Surprise! SanDisk still makes MP3 players

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Amazing someone still makes MP3 players for the mass market. I am pleased to introduce $ Sandisk Sansa clip Zip, tiny, portable media player which comes in 4 GB and 8 GB varieties (4 GB model is $ 50).

Zip clip comes in 7 colors, including red, blue and orange and is compatible with virtually any audio format. It also has a microSD slot, so you can extend the player up to 32 GB. It also has a little tiny LCD screen and simple interface.

Back in the old days, SanDisk was quite well known for his fully featured MP3 players, but those days are long gone. However, if you are looking for a simple player for kid or grandfather this may be the way to go: it's idiot proof, reliable and not as expensive as Zune or iPod.

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Samsung feigned surprise for Apple in the EU ban

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Samsung's pants are officially set ablaze as reports surfaced of Samsung learned about Apple's injunction complaints and even filed "Schutzschrift". In English it is protective of the pleadings, and it was made almost a week before Apple filed its ban on 4 August.

However, I seem to recall the Samsung talk "was filed the request for injunction without notice for Samsung, and the order was issued without hearing or evidence from Samsung. Hmmm. So either Samsung lawyers prescient or Samsung PR team fibbed it up. My money is on the latter.

It is true that Samsung has not been officially notified and that there is no hearing in which Samsung could protect themselves, however, suggests that he was totally blind-sided, injunction, when in fact it works to stop the proactive decision almost a week in advance.

FOSS patents blogger and IP German expert Florian Mueller, who also reported on the story, sums up the cheating perfectly: "such a communication strategy on Samsung's part is the old-school spin doctoring and only serves to strengthen my impression is that Samsung's legally vulnerable against Apple. If Samsung wants to inspire confidence, it must understand that half the truth sometimes is all lies. "

As part of its "Schutzschrift", filed on 29 July, the Samsung claimed that there was no sense of urgency, which requires a preliminary injunction. The problem with this argument is between the urgency of not more than once possibly patent infringing product is going to run. The second argument, the Samsung fault was that the company is in the process of "preparing" petition have Apple community design invalid.

The Court in Düsseldorf made its decision to ban GalTab from Samsung in protective pleading in mind, which means that Samsung will have to invent some new arguments for his appeal on 25 August. It is clear that the issues raised in its proactive fault in any way affect the Court's decision.

Started by Steve jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the past 30 years, officially change their name from Apple Computer.

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