Author: GMills

Greg’s Bite: Explorer IQs story was bogus?

Greg’s Bite: Explorer IQs story was bogus?

Posted by | Aug 3, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

I was amused by a recent story that was picked up by major news sources as proven fact: that Microsoft Internet Explorer users were less intelligent than those who use other browsers. =CNN, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, Forbes and other major news outlets were also taken in by the hoax. Shades of April Fools’ Day! It all seemed so logical and smacked of serious research. That most people bought the premise is quite telling. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14386833.)

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Greg’s Bite:Robots, Browsers and Demand for Apple Products

Greg’s Bite:Robots, Browsers and Demand for Apple Products

Posted by | Aug 1, 2011 | , |

Posted by Greg Mills

Robots to replace Chinese workers?
The assembly line in China got a rude wake-up call from Foxconn’s founder recently. Terry Gou has announced that he intends to replace up to 1 Million hard working assembly line workers with robots, within three years. The economics of robots can be pretty compelling. The cost, maintenance and installation of robotic assembly line automation can be very competitive with human workers. See: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131018764.htm

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Greg’s Bite: Apple vs HTC, S3 Patents invalid!

Greg’s Bite: Apple vs HTC, S3 Patents invalid!

Posted by | Jul 29, 2011 | , |

Posted By Greg Mills

Recently it came out that HTC won one in the legal mega-spat with Apple. HTC had just paid $300,000,000 to S3 for five patents, two of which, had been just found to be infringed by Apple in a separate infringement complaint by the US International Trade Commission. Eager to have something to hold over Apple, HTC bought the patents, apparently not knowing they had just been found to be invalid by the US Patent Office in a re-examination of the patents.

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Greg’s Bite: high tech patent suits

Greg’s Bite: high tech patent suits

Posted by | Jul 27, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

The tech news has had a lot of stories regarding patent enforcement suits lately. Apple is plaintiff in a number of suits against almost every other electronic device company out there. The smartphone war is being fought in both the market place and in the court room.

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MS Office issues running Lion

MS Office issues running Lion

Posted by | Jul 25, 2011 | |

Posted by Greg Mills

Most significant Apple Apps were updated to run on Macs running Lion. Perhaps the most serious lapse was that Microsoft Office has some pretty serious problems that weren’t fixed prior to Lion being launched. Despite a long lead-in period through the Apple Developer program Microsoft’s Apple division allowed its most important Mac software title to go obsolete.

See; http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218618/Microsoft_spells_out_Office_for_Mac_bugs_in_Lion?taxonomyId=123

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