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Microsoft claims Belkin violated patent
Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Belkin, claiming Belkin violated their US patent for peripherals, by importing a product that infringes on Microsoft's U2 port sensing technology. For once, Microsoft is on the other end of a lawsuit. Most of the time they are the ones in trouble. I guess it just means that life isn't so unfair after all. Microsoft had tried to get Belkin to license its own technology to avoid this lawsuit, but to no avail. I guess this means that Belkin is confident in their legal team? Microsoft already licenses their technology to many other companies, wants Belkin to do the same, and isn't seeking monetary damages against Belkin...yet.[Via InformationWeek]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
