Google and Facebook Sued for Mobile Patent Infringement

Winksite mobile social network company claims that the company owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones through a patent awarded in October 2009.Winksite claims Google and Facebook had to have known about the patent, the patent application approved in 2004. However,Facebook has a patent for its news feed technology, and Google for location-based, but that doesn’t make the two companies immune to other patent challengers. Google and Facebook are being sued by Winksite over mobile social networking technology.Plaintiff believes that both the social networking and search giant were aware of the patent and they are legally responsible for damages.Winksite is seeking cash damages and an injunction against use of the technology.Both Google and Facebook said they are reviewing the complaint. I think Winksite is looking to get rich, and the company knows Google and Facebook have a lot of money. However, it is not easy to prove that these two giant corporations made this kind of mistake( patent infringement).


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Does the Internet Make You Smarter?

Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and images cheap, easy and global. We are living through a similar explosion of publishing capability today, where digital media link over a billion people into the same network.We actually spent a lot more time watching "Diff'rent Strokes" than reading Proust, prior to the Internet.We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives. Just as required education was a response to print, using the Internet well will require new cultural institutions as well, not just new technologies.There is no easy way to get through a media revolution of this magnitude; the task before us now is to experiment with new ways of using a medium that is social, ubiquitous and cheap, a medium that changes the landscape by distributing freedom of the press and freedom of assembly as widely as freedom of speech.I agree that the internet is a tool and resource for finding information.


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