Apple Versus Samsung Case Goes to California Jury

After listening to a month's worth of testimony from expert witnesses hired by Apple and Samsung as well as executives from each company, a Silicon Valley jury of four men and four women were tasked with sorting out the latest legal dispute over technology between the world's two largest smartphone makers.

Apple is demanding Samsung pay it $2.2 billion after accusing the South Korean company of infringing five software patents related to smartphones. Samsung denies the claims and counters that Apple owes it a little more than $6 million for infringing two of its patents.

The jury began deliberating late Tuesday and left at 4:30 p.m. PDT without reaching a verdict. The jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations Wednesday morning in San Jose.

A lawyer for Apple on Tuesday accused Samsung of copying key features of its iPhone and iPad products and demanded $2.2 billion in damages.

An attorney for Samsung denied the allegations and argued that its Google-developed softwarediffers from Apple's operating system.

In his closing argument, lawyer William Price referred to an email from Apple founder Steve Jobsindicating that he had ordered employees to wage a "holy war" against Google and its Android system, believing it was a rip-off of Apple's operating system.

Price said that was the sole reason Apple filed the lawsuit against Samsung.

"We don't think we owe Apple a nickel," added John Quinn, one of four Samsung lawyers involved in the company's closing argument.

Quinn also said Apple wants to monopolize the industry.

"They want to attack Google and Android by attacking the most successful Android maker," he said.

Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny told jurors that Samsung's "illegal strategy has been wildly successful" and insisted that Google had nothing to do with the case.

"Despite all the times Samsung mentioned it, you will not find a single question about Google in your jury form," McElhinny said. "Google is not a defendant in this case."

Google spokesman Matt Kallman declined comment on the proceedings.

The four men and four women on the jury began deliberating later in the day.

The case marks the latest legal fight between Samsung and Apple as each tries to dominate the $330 billion annual market for smartphones.

Samsung has captured about 31 percent of the smartphone market while Apple retains a 15 percent share.

A different jury in San Jose presiding over a previous trial regarding older technology ordered Samsung to pay Apple $930 million. Samsung has appealed that ruling.

Google may not be a defendant in the current trial, but evidence introduced by Apple attorneys showed the Internet search giant has agreed to reimburse Samsung if the South Korean company is ordered to pay damages on two of the five patents at issue.

In addition, Samsung lawyers called three Google engineers to the witness stand to testify.

The trial involves five Apple patents that the company accuses Samsung of using to create nine newer smartphones and a tablet. The features in question include slide-to-lock, universal searching, quick linking, background syncing and automatic word correction.

Samsung, meanwhile, has alleged that Apple infringed two of its patents related to camera use and video transmission. Samsung is seeking $6.2 million in damages.

Jobs, who died in 2011, is a Silicon Valley legend revered for launching Apple in his family's garage in 1976. The Cupertino headquarters of the tech giant is a 15-mile (25-kilometer) drive from the San Jose federal courthouse where the patent case is playing.

Prospective jurors were closely questioned before the trial about connections and views about Apple, which employs about 80,000 workers worldwide.

Acoding to abc News.

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ya Mamlaka ya Mawasiliano Tanzania,Uliopo eneo 

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Gongo la Mboto waste project lesson for Dar

 

 

For a very long time now the biggest headache for Dar es Salaam city and urban administrations in the country has been how to manage waste, whose production has continued to grow as the urban population grows.

The challenges are especially acute in urban areas which have literally ballooned over the last few years. Records show that between 1965, a few years after independence and today the urban population in Tanzania has grown from just above 5.0 per cent to over 36 per cent now. This explosion in urban growth has not been accompanied by growth in waste management capacity.

Dar es Salaam faces an even more serious crisis. As the third fastest growing city in Sub-Saharan Africa and the 9th fastest in the world, it faces an uphill task in managing its waste output.

Studies conducted in the 1980s estimated that Dar es Salaam produced around 1,200 tonnes of solid waste daily, but the latest researches estimate that waste output in the city now stands at well over 2,500 tonnes a day.

The city does not have enough of the requisite infrastructure to handle the growing pile of solid waste and bigger volumes of liquid waste.

Dar es Salaam ‘s waste management problems revolve around dumping and sanitation, with rubbish being left uncollected in residential areas, or burned arbitrarily in street corners.

We all know how Dar’s storm drains clog during the rains, because solid waste has been dumped there.

Needless to say, one of the hurdles that authorities including Dar es Salaam city have encountered is the paucity of resources to undertake the clean-up.

Indeed there are major plans to improve Dar and other urban centres waste management capacity. But we also know how budget constraints have hindered their realization over the years.

We however see a lot of promise in the new waste management system launched by Ilala municipality for the Gongolamboto area in Dar es Salaam.

Run by the Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA) Tanzania in collaboration with the Ilala Municipal Council, the integrated system will provide improved solid waste management for the Gongolamboto community, starting with 1,500 households with a final plan of serving 5,000 households.

The facility collects organic waste for composting while plastics and other synthetic materials are recycled and residual waste temporarily stored before being transported to the final dumpsite.

The 180.2m/- project will also serve as a primary demonstration and learning site on improved waste management for unplanned communities, according to BORDA’s Public Relations Officer Bossman Liana.

The initiative will reduce the cost of waste management for the municipality, while also providing assured employment to youths.

It already involves 32 youths and women groups to operate in the in various wards including Kimanga, Kwalani, Tabata, Kipawa, Vingunguti, Buguruni, Ukonga, Segerea Gongolamboto and Chanika.

The ward with about 57,310 residents produces about 46 tonnes of waste every day, which is removed by community based waste groups and taken to collection areas from where they are taken to the recycling plants.

Future plans include setting up committees for each ward to ensure effective management of the health and sanitation initiatives.

We hope that the other Dar es Salaam wards will enthusiastically learn from the Gongolamboto project to rid Dar es Saalam of filth and attendant diseases. 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa in 1994

Most people know Nelson Mandela as the first black

 president of South Africa,

 a man who became a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement, 

and one who 

gave up nearly 30 years of his life in prison. He remains a hero

 to South Africans 

as well as to the international community, and will continually represent the

 struggle for freedom. But it’s easy to forget that even legends are human.

 Here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Nelson Mandela.

*For the conspiracy theorists out there, I regret to inform you that Mandela is

 not in fact a part of the Illuminati, does not lead a Satanist cult, and did not

 die in Robben Island 30 years ago, only to be replaced by an impersonator.

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