The effect, at least as you are referring to it, has been in images for much longer than a decade, because front curtain images look very similar, and have been on the night scene preset of digital and film cameras for a very long time. The real benefit of rear shutter sync is that when an object is in motion, the…

I use a credit card for most transactions and always pay it off, it's more manageable if you spend smart and set limits, similar to how you use the envelopes. I don't use it, but many cards allow you to set alerts by category now, that can help you if you aren't the proactive type. Plus you get rewards and have added…

Generally that's not the type of thing you make public, you handle it internally just as you would with any employee - either before it comes up, or by making it part of a "settlement" with the other party. Shareholders don't have a problem with handling problems equitably, which this one could have been. You bring…

Any such invalidation would be contextual however, not complete since both trademarks would still be valid. The only time it could really be considered an issue if they decided not to contest would be if someone released a game called something like "Elder" or "The Elder". If the company decides they are fine with…

Actually they do have a choice - they can ignore their lawyers and tell them it's no big deal. Companies do it every day. Lawyers are just another worker, they are human, they screw up, and they do things that are more about protecting themselves than protecting the company.

The fact that gift givers don't listen isn't the company's fault though. I have relatives that have done this to me many times. Sometimes when I was a kid I'd get some crappy gameboy game because they thought it sounded cool. It doesn't matter how different it is because they'll still manage to screw it up. You take…

"because the applicant's mark ... so resembles the marks in U.S. Registration Nos.... as to be likely to cause confusion"

You can create secured storage for an app and there aren't any major restrictions I know of on network protocols, so that much at least shouldn't be a problem. :)

Part of what I was getting at is that for many companies it's not an option - federal and state regulations on client/patient/etc privacy make secure communications a necessity, and it can't just be given up. (note: I work in healthcare IT, so I deal with this crap daily)

You can on a couple of Verizon phones too, it's any phone that supports 4G +CDMA voice simultaneously.

It's not secure because it's not managed by the enterprise using it. BBM can be directed through your BES for security and auditing. iMessage runs through Apple's servers, and apple isn't going to be signing data usage agreements or providing detailed audit reports for (worldwide) government or healthcare institutions…

The closest equivalent messaging environment for exchange/office is Microsoft Lync. Lync is still fairly young and not in anywhere near as many environments as BBM, and currently doesn't have any official clients for Android or iPhone (though that's coming, supposedly very soon).

Texting isn't used for real enterprise messaging. It's unreliable and insecure. Having employees using SMS and third party IM is the headache I'm talking about for IT trying to push people to use only secure enterprise messaging (not just from paranoia, but legal compliance issues in healthcare, government, insurance,…

No, I'm too busy being annoyed at the lack of an LTE android phone with a keyboard on verizon. Where's my Droid 3S. :)

There's a big point people are missing - that the reason for popular use of BBM in business is that it provides a standardized and *secure and manageable* platform for messaging that partners with blackberry enterprise services. BES is the only reason Blackberry continues to survive despite the iPhone surge. iMessage…

Considering they directly followed this comment with a graphics update for the iPhone, it's pretty clear that they aren't taking this claim too seriously.

Wait, so people are now upset that the iphone 4 isn't being rendered obsolete after a little over a year.... complaining that this is all they get after "such a long wait"....

Well, anybody who doesn't like cake is clearly a horrible person, so they don't count. :P

What really grates is just that this clearly shows they could have added support for these games back to the PS3 in phases via a software launcher, despite company claims to the contrary. All they are doing is creating a wrapper for the original code, and that could have instead written a package that launched and ran…

I carried my father's once for a high school event. It was in the middle of the winter so I had a big coat on, but it was still a pain - tried to pull me sideways in a pocket. :)