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Canada-based telecom Nortel went bankrupt in 2009 and sold its biggest asset—a portfolio of more than 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless innovations and a range of technologies—at an auction in 2011.
Google bid for the patents, but didn't get them. Instead, they went to a group of competitors—Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony—operating under the name "Rockstar Bidco." The companies together bid the shocking sum of $4.5 billion.
Patent insiders knew that the Nortel portfolio was the patent equivalent of a nuclear stockpile: dangerous in the wrong hands, and a bit scary even if held by a "responsible" party.
This afternoon, that stockpile was finally used for what pretty much everyone suspected it would be used for—launching an all-out patent attack on Google and Android. The smartphone patent wars have been underway for a few years now, and the eight lawsuits filed in federal court today by Rockstar Consortium mean that the conflict just hit DEFCON 1.
Some cards (especially RealTek) don't play well. Intermittent, random disconnects.
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If there are any ideas we can split this off to new thread.-rgdot (October 22, 2013, 12:02 AM)
One idea is to investigate the following:
Wireless section of a page for a Lenovo machine with Realtek RTL8188CE-ewemoa (October 22, 2013, 08:53 PM)
The Apple hype machine is way too strong. Mavericks is not far from a SP or an upgrade like 8.1, both free. I have checked many "what's new" articles (because admittedly I am not a user) and if you have paid for 10.6+ (for example), why should this NOT be free?-rgdot (October 23, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Actually, there's a lot new over mountain lion.
A good overview - http://arstechnica.c...e/2013/10/os-x-10-9/
24 pages. And it's not fluff.-wraith808 (October 23, 2013, 08:29 PM)
One idea is to investigate the following:
Wireless section of a page for a Lenovo machine with Realtek RTL8188CE-ewemoa (October 22, 2013, 08:53 PM)