iEconomy: In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword

When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips’s heart sank. For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on writing software to allow compute Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Oct 8, 2012 - 12:57 AM PDT
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Edited by: Pamela Hogle - Oct 9, 2012 - 7:19 AM PDT

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