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Yesterday, Microsoft initiated another underhanded anticompetitive practice to try to recover from their failing performance in the Smartphone industry. They've signed a patent agreement with HTC where license fees are paid to Microsoft when HTC uses Google's Open Source Android OS operating system, no doubt to lend favourable terms to their preferred partners, and to 'validate' their patent claims. Today, HTC announced they'll have a Windows 7 mobile phone by year end, no doubt part of their PR agreement with Microsoft. Apple has also sued HTC, specifically over features of Android. | Yesterday, Microsoft initiated another underhanded anticompetitive practice to try to recover from their failing performance in the Smartphone industry. They've signed a patent agreement with HTC where license fees are paid to Microsoft when HTC uses Google's Open Source Android OS operating system, no doubt to lend favourable terms to their preferred partners, and to 'validate' their patent claims. Today, HTC announced they'll have a Windows 7 mobile phone by year end, no doubt part of their PR agreement with Microsoft. Apple has also sued HTC, specifically over features of Android. | ||
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A "blank" handset, sold by multiple manufacturers, and the ability to boot Open Source Android off microSD cards would avoid Microsoft and Apple's traps, and return control to the individual for a diverse and flourishing market. There should be enough Android users today to connect with an appropriate hardware company, with an initial order of hundreds of thousands of handsets for a specific date. | A "blank" handset, sold by multiple manufacturers, and the ability to boot Open Source Android off microSD cards would avoid Microsoft and Apple's traps, and return control to the individual for a diverse and flourishing market. There should be enough Android users today to connect with an appropriate hardware company, with an initial order of hundreds of thousands of handsets for a specific date. | ||
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Revision as of 18:04, 28 April 2010
Yesterday, Microsoft initiated another underhanded anticompetitive practice to try to recover from their failing performance in the Smartphone industry. They've signed a patent agreement with HTC where license fees are paid to Microsoft when HTC uses Google's Open Source Android OS operating system, no doubt to lend favourable terms to their preferred partners, and to 'validate' their patent claims. Today, HTC announced they'll have a Windows 7 mobile phone by year end, no doubt part of their PR agreement with Microsoft. Apple has also sued HTC, specifically over features of Android.
Smartphones are expected to have gigantic growth in the next few years, eventually completely eclipsing today's personal computers. Unlike the hobbyist roots of PCs, the mobile industry has been highly controlled, with carriers making it difficult to use anything but a small selection of handsets and software. Legal actions like this will further impedes real competition and progress, consistent features, and through higher prices that may shut some out of the market.
Open source has always been a huge background competitive force, the basis for iPhone, Android and Palm devices, and something Microsoft has always been uncomfortable with. Today's technical community is huge, many are open source proponents.
A "blank" handset, sold by multiple manufacturers, and the ability to boot Open Source Android off microSD cards would avoid Microsoft and Apple's traps, and return control to the individual for a diverse and flourishing market. There should be enough Android users today to connect with an appropriate hardware company, with an initial order of hundreds of thousands of handsets for a specific date.
Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Dance Person Asian Origin
Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.
Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.
In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.
Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.
In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.