Tagged ‘controversy’

Adobe says it wants Steve Jobs to talk

February 23, 2010 12:00 pm by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: adobe, Adobe Flash, Apple, controversy, iPad, iPhone, leaks, Steve Jobs

Adobe and Apple’s ongoing spat over the lack of Flash on iPhone and iPad really doesn’t look like it’s going to simmer down any time soon. Now an Adobe employee has taken to an official blog to call Apple (and Steve Jobs in particular) out over its policy of nods, winks and whispers…

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Apple’s iPhone touchscreen supplier hit by violent industrial dispute

January 19, 2010 3:00 pm by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, apple tablet, controversy, dispute, Foxconn, iPhone, Wintek

Apple’s iPhone touchscreen supplier, Chinese firm Wintek Corp has been hit by strikes and violence at its main factory. The dispute could effect the supply of parts for Apple’s smartphone.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg claims privacy “no longer a social norm”

January 11, 2010 11:30 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: controversy, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has sought to support the social network’s recent privacy changes, claiming privacy is no longer a “social norm”.

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Google Nexus One should be renamed, says Philip K Dick’s estate

January 7, 2010 11:00 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: controversy, Google, Google Nexus One, Philip K Dick

Google’s Nexus One has irritated Philip K Dick’s executors for sometime as we told you last year. But now the phone has been officially been launched, Dick’s family has stepped up its campaign for answers claiming Google misappropriated a name from one of his classic stories.

The Dick estate claims that Google’s pilfered the Nexus One name from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which later became Blade Runner). In the story, the rogue android model is called the Nexus 6.

Dick’s daugher, Isa Dick Hackett, told Wired: “Google takes first and then deals with the fall out later.” The family warned Google about its concerns prior to the Google Nexus One’s official launch but the search giant seems unconcerned.

Google claimed on Tuesday that the Google Nexus One’s name has nothing to do with Dick’s work and is instead simply a use of the word ‘nexus’ in its original sense – a place where things converge.

Motorola paid George Lucas to use the name Droid but unlike that case, the Dick estate has not trademarked the Nexus replicant name. Also, Google has not made any explicit connection to Dick’s work.

Still, Dick’s family says Google use of the Nexus name is a trademark violation and has sent it a letter demanding that it cease using the name within 10 days.

It has previously attacked Google, along with the families of John Steinbeck and Arlo Gurthrie, over Google’s plans to scan books for its Google Book Search project.

Out TBC | £TBC | Google (via Wired: Epicenter)

Google’s Nexus One has irritated Philip K Dick’s executors for some time as we told you last year. But now the phone has been officially been launched, Dick’s family has stepped up its campaign for answers claiming Google misappropriated a name from one of his classic stories.

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EA slams Modern Warfare 2’s airport terror level

December 16, 2009 10:30 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Gaming Tags: Army of Two, controversy, EA, Infinifty Ward, Modern Warfare 2

An EA developer has slammed Modern Warfare 2’s controversial airport terror scene declaring it “pretty awful”. So no similar ideas for the Medal of Honor reboot then?

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Firefox exec says ditch Google for Bing

December 11, 2009 4:00 pm by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software, Apps & Software Tags: bing, controversy, Eric Schmidt, firefox, Google

Firefox exec, Asa Dotzler, has taken to his personal blog to slam Google CEO Eric Schmidt and encourage users to switch to Microsoft’s search engine Bing.

Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, was inspired to make the post after Schmidt made comment about privacy on ABC News.

Schmidt told ABC: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe yo shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google retain information…it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.”

Dotzler urged Firefox users to switch their browser search from Google to Bing which he claims “has a petter privacy policy than Google”. He says: “Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, [has told you] exactly what he thinks about your privacy. There is no ambiguity, no ‘out of context’ here.”

Out now | £free | Asa Dotzler

Firefox exec, Asa Dotzler, has taken to his personal blog to slam Google CEO Eric Schmidt and encourage users to switch to Microsoft’s search engine Bing.
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