The company “selected the name ‘Bang With Friends’ for its casual sex matchmaking app with Zynga’s game trademarks fully in mind,” according to the complaint. The application’s name infringes Zynga’s trademark covering games such as “Words With Friends” and “Chess With Friends,” according to the filing.
I do not think of Zynga when I see “Bang with Friends.” Case dismissed.
Kevin has done some great guitar recordings in the past including some Ozzy records. He also talks about using the Sonnox plug-ins, which I’m a big fan of too.
Reviewers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Tuesday the school could have taken steps that would have reduced pressure on Internet activist Aaron Swartz such as taking a public stand against his controversial prosecution.
It’s too bad it takes such a tragedy for people to realize that.
Microsoft made $853 million in revenue from the Surface and sold an estimated 1.7 million devices in eight months, according to GeekWire. That’s less than the $900 write-off the company took on the Surface two weeks ago.
Let’s put this in perspective:
Sucks to be Microsoft.
Using BCN’s bogus research, Google claimed the Nexus 7 took a higher percentage of the Japanese market than the iPad. Except BCN forgot to count one important source—it’s too good for me to ruin the surprise.
Zuckerberg said last week that he’s sensitive to how users react to advertising in general. He plans to limit the amount of ads people see to about one for every 20 updates. That would comprise about 5 percent of a user’s news feed.
Why do I think people won’t like these.
These days, [Alex] Seropian is losing a lot of sleep. He founded Industrial Toys with the idea that tablets were the future of video games.
He believes your iPad is the perfect venue for shooters like Halo: the style of game his team perfected on PCs, then rebuilt for consoles. And he’s making a game he hopes will prove it.
If there’s anyone that can do it, it’s Alex Seropian.
“The fact is that Forbes, as a corporate communication enterprise, is now consumed by a mathematical game of just generating ‘hits,’ he writes. His base pay of $200 month worked out to less than $3 an hour for the 40 hours he spent on writing his agreed-upon four posts, Monagan says.
Clearly the writer made a mistake in this case, but the way Forbes and others do business is leading to more of this happening.
BlackBerry is definitely not in trouble, not at all. The world is full of rainbows and unicorns.
I’m going to try this one.
I don’t usually post about petitions trying to get Apple—or any company—to do something, but I can get behind this one. With all of the articles that have been published in The Loop Magazine over the last few issues on accessibility, I believe this is an important issue that should be addressed.
Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug for AnandTech:
What this does mean however is that you should be careful about comparing Exynos 5 Octa based Galaxy S 4s using any of the affected benchmarks to other devices and drawing conclusions based on that. This seems to be purely an optimization to produce repeatable (and high) results in CPU tests, and deliver the highest possible GPU performance benchmarks.
Oh Samsung.
I just want the navigation on a responsive design big enough so my fingers don’t hit two or three buttons at a time.
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Daniel Eran Dilger for AppleInsider:
Strategy Analytics is attempting to estimate mobile handset profit shares for both companies. While it generated a lot of coverage for its report, the numbers not only don’t reflect reality, but they were further mangled by sloppy reporting from a variety of major tech websites.
I’m shocked. It’s a great article.
A lot of people sent me this article by Steve Kovach where he sold his iPad because he no longer used it. I think some expected me to lash out or something, but I don’t have a problem with someone selling their device because it no longer fits into their lifestyle. We all use devices differently and when one of them no longer fits, it’s time to cut it loose.
Some of the world’s brightest minds have speculated that a vacuum tube is the only way to do it — but before that idea could even get off the ground, Musk said that the Hyperloop is not based on an evacuated tunnel. With that possibility ruled out, there aren’t actually that many ways of safely and economically propelling carriages at 700 mph (1126 kph). Furthermore, when you factor in Musk’s comments that the Hyperloop “can never crash,” has no need for rails, and is “immune to weather,” the architecture of the system becomes a real head-scratcher. Oh, did I mention that Musk envisions the entire system being self-powered by solar panels, and that it somehow stores energy inside the system itself, without the need for batteries?
The Hyperloop is from Tesla founder, Elon Musk. He is set to unveil the plan on August 12—I’ll be interested to see what it is.
An AT&T employee sealed up the Samsung phone, took it in the water and it leaked like a sieve. Oh, and the warranty doesn’t cover water damage.
“Bob is no longer going to be on Apple’s executive team, but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to [CEO] Tim [Cook],” company spokesman Steve Dowling told AllThingsD. He declined any further explanation, refusing to comment on the reasons behind Mansfield’s surprising move, whether he remains Apple’s SVP of Technologies or whether the company plans to appoint a new executive to that role.
Bizarre.
This is why Eric is one of the best players ever.
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Amazon.com Inc shares hit a record on Friday after quarterly results increased optimism about the Internet retailer’s U.S. business.
The company reported a second-quarter net loss and weaker international growth on Thursday. However, its domestic business expanded quickly and profit in the region improved.
What kind of crazy upside down world are we living in when this happens.
From Macrumors:
The next-generation iPhone will launch on September 6th…
Nope.
It’s pretty safe to say that Apple is more open about its environment improvements and supply chain responsibility than most companies in the world. Recently the company took that a step further by forming an academic advisory board for its Supplier Responsibility program.
The board, which consists of eight professors from top U.S. universities will focus on studying and making recommendations to Apple about current policies and practices; conduct or commission new research on labor standards within Apple’s supply chain; and share existing research which may help improve those policies and practices.
The chairman of the advisory board, Brown University Professor and Watson Institute Director Professor Richard Locke, said he hopes to shape the practices of Apple and its suppliers so that the millions of employees involved in Apple’s supply chain work under safe and fair conditions.
The academic advisory board is made up of: Richard Locke (Watson Institute, Brown University), Chair Mark Cullen (Stanford University) Eli Friedman (Cornell University) Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan) Margaret Levi (University of Washington) Dara O’Rourke (University of California, Berkeley) Charles Sabel (Columbia University) Annelee Saxenian (University of California, Berkeley).
“We built a few more devices than we could sell,” admitted Ballmer when referring to the slow Surface RT sales. Microsoft recently cut the price of its Surface RT tablets by 30 percent worldwide, and Ballmer and Turner reiterated in the internal meeting that the huge writedown was a price adjustment that was necessary to sell Surface RT devices. While Ballmer didn’t provide a sneak peek at the next Surface, we’re told he confirmed new devices are currently being tested with incremental improvements.
So Microsoft took a $900 million writedown because the Surface RT sucks balls and in response the next version of the Surface will have “incremental improvements.” Perfect.
UPDATE: I updated the headline and post to better reflect Ballmer was talking about the Surface RT.
Jim and Dan discuss the recent Apple security exploit, whitehat hacking in general, Apple’s Quarterly Results, and more.
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How can you not love Zeppelin.