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Samsung continues its patent deal spree with a 10-year agreement with Cisco

Feb06
by on February 6, 2014 at 1:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Mobile, samsung

Samsung has announced a patent deal with Cisco, the third such agreement it has inked in the last ten days following similar deals with Google and Ericsson. The arrangement covers existing patents and those filed over the next ten years.

No financial details are provided, but wording of the company statements are noteworthy and stress the desire for agreements rather than legal charges. “Innovation is stifled all too often in today’s overly-litigious environment,” said a statement from Cisco Vice President of Intellectual Property Dan Lang.

Samsung knows the price of litigation all too well, following its landmark US legal defeat to Apple in 2012. The latest follow-up to that trial starts next month, so it’s interesting to see a number of Samsung patent deals being announced right now.

➤ Cisco and Samsung Enter Into Patent Cross-License Agreement

Image via JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / Getty Images

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Indecent Add-in Exposure

Feb05
by on February 5, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Bugs

Every so often, for reasons I can’t explain, an add-in shows up in my Excel UI.

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Today it was BlogHelpers.xla, but other times it’s different. It’s always in a non-maximized window view. That is, the workbook name is in the window’s title bar and not the application’s title bar. You can see that the IsAddin property is still True. If I close the UI window, the Add-in remains in the VBE projects window. But I’m too chicken to leave it in that state for long, so I always reboot.

Have you ever seen that before?

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Nonprofits offer Obamacare enrollment help

Feb05
by on February 5, 2014 at 6:23 pm
Posted In: Affordable Care Act, Around the Web, Cincinnati, health care, Health insurance, Obamacare

Individuals and families looking for help enrolling in a health insurance plan on the new online marketplace can get help this Saturday. The Center for Closing the Health Gap is partnering with the Freestore Foodbank to help Cincinnati residents get enrolled for health coverage through Healthcare.gov. The free session, part of the “Do Right! Get […]

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