Houston, Texas is one of the largest cities in America, and just like any other metropolis, parents worry where their children can receive quality time. As a Houston native and parent, Marcos Taccolini has put together a presentation featuring some of the friendliest places around Houston where children and their parents alike can enjoy a nice afternoon.
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Houston, Texas is one of the largest cities in America, and just like any other metropolis, parents worry where their children can receive quality time. As a Houston native and parent, Marcos Taccolini has put together a presentation featuring some of the friendliest places around Houston where children and their parents alike can enjoy a nice afternoon.
from Marcos Taccolini http://marcostaccoliniunisoft.com/top-5-family-friendly-attractions-in-houston-tx/
Samsung is contributing to the bloatware epidemic. As is the case with the iPhone, its new phones, the S6 and the Edge come with a bulk of pre-installed programs. Samsung itself was quite vague, and careful to not overly clarify that the applications included before and at purchase cannot be fully removed, just illusively hidden. They still hold some information undisclosed. Users will be able to surf their interface with ease until they find, seemingly inexplicably, that their memory is taken up and their browsing and maneuvering is slowed. Disabling an application without uninstalling only looks favorable for saving battery life with unused programs kept asleep.
Sprint, one company distributing Samsung’s newest phone, seems like the saving grace against customer annoyance, allowing up to a dozen applications to be removed. Other companies are struggling to provide answers to customers when asked if the same capabilities will be offered with their versions of the Samsung devices. Still users have to be wary of files that are related to applications that get uninstalled that don’t get uninstalled themselves. For instance, a photo file downloaded from another application will not be removed when the app itself is. What’s more is Samsung forms agreements with other companies, for example Microsoft, to include their applications in the software. A buyer now has to agree to siding with Microsoft as part of their purchase of a Samsung process. The only way to fully remove these applications is through a process similar to iOS jailbreaking, which likely voids warranties on the device—a risk customers have to assess themselves.
Why is this a big deal? Well, for the most part applications take up space, use up energy that could be spent elsewhere, and many are ad-hoc programs serving only a very specific purpose. If the purpose is inutile for a customer, he would, of course, prefer to remove it from his memory. When you buy your device, it always feels better to know you are paying for all the memory to be used as you please. Who wants a half-eaten apple, or a couch with one permanent occupant? Companies like Samsung justify the inclusion of pre-installed applications saying they build a network for customer service and loyalty, necessary to their success, so Samsung will have to see if the faithful get fed up enough to depart from their so-called contracts.
from Marcos Taccolini – Tatsoft http://marcostaccolinitatsoft.com/cellphone-pre-installed-applications-causing-consumers-frustration/
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Samsung is contributing to the bloatware epidemic. As is the case with the iPhone, its new phones, the S6 and the Edge come with a bulk of pre-installed programs. Samsung itself was quite vague, and careful to not overly clarify that the applications included before and at purchase cannot be fully removed, just illusively hidden. They still hold some information undisclosed. Users will be able to surf their interface with ease until they find, seemingly inexplicably, that their memory is taken up and their browsing and maneuvering is slowed. Disabling an application without uninstalling only looks favorable for saving battery life with unused programs kept asleep.
Sprint, one company distributing Samsung’s newest phone, seems like the saving grace against customer annoyance, allowing up to a dozen applications to be removed. Other companies are struggling to provide answers to customers when asked if the same capabilities will be offered with their versions of the Samsung devices. Still users have to be wary of files that are related to applications that get uninstalled that don’t get uninstalled themselves. For instance, a photo file downloaded from another application will not be removed when the app itself is. What’s more is Samsung forms agreements with other companies, for example Microsoft, to include their applications in the software. A buyer now has to agree to siding with Microsoft as part of their purchase of a Samsung process. The only way to fully remove these applications is through a process similar to iOS jailbreaking, which likely voids warranties on the device—a risk customers have to assess themselves.
Why is this a big deal? Well, for the most part applications take up space, use up energy that could be spent elsewhere, and many are ad-hoc programs serving only a very specific purpose. If the purpose is inutile for a customer, he would, of course, prefer to remove it from his memory. When you buy your device, it always feels better to know you are paying for all the memory to be used as you please. Who wants a half-eaten apple, or a couch with one permanent occupant? Companies like Samsung justify the inclusion of pre-installed applications saying they build a network for customer service and loyalty, necessary to their success, so Samsung will have to see if the faithful get fed up enough to depart from their so-called contracts.
from Marcos Taccolini – Tatsoft http://marcostaccolinitatsoft.com/cellphone-pre-installed-applications-causing-consumers-frustration/
Even as belt-tightening has led the New York Times to close sections and shed reporters, the Gray Lady is spending large sums on legal bills to fight a patent troll that claims to own the rights to sending internet links via text message.
The Times has been fighting the case since 2010, arguing that the patent is unenforceable in part because the mobile phone companies that deliver the text messages have already paid the troll, known as Helferich Patent Licensing LLC, to license it.
Even though a federal court agreed with the New York Times and tossed the claims in 2013, the case sprang back to life last month after an appeals court ruled that the patent claims are not “exhausted.” Now the Times must brace for another round of litigation.
The five-year ordeal illustrates once again the dilemma that companies like the New York Times face when confronted by patent trolls: either pay for a dubious license (in…
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