Getting a patent to protect your intellectual property is important and anyone who wants to make use of your patent has to pay a fair price.  Please note the operative words here, fair price.   However most companies now are either trying to get a free ride or stifle innovation because they cannot make use of the patent themselves or build a business model that works. 

The patent war started around two years ago in earnest as we seen more companies trying to get a free ride by suing companies that have become successful by bringing to market innovative products or services that may  make use of others' patents either completely or in some part.  Although we agreed that companies that make use of patents should be paying the patent holder, we expect it to be at a fair price, not in a way that exhort to the point of thievery.

RIM announced that their new Playbook OS 2.0 will be available for download today and it could not come at a better time as some of RIM's customers have either dropped them or are planning to.

The new Playbook OS 2.0 main focus is to offer their customers with a more richer and compelling user experience for  work and play .  Time will tell if they will succeed in this endeavor, but with today's almost instantaneous feedback from the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, RIM will definitely be able to a get quick assessment of the attitudes of the different online communities of whether the Playbook OS 2.0 is a success or failure.

According to RIM's press release here are the new Playbook OS 2.0 new features:

New BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 features include:

Asura's Wrath from Capcom has a low-key introduction to what could be an epic game in the in the making after watching the previews and getting to know what Asura's Wrath is all about has been very titillating. 

I was going through my digital camera and somehow deleted one of the folders in my SD memory card.  My first reaction was  "Oh (Insert expletive here)!, what did I just do?", I thought it was lost forever, until I got to thinking maybe I might be able to get it back, so recover from my mistake.