Goophone I5 Beats Apple iPhone 5 to the Punch As Chinese Learn Patent-Fast From Litigating Patent Trolling American Role Model that Patenting is the Road to Get Rich Quick

LOL.

At Bloomberg Businessweek, Dexter Roberts has the story in:

Enter Goophone I5, Looking a Lot Like Apple’s iPhone 5

Rather than cooperating in a friendly way with the Asian partners who are manufacturing all the electronics these days, the proprietary monopolistic approach of Apple in its "thermonuclear war" against Android has unforgivably chosen the path of senseless legal confrontation. It is a war Apple has no chance of winning down the road.

Once people start playing "the patent game", all kinds of new players enter the fray, and sometimes in the long-run, they will turn out to hold the better cards, especially if they control many of the natural and labor resources necessary for production of modern gadgets and devices.

Google Nexus 7 powered by Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is Now Available

We got word via Google Play that the Google Nexus 7 powered by Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is now available in Europe. The price is astonishingly low.

Google on the popular Android platform is offering eBooks, music, movies, TV shows, magazines and more than 600,000 Android apps and games.

The Music Manager can import an entire iTunes music library into the device.

Google Nexus 7 has Google Chrome built in as a browser, plus Gmail, YouTube in HD, etc.

See all the Features.

New Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE rolled out: Amazon E-Readers Are Serious Competition for Readers, Pads and Tablets of Other Major Players

While some of the world has been battling windmills in a court of law in Cupertino, the rest of the world has been innovating, as more and more major players are getting into the highly profitable game of manufacturing and selling various kinds of electronic readers, tablets, pads, phones and small computers (essentially, they all have in common that they are means of communication utilizing digital displays of information).

At PCMag.com, Chloe Albanesius has the story that

Amazon Unveils $299, 8.9-Inch Kindle Fire HD, 4G LTE for $499.

New Nokia Windows Phones: Lumia 920 Has Night Vision Photography, Wireless Charging and Augmented Reality But Do they Have the Coolness for the Public to Buy Them?

Gauging consumer tastes and choices in advance and selling the public what they do not yet "know" is not everyone's specialty.

There is no denying that the new Nokia Windows handsets present some outstanding features such as night vision photography, wireless charging and augmented reality, but will consumers buy them?

BBC News has the story and video at
Close-up look at Nokia's new Windows phones

Germany Overtakes US in Competitiveness as America Drops to Seventh in Global Competitiveness Rankings Behind FIVE European Nations and Singapore

The Spiegel Online has an article about the Global Competitiveness Index recently released by the World Economic Forum which shows that the USA has dropped to seventh in the rankings behind FIVE European nations and Singapore.

See Germany Overtakes US in Global Competitiveness - SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is barking up the wrong tree by making criticism of Europe one of the pillars of his Presidential election campaign. The inequality of wealth and income in America are far greater than in Europe and that is the problem that a man like Romney should be focusing on.

Moreover, U.S. companies like Apple should be competing on the market, rather than trying stop-gap measures in the courts to maintain their market share, which is no competitive solution long-term.