I looked up the leads pointed to by that comment and even went as far as checking the USPTO’s website for info.

My suspicion is that HP is trying to leverage off of the inventions of the guy mentioned in that commentary. He specifically invented uses for HP’s just revealed memory spot technology — as far back as at least 1991 ! I identified teachings in that person’s patents describing the use of “auxilliary memories” with photographs, slides, video cassettes, audio cassettes; and even for fax machines in something he seems to call “Multimedia Paper”.

Thus what HP seems to be doing is akin to announcing that they are beginning to sell gasoline, “having never heard” of an automobile or boat or plane (which is to say, having never heard of the uses of gasoline). They are encouraging others to going into business selling those cars and planes and other uses of gasoline which they are poised to supply, knowing that the others will be infringing or stealing some unknown guy’s inventions. HP profits but all those other businesses commit the crime to help HP profit.

This is pretty crooked if you ask me.

But what’s more interesting from my perspective is that out there in the unknown crowd there is this mysterious guy who is inventing the core technolgies all the high tech giants feel compelled to steal: not just the uses for the HP memory spots, but JAVA, core elements of iPods including the phrase docking cradle (and their design), things central to Tivo, object embedding in browsers, and various other stuff.

I saw in a blog a rumour that the mysterious inventor is dead, and that is the reason why we never hear directly from or about him. I don’t know the truth of that comment, but like the European woman said in her commentary: “Something’s rotten in Denmark”.

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Nickname: zsuzsanna

Review: Last year somebody predicted several things, all of which have since come to pass. What’s going on here?

http://p2pnet.net/index.php?page=comment&story=5185&comment=15123

It was mentioned last year that Intel Macs were intended to run Windows software. At the time, Apple denied it. Now, Apple is airing ads on TV confirming this.

Also: This is about “Unified Web browsers,” “Universal Communications Platforms?”
And last week Bill Gates announced his goal to go into Universal Communications Platforms.

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2006/06-26unifiedcomm.asp

Further from that blog:
We saw inventions specifically crafted for attacking Apple’s market grip on the iPod?

And now BW reports of plans to challenge the iPod market by Christmas.

Something’s rotten in Denmark.

Date : Jul 8, 2006 9:19 PM
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