Good Morning Silicon Valley

When it finally arrives at market, Sony’s PlayStation 3 may be a bit more dear than anyone, except Microsoft, would like. Apparently, the price Sony has in mind for the PS3 isn’t very aggressive. In an interview with Toyo Keizai, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi said we’re all going to have to work a [...]

Here’s one way to refocus your kid’s attention on schoolwork and away from electronic media: 30-volt jolts to key pressure points. That’s what they’re doing over at China’s first officially licensed clinic for Internet addiction. Patients of the clinic are also treated with acupuncture and, if they’re lucky, intravenous drips of dubious origin, all [...]

Jerry Kaplan may soon have material enough for a sequel to his book “Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.” On Tuesday, Kaplan, founder of a pen-computing start-up called Go, perhaps the most spectacular failure in Silicon Valley history, filed suit against Microsoft, accusing the company of pilfering Go’s technology and threatening computer makers who considered [...]

Broadcom has filed another lawsuit against Qualcomm, adding an antitrust complaint to the patent infringement and fair trade charges it’s already made against the wireless technology firm. In this latest lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, the broadband semiconductor manufacturer alleges that Qualcomm abused the wireless technology standards-setting process, broke federal antitrust law [...]

"I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off. It’s on the Internet. I looked it up."

– Martha Stewart (or M. Diddy, as she was known in the joint) says she could shed that annoying ankle monitor anytime if she wanted to go on the lam

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Looks like the undisciplined proliferation of patents will remain a U.S. exclusive for the foreseeable future. The European Parliament voted 648-14 with 18 abstentions Wednesday to reject The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, proposed legislation that would have allowed the widespread patenting of software in Europe (see “EU gagging on patent medicine“). As drafted, [...]

Invisible Breed Products: Turn your Doberman into a Poodle.

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