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After six years of battle, a federal jury has ruled that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system. In 2003, the SCO Group began campaigning to get Linux users to pay it license fees, arguing that unspecified SCO intellectual property had been improperly included in Linux. SCO filed suit against Novell in 2004, claiming slander of title.
Rumors about the iPhone becoming available on Verizon Wireless are rife, and the carrier may be ready to roll with it. However, the iPhone would need major surgery before it could be carried by Verizon Wireless. The timing is right for Verizon Wireless to get the iPhone, because it’s building out its 4G Long-Term Evolution network.
Google, AOL, AT&T, the ACLU, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and other members of a newly formed coalition called “Digital Due Process” are proposing that the federal government update laws on government access to email and private files stored by third-party service providers in the cloud — or any other storage system. Currently, third-party storage of digital data is a legal gray area.
The almost-war between Apple and Google is over, with the companies’ CEOs, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, providing a photo op at a cafe in Palo Alto last Friday. We don’t really care that the meeting was obviously staged — its ramifications are interesting. You see, the iPhone is set to grow rapidly in the global market, but Android phones are dogging its heels.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have maintained radio silence, hardly blogging as I tried to prepare a manuscript for publication. This piece is not the usual analyst fare with charts and graphs and interpretations. It’s a simple book of my writings from the last year and a half.