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Samsung tried to file an injunction with the tokyo district court to stop apple from selling the iphone in japan and Australia. is apple really so threatning to the samsung business that they would try to make it illegal to sell, well, apple is actually that big in the computing environment.

News from the never-ending patent war between Apple and Samsung: the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Samsung filed for preliminary injunctions in the Tokyo District Court and in the New South Wales Registry, Australia. This time, the goal is to block sales of the iPhone 4S, which launched in both countries last Friday.

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This unbelievable next generation technology thermostat allows the user to change the temperature wirelessly from your computer or smartphone. After a week of you adjusting the temperatures at different times during the day, the thermostat will learn your habits and adjust the temperatures automatically based on your previous preferences. The thermostat will also show a leaf when you are saving energy. I think this thermostat could be very useful for example in my home.

We all know that Steve Jobs' death was a big impact on the computing environment, but now another CEO has passed away. Robert W. Galvin the CEO of Motorola has passed away on Oct 11 2011. Since 1959( when Robert Galvin became chairman) he's been the head of the company until 1990. He made 11Billion Dollars in that year alone. He died at the age of 89. He will be missed.

There are two main types of jailbreaks - tethered and untethered. Tethered means you have to connect your device to your computer every time it's powered off in order to maintain your jailbreak. Untethered means you can reboot at will without having to jack in that cable. If you update before one of these becomes available, then you will lose all of your Cydia apps and tweaks until you can re-jailbreak. (And even then, you may have to start from scratch if you don't back it all up. More on that below.)

the emoticon is almost 30 years old. Twenty-nine years ago, Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, first proposed a colon, hyphen and bracket as a way of conveying emotional meaning via plain text. now it has evolved into hundreds of different ways to convey emotions associated with texts