Apple News: Samsung faces sanctions over latest dirty trick in Apple case
In advance of last year’s big patent infringement trial that resulted in a billion dollar judgement against Samsung – not a penny of which has yet been paid – Samsung’s attorneys demanded that Apple turn over the contents of its patent licensing agreements with Nokia and three other manufacturers, Ericsson, Sharp, and Philips. Apple complied, as it is legally required to do, marking the exhibits “Highly Confidential – Attorney Eyes’ Only” and trusting that the court’s protective order – and the threat of sanctions – would keep the highly sensitive information out of the hands of Samsung’s executive team. The threat did not work.
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Technology News: Visa improves electronic fraud detection technology
Visa has improved its Advanced Authorization (VAA) technology to improve the firm’s ability to detect potential electronic payments fraud. On Thursday, the firm said that Visa transactions will now be more secure for both retailers and consumers, according to a press release. The global payment processor’s Advanced Authorization (VAA) technology is used to track, accept and deny payments from cards, whether physically present or used online.
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Programming News: Optimizing Your ListView with the ViewHolder Pattern
The ListView is a widget used extensively in Android applications to display data in a structured fashion. It is also a view that can be quite tricky to optimize, and making your applications feel less jittery is extremely important. When developing an application, a developer has to keep in mind the wide range of hardware on which Android runs. Nowadays most high end phones and tablets are equipped with at least a dual core processor, which can handle unoptimized code at tolerable speeds. However, a large percentage of Android devices are still using single core processors with limited memory. This blog aims to deliver one form of optimization that developers can place in their code at next to no effort.
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Photography News: “I want to start a photography business. But I’m not a photographer.”
I got this in my email this week: “I want to start a photography business but I don’t have a camera. What camera should I buy?”
Face. Palm. sigh
Guys, how has it come to this? I’ve literally felt so sad since receiving this question. Why, oh, why does photography look like a cash cow to people? Since when has this art become so very disguised as something else? And don’t you dare tell me it’s because DSLRs are more readily available than ever before. Because so are computers. I have two and I’m not thinking about becoming a programmer.
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