Posts by Scots_muso

EU: Apple-Samsung row could be stifling competition

Picsel

Why is it that _nobody_ talks about Picsel in all of this? What happened to their case against Apple? After all, it was Picsel who made the software in the first place. Did the case get dropped?

End of the line for mechanical typewriters

Old and gold

My granny (bless her soul) is the last person I remember using a "normal" typewriter. She's been dead for 20 years. Perhaps if she'd gone back to work today, she'd have done this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFCCFS_lhA8

Samsung threatens Apple in response to patent lawsuit

Picsel

How is it that nobody has, so far, linked up the fact that the Samsung interface was actually designed, and built, by Picsel Technologies?*

Picsel, in their dying days, launched a patent suit against Apple alleging that Apple had infringed _their_ copyright. This seems to be very much related: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/picsel_technologies_sues_apple_626_patent/

* Or, rather, by Picsel Technology Research. Or perhaps Picsel Research Labs. Or perhaps Picsel (UK) Technologies Research and Development. Whichever of their pseudo companies they chose to hide behind when they ran out of money to pay their working staff, but had enough left to make sure that "invisible employees" (i.e. family members) were sorted out. Grr. Anyway... 1p in the pound means I should get £90 for three months work in 2009 sometime in 2011. Seems fair enough?

(Coming across as a bit miffed? Sorry about that)