DoCoMo: Apple lawsuit won't block Japan Samsung tablet

NTT DoCoMo's CEO said Thursday that the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab next month will not be affected by a patent-infringement lawsuit by Apple.

Such lawsuits from Apple, which allege patent infringements related to its iPad tablet, have blocked or delayed sales of Samsung's tablet across Europe, Australia, and Korea.

"We have heard from Samsung that there will be no obstruction to sales," said DoCoMo chief Ryuji Yamada. "We have been told that the patent situation is different in Europe and Japan."

Yamada spoke to reporters at an event to mark the launch of the tablet on its high-speed LTE network next month, along with a tablet from Fujitsu. He said tablets, until now grouped into the same product category as smartphones, will be a main focus for the company moving forward.

Apple has brought lawsuits against Samsung in courts around the world for patent infringments related to its smash-hit iPad tablet.

In Japan, Apple sued Japanese units of Samsung for damages of 1 billion yen ($13 million) in a Tokyo court, Japanese media reported.

Calls to Apple's Japan offices went unanswered. A Samsung employee that answered the phone at their Tokyo office said the company's spokesperson was unavailable Thursday evening.

China's Alibaba takes aim at Baidu in Internet search

China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group entered the search engine business so that China's leading search engine, Baidu, wouldn't sleep well, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma said over the weekend.

"If Baidu sleeps well then China's Internet users won't sleep well," Ma said during a speech at the company's annual Alifest this weekend.

Alibaba, best known for its Chinese e-commerce websites, launched a beta version of its new search engine last year called eTao.com. This put the company in competition with Baidu, which dominates China's search engine market with an 80 percent user market share, according to CNZZ.com, an Internet analytics web site.

Ma's comment was one of the first times Alibaba has publicly spoken about its intentions for eTao. In June, eTao was made into its own company under Alibaba Group.

Following Ma's comment, Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said the company never obsesses with what its rivals are doing, but instead obsesses with what its usesr want. "As long as we are able to deliver that, we will sleep just fine," he said.

Both Alibaba and Baidu are the leaders in their respective markets. But even as Alibaba dominates China's e-commerce scene, many of the country's Internet users rely on Baidu to search for products online, according to analysts.

Alibaba's eTao site has been designed primarily as a shopping search engine, allowing users to query for products and group-buying deals. But the site also allows users to search for general web pages as well. eTao's market share, however, is so small that research firms don't list it.

Alibaba's eTao site launched months after Google decided to shut down its search engine for mainland China last year, a move that allowed Baidu to expand its market share to the point it has a near monopoly. Last month, the company faced criticism from a Chinese state-run television network in what analysts said was an effort by authorities to regulate the search giant.

Names Of The WTC Memorial, Organized By The Algorithm

Obama today joined thousands of people to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center site in New York, laying his hand on a bronze monument bears the names of the victims - a list organized by algorithm.

The 2983 names of 76 bronze panels around two swimming pools with waterfalls in the towers stood, in the design of architect Michael Arad "The absence of reflection." In a list of apparently random panels of those who died September 11, 2001, and the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993.

But the monument to the victims carefully thought reflects a complex network of relationships with others - professional, social, and accidentally. This happened thanks to an algorithm created by an artist data Jer Thorp in New York City local design projects.

Steve Jobs, CEO, Who Was Fired From His First Job

Inspiring speech excerpts from the start by Steve Jobs at Stanford University June 12, 2005.

In fact, I never had a college degree, and is closer than ever I graduated from college. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.

Best decision I ever made

The first story is the issue of points. The ped out of Reed College in the first six months of the year. Why? Well, it started before I was born. My biological mother was a young bachelor, and decided to put me up for adoption.

She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, but my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from university and my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She said only a few months later, when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the beginning of my life. And 17 years later, I went to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all my savings of the working class parents were spent on my college tuition. After six months I could not see the value in it. So I decided that. It was pretty scary at times, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

It was not all romantic. I did not have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in the halls friends. I returned Coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food, and I'll walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I liked it. And much of what I found by following my curiosity and intuition has proven invaluable in the future.

Let me give you an example: I decided to take a calligraphy class at Reed College and learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations. None of this had even a hope of practical application in my life. But ten years later, when designing the first Macintosh computer, it all made sense to me. If I ever ped, ped never on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Love and loss

My second story is about love and loss. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown up in a society of two billion dollars with over 4,000 employees. We just released our finest creation of the Macintosh a year ago, and then I got fired.

I really did not know what to do for a few months. I felt I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I even thought to leave the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I always liked what I did. Turn of events at Apple had not changed a bit and I decided to start over.

Successful pregnancy has been replaced by the lightness of a beginner again, less sure about everything. I am free to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the five years I started a company named NeXT another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would be my wife. A significant turnaround, Apple bought NEXT and I retuned to Apple. I'm sure none of this would have happened if I had not been fired from Apple.

I am convinced that the only thing that forced me to take I liked what I did. Your work will fill a large part of his life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what they do a good job. If you have not found it yet, keep looking until you find. Do not stop.

If today were the last day of life

The third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like this: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll certainly be right." I was impressed, and from that moment, the past 33 years, I looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, I would like to do, what I'm about to do today?" And whenever the answer is "No" too many days in a row I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. A year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me it was incurable and that I should expect to live longer than 3-6 months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, as is the medical code for "prepare to die. "I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy and was told that he turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had surgery, and thankfully I'm fine now.

It was the closest, I was faced with death. Having had the experience, I can now tell you a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Death is probably the best invention of life unique. It erases the old to make way for the new. Currently, the new is you, but someday not too far from now, you will gradually grow old and be cleared. Your time is limited, so do not live the life of someone. Do not let the noise of others' opinions stifle your inner voice.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog created by a fellow named Stewart Brand and brought to life with his poetic touch. In the back of their final issue was a photograph of a road in the early morning, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Underneath were the words: "Stay Hungry. Madness." It was their farewell message.

And I've always wanted for myself. And now, when you go to start over, I hope for you. Stay Hungry. Stay foolish.