Week of May 27th, 2011

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May 27th, 2011

On this special Angry Friday, we feature Lou and Bryan from the Lou Trek Show. We didn't get to everything in the notes, but I have still included it for your enjoyment.

Apple Responds To Lodsys Trolls: “Stop Bothering Our Developers”
Asking Apple app makers to pay them money for patent infringement
Apple responded saying “We’ve already licensed this stuff”
Demanding Lodsys cease with the ketters
Patent trolls are the disgusting leaches of society
Come up with your own innovative crap!

T-Mobile announces their new “not-so-unlimited” plans
Advertising “Truly Unlimited”
After threshold, throttled back to 2G or lower
200 MB, 2 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB thresholds
Customer angry over sneaky marketing
Angry comments on now-removed YouTube advertisement
People with older “unlimited” data plans report being throttled

Idiot Vigilante Umpire Hunts Down and Beats Up Falsely Accused iPhone Thief
New Jersey little league umpire Carl Ippolito lost his iPhone
Used Find my iPhone to track it down
Assaulted a guy who happened to be using an iPhone, but it wasn’t him
Turns out Carl’s iPhone was actually at the snack shack by the baseball field
iPhone location was way off by a couple miles!

Ballmer Needs to Step Down, Says Hedge Fund Manager
Greenlight Capital hedge fund manager David Einhorn
holds about 9 million shares in Microsoft, or 0.11%
“His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock”
An investor who put $100,000 into Microsoft stock 10 years ago would now have about $69,000 worth.
says Ballmer is stuck in the past saying iPhone and iPod aren’t threats
recall October 2010, Ballmer said "We're early; there's no question we're early.... I think we kind of nailed it. When you see it, you just go 'ooooh'."
Reader comments: MS always made crap, but antitrust made them a leader. After DOJ, MS can’t survive by playing nice