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Remember how we told you about Jim Conte and his plan to make anonymous posting a thing of the past (and in some cases illegal)? When we covered that we talked about the technological and financial barriers to doing this as well as some of the implications of the law. Well we have an actual example of how removing anonymity from the web can be abused (and how it directly relates to the section about political commentary).

In the computer and consumer electronics market things can change pretty quickly and often it is not about how good your product is it is about how much the market accepts it. We have pointed this out about Microsoft before with many of their products (ZuneHD etc). Now we hear about another company that is being hurt by the overly fickle market. This is Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios. If you do not know 38 Studios is the company behind the game Kingdoms of Amalur a third person fantasy role playing game that sprang from the mind of award winning author R.A. Salvator.

nVidia has taken one step closer to being a major player in the smart phone market. This step is the culmination of their purchase of Icera specifically for their LTE technology. Back when nVidia first announced the purchase it was in direct competition to Qualcomm who is seen as one of nVidia’s major opponents. nVidia new they needed to either license or acquire the technology so that they could integrate a high speed cellular modem into their Tegra SoC for future products.

Not that long ago (when Microsoft was still hammer out the details of their Office 15 offering) there was a small stir on the internet about the possibility of Office for the iPad and for Android based tablets. At the time Microsoft completely denied the rumors and stated that they were not working on working on office for iPad and that the pictures floating around were faked.