Four Trends to Trickle Down the Mountains From This Year’s Summit Series Basecamp 2012

Looking back on a memorable Summit, here are four trends buzzed about in Tahoe.

News Byte

DOJ Likely to Clear Rockstar Bidco’s Nortel Patent Purchase

Looks like the Justice Department plans to approve the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel’s wireless technology patents to a consortium led by Microsoft and Apple. Sources familiar with the matter say the DOJ has addressed concerns that the consortium might use the patents to unfairly hamstring competitors. It’s not clear when the DOJ will issue its approval, but when it does some 6,000 wireless patents will be transferred over to Rockstar Bidco, an alliance that also includes Research In Motion, Sony, Ericsson AB and EMC.

Spotify Dollars Boost Warner Music, but Not as Much as iTunes

Streaming music services are growing quickly. But, for big music, digital still means downloads.
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Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March

Gee, I wonder what 2012 will be the year of …
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An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

Google: That 2.25 Percent MoMo Patent Royalty Sounds About Right to Us

Motorola Mobility’s demand that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads raised a lot of eyebrows. But not at Google.
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Apple Asked Standards Body to Set Rules for Essential Patents

Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.

Apple Gets the Credit (And the Cash) for Growth of Mobile Computing Revenue

What would the mobile computing industry be without Apple, had the company not entered it in June of 2007 with the iPhone?
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A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.
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Neil Young, the Donkey and Digital Music: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

Neil Young explains why today’s music sounds awful, why Steve Jobs agreed with him, and what he wants to do to fix the problem.
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