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Well, the Royal Wedding is over. Wasn't that wonderful? If you weren't watching on TV, there were about a million ways to participate online. Millions watched on YouTube, Livestream and elsewhere. And even those who were there uploaded their own photos and videos, including this guy. �I'll call him the masked Union Jack freak. Is that some sort of S&M suit he's wearing? It doesn't seem proper juxtaposed with the royal newlyweds. You can find pictures of him on a special Color Royal Wedding Album created by people using the iPhone social camera app and sponsored by the British paper, The Telegraph. You remember Color, the $41 million photo app that created a huge backlash in the press and some confusion among consumers about exactly how to use the app. 
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Last week, I wrote a few articles for eWEEK discussing the antitrust complaint Microsoft filed with the European Commission, pillorying Google as an 800-pound gorilla in the world of search.
"We're concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative," Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel, wrote in a March 30 statement posted on the Microsoft on the Issues blog. "We've therefore decided to join a large and growing number of companies registering their concerns about the European search market."
His posting argued that Google restricts other search engines from property cataloging YouTube videos in search results, that it prevents those YouTube videos from running well on Windows Phones, that it blocks access to book publishers' content and that it restricts advertisers' access to their own data.
In addition, Smith accused Google of contractually blocking "leading Websites in Europe from distributing competing search boxes" and discriminating against competitors by raising the price for prominent placement in Google advertisements.
The European Commission, of course, spent years chasing Microsoft around the block over supposed anti-competitive practices related to Internet Explorer. Eventually, Redmond executives relented to releasing a "Web browser choice screen" that gave Windows users in the European Union a selection of browsers other than IE.
Google didn't take Microsoft's EC filing very well.
"We're not surprised that Microsoft has done this, since one of their subsidiaries was one of the original complainants," a Google spokesperson wrote in a March 31 e-mail to eWEEK. "For our part, we continue to discuss the case with the European Commission, and we're happy to explain to anyone how our business works."
By "one of their subsidiaries," the spokesperson is referring to Ciao! from Bing, an online-community portal aimed at a handful of Western European markets. Back in February 2010, the European Commission notified Google that Ciao, along with U.K. price-comparison Website Foundem and French legal search engine ejustice.fr, had filed complaints about Google's effect on European search-engine competition. Foundem is a member of ICOMP, a lobbying group sponsored by Microsoft.
Is Microsoft's move surprising? Not really.
Redmond is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting its Bing search engine, in exchange for incremental market-share gains (which add up, to be fair; if you add Bing.com's share with what the search engine earns from powering Yahoo's back-end search, Microsoft can claim close to 30 percent of the market, according to research firm comScore).
At the same time, Microsoft is also attempting to carve out a presence in the smartphone market with Windows Phone 7. Several rivals occupy that territory: Research In Motion, Apple, Google and (soon) Hewlett-Packard's re-launched Palm franchise. But it's Google's burgeoning market share that seems to have everyone else concerned.
Lastly, there's also the business cloud side of the equation. Google and Microsoft have been battling for several quarters over government and corporate contracts for their respective cloud IT services. In November 2010, Google filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that the Department of the Interior unfairly restricted its bid to update its email and messaging system in favor of Microsoft's BPOS-Federal suite. That action alone hints at the animosity level between the two companies.
So a lawsuit with the European Commission is just another twist in what promises to be a long battle, one in which both sides seem willing to do anything to gain even a small advantage over the other.
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Alpha Bike concept: free-wheeling fixie for flip-floppers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you're on an Android device, you may know that there are already plenty of ways to conduct video and voice calls using various third party applications (Qik, Fring, etc.). But that functionality has never been included with stock builds of Android (at least, not for phones), the way Apple's FaceTime has been integrated into iOS for the last year. Today, that's starting to change. Google is currently rolling out an update to Nexus S devices that adds voice and video chat to Google Talk, which is included as part of the core set of Google applications that come pre-installed on many Android devices. The feature will work on both Wi-Fi and 3G/4G wireless networks, and allows calls between phones, tablets, and any computer with Gmail and Google Talk enabled. The update is gradually rolling out over the air (a process that usually takes a couple weeks), and it also includes numerous bug fixes. The Nexus One will be getting an update as well, but it won't include the video chat support (it doesn't have a front-facing camera, though it would have been nice to have a voice-only feature for VoIP calls).
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During the April 18 arguments, Microsoft's legal counsel insisted that the current standard of proof for invalidating patents is too high, making it difficult for companies to repulse frivolous patent-infringement suits. "When the Patent Office didn't even consider the evidence, it makes absolutely no sense," Microsoft attorney Thomas Hungar told the court, according to an April 18 Bloomberg report.
If Microsoft triumphs, it could establish a precedent that makes it easier for big companies to knock down weak intellectual-property lawsuits. That would help slam the brakes on "patent trolling," an annoyance for many large tech companies. Those companies filing briefs in support of Microsoft range from Google to Cisco Systems.
But i4i is arguing that existing patent law is necessary for innovation.
"It is abundantly clear that the fundamental change in the law, which Microsoft seeks, would result in an enormous decrease in innovation," i4i Chairman Loudon Owen wrote in an April 18 statement. "Microsoft did not present either policy or legal reasons that would justify any changes to the law, particularly the sweeping change they now apparently seek."
So if i4i wins, it could potentially help smaller companies fight larger aggressors in open court. Those filing briefs in support of i4i include 3M, General Electric and Genentech.
"The bottom line: Tech vendors attacked by patent trolls are only asking for payback by reducing the standards in patent law," Ray Wang, principal analyst of Constellation Research, wrote to me in an April 19 email. "If Microsoft wins, it's a check and balance against patent trolls. If i4i wins, innovators who feel their rights have been trampled by large evil tech vendors will have protected their rights."
Microsoft's battle with i4i goes back to August 2009, when the federal judge in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas ordered that all copies of Word 2003 and 2007 be removed from retail channels within 90 days, after i4i argued that the word-processing software violated its key patents for custom XML. Microsoft's attorneys managed to impose a delay, only to have the U.S. Court of Appeals uphold the verdict four months later.
Microsoft also found itself hit with a nearly $300 million judgment, which if upheld could sting the company's bottom line a wee bit.
That upheld verdict came with the court order that all offending copies of Word be yanked from store shelves by early January 2010. Microsoft refused to give in, issuing a patch for Word it claimed would sidestep the alleged infringement, and asking for a review by all 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
That effort failed, and Microsoft appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case. A decision should come by late June.
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