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Monday, October 8, 2012

Apple reportedly orders 10 million iPad mini?s ready for fourth quarter release

Apple reportedly orders 10 million iPad mini?s ready for fourth quarter release Apple has reportedly placed orders for around 10 million iPad mini tablets according to The Wall Street Journal. The information on the huge order quantity number comes from various Apple supply chain vendors in the Asia region who claim to have received orders specifically for the iPad mini.

Some component suppliers to Apple in Asia say they have received orders to make more than 10 million units of the smaller tablets in the fourth quarter. That is roughly double the order that were placed for Amazon?s Kindle Fire tablets in the same quarter, these suppliers say. The figure indicates that Apple believes demand for the product will be strong, despite stiff competition in the market. Apple hasn?t responded to requests for comment on the smaller tablet dubbed by the industry as the iPad mini.

Apple already owns the majority of the tablet space with the current iPad but there is definitely a small chunk of that market looking for a slightly smaller or cheaper tablet; especially if it comes with all the features of the current iPad. For some buyers, the current entry price point for an iPad of around $500 is a little too high, for others it is the 9.7-inch size which puts them off. If Apple addresses both of these issues with the iPad mini then it could well be game over for everyone else.

The rumor mill has certainly gone a little quiet regarding the iPad mini over the past few weeks however we expect that to start building again very soon. We have already heard that the iPad mini is in mass production from another source and we expect it to be formally announced sometime this month.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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The Problems with Software Patents | The Baseline Scenario

By James Kwak

Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr have a long article in the?Times about the problems with the software patent ?system.? There isn?t much that?s new, which isn?t really a fault of the article. Everyone in the industry knows about the problems?companies getting ridiculously broad patents and then using them to extort settlements or put small companies out of business?so all you have to do is talk to any random group of software engineers. And it?s not as much fun as the This American Life story on software patents, ?When Patents Attack!? But it?s still good that they highlight the issues for a larger audience.

The article does have a nice example of examiner shopping: Apple filed essentially the same patent ten times until it was approved on the tenth try. So now Apple has a patent on a universal search box that searches across multiple sources. That?s something that Google and other companies have been doing for years, although perhaps not before 2004, when Apple first applied. There?s another kind of examiner shopping, where you file multiple, similar patents on the same day and hope that they go to different examiners, one of whom is likely to grant the patent.

According to law professor Jay Kesan, things are fine as they are: ?If someone gets a bad patent, so what? You can request a re-examination. You can go to court to invalidate the patent.? But Kesan must know the costs of patent litigation?potentially tens of millions of dollars for a trial that goes on for years, which can easily swamp a startup?s budget. And in the meantime, corporate customers will be uneasy about buying a product that could be enjoined because of twelve random people in Delaware. Duhigg and Lohr profile Vlingo, a voice-recognition company that won against a patent infringement suit brought by Nuance, its larger competitor?but sold out to Nuance rather than have to pay for four more similar suits.

Vlingo?s founder since decided to quit the voice recognition field?his area of scientific expertise?because of the legal landscape. I would have serious second thoughts about starting another software company today, given what I know about software patents. How is that good?

The bad news, if you need any more, is that we only have one patent system. And much as software people hate it, pharmaceutical people like it?or, rather, they want to make it even easier to get and use patents. Since pharma outweighs software in Washington, change is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Source: http://baselinescenario.com/2012/10/08/the-problems-with-software-patents/

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Was LeAnn Rimes' Breakdown Caused by Twitter?

LeAnn Rimes apparently has a love-hate relationship with social media. The country singer, who tweets messages to her fans every day, says that sites like Twitter and Facebook contributed to her emotional breakdown. In her first post-rehab interview, Rimes, 30, explained the toll that internet criticism has taken on her.

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/was-leann-rimes-breakdown-caused-twitter/1-a-491293?dst=iv%3AiVillage%3Awas-leann-rimes-breakdown-caused-twitter-491293

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Kazakhstan sets eyes on ConocoPhillips Kashagan stake

ASTANA (Reuters) - U.S. oil firm ConocoPhillips is ready to sell its stake in Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan oilfield, and the Central Asian nation is eager to acquire this share, senior Kazakh officials said on Tuesday.

Asked whether ConocoPhillips would sell its stake in the consortium, Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev told reporters: "They have informed that they have the intention of selling."

The U.S. oil major owns an 8.4 percent stake in the field.

Lyazzat Kiinov, the head of Kazakh state oil company KazMunaiGas, said the firm was "displaying interest" in buying the stake of ConocoPhillips. He did not elaborate.

A more assertive Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest economy and second only to Russia among former Soviet oil producers, has sought in recent years to revise deals struck with foreign energy firms in lean post-Soviet years.

The country, four times the size of Texas and home to three percent of the world's recoverable oil reserves, has also moved to exert greater management control and secure bigger revenues from foreign-owned oil and gas developments.

KazMunaiGas entered the Kashagan project as a shareholder in 2005 and later doubled its stake to 16.81 percent.

Development of the mammoth offshore field, the biggest oil discovery since Prudhoe Bay in Alaska in the 1960s, has been beset by delays, rising costs and technical complications since it was declared commercially viable 10 years ago.

Mynbayev said that Kashagan was expected to produce its first oil by the end of March 2013.

"The consortium had the intention of starting production this December, but it looks like they won't manage it. They will move it to some time around the end of March," Mynbayev told reporters on the sidelines of an international energy conference.

Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country by area but with a population of just 16.7 million, expects the field in the Caspian Sea to be the main driver of its plans to raise oil output by 60 percent by the end of the decade from 80 million metric tons (88.2 million tons) in 2011.

Stakes similar to that of KazMunaiGas in the North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), the consortium developing Kashagan, are held by ENI , ExxonMobil , Royal Dutch Shell and French energy company Total . Japan's Inpex has 7.56 percent.

(Additional reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Miral Fahmy and Richard Pullin)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conocophillips-ready-sell-kashagan-stake-official-042127917--finance.html

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