Estimates vary, but it’s said that Microsoft stands to make almost half a billion dollars next year from Android licensing fees. It now seems certain that this IP licensing strategy is already making more money from Android than Microsoft itself is making from its own Windows Phone 7 platform
If that’s true, my money would be against Windows Phone 7. When Microsoft has a cash cow, they’re not known to innovate.
In an oft-cited letter in 1947 to the mathematician Norbert Weiner, he wrote: “One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: ‘This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.’ ”
Outside the box thinking. Like it.
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But here’s a first. Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is offering to pay Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino not to wear its merchandise.
Awesome.
The RBA forecast growth in 2011 will average 2 per cent, down from its May 6 estimate of 3.25 per cent. In 2012, gross domestic product will accelerate 4.5 per cent, stronger than the prior estimate for a 4.25 per cent expansion.
Still seems like something to be thankful for, especially compared to:
Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimate there is a 35 percent chance of another recession [in the U.S.] within the next year.
