Wow, what a month?!
In tech news, specifically, it's been a wild ride:) Google buys Motorola, HP throws up the proverbial white flag, Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, & now Blackberry may be borrowing that same white flag HP waved.
This is great in different ways... for Google's Android OS, anyway. How? Why? Well, it's actually very simple: Google needs patents, & quick. With Moto under their umbrella, that helped tremendously to evade being nailed by patent infringement suits. If they purchase Research In Motion (RIM), they gain even more patents to ward off the evil empire known as Apple or even Oracle, in court. See, what makes this theory even sweeter is the fact that RIM was one of the boys in the consortium that purchased & divided up all the patents up for bid at the Nortel patent auction recently. Some say that Apple, Microsoft, RIM, & others teamed up to go in together to screw Google out of all those valuable patents. Whether this is true or not, remains to be seen... but I subscribe to the theory that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, & sounds like a duck, it must be a duck. So, now you have RIM with all these patents that Google got "screwed" out of getting, but may get to laugh last if Google does indeed absorb them.
It should make for another interesting few months, though... QUACK!
-Ars Technica
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