when end users see it, typically dozens of seconds or minutes,? Cohen told TorrentFreak.
?BitTorrent Live allows a broadcaster to stream to millions of people with just a few seconds of latency. This is new, and unique, and potentially world-changing,? he adds.
Bram Cohen explains that the patent is in no way going to restrict user? access to the new protocol, quite the contrary. BitTorrent Live will be available to end users for free, and publishers who are using the service and hosting it on their own will not be charged either.
?We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But we aren?t planning on encouraging alternative implementation because it?s a tricky protocol to implement and poorly behaved peers can impact everyone. We want to ensure a quality experience for all and this is the best approach for us to take,? Cohen told TorrentFreak.
BitTorrent Live is a complex technology but basically works by dividing peers into various ?clubs? of peers who share data among each other via a UDP screamer protocol.
?To get slightly more technical, the way BitTorrent Live works is by making subsets of peers responsible for subsets of data. High robustness and low latency is achieved by using a screamer protocol between those peers,? Cohen explains.
?For the last hop it uses a non-screamer protocol to regain congestion control and efficiency. There is redundancy and some waste in the screaming, but that?s kept under control by only using it to get data to a small fraction of the peers.?
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Bram Cohen believes that the future of television is on the Internet, and BitTorrent Live can help to deliver live high-definition content to millions of people at once at no cost. This is not just the future for independent broadcasters, but also for the major content companies.
?I believe that inevitably all video streaming will be done over the Internet. It?s simply a better technology for doing so. On a technical level the cable approach is expensive and can only reach subscribers, as opposed to the Internet which can reach anyone,? Cohen told us.
?So far the one thing cable infrastructure has managed to still do better is live broadcasting. But the BitTorrent Live technology makes it practical to move that to the Internet without being cost prohibitive. We plan to shape the future of live broadcasts and want to work with broadcasters to accomplish that.?
While it can?t be expected that all major broadcasters will convert to BitTorrent during the next month, the technology is there and the patent is coming. It will be interesting to see how it develops over time and if it can gain mainstream adoption.
There are not many people who can change the fundamentals of the Internet two times in a row. However, Bram Cohen already did it once with the original BitTorrent protocol, and he believes that BitTorrent Live can have a similar impact.
Those who are interested in trying out BitTorrent Live can do so here. The more people join, the better it gets.
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Graham County Makes Flood Insurance Available to its Residents ...
ATLANTA ? March 25, 2013 ? (RealEstateRama) ? Graham County, N.C. is now a participating community in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which means property owners in unincorporated areas of Graham County can purchase federally-underwritten flood insurance.
On March 21, 2013, Graham County was re-instated into the NFIP and is now among nearly 22,000 communities participating in the program nationwide. The NFIP does more than make flood insurance available; it also supports local communities in their efforts to reduce the risk and consequences of serious flooding. In order to participate in the program, a community must agree to adopt and enforce sound floodplain management regulations and ordinances to reduce future flood damage. In exchange for these practices, flood insurance is available to homeowners, business owners and renters in participating communities.
Standard homeowner?s, business owner?s, and renter?s insurance doesn?t cover flood damage, so a separate flood insurance policy can provide property owners with financial protection against the devastating effects of flooding. Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in the U.S., so flood insurance is an important consideration for everyone.
Even if you don?t live in an area at high-risk of flooding, you should still consider flood insurance because anyone can be financially vulnerable to floods. In fact, about 25 percent of flood insurance claims occur in lower risk flood zones.
The NFIP is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency which works with nearly 90 private insurance companies to provide flood insurance to property owners and renters in NFIP-participating communities. Flood insurance policies may be written by state-licensed property and casualty insurance agents.
For more information on the National Flood Insurance Program, visit www.floodsmart.gov.
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