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Title: Remains of the Day: The war at home Post by: HCK on December 21, 2012, 03:01:01 am Remains of the Day: The war at home
Apple, Microsoft, and Google’s battle for the home has begun in earnest; elsewhere, Apple’s in a non-patentable pinch, Passbook is passing go, and you could have been reading this in Apple Freedom. The remainders for Thursday, December 20, 2012 are protecting the home front. Home-Automation Startup R2 Studios in Acquisition Talks (Wall Street Journal, subscription required) Blake Krikorian, the man who founded Slingbox maker Sling Media, has a new jam: a home automation company by the name of R2 Studios. More interesting by far are rumors that Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all in talks to acquire the firm. I can already see the Apple marketing campaign: “Turns out we do do windows.” Zing. Apple ‘pinch-to-zoom’ patent invalidated by USPTO (AppleInsider) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here http://www.macworld.com/article/2022732/remains-122012.html |